Recommended Reading?

What is it that you're looking for in a book? :) He are my recommendations: Sophie's World bye Jostein Gaarder All I Really Need To Know I've Learned at Kindergarten by Robert Fulghum The Greatest Salesman In The World by Og Mandino The Complete Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Volumes 1 and 2 by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Happy reading!!

Don't worry, I will never recommend sci-fi to anyone! Here are my recommendations: The Help by Katherine Stockett, is one of the most popular books recently, it is about the relationships between black women and the white women they work for in the '60's. Under the Dome by Stephen King as someone already suggested, I also recommend The Stand and Dolores Claiborne also by Stephen King. The Scarpetta crime novels by Patricia Cornwell. The Spenser novels by Robert B Parker. Sue Grafton's detective series starting with A Is For Alibi and most recently U is for Undertow. The Number 1 Ladies Detective Agency series is very good especially if you don't like violent crime novels. I recently got intersted in this series and so far I have found the books to be fairly "clean" with a main character who solves cases using her common sense instead of violence or high tech gadgets or forensics. Yes, I am partial to detective/crime novels but sometimes I like to revisit old favorites from my childhood like Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House books. Even if you have seen the tv series and think it's cheesy, the books are not like that. On the other hand, if you liked the series you will like the books too. Just don't expect Nellie Olsen to be as over the top as on tv, and Mrs. Olsen barely appears in it.

I was at a loss for a book to read and in a hurry so I asked the Librarian to suggest a book. She asked me a couple of questions and by the time I got to the library she had several books for me to choose from. None of them by authors I had read in the past. It became a way to expand my reading selection. Give it a try.

It is very hard for me to recommend a book to someone I do not know. Of my recent reading, the book I have enjoyed the most is The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows. It was set in the years just following the German occupation of the Guernsey Islands. I'm more apt to recommend you return a favorite author from your past and read more of their writing. Reading is a very personal thing IMO and I am careful about recommending books to others.

I will give you some of the books I have on my book shelf that I found to be good: Flags Of Our Fathers by James Bradley (non-fiction) Dewey by Vicki Myron (non-fiction) Irish Chain by Barbara Haworth-Attard (fiction) Heavier Than Heaven: A Biography Of Kurt Cobain by Charles R Cross (non-fiction) Where The Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rowls (fiction) Lost In The Barens by Farley Mowat (fiction) Too Fat To Fish by Artie Lange (non-fiction) Hatchet by Gary Paulsen (fiction) Of Mice And Men by John Steinbeck (fiction)

Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis| Glamorama by Bret Easton Ellis Lunar Park by Bret Easton Ellis The Basketball Diaries by Jim Carroll Living at The Movies by Jim Carroll Void of Course by Jim Carroll Legend By Jude Deveraux The Mulberry Tree by Jude Deveraux Holly by Jude Deveraux Interview With The Vampire by Anne Rice Cell by Stephen King Under The Dome by Stephen King You should check all those out , they are really good ! Happy reading !