Book recommendations please??

The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows is a great little novel. It has become my favorite book to recommend to others. I think as a history major you will find enough history in it to interest you. There is also a lot of literary reference and a bit of romance.

I would suggest the Wheel of Time series. Fantastic books

If you like sci-fi books, I would recommend all Asimov. His books are wonderful! You can start with the "Robot" short stories. A movie was made with a couple of stories. I think it was called The Bicentennial man.

Enigma by Robert Harris is about the code-breaking done during WWII. Also, Fatherland by Robert Harris which is an alternate history book set in the 1950s as if WWII happened differently. Ash, by Mary Gentle (sometimes available as one book or sometimes as a series) I thought was very good history/fantasy cross-over. I've just read Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter which I thought was an interesting premise - again a history/fantasy crossover but well researched on both counts. If you haven't discovered Terry Pratchett's Discworld series yet then give them a whirl. There's plenty of them, fantasy but funny. I'd start with Mort or Guards! Guards! and then read everything!

The Sword of Truth series by Terry Goodkind is pretty good. I also like most of Dean Koontz books particularly the Brother Odd series.

My personal favorites are LOTR and Redwall. If you've never read Redwall, then you have missed out!! It is about animals that talk and live their lives, focusing on battles and such. They are very well written and absolutly AMAZING!! Another of my favorite book series is Percy Jackson and the Olympians by Rick Riordan. They are more fantasy and Greek mythology, but are also AMAZING. Rick Riordan has also written 4 other books that are in two different triologies. One follows Percy Jackson's plot, the other is totally new, revolving around the Egyption gods. That series is called The Kane Chronicles. The followup to Percy Jackson is called The Heros of Olympis. All of the titles I have stated are the titles of the series, not of individual books!! Hope this gives you some good reading! Enjoy!!

If you like fantasy and crime novels and Harry Potter, I strongly recommend the Dresden Files by Jim Butcher. He's on book 13 with a 14th to come soon (no release date, yet, but the title has been released). I equate it to a grown up Harry Potter, living in Chicago, surviving on a steady diet of adrenaline, caffeine and sarcasm. Harry Dresden is a professional wizard with a P.I. license, protecting Chicago from the things that go bump in the night. Butcher also has another series that he's finished with (six books) that is kind of a military/political fantasy called the Codex Alera. A lot of people say Alera is very much like Ancient Rome but with magic. All of the people of Alera have the ability to summon furies, which represent six elements - Earth, air, fire, water, metal and wood - to aid them in everything from daily activities to military battle. The two series have a very different style. The Dresden Files is in the first person point of view, common in most detective novels, and is quite funny and very sarcastic ... because Dresden, our narrator and protagonist, uses wit and sarcasm to deal with bad situations. The worse the situation gets, the drier Harry gets. But the Codex is a more serious, traditional fantasy style.