Augusten Burroughs…if you like memoirs, which I have been reading a lot lately, I read the Jaycee Dugard one too
Anything by Scott Westerfeld
Tunnels series by Roderick Gordon & Brian Williams
Anything by Michael Grant
Harry Potter, of course
The Maze Runner trilogy, by James Dashner
Anything by Cornelia Funke
And I just started the Chaos Walking trilogy by Patrick Ness. It blew my mind!
Anyone ever heard of CHERUB?
Its awesome
Ohhh and someione who reads Artemis Fowl too! Now THATS awesome, but its a shame its finished now
Lord of the Rings trilogy - J. R. R. Tolkien,
Out of the Silent Planet - C.S. Lewis, (i think this one is underrated, at least where i live)
Les Misérables - Victor Hugo (pretty long, but worths it),
Capitães de Areia - Jorge Amado,
The Inheritance series - Christopher Paolini
And the ones i like the most:
all of the Sherlock Holmes stories - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
“World War Z” is a good zombie story. and i like Sherlock Holmes too.
Erich von danikens chariots of the gods, so much fact based reason of our existence
The Sonea trilogy by Trudi Canavan .
The Hunger Games
Any book by Amélie Nothomb (french author)
Dracula, Bram Stoker
Carmilla, Sheridan Le Fanu
Any book by Albert Camus (french too)
And any book by Oscar Wilde
But I think you can find them all in English.
Harry Potter, derp.
Catcher in the Rye by J. Salinger
Love books. Harry Potter of course
Hmmmm. Depends on the first book I pick up at the library. I recently just finished reading a book called Envy by Gregg Olsen. Based on true events but he change it into an original fictional story (duh).
Quite the mystery and thriller. I like it when the story really pulls me and keep me off the edge of my seat.
Oh, I like Nicholas Sparks books too. Romance and some thriller.
Haruki Murakami (author)
The Tokyo Diaries
Simon Scarrow’s “Eagle” series. It’s quite relaxing and not over overly complicated.
And of course Rosemary Sutcliff’s Eagle of the Ninth, The Silver Branch and The Lantern Bearers. I really don’t know who’d decided that they should be called “children’s books”, because they clearly aren’t.
I like various kinds of books!
I was reading (and loving) A Song of Ice and Fire (George Martin), but uncle Martin is taking too long to write, so I paused and now I’m reading Inheritance \o/. (just arrived in Brazil this month T.T)
I loved The Hunger Games, The book thief/A menina que roubava livros — (Markus Zusak), Die Geschichte Unendliche/The Neverending Story/História sem fim — (Michael Ende), Dom Casmurro (Machado de Assis), Harry Potter (of course xD), Les Misérables (Victor Hugo), Pride and Prejudice/Orgulho e Preconceito (Jane Austen)…And many others!
Among the books that you spoke, I really want to read the Brave New World and 1984! I’m sure it’s good and that everyone should read them!
About the Brazilian authors, I recommend Machado de Assis, Erico Veríssimo, Luis Fernando Veríssimo, Carlos Drummond Andrade … they are awesome -!
Fifty Shades of Grey hehe Just read all three books, then read the 3 Hunger Games books, then just read a Jodi Picoult book
I’ll pretty much read anything! I’m slowly making my way through the classics like Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights etc
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Has anyone heard of the Kingkiller Chronicle series? It’s a trilogy, but the third book is still being written as far as I know. The other two are called The Name of The Wind and The Wise Man’s Fear. They’re by Patrick Rothfuss and they’re definitely my favourite books of all time.
The Sword of Truth series by Terry Goodkind is really turning out to be something.
The Old Kingdom series by Garth Nix is always worth a spin too.
There are really too many books to list here, but those series’ are a couple I would always hail and recommend to other people.
I’d like to recommend something unique 'cause written from the perspective of a dweller of a home for elderly people - two volumes of the The Secret Diary of Hendrik Groen 83 1/4 Years Old (and than 85 Years Old).
Sometimes funny, sometimes bitter story told by one of those who are somehow excluded by the society of the young, successful and busy people. Hendrik struggles with his geriatric diseases, witnesses his friends’ passing but tries to enjoy his life and very consciously comment on the reality in and outside the place he lives.
Thanks for reviving this thread @anomalia, wish I saw it sooner.
My recommendations as of now:
12 rules for life - Jordan Peterson
The most dangerous superstition - Larken Rose
1984 - George Orwell