I need some book recommendations

[Annna]

Can you help? I like all good fiction but some of my favorite authors/books are:

Skippy Dies by Paul Murray - OMG I just read this and it was great. Quirky, smart, profane. I LOLed frequently.

All Ann Tyler books, but especially Ladder of Years

Tom Wolfe and John Irving, even though these guys can't stand each other, I like them both very much, and I like the epicness of thier works

Stephen King - Read Under the Dome recently and I loved it

So I guess my preference is for long, smart, funny books/authors.

[Gannon]

Can you help? I like all good fiction but some of my favorite authors/books are:

Skippy Dies by Paul Murray - OMG I just read this and it was great. Quirky, smart, profane. I LOLed frequently.

All Ann Tyler books, but especially Ladder of Years

Tom Wolfe and John Irving, even though these guys can't stand each other, I like them both very much, and I like the epicness of thier works

Stephen King - Read Under the Dome recently and I loved it

So I guess my preference is for long, smart, funny books/authors.

Skippy Dies is a masterpiece, some parts are drop dead funny and yet it is still a great story. Why don't you try some other Paul Murray books. I have only read Skippy Dies so I am going to try some of his others.

[Seraphy]

Do you like classics? I prefer classic books, like The Sketch Book and Allan Poe's stories.

[MatDatPhatKat]

I love Tom Wolfe. 'I Am Charlotte Simmons' was a masterpiece! I read all sorts of different genres and the following have stood out for me:

The Descent - Jeff Long
Year Zero - Jeff Long

American Psycho - Brett Easton Ellis

The Blind Assassin - Margaret Atwood

Filth - Irvine Welsh (don't read this if you have a weak stomach - the decline and fall of a corrupt, drug and sex addicted Scottish policeman)

Sacred Games - Vikram Chandra

Pillars of the Earth / World Without End - Ken Follett (the prose is a bit simplistic and the plot lines are pretty formulaic, but they are great stories. Interestingly, I can't bear anything else by this author.)

The 1000 Splendid Autumns of Jacob de Zoet - David Mitchell. Anything by DM gets my thumbs up.

The Matthew Shardlake books by C J Sansom (medieval murder mysteries set in the reign of Henry VIII)

Good luck!

[Ashleyt_714]

I just finished Insomnia (Stephen King) it was really good and A Bag of Bones is also great

[Slumreader]

i would really recommend you read Shebang! I love this book. I downloaded a copy from the author's website KoredeAbayomiDotOrg

[Pigs on the Wing]

George Orwell - Animal Farm

Dalton Trumbo - Johnny Got His Gun

Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov

[Eric Tolevsky]

Coming up for Air - George Orwell

[NJMedic]

If you like quirky comedy / action, check out Tim Dorsey or Carl Hiaasen. The Tim Dorsey books have me laughing like an idiot. In the same vein, check out Devin Kerins as well - not very well known, but just as funny.

[Elliott]

Smart author, with lots of accurate facts in easy to read fiction. Try these by Michael Gerhardt.

PRESIDENTIAL POWERS: a political thriller that discusses what's wrong with America and how to fix it.

THE LINCOLN AFFAIR: Some very strange coincidences during the last six weeks of Abraham Lincoln's life. Great fiction giving a plausible explanation.

THE RODINA PLOT: Russia doesn't know the cold war is over. This novel looks at how the Russian governemnt could be toppled.

[NovelDame]

Long, awesome, weird books I can highly recoomend... : )

- John Dies At the End by David Wong
- The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami (all of his are amazing, though.)
- Zeroville by Steve Erickson
- Kracken by China Mieville
-The Fortress of Solitude by jonathan Lethem

[reads2much89]

Stephen King - The Stand, 11/22/63, The Long Walk (not long but still great), Duma Key, Cell, It, and Bag of Bones.

Ken Follett is great and have written some very long books.

Michael Crichton - Prey, State of Fear, Next, and Micro

[jhonmarvi]

Tell me more about this . Plz tell me which type of book you like

[Craigable]

So I guess my preference is for long, smart, funny books/authors.

Well, here's a list of six funny books, all of which aren't quite so commonly known:

Edward Abbey, The Monkey Wrench Gang -- One of the first works of eco-fiction.
Diana Abu-Jaber, Arabian Jazz -- Considered, I believe, to be the first Arab-American novel.
Gerald Hugh Berners, The Camel -- A quaint little British cult classic.
Richard Brautigan, Trout Fishing in America -- A charming and nutty American cult classic.
Jim Dodge, Fup -- Another charming American cult classic.

[Twind1]

Cherub(series)-Robert Muchamore
Demonata(series)- Darren Shan
Cirque Du Freak- Darren Shan
FableHaven(series)- Brandon Mull
House Of Night-Kristin Cast, P. C. Cast
Immortals Series-Alyson Noel
Hatchet-Gary Paulson
Vampire Academy-Richelle Mead