Anyone read any good books lately?? I want to start reading for pleasure again... right now I've downloaded Dominique Moceanu's book (recommended by a friend) and Tina Fey's book. Any others you have enjoyed recently?
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I'm in the middle of The Night Circus and enjoying it quite a bit. Also, if you haven't read Unbroken you need to! But it's a pretty intense book so it might be tough with a new born (it wouldn't be a great book for just reading a few pages here and there). All of Chelsea Handler's books are hysterical if you want some easy mindless reading.
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I recently read "The Sisters Brothers" and thought it was hilarious. Patrick DeWitt, I believe. I also read "Come, Thou Tortoise" and enjoyed it. I've heard good things about Night Circus and Tina Fey.
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Bossypants is so good! I just finished it. Mindy Kaling's book was not as good, but still funny. Those Who Save Us by Jenna Blum is very tough to read, but good, I just reread it.
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I adore anything by Mary Higgins Clark. They are thrilling murder mystery books and I love every single one. They will have you hooked!
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The Help is really good. I know it's sort old news now because they made a movie based on it last summer. However, I love that book.
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I figured I'd just suggest a bunch of books that I like and not just books I've read recently. Mostly because I've been a little disappointed in the recent reads!
The Help
The Secret Life of Bees
Ape House
Water for Elephants
Firefly Lane
The Hunger Games Trilogy
Harry Potter series
The Time Traveler's Wife
The Peach Keeper
The Lovely Bones (Way better than the movie!)Books by Jodi Picoult (My Sister's Keeper, Perfect Match, Nineteen Minutes, Salem Falls, Sing You Home, Plain Truth, House Rules, Handle with Care, Change of Heart, Vanishing Acts
Books by Diane Chamberlain (The Escape Artist, Brass Ring, The Midwife's Confession, The Secret Life of CeeCee Wilkes, Summer's Child)
Books by Nicholas Sparks (The Choice, Safe Haven, Dear John, The Last Song, The Notebook, The Wedding)
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I also liked The Night Circus.... Also, Sweet T's list is great, read most of those.
Just read Gillian Flynn's Gone Girl (nyt best seller right now) and thought it was really good.
Also The Winter Rose/The Tea Rose books, there are 3 were great!
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I like non fiction because I can pick it up after a long pause and not have to reread anything. My picks might be too finance heavy though, for light reading at night.
Last books I have read included At Home and A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson and That Used to Be Us by Thomas Friedman and Michael Mandelbaum.
I am currently reading Too Big to Fail by Andrew Ross Sorkin.
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Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell
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Thrillers/mysteries:
Gone, girl
Before I go to sleep
Dystopian teen lit:
Cinder
divergentNonfiction: (these are both memoir-ish)
The baby catcher
ZeitounI just finished age of miracles, which I liked but I don't think anyone else in my book club did.
And I just started the leopard, which I think I will like. I liked Jo nesbo's the snowman too. (same author)
EDIT: also have to add The Blue Orchard, which was witten by a distant cousin if my husband. His grandfather is a character in the book.
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Hunger Games series is good, just finished reading Gone Girl and Defending Jacob, both are page turners with twist endings.
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I just read Kitchen Confidential (free dl from Amazon Prime) - it was entertaining and a quick read
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Terrific list to download onto my phone's Kindle app, woohoo! Thanks ladies... keep 'em comin!
P.S. Totally read Jaycee Dugard's book yesterday "A Stolen Life"... oh my goodness, her story is so sad and awful. She had her first baby at 14 and nursed her til she was 3 and she had her second baby at 17!
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@mrs. wagon: I read that one too, when I was pregnant (strange choice). I also read Room, not pregnant, which is fictional but about an abducted girl who has a baby.
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@mrs. wagon: I read that too.. such a horrible story.
I just finished The Glass Castle.. I liked it!
I also really liked Two Kisses for Maddy.. but it is super sad! -
I just finished molokai, which was good. It follows the life of a six year old girl in the early 1900's who contracted leprosy and is sent to an isolation colony in Hawaii.
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Some books I liked recently:
Mindy Kaling's book
The Man in the Rockefeller Suit (can't remember the author name but it was an awesome nonfiction)
Let the Great World SpinSome of my all-time favorites:
Fiction:
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Anything by Kurt Vonnegut (but I liked Slaughterhouse-Five, Mother Night, Cat's Cradle, God Bless You Mr. Rosewater -- depending on your taste, might be weird)
The Poisonwood Bible
The Secret History
Never Let Me Go
White Oleander
Anything by Stephen King (recently read 11/22/63 and really enjoyed it)
The Hunger Games Trilogy
The CorrectionsNonfiction
The Glass Castle
Anything by Malcolm Gladwell
Augusten Burroughs "Dry"Do you like music and seedy biographies? Hammer of the Gods (Led Zeppelin) and The Dirt (Motley Crue) are amazingly indulgent and eye-opening books. Phillip Norman's "Shout" about the Beatles is awesome if you like that band.
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I also really like all of bill bryson's books. Would be good nursing reads. I've also been reading Rick Riordans juvenile series on greek and egyptian mythology while nursing at night and I kind of love them
The Red Tent is a really nice historical/biblical fiction book, if you like that sort of thing. One of my favorites.
The Thornbirds is an old one, but an epic that I love.
Oh and all of David Sedaris' books are hilarious!
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@ladyfingers: ooh 11/22/63 was really good!
@MerryC: I agree on the Sedaris recommendation, but I only made the mistake of reading one of his books on a plane ONCE. I felt like a crazy person laughing like that on a plane! -
I'm currently reading The Art of Fielding, I'm about half way through and it's been good so far. I'm not a huge baseball fan, and it's not too much sports for me.
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@dagret: LOL I took them on the plane too!
I think I woke up the guy sleeping next to me at one point from laughing!
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Bossypants was so great! I just finished up the Song of Ice and Fire series (e.g. Game of Thrones) which was good, if you're into fantasy.
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I started Cloud Atlas last week (inspired by watching the movie trailer). It's very good so far - the stories that I've read have different writing styles so it's as if you're reading these stories by different authors but they are all connected.
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If you like mysteries, I'd recommend anything by Tana French. She's an Irish writer. Her books are fantastic. I couldn't put a single one of them down. My favorite of hers is Faithful Place, but you can't go wrong with any of them. She has 4 - Into the Woods, The Likeness, Faithful Place, and Broken Harbor. I recommend her to everyone!
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