favorite NDR book(s)

I guess I'm not that deep of a person, I can't think of any book that really changed my life.  I read soooo much on a daily basis for work, when I read for pleasure I like it to be fun and easy but not stupid (well researched). 
 
Most recently (like over last 10 years)
-patricia cornwell books (the recent ones aren't as good as the old ones)
-kathy reichs books
-dan brown books
-harry potter
-tess gerisson books
 
Hmmmm looking at that list I just realized in most of the books I read, the main character is a female doctor.  I really need a life.......
 
For moms out there, I love "the ordinary princess".  I always felt not as special when I was little cause I was shorter, my hair was red, and my eyes were brown while my sister was tall blond with blue eyes.  That story made me feel more special

I really like classics.  (Although, you will catch me reading a trashy romance novel on occassion!) 
 
My favorites include
Of Mice & Men-  John Steinbeck
Moby Dick-  Herman Melville
Grapes of Wrath-  John Steinbeck
To Kill a Mockingbird-  Harper Lee
War & Peace-  Leo Tolstoy  (I've just started reading this one again)

Bradley-

  Got the whole family here right now and so we are all giving our suggestions. The age range here tonight is 21-43, so you will get a range.. but my family is big on reading and don#%92t often read the mainstream authors you mention not caring for so some of their picks might fit for you.  Among both dh and my stepdtrs favorite books is Catcher in the Rye and the stepdtr also loved On the road and it is on DH list of books to read soon so they may have similar tastes..

  Les Miserables

Memoirs of a Geisha (NOT just a book for women.. all men I know who have read it LOVE it!)

EVERY Kurt Vonnegut book

To Kill a Mockingbird

The Power of One

The Fountainhead

Crime and Punishment


Anything by Hemingway


Into thin Air

Watership Down

  Haroun and the Sea of Stories (light read)

  The Satanic Verses

still thinking.. will add more if we come up with them![]

oh, where to begin...

"empire falls" by richard russo

"the fountainhead" and "atlas shrugged" by ayn rand

any kurt vonnegut

"beloved" by toni morrison

"nickel and dimed" by barabara endereicht (spelling)  bradley, this one you'll like.  non-fiction and the title is self explanatory.

"the lobster coast"  by.. grr.. can't remember.. non-fic

"pretty in punk: girl's gender resistance in a male dominated subculture"  by i can't remember... but it's a girl[]

"letters from the earth" by mark twain

the above books are what i consider to be "Life Changers" for me.

i can name a hundred that i just "loved".. here are some:

"the echo maker" and i can't remember who wrote it just now

"the shroud of the thwacker" by chris elliot (yes, the actor)- those of you who like patricia cornwell might find this funny- it's a spoof of such novels

"fear of flying" by erica jong

anything, suprisingly, by isaac asimov.

i could go on and on, so i'll stop.[]

If you like dark minimalist writing, it's hard to beat Chuck Palahniuk. (Invisible Monsters and Survivor are my favorites - I'm not a huge fan of Fight Club, though the movie was cool.)

I also like John Irving a lot.

I mostly read romance novels so I probably won't be much help!  Sorry!  I also like those True Crime books.

ORIGINAL: Cita

If you like dark minimalist writing, it's hard to beat Chuck Palahniuk.

edit he wrote an AWESOME book called "haunted".... very very difficult to read if you have a weak stomach/vivid imagination, but also very cool.

ooops.. double post!

The Grapes of Wrath is, hands down, my favorite novel of all time.  I also like "Travels With Charley"--Steinbeck and his Standard Poodle camped around the country!

Other reads:

All the Harry Potter books
Nearly everything Mercedes Lackey has written
    "       "                  Anne McCaffrey "     "
Bertrice Small--historical romances although her history is AWESOME! I have learned more about Tudor England from her than from ALL of my history classes combined.

Don Quixote--in the orignal middle Spanish, if you please!

Anything on the Great Depression

I could go on and on...

How pathetic I had to think really hard because all the books I read are about dogs [sm=rofl.gif]
 
Ok I'll go with The Memory Keepers Daughter...its a great book.
 
I also love an Inconvient Truth

Proverbs, Romans and Psalms are my fovorites from the bible.

I like Terry Goodkind's books.

I love the books I have read from Francine Rivers, which are The Mark of the Lion Trilogy and Redeeming Love.

I like the Magic Kingdom Of Landover series.

I'm sure I like a lot of other books, those were just the ones I thought about off the top of my head.

• Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials
• Harry Potter
• Larry McMurtry's Lonesome Dove series
• Voltaire's Candide
• Lots of really deep theological stuff by Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Friederich Schleiermacher, Jean Chauvin (John Calvin), and Jonathan Edwards

And for the rec reading trash I have....

• Patricia Cornwell
• James Patterson
• Kathy Reichs
• Tami Hoag

"nickel and dimed" by barabara endereicht (spelling) bradley, this one you'll like. non-fiction and the title is self explanatory.

this book looks really good. i put a hold on it at my local library.

i have read a couple of vonnegut's books... galapagos and bluebeard. but it has been a while.

shelly....

if your husband and daughter are into reading beat writers, my favorites other than kerouac are william s. burroughs and charles bukowski. by burroughs i have read junky, the naked lunch, the soft machine, and the wild boys. out of those my fav is wild boys. by bukowski i have read post office, ham on rye, pulp, and some of the short stories is run with the hunted. most of his writings are short stories and poems though. two titles that intrigue me (even though not a huge fan of reading poetry) love is a dog from hell and "erections, ejaculations, exhibitions, and tales of ordinary madness".

cita...

based on your suggestion i put a hold on survivor.

thanks for all the suggestions. []

There's a lot of books I loved already listed here.  The Russian novelists (can't go wrong with Tolstoy or Dostoyevsky), Vonnegut (Galapagos and Bluebeard are good, but everyone should read Slaughterhouse Five).  Love, love, love both Into Thin Air and The Satanic Verses. Into Thin Air is simply gripping and The Satanic Verses poetic and hypnotic.
 
But if you like wry humor and slightly counter culture stuff, may I suggest Tom Robbins?  There's Still Life with Woodpecker, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues and others, but my personal favorite, for some reason, is Jitterbug Perfume.