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Book Thread
I'm starting this thread to list all our favorite books. Please post some of your favorites and I'll keep updating the list. Please put after the author/title the type of book, mystery, love story, etc. You can print out this list
Andrews, Donna Arnout, Susan: "Frozen lady" love story in alaska Atherton, Jane: The aunt Dimity mystery series Austen, Jane Baldacci, David mysteries who done it Ball, Alan, American Beauty Binchey, Maive "Tara Road" Block, Francesca Lia, Wasteland -young adult book Bohjalian, Chris The Double Bind Bradley Marion Zimmer "Mists of Avalon" king arthur and his knights Bradford, Barbara Taylor "a woman of substance" series about family dynasty emma harts retailing Bristow, Gwen "Calico Palace" about the gold rush & Jubilee rail Bronte, Charloote: Jame Eyre Brown, Rita Mae and her cat Brunstetter, Wanda-Amish Camillari, Andrea : Montalbano series Cato, Nancy "all the rivers run" about australia Childs, Laura tearoom mysteries (10) with "Teaberry Stranger" Christie, Agatha: mystery Clavell, about japan "Shogun", "nobel house", "taipan" Clement, Blaize Coben, Harlen Conroy, Pat South of Broad" Cornwall, Patricia mystery Kay Scarpettas novels Coulter, Catherine: Regencies and suspense Davidson, Diane Mott, frothy mysteries with recipes Davidson, Mary Janice, undead and unwed-funny! Dawkins, Richard: The God Delusion - nonfiction Delinsky, Barbara DeMille, Nelson mystery Diamant, Anita : The Rid Tent Dibden, Michael: Aurelio Zen series Donati, Sara historical romance and adventure Evonovich, Janet Stephanie Plumm very funny Fitzgerald, F. Scott The great Gatsby Flagg, Fannie Follet, Ken historical fiction or mystery who none it Ford, Jamie Hotel on the Corner of Bitter & Sweet Gabaldon, Dianna series historical romance couldnt put them down-Outlander Gaiman, Neil: Coraline Gerritsen, Tess Rizzoli & Isles mysteries Gilman, Susan Jane Undress me in the Temple of Heaven Grafton, Sue read up thru "U" Giffin, Emily...chick-lit Gordon, Mary: Final Payments Hannah, Kristen Harris, Charlaine: Sookie Stackhouse series...hard to put down Henshaw, Susan mysteries with "Elected by Death” Herzog, Brad Turn left at the Trojan Horse Heinlein, Robert: The Moon is a Harsh Mistress Hoag, Tami have newest waiting for me "Deeper than Dead" Hosseini, Khaled The Kite Runner Irving, John Cider House Rules Karon, Jan The Mitford series Kaye, MM about india and their culture love story ,"The Far Pavillions" Kellerman, Jonathan for a good mystery...also his wife and son has good books. Kesey, Ken: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Kidd, Sue Monk: The secret life of bees Kohen, Kathleen historical fiction adventure "Through a Glass Darkly","And Now Face to Face" Krantz, Judith "Mistrals Daughter" her other books are great to Lamb, Wally "She's Come Undone Lee, Harper: To Kill a Mockingbird Leon, Donna: Brunetti series Lescroart, John - if you like a good, well-written mystery, start with 1st book Lively, Penelope Ludlum, Robert spy who done it espionage mystery" Bourne Iden tity" series Macomber, Debbie Markhan, Beryl: West With the Night Marshall, Catherine: Christy, A Man Called Peter Mason, Marion ?? writes about judge in NC??? Montgomery, Lucy Maud: Anne of green gables series and Emily of New Moon Murakami, Haruki: fiction and non-fiction Nabokov, Vladimir: Lolita (literary) Niffenegger, Audrey: The Time Traveler's Wife Niven, David: The Moon's a Balloon, Bring on the Empty Horses Page, Katherine Hall (8) with "Body in the Gallery" waiting for me Palahniuk, Chuck: Fight Club Parker, Robert (Spenser series are funny, mystery Patterson, James just finished reading the 9th judgement Perry, Martha writes about the Amish. i've learned a lot Piercy, Marge “Gone to Soldiers” Pigeon, Josie series and have 3 left there. Pilcher, Rosamonde historical family dynasty "Coming Home", "The Shell Seekers" Quindlen, Anna: Every Last One (Literary) Rice, Luane Roberts, Nora Runbeck, Margaret Lee: Time for Each Other, Our Miss Boo Sanford, John See, Lisa: Sunwflower & the Secret Fan, Shanghai Girls Setterfield, Diane The Thirteenth Tale Sedaris, Dave: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius Siddons, Ann Rivers Simenon, George: Maigret novels Smith, Alexander McCall Ladies Detective Agency series Smith, Betty: A Tree grows in Brooklin, kid or older book Smith, Wilbur ..family dynasty,s in africa, egypt "river god" and "7th scroll Steele, Danielle worthless and inane Stewart, Mary: Merline/Arthur trilogy Stockett, Kathryn: The Help Studdert-Kennedy, G.A. Swanson, Denise (11) with "Wedding Bells" waiting for me Tanenbaum, Robert mystery Trollope, Joanna TYheroux, Paul: travel books Whitcomb, Laura: A certain Slant of Light (literary) Woods, Stuart Wolzein, Valerie __________________ |
King, Laurie Mary Russell mysteries (actually anything she writes is good)
Peter, Elizabeth Amelia Peabody series Oh, and its Nancy Atherton. Jude Deveraux Always, Forever, Always and Forever. Summerhouse and Return to Summerhouse, oh shoot many of Jude's books are my "guilty pleasure" reading. She and Catherine Coulter. Hmmm, I think there are more on your list from the Golden thread. |
Bobbolink - Thanks for posting such a long list of favorites. At least half are some of my favorites too, so I'm now eager to check out some you listed that I haven't read.
Bunti - Are you referring to the Mary Russell books by Laurie King. I have read all of those & they are great. Another mystery series I love that I didn't see listed is the Kathy Mallory series by Carol O'Connell. The first book in the series is Mallory's Oracle & this is one of those series best read in order. |
Here are a few of my favorites:
The Cat Who......series by Lilian Jackson Braun. I think this would be one of the cozy mystery types. Start with the first one and read them in order. The southern sisters series by Anne George. Another of the cozy mystery types. First one ~ Murder on a Girls' Night Out. About two sisters (golden girl aged). There are only eight of these ~ again ~ start with the first one. Sadly the author passed away and so there will be no more of these. Then there were the Sadie Shapiro stories by Robert Kimmel Smith. Again start with the first one. There are only three of these. Wish there had been more ~ I loved Sadie (a senior citizen). They were funny and heart warming. |
Ooops, yes I meant Mary Russell-- love em!! (I changed the original post to be correct)
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Hi All,
Gotta love a thread about books! Two of my favorite cozy mystery writers are Mary Daheim & Joan Hess. Daheim writes a Bed & Breakfast series, & the Alpine mysteries series. Hess writes a series called the Claire Malloy Mysteries, & the Maggody Mystery series - both are pretty funny. The author that writes the series about the judge in NC (Judge Deborah Knott) is Margaret Maron. She's a favorite of mine too. NCNancy |
A classic-I do love to read Jane Austen (I have her collected works) and Agatha Christie (Death on the Nile,etc.) but I love J.R.R. Tolkien: The Hobbit, Lord of the Rings (Triology) The Simarillion, etc. I was so happy when a real tribute to his works was made in film; The Hobbit (two films) begins filming this month!
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If you have a dog or just love dogs, read:
A Dog's Purpose By: Bruce Cameron It was honestly the best book I have read in a long time! You will laugh and cry...sigh. So good. Read it! :) |
Another good one about dogs is Cruellest Miles - about the Serum Race in Nome - so exciting! I have new respect for the Alaskan peoples and their beloved dogs & for Togo!
Southern Sisters! I loved that series! I'd read at lunch in the Breakroom & just burst out laughing! Wonderful sense of humor. I love mysteries - Robert Crais (wrote for TV - Cagney & Lacey, for one) and Victoria Holt. |
Tana French - a GREAT writer - award-winning mystery series - In the Woods, Likeness, and Faithful Place.
Also - The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer. One of my all-time favorites. |
I'm a reader. I read a lot of Patricia Cornwell, James Patterson, Tammy Hoag, Lisa Jackson, Lisa Gardner, Michale Connelly, Mary Higgins Clark, Kathy Reichs, Jeffrey Deaver and the list goes on and on ...... I love to read.
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Love this list! In addition to many of the authors above I also at the moment am reading J.D. Robb (Nora Roberts) Eve Dallas series and loving them. I'd suggest reading them in order. There are a bunch- 32 novels and several novellas and short stories included in other compilations. It's like one huge long book where the characters are like friends.
Also read all the Suzanne Brockmann Troubleshooters series which I also loved. There are 16 of them and definitely read them in order. |
I was a librarian many years ago and never burned out from reading. I love mysteries, fantasy and some science fiction. Currently I am reading James Lee Burke and Rachel Caine.
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If you like cozy mysteries, try "The Thin Woman : An Epicurean Mystery" by Dorothy Cannell. I've enjoyed the whole series, starting with this one about Ellie Haskell, an overweight woman who hires an escort to accompany her to a family reunion.
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Thanks, I made a note of this author and will get it next time.
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I'm reading "Friend of the Devil" by Peter Robinson. I like his books. They are always (at least the ones I've read) about a homicide detective. As I've mentioned before I usually have two or three books going on at once. My Christian/inspiration book right now is Praying the Names of Jesus and I'm still working on The Dawn and the Darkness. Been at it a long time not because it's a difficult book to read...it isn't and it's very interesting but just lack of time or I forget.
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One book by Nora Roberts: MontanaSky. A book about 3 very different sisters who are forced to live on a ranch in Montana to get their inheritanc. Lovely, whitty, intelligent book about the relationships amoung women.
Nora Roberts: the Quinn trillogy. Three formerly delinquent brothers make a deathbed promise to raise the newest adoptive boy. They are beautiful, volatile and endearing. The trillogy follows individual roamances of the brothers and the raising of the boy. Great story. They end up feeling like old friends. Finally, Deen Koontz, watchers. If you have every believed that a dog understood every word, you will love this book. It explores our humanity and our relationships with other species. Haunting, endearing, and scary. |
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I just finished reading Deja Dead by Kathy Reichs. It is a thriller about a serial killer and the detectives working on the case. The protagonist is a forensic scientist, Dr.Temperance Brennan, who gets involved on a personal level. It is a bit graphic in the description of her job, but if you like the TV show Bones you'll like this book: It's based on Reichs' novels. |
:) Hi All - I've read Kathy Reichs - like her. I'm reading Tess Gerritsen "Vanish" now. I really like her; also Karin Slaughter. I'm on the list at the library for "Unbroken", a true story about a guy that survived Japanese POW camp during WWII. My neighbor read it & said it was very powerful. I like medical mysteries, historical novels too. Anyway gotta go.....BFN :wave:
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Thanks for this great book list!
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Has anybody read 20 years younger? I want to know w he ther it is. Good?
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Calee...you're welcome...I'll have to take the time to add all the books sometime. It kind of got away from me.
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I love this thread! I forgot all about it.
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Thought I'd posted these but couldn't find. Please excuse if it's a repeat. These are my very favorite fiction books and I have read them over and over through the years.
The Mirror by Marlys Millhiser (difficult to find anymore) about going back/forward in time. Bad Desire by Gary Devon - maybe be offensive as it is about a man (married) and his relationship with a teenage girl. Sexy, psychological suspense. Joy in the Morning by Betty Smith - haven't read this is a very long time but still have it and in the past have reread it often. I remember being young, in love and newly married with very little money but lots of hope for the future, so guess that's why it speaks to me. The House on the Strand by Daphne du Maurier There are more ...I'll post them when I have time. |
Since the Lincoln Lawyer came out, I got hooked on Michael Connelly's books, either his Mickey Haller (lawyer) or Harry Bosch (detective) series are great. I love Dick Francis and will miss him since his passing, but his son Felix picked up the gauntlet and writes the same way as his dad,murder mysteries about jockeys and the world of British racing. I love Robert B Parker's Spenser books, Nobody beats Evanovich for humor, pee your pants kind of humor, the In Death series by JD Robb (Nora Roberts) and her Eve Dallas detective is great too. Sara Paretsky, Edna Buchanan are both good with regards to female main characters as is Sue Grafton's books. I love Steve Martini's Paul Madriani's series (lawyer.) I am one of those people that read purely for pleasure. If I want to learn something I go to school! lol Even though I don't post here, I am over 50 lol so I at least hit the mark there. Just wanted to share some terrific authors you might be interested in.
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A new favorite mystery writer - Louise Penny. She's a REALLY good writer & has a series with a Canadian detective that I like.
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I have read all kinds of books this summer, picked up Designated Fat Girl, was ok, the author ended up having gastric bypass. going to read Small Farms are Real Farms when hubby gets done with it.
I bought two dvds of Nora Roberts books, Montana Sky and Northern Lights, I have read lots of her books too. Just finished David Baldacci's One Summer, and picked up The Amen Solution, by Dr Daniel G Amen-might be interesting. I will be running the scale for corn chopping in a few days-so I should be able to read a lot. Pam |
Peace Like a River
Originally Posted by Bobbolink: |
I've read Peace Like a River, by Lief Enger twice -- once about 6-7 years ago, and again recently. It's just a lovely book, written with such beautiful prose and deep emotional expression.
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I recently read Stones from the River, by Ursula Heigl. I really, really enjoyed it, and will probably read it again in a few years... Amazon sayd this: "Stones from the River" follows Trudi Montag, a dwarf who serves as her town's librarian, unofficial historian, and recorder of the secret stories of her people, in a novel that charts the course of German history in the first half of the twentieth century." An excellent book, in my humble opinion.
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A few months ago in our Sunday Parade magazine they listed 6 fiction and 6 non fiction writers that wrote really good books. I checked one of them out last week and it was really interesting, couldn't put it down. "Once Upon A River", by Bonnie Jo Campbell. Check it out! It's about a 16 year old beauty that goes looking for her mom after a violent death of her dad. She's a sharp shooter (Annie Oakley is her hero) and uses her outdoor skills to find her way.
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