Just wondering about book sugestions.
here are some of my favorites.

Unusual Natural weather phenomina
A breif history of time
Flowers for algernon
anything in the MCSE line

as you can tell I like dry technical reading over "stories"

hehehe as a child I used to come home and complain to my mother "They made me read stupid fake stories at school what a waste of time" hehehe I didnt like fiction then thank goodness I grew out of that..... somewhat

I recommend Bag of Bones or Dolores Claiborne by King....
Net force by Clancy is also good....

I am looking for a new novel to start, I will definately take some suggestions from this thread

Recent books i've been reading are all from the author Richard Laymon. They are mostly horror books anyways my friend gave me a load of his books and I'm just going through them all. They are actually pretty good if you like that kind of stuff. Some stuff in them may be considered a bit sick, he doesn’t seem to hold back with his writing but that’s probably what i like the most about his style.

If you like horror books then this author is definatly a must.

Richard Laymon Official Site
Amazon Search

Orson Scott Card, the Ender/Bean series is still my fav book series even above Tolkiens Fellowship series. About kids who are recruited into "battle school" and do null gravit mock wars and stuff, its pretty cool thats all in the first one, the next 3 have a much more broad storyline and more characters and include a lot of philisophical and scientific theories which definately make them interesting. The Bean series the last 2 books are based around a character that is introduced in Ender's game can actually be read seperately but I think they fit better after reading the others then going back to read a similar story but from a different perspective.

Ender's Game
Speaker For the Dead
Xenocide
Children of the Mind
Ender's Shadow (bean series)
Shadow of the Hedgemon

The Outsiders
Flatlands
Farenheit 451
Mankind: A Tale of Blood and Sweatsocks (pro wrestler Mick Foley wrote this by hand on notebook paper. Very good read, especially since he writes as though the person reading doesn't know much about wrestling.)

I've been taking a Japanese literature class and it's based mainly on short stories. The stories I am about to list are translated to English from Japanese...I had to read them for the class but I found them all relatively interesting.

Kokoro by Natsume Soseki
No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai
Kappa by Ryunosuke Akutagawa (I found this one to be rather strange but still fun)

I don't read much, but here are a few books I've read an liked:

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.
The Outsiders.

wow, it seems like everyone has read the Outsiders

I first read it in school for an English project... but we only had to read the first 2 chapters, and we didn't have to read the rest. But I was interested in it and kept reading.

I recently read a book that I thought was going to be cheese but turned out to be one of the better books I’ve read over the years. It's currently a bestseller and a very controversial. It’s called the Da Vinci Code by author Dan Brown. Even the website is cool. Here is The Da Vinci Code Website, Be Careful though it does have some spoilers

The other series of books that I love and read is the Dark Tower series from Stephen King. It’s not like his usual stuff this series is cool and by kings own admission the hardest and best work he ever did. I’m currently starting to read the latest that just came out Wolves of The Calla. King even setup an Official Dark Tower website just for the fans of this series. You can check out the Official Dark Tower Website here.

I'd have to say that "The Blue Nowhere" by Jeffrey Deaver is very good. Also anything by Andrew M. Greeley

I've also read "The Lord of the Flies".... I didn't think it was all that great though.

I've read some of these books in English classes.
Farenheit 451
The Outsiders
The Lord of the Flies
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Flowers for Algernon (a long time ago)

If you want to read a really sad book, read Of Mice and Men, which I also read in English class just last year. I can't bear the end.

OMG ACTZ..........youve heard of Laymon? he is the best....personally i think hes best book is the Cellar.
hes my second favuorite author behind Graham Masterton (king of horror)
some of his best are:
Black Angel
Prey
The Walkers
Portrait
Flesh And Blood
Night Warriors

anutha good author is Robin Cook........hes writes like medical book bout unexplained deaths at hospitals

Another good book you all either have read or probably will is Catcher in the Rye lol and Of Mice and Men isnt that where the one guy shoots his freind in the back of the head with the P38 ? "Can you see the rabbits goerge ?" hehehehe

yeah i read the book and saw the movie of mice and men both are good John Malkovich and Gerry Sinis are both great in the movie.

I've read The Catcher and the Rye for a summer reading thingy-ma-bobber and I loved it; very funny. I can totally sympathize with Holden Caulfield.

I see phonies... they're everywhere... many people don't even know they're phonies and walk around like not everything is okay but they are greatly wronged... can you help me..?

I've seen alot of people here say they're read Farenheit 451, and I was going to read it someday... so, is it a good book? I've heard it too be good...

i never even heard of it

yea, the next book I start will be that farenhite book, a lot of people seem to be recommending it...

sum1 tell me................wot it about? who wrote it?

Personally I like Anne Rice....all of the Lestat books are wonderful...very in depth reading for those who like mystics.

ah... I've heard of that book. I think I read a shortened version in another language..

how big is it? the one I read was like 100

208 pages.
Amazon - Fahrenheit 451

Ahhh... Jack London. Good books he made...

ah ok tahnx PHP...........sci-fi book.........mite find maself a copy of it one day

I'd have to say that Michael Swanwick is an awesome author. Here's part of a review of his book "The Iron Dragon's Daughter"

Swanwick's nihilistic tale features a human changeling who tries to make her way in a cutthroat society that mirrors contemporary life. While the players are elves, dwarves, lamies and other "magickal" creatures, they could be 20th-century juvenile delinquents and power politicians in a society ruled by caste snobbery, drugs, a mall culture and child labor. Determined to end her slavery in a steam dragon plant, the young human Jane escapes with the help of a rusted old dragon hulk named Melancthon. Thereafter, she goes to school disguised as a fey in order to learn the magic necessary to repair the ravages inflicted on the dragon by time and battle. But the misfit Jane finds school horrifying, and she turns to shoplifting to gain friends. She falls in love with a young man destined to be the annual sacrifice; when she loses her virginity, her usefulness to Melancthon as a magic-maker is ended. After her lover's tragic death, Jane is taken under the wing of a power-hungry elven lord, Galiagante. Eventually she joins Melancthon once again as he sets out to destroy the Universe.

my favorite book to date, robert heinlein's socio-psychological space drama "Stranger In a Strange Land"

Cool. One of my favorite novel writers is Dean Koontz. I gotta say all the books I´ve read by him are quite compelling. Its like a mix between suspence, the dark and a little of action. All together. It is great

The Entire Shannara series.. Lord of the Rings (AND the Hobbit, for it's techanlly part of it).. Tom Clancy books are pretty much all good if thats your thing... and like every R.A Salvatore book is worth the read lol

I am intrigued to find a book called > The Book of Counted Sorrows...Koontz quotes from it a lot and i find it interesting, good rhymes and vocabulary

I have found the entire Shannara series to be quite supreme, another series woould have to be the Sword of truth series by terry goodkind, actually found terry goodkind on terry brook's website,A good bit darker beut all together quite awesome, both series are continuing to be written

The dark tower series is quite good, but I must say there are few long stale moments in the series, but I enjoyed them all.
I haven't yet read the new one

check out the ravenloft series by TSR, they are pretty cool...they have some of the same charactersas the dragonlance and dragonloft series...the stephen king dark tower series is good also

Well, actually the Ravenloft series.. and all those under that company title, are now under the Wizards lol but yea, I have one or two from it, gooooood.. I had a third (or second), but my step brother borrowed it, and I have yet to see it again.. he said it was good lol

I loved the whole Dark Elf trilogy or what ever its called lol all I know is that in AD&D its called the Underdark with the dark elves and all that

If you like thrillers there is a new author: C. Hyytinen--Pattern of Violence...she's really good and the book is a super-fast read! Also, Odd Thomas by Dean Koontz, Big bad Wolf by James Patterson.

Ok, i think i will have them in my back of my mind. Is this a recommend a book thread or is it devoted to these books?

If its a recommend one then i recommend for teenagers:

Philip Pulman's books, Mortal Engines and Predators Gold by Philip Reeve. There are loads of great authors around at the moment.

I love Ann Rice, she rules!

Anne Rice and Dean Koontz my fav. authors.. although I wish Anne Rice did a book about real vampires or even knew they were real.. books I recommend are..

Dean Koontz: Tick Tock
Dean Koontz: False Memory ( very good, very long )
Dean Koontz: The Bad Place
Dean Koontz: Soul Survivor
Dean Koontz: Intensity
Stephen King: Salem's Lot
John Wyndam: The Crysalids ( a classic! about 50 years old too but still makes sense!)
Stephen King: Carrie
Stephen King: Rose Red

Those are All very good books!

dang...my fav are also Anne Rice and Dean Koontz..

more from Dean Koontz:

"Dark Rivers of the Heart"
"Seize the Night"
"Ghosts"

here are some good books:-

The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
Prince of Ayodhya - Ashok K. Banker
Siege of Mithila - Ashok K. Baker
All Tom Clancy Books
Dream Catcher - Stephen King
Heir to the Empire, Dark Force Rising and The Last Command - Timothy Zahn

EDIT : Three Mem in a BOat - Jerome K. Jerome (little over a hundered years old, but one of the funniest books i have ever read)

Personally, I enjoy the James Bond series. The original Fleming novels are mostly excellent, as are the recent Raymond Benson novels. I dont really like John Gardners.

(Benson and Gardner continued writing Bond novels after Fleming)

Check out these sites if you are interested

Commander Bond

klast.net

I didn't know someone wrote more bonds, i think i may check them out.

neither did i. i thnik ill check it out. ive never read a bnd book. maybe ill start now

Here also is an identical topic about reading books:

Good books to read !

Just in case you want to look at some more suggestions

My favourite books are:-
X-Wing Series - Michael J. Stackpole (Star Wars - Expanded Universe)
The Thrawn Triology - Timothy Zahn (Star Wars - Expanded Universe)
The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
All Tom CLancy Books
Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien
Most Wilbur Smith Books
A Brief History of Time - Stephen Hawking