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jadi
Sep 9, 2015, 10:49 AM
Hey. I think the title is very to the point so...

Oliver2011
Sep 9, 2015, 11:05 AM
Well you didn't tell us if you want fiction, nonfiction, historical, romance, etc.

Nathan's Run by John Gilstrap
Red Hook Road by W something.
Summerlong by Dean something.

Sorry, I don't remember authors names.

Wondergirl
Sep 9, 2015, 11:32 AM
On a Pale Horse by Piers Anthony
Any novel by Harlan Coben
A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
Gone Girl by Gilian Flynn
The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
Nine Stories by J.D. Salinger
The Brain That Changes Itself by Norman Doidge (non fiction and my current read)

joypulv
Sep 9, 2015, 12:38 PM
With part-way cataracts, I'm partial to short stories these days.

Desert Teacher, by Arjun Singh. Nonfiction about living and teaching in a dry and rural part of northern India.
Partly Cloudy Patriot, by Anne Vowel. Funny non fiction.

ma0641
Sep 9, 2015, 02:00 PM
Short stories of Hemingway or O'Henry.

jadi
Sep 10, 2015, 01:49 PM
Thanks lovelies! <3

Catsmine
Sep 10, 2015, 03:51 PM
Fantasy: Tinker by Wen Spencer
Mystery: A Morbid Taste for Bones by Ellis Peters
Western: Sackett by Louis L'Amour
Essays: Arguably by Christopher Hitchens
History: Killing Lincoln by Bill O'reillyBiography: Robert A. Heinlein by William H. Patterson

Each of these will lead you to six months worth of reading pleasure, either as part of a series or as an introduction to an author.

jadi
Sep 11, 2015, 02:22 PM
Fantasy: Tinker by Wen Spencer
Mystery: A Morbid Taste for Bones by Ellis Peters
Western: Sackett by Louis L'Amour
Essays: Arguably by Christopher Hitchens
History: Killing Lincoln by Bill O'reillyBiography: Robert A. Heinlein by William H. Patterson

Each of these will lead you to six months worth of reading pleasure, either as part of a series or as an introduction to an author.
Thanks

Arran Alston
Feb 21, 2016, 03:31 AM
Here are some great works of fiction:


‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ by Harper Lee
‘The Great Gatsby’ by F. Scott Fitzgerald
‘The Picture of Dorian Gray’ by Oscar Wilde
‘Crime and Punishment’ by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
‘The Alchemist’ by Paulo Coelho

zwatcher
Nov 23, 2016, 09:28 PM
The monster hunter's international series by Larry Correira
One day CPA Owen Zastava Pitt's Boss tries to eat him surprisingly, he survives and the werewolf doesn't
This is his introduction to a secret world of bounty hunters and monsters and just in time because he is destined to save the world

Sarah beauhall seres by J. A. Pitt. When blacksmith sarah beauhall reforged an old sword to use as a film prop, she didn't know it was a magic sword and would lead her into mortal combat with a dragon and gain her the favor of a norse god

Crown and key series by clay and susan griffith. A victorian age steampunk league of extraordinary gentlemen and ladies must save London from true nightmares

Vorkosiggan series by Lois Mcmaster Bbujold. Miles Vorkosiggan is a young noble man cursed with brittle bones by a prenatal poisoning in an assassination attempt on his parents. But neither that nor his stunted stature will stop him frombeing all that he can be in the military if it kills him. Thankfully he is a brilliant tactitian and can think circles around his enemies