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  • Sep 9, 2015, 10:49 AM
    jadi
    Any good book recommendations?
    Hey. I think the title is very to the point so...
  • Sep 9, 2015, 11:05 AM
    Oliver2011
    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.
  • Sep 9, 2015, 11:32 AM
    Wondergirl
    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)
  • Sep 9, 2015, 12:38 PM
    joypulv
    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.
  • Sep 9, 2015, 02:00 PM
    ma0641
    Short stories of Hemingway or O'Henry.
  • Sep 10, 2015, 01:49 PM
    jadi
    Thanks lovelies! <3
  • Sep 10, 2015, 03:51 PM
    Catsmine
    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.
  • Sep 11, 2015, 02:22 PM
    jadi
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by Catsmine View Post
    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
  • Feb 21, 2016, 03:31 AM
    Arran Alston
    Here are some great works of fiction:

    1. ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ by Harper Lee
    2. ‘The Great Gatsby’ by F. Scott Fitzgerald
    3. ‘The Picture of Dorian Gray’ by Oscar Wilde
    4. ‘Crime and Punishment’ by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
    5. ‘The Alchemist’ by Paulo Coelho
  • Nov 23, 2016, 09:28 PM
    zwatcher
    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

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