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[why_me_why_not]

Okay, so I'm planning on spending a lot of time away from the internet this summer - camping and the creek and whatever. And I am heading to both the used book store and the library this weekend, so I need book recs. I already have a list of books I want to read, but if there is something you think should be on my MUST READ list, please tell me in comments? Any type/genre/whatever, just book recs. Thanks! <3

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[wendy.livejournal.com]

Looking for Alaska by John Green
The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin
Everlost by Neil Shusterman

[mimiheart.livejournal.com]

I read a fascinating book called "Alice I Have Been". It's a fictionalized novel about the girl Lewis Carrol wrote Alice in Wonderland for.

[shutyourface.livejournal.com]

Do you like Dean Koontz? Anything by him is excellent (though sometimes twisted and usually featuring a dog) but I think my favorite is Strangers. Kind of out there with the plot but the relationships he builds are A++.

Or if you're in a sci-fi/fantasy kind of mood, you can try Ender's Game.

Oooh or anything by Chaim Potok, but especially My Name Is Asher Lev and it's sequels.

Ever read any Anne McCaffrey? I love the Pern series.

... I'll stop rambling now.

[ladysilverangel.livejournal.com]

Black Jewels Trilogy by Anne Bishop - amazing books! They're classed as a romance/fantasy - but they're very dark and entertaining. Absolutely adore them!!!

Otherwise I stronge suggest anything by Maureen McCarthy :-)

[stratospherique.livejournal.com]

Anything by Judith Merkle Riley, but especially The Oracle Glass and The Serpent Garden.

[mya-in-ab.livejournal.com]

I <3 used bookstores, especially mom-and-pop used bookstores. It was the first job I ever held never mind the fact that it went out of business barely a year or two after i left .

I have a hard time recommending books- I read according to how I'm feeling for the day. Fun Reads:

Janet Evanovich's number series "One for the Money", "Two for the Dough"...etc. #1 is pretty rockin'.

Anything Mercedes Lackey, particularly her Elemental or Valdemar serieses. Look for "The Fire Rose" or "To Take a Thief"!!

And any time I enter a used bookstore, I look for the out-of-print L.J Smith's "A Dangerous Game". I read it once while it was at my bookstore- then I recommended it to a customer and have never found a copy again!

[exsequar.livejournal.com]

Books! \o/

Well, to start, since you're into GK now (wooooo!), you should definitely read One Bullet Away by Nate Fick. I haven't read it myself yet, but by all accounts it's great. Same deal with the book Generation Kill itself.

My favorite author, and the one I always rec when anyone asks, is Guy Gavriel Kay. He writes historical fantasy and is basically a class unto himself. My favorite book of his is A Song for Arbonne, which is based on medieval France, and another favorite is the Lions of Al-Rassan (medieval Spain and the clash between the Christians, Muslims, and Jews). The Sarantine Mosaic (two books: Sailing to Sarantium and Lord of Emperors) is an amazing examination of Byzantium. The Fionavar Tapestry is more completely fantasy. Basically ALL of his books are worth a read, and sadly there aren't many of them since he's quite slow (due to having to thoroughly research a historical period before he can write!).

If you haven't read The Lovely Bones, I think you should - I picked it up while I was in Dublin and it rather astonished me. I usually eschew best sellers, but it was excellent.

Yay books!