The blurb on Fifth Business just didn't catch my interest.

For someone who likes fantasy, how about Rhapsody Child of Blood by Elizabeth Haydon?

I've had it on my shelf for some time and just haven't got around to it.

Fiend The Shocking True Story Of Americas Youngest Serial Killer

Not the kind of book I'd be interested in reading. Sorry.

I recommend Before You Knnow Kindness by Chris Bohjalian.

I hear good things about Chris Bohjalian and loved the one book of his I've read. I'll add it.

Big Stone Gap

Sounds like it would be worth a go.

I found I Never Promised You a Rose Garden by Joanne Greenberg to be an interesting read.

I read I Never Promised you a Rose Garden in school a hundred years ago. I remember it being sort of the Girl Interrupted of the 60s.

On that theme, but non-fiction, I recommend Lauren Slater's Prozac Diary.

Proza Diary - not sure.
I recommend One Thousand White Women by Jim Fergus

It looks kinda interesting, but I hate reading books strung together by journal entries...but the premise sounds great. A bunch of women sent by the government to marry the Indians. So I say yes, if you don't mind reading journal entries.

Mistress of the Art of Death by Ariana Franklin.

Debby wrote: "Not the kind of book I'd be interested in reading. Sorry.

I recommend Before You Knnow Kindness by Chris Bohjalian. "

Good suggestion. I have enjoyed most of Bohjalian's books. Also read "Skeletons at the Feast", by the same author.

Hmm. I really enjoyed Midwives, so I will look up both of these. :)


I love J. California Cooper and one of my all time faves is:

The Wake of the Wind A Novel

JG wrote: "I hear good things about Chris Bohjalian and loved the one book of his I've read. I'll add it.

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BIG STONE GAP is not written by Bohjalian!

Barbara I think JG is recommending Big Stone Gap as her recommendation.

Someone recommends a book and the next persons says whether they would read it or not and then the recommend a book.

I'm am all confused at where we are, but I've added The Wake of the Wind to my to-read list!

How about The Blue Girl by Charles de Lint?

I like Charles de Lint, so I'd read it.

Staying with YA urban fantasy, how about Tithe A Modern Faerie Tale by Holly Black.

I read "Tithe" and liked it OK, but it wasn't one of my favorites.

For horror fans I would recommend:

Dead Sea by Brian Keene

I like horror, but I don't think I've ever read a zombie book. I'd give it a try, at least until nightmares start!

I recommend The Name of the Wind as a good new fantasy book. (Not to be confused with the book, The Shadow of the Wind)

Don't know that book but looks promising.

For a little bit of fantasy and a little bit of horror all woven in around a basic tale of romance I recommend:The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova

The Historian=LOVED it.

If you love Pride and Prejudice, you have to check out North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell

Sadly, haven't read either of them but am starting to think that I need to correct that deficiency!

Think you can't train a cat? Outwitting Cats Tips, Tricks and Techniques for Persuading the Felines in Your Life That What YOU Want Is Also What THEY Want by Wendy Christensen may change your mind!

Never heard of it.

I was going to recommend the Historian, haha, so I'll say Yes Means Yes Visions of Female Sexual Power and A World Without Rape

Sounds a little too intense for me!

READ THIS NOW: :)
Graceling - Kristin Cashore

I just got it yesterday from the library, going to start it this weekend!

The Stand by Steven King

It's been on my shelf for ages. I'm planning to read it soon.

The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse by Louise Erdrich

Sounds intriguing!

All Creatures Great and Small

Yes, liked all those books!

The Sherwood Ring

Sounds pretty good.

Mercy, Unbound by Kim Antieau for a young adult selection that's also good for adults.

I haven't heard of this author, but the book sounds interesting enough that I would pick it up!

The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan

Hmm, I think my hubby would actually like a book like that. If, for instance, he decided to pick up one of his many books and read again, lol.

For someone who may like romance without any profane sex scenes, A Perfect Stranger by Danielle Steel

I used to read Danielle Steel when I was a teenager.

If you like your romance with sizzling sex, check out: Behind Closed Doors by Shannon McKenna

Hi, I'm new here, but I'll just jump right in. My sister told me about a book she read called called "Dalton Shores." I asked at my local book store, but they couldn't find it. I went to Amazon.com and they had it. It grabbed me right away. It's about this single lady in the 1940's who is about to lose her 3 kids to the state, because she doesn't make enough money at her low paying waitress job to support them. She divorced her alcoholic husband and is trying to find a new love. It tells about one of her kids who grows up as a musician and his troubled life. It DOES have some explicit sexual situations and adult language, but get past that, and it's a great read. Has anyone else read it?

Yes, I'd read that because I like books set in the war years.

I recommend Neverwhere, by Neil Gaiman.

Sounds like I'd like it! I'll add it to my to-reads list.

Just in case I'm not the last person on Earth to read Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, that's what I recommend. (I just read it last week and LOVED it!)

I am going to read it next. it is on my list.
I will recommand one of my favorites- the Master and Margarita by Bulgakov. A great Book.

Oh Knarik, I read that few months ago and really enjoyed it!

I would recommend Fragment.
Its a new release, kinda b-movie horrorish. A reality show films scientists traveling the world making dicoveries... when they come across an unexplored island that has been evolving on its own path for millions of years. An ecosystem that is alien to us... and very dangerous!

Oh that sounds good... not the kind of thing I usually read, but I did like Jurassic Park!

Relatedly... (is that a word...?)
I recommend The Andromeda Strain which is an excellent movie too!

I'm not a huge fan of Sci-fi so this book doesn't appeal yo me.

The Scent of Sake really good historical fiction set in Japan that covers several generations of a sake brewing family.

That sounds like a book I'd like to check out.

I recommend The Smoke Jumper by Nicholas Evans (the author of The Horse Whisperer)

I would read that one...I have The Loop by Evans on my shelf waiting to be read. I've heard a lot of good things about his books.

I just finished Laughter in the Dark by Nabokov and loved it!

Piqued my interest. Have Pnin on TBR list & want to sample his stuff.

Recommend Middlesex by Euginides. Read it two years ago, seems yesterday.

Read Middlesex as part of a swap-suggestions deal, here at goodreads. Loved it! A few minor problems with the structure--but can second the Middlesex recommendation for a good book to fit in before end of 2009.

Recommended book: Who Made Stevie Crye?, by Michael Bishop.

Not much detail to go on, but I can be pretty open minded with what I read. I might keep an eye out for it

Recommend: Crocodile on the Sand Bank - Elizabeth Peters Only recently read this one and really enjoyed it. A fun read!

Never heard of it

The Infinite by Douglas Clegg

A great haunted house story!