Book Recommendation Game

[Vincent, Group Founder]

The only rule to this game is to recommend a book that you liked. (It doesn't have to be related to the prior post and you can post more than once--but try to do it one book at a time.)

First Recommendation:

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[Anna]

I totally recommend the Harry Potter series. Even more, I recommend the audio books. The narrator, Jim Dale, is fabulous. The first 5 Harry Potter books were our first introduction to audio books and believe me, it's a hard act to follow. It's like watching a movie without the TV. It's great.

[Paul]

Red Dragon by Thomas Harris.

Awesome book, great characters.

[Vincent, Group Founder]

A Thief of Time

[[deleted user]]

Anything by Tamora Pierce is recomended! And i agree with Vincent and Anna those are also very good books ♥

[Sharon]

Hmm. Mightily tempting to recommend my own work, LOL. Instead, I'll recommend a book that was recommended to me and that I thoroughly enjoyed:

[Vincent, Group Founder]

Jim the Boy A Novel

[K.A.]

I recommend Liar

It's YA contemporary fiction and fabulous. A great example of the unreliable narrator first person POV.

[Vincent, Group Founder]

Daisy Miller

[Darcia]

If you're interested in the drug culture and how it evolved, from the "Beat Generation" to the present, the political movement and the social movement, Can't Find My Way Home: America In The Great Stoned Age 1945-2000 by Martin Torgoff is an excellent read.

[Bernadette]

YA sci-fi and absolutely brilliant!

[Vincent, Group Founder]

[A.F.]

I'm currently reading this one and so far it's great:
The Wonderful Demise of Benjamin Arnold Guppy

[Vincent, Group Founder]

Candide

[Mandy]

The Elegance of the Hedgehog

[Cecilia]

I'm still pushing for everyone to read "Fool" by Christopher Moore! I thought it was laugh out loud funny.

[Zuzana]

Agree -- Fool is super, especially if you know your Shakespeare, as there is much Elizabethan-style fun poked here -- heinous eff-ery most foul! As a fan of author Christopher Moore, I have to say, however, that Fool is not that much like his other books. I like how casual, irreverent, and downright silly his characters are, and most (aside from Pocket) were necessarily a bit more stiff in the un-merry old England (or future America, if you subscribe to that theory) of this book. Nevertheless, Fool is another must-read Moore gem!

[Mandy]

A really liked A Dirty Job by Moore, that was laugh out loud funny.

[Cecilia]

Yep...since I first read "Practical Demonkeeping" several years ago, I've been a fan. I also enjoyed "A Dirty Job", too!

Can't wait to read his next tome...coming out soon!

Glad to see there are other Moore fans out there! Now if we could just get Moore to be a Goodreads author!!!

Thanks, all.....
--Cecilia

[Carmen]

I recommend The Shamer Chronicles by Lene Kaaberbol's



I found these books at the library and loved them. But for some reason they are not well known at all.

[Ilene, Brandy and Val, Real Dogs with Real Tales]

Ilene Fine, author of the children's board book series, BRANDY AND VAL, REAL DOGS WITH REAL TALES recommends the adult book,
KEEPING THE WORLD AWAY by Margaret Forster

[Cecilia]

I recently read "Pirate Latitudes" by the now deceased but excellent author Michael Crichton. Couldn't put it down.

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[Vincent, Group Founder]

The Invisible Man
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[Guido]

"The Second Objective" by Mark Frost, a fascinating speculative history novel set during World War II as American troops land behind German lines and disguise themselves as Nazis on a mission to kill Hitler.

The Second Objective

[Mandy]

One of my favourites from last year:



The Count of Monte Cristo - huge book but fantastic!

[Cecilia]

Just finished "Her Fearful Symmetry" by Audrey Niffenegger over the weekend...weird but cool. Also, it will mess with your head trying to keep track of who is who. Good ghostie/love story!
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[Vincent, Group Founder]

The Eyes of the Dragon

[Steven]

Little Brothers by Rick Hautala

[Vincent, Group Founder]

Native Son

[Pamela]

Plague Maker One of my favorites by Tim Downs,fast paced,and intriguing.

[David]

Brilliant. Brilliant. Brilliant.

[Jaleta]

Small Gods by Terry Pratchett is one of my favorites of his Discworld series.

Small Gods The Last Hero: A Discworld Fable

And my favorite picture book, at least this week. Last Hero by Terry Pratchett.

Latest favorite romance? Roarke by Frances Pauli. Charming debut by a fun author.

Frances Pauli (her book isn't showing for some odd reason)

I'm also tempted to push my own book but it isn't my favorite at the moment. Too many painful editing memories. LOL

[Vincent, Group Founder]

The Odyssey

[Cici]

The Hunger Games (Hunger Games, #1)

[Lisa M]

A Game of Thrones And the rest of the series.

[Laura]

The Transit of Venus by Shirley Hazzard

This is my favorite book. And it's very unique in that the climactic point of the book happens after the book is over. You have to read it (and maybe post back to me if you don't see it - which LOTS of people don't) to find out what I mean.

[Cici]

Rootsby alex haley

[Timothy]

Great choice Cici.
Try 'Clan' by David Elliot.
All the best Paul Rix [oldgeezer:]

[Cici]

Paul wrote: "Great choice Cici.
Try 'Clan' by David Elliot.
All the best Paul Rix [oldgeezer:]"

Thank you, it's one of my favorites!!!!

[Cici]

The Glass Castleby jeanette walls

[Sandy Jay]

The Black Dagger Brotherhood series by J. R. Ward.

[Sharon]

[Cici]

The Host by stephanie meyer

[Kate]

When Rabbit Howls

[Cici]

Kite Runner

[Kate]

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

[Vincent, Group Founder]

Black Boy

[Cecilia]

Currently reading & very much enjoying:
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter by Seth Grahame-Smith

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[Vincent, Group Founder]

'Salem's Lot

[Cici]

Cecilia wrote: "Currently reading & very much enjoying:
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter by Seth Grahame-Smith

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I heard about this one being really good!