Good Books with Good in Them

[Heather]

Lots of Books I pick up and say wow that looks so good but then I start reading them and think to myself that that is not something I want to read. So please put books that don't have bad things that just are plain good.

[[deleted user]]

Well...whats your genre? Whats your favorite genre to read?

[Abbigail]

I agree, Heather. This is a real problem with literature today. By the way, I don't know if you were asking everybody, Emma, but I like mysteries.

[Hope]

I agree, so many books have bad things, I just hope that everyone tries not to read them. I hope that they put them aside and return them to the library or wherever they got them. The way that I keep to good books is usually by reading LDS titles or classics. I have a hard time picking out books if I don't already know they are good. I used to be able to, but now it's hard to just grab a book. I usually hear from my sisters-in-law what books are good, and trust their judgement. I love the LDS books, though, that has to be my favorite genre. I understand that sometimes its nice to read others, and I do, but it's usually in the adult section because the pre-teen or young adult sections are even worse than the adult.

[MaryCarol]

I live in Florida and the problem with reading only LDS books is that I have to buy them......can't be found in any of our public libraries. I generally like to use my public library web site for lists of books, including synopsis of books. I have read enough different authors, that I usually know who to avoid. I used to read Danielle Steele books because all dealt with strong women who were able to overcome many tragedies and triumph in the end. However, her books also contain much sexual activity and so I made the decision to not read any more of her books.

[[deleted user]]

I was hooked on Agatha Christie years ago but stopped reading them due to language content. As an adult, I tend to read some teen fiction and a whole lot of church history and classic writers. I got interested in church history after hearing a non-member historian speak at a BYU Management Society Fireside who knew more about our history than I did, by far. I decided that it was not good for me to know so little about my own church history.
Books are expensive. I usually scan the clearance sales at Deseret Book and Seagull. These stores also have online clearance sales. The nice thing about shopping through these companies is that you do not get accosted with porn entering their store or searching their site. You can get amazing deals that way! I recently purchased a softcover biography of Spencer W. Kimball for 3.99! Wonderful book! Great deal!

[MaryCarol]

I didn't realize Seagull had online clearance sales. It's been awhile since I checked out Deseret's sales. I know I have gotten wonderful buys that way. Their sales have also introduced me to lds singers/groups. I can't pass by a cd for a few dollars! Thanks for the reminder Carol

[Mark]

You have to be careful even with those bookstores, though.

I find that most (not all) books published before 1923 tend to be clean (like 98% of them). You can find lots of free ones at gutenberg.org, librivox.org, manybooks.net and suchlike.

I don't know what you mean by pre-teen, but I've found that juvenile fiction tends to be clean, at least at the Provo City Library. The young adult stuff, definitely not, though. I haven't been there since 2011, though. I don't believe they had a preteen section.

Children's picture books tend to be clean.

I haven't read much LDS fiction, but I assume most of it should be clean. I know it's not all clean, though. Anyone can write LDS fiction. So, be careful.