What are your next 5 reads?

[Nancy from NJ]

I am going to beginThe Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson which friends say reds like a novel despite that it is non-fiction and really wonderful.

[Bev]

Rawan wrote: "Probably these :
Darkly Dreaming Dexter
Frankenstein
Lolita
Crime and Punishment
Divergent

although I started with Dexter , now I am reading Hunger Games #1 , Tom Sawyer ( found the full version a..."

Rawan I bought the Dexter books and have never read them though I do like the series. I loved The Hunger Games and enjoyed Slaughterhouse 5. I have Divergent on my kindle wish list. However I struggle to start Crime & Punishment and Lolita just isnt my thing.

[Bev]

Nancy wrote: "I am going to beginThe Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson which friends say reds like a novel despite that it is non-fiction and really wonderful."
This looks really fascinating, let me know what you think please.

[Bev]

Cordelia (Team Peeta!) wrote: "I am currently reading:
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Got some good reading there ( except for the novice.....)

[Bev]

Bev wrote: "Hopefully they are "

Read them except the Zadie Smith and Book Thief which is for July!.

[Rawan]

Rawan I bought the Dexter books and have never read them though I do like the series. I loved The Hunger Games and enjoyed Slaughterhouse 5. I have Divergent on my kindle wish list. However I struggle to start Crime & Punishment and Lolita just isnt my thing.

I was just reading reviews of lolita and it looks like the kind of book you need to read it over and over again to understated it so I have second thoughts now.

I've never seen Dexter the show but reading the book and honestly I can't stop reading , it's really good.

Divergent might be even better than the hunger games , the start kind of annoyed me but it gets better , I am reading it right now .

Crime and Punishment was actually recommended to me by my aunt she loves that book and wanted someone to discuss it with so I promised her I'll read it , it's a classic so it should be enjoyable .

[Bev]

Yes I have heard good things of Divergent. The Dexter show is fab.

Not all classics are great or enjoyable in my humble opinion.

[Nancy from NJ]

Bev wrote: "Nancy wrote: "I am going to beginThe Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson which friends say reds like a novel despite that it is non-fiction and rea..."

I sure will Bev. I am about to begin listening.

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The Book Thief
The Girl W/the Dragon Tattoo
World War z
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[Rawan]

Yes I have heard good things of Divergent. The Dexter show is fab.

Not all classics are great or enjoyable in my humble opinion.

Yeah I agree but from what I've heard about C&P , I think I might enjoy it .

I put Darkly Dreaming Dexter on my cell and was reading it all the way home from school , I don't why I just like it , it's pretty interesting to go into the mind of a killer .

[Nancy from NJ]

Decided this morning to download The Warmth of Other Suns rather than listen to it. There are some books that are chock full of information and while I almot catch everything by listening sometimes I prefer to read.

So I am now listening to Making Toast by Roger Rosenblatt which tells how he and his wife live with their son-in-law and their three grandchildren when their 38 year old daughter suddenly dies. To say it is sad is saying a lot.

[Nancy from NJ]

I generally don't plan ahead since I am a modd reader but I hope to begin The Alchemist as soon as I finish The Weight of Silence and March Violets.

[Zohal]

next 5 reads

1. Public Enemy number two
2. The Enchantress
3. Hunted
4. Killer
5. Heartless

[Julie]

My next 5 are: The Confession The Duke And I
C is for Corpse
The Best Revenge
Cold Case

[Helen]

My next 5 reads are:

[Julie]

My next 5 are: , , , ,

[Zakiya]

My next 5 are

[Bev]

There seems to be a lot of vampires, zombies and dystopian books around at the mo.

[Helen]

Bev wrote: "There seems to be a lot of vampires, zombies and dystopian books around at the mo."

They're definitely is, especially in the YA genre! I'm 17 and in every bookshop I've seen, the entire YA sections are taken up by Vampires, werewolves and dystopian novels. It's OK for me because I love fantasy and that kinda thing, but my sister doesn't like those books and it's much harder for her to find a book she likes these days.

[Elise]

It seems rather like an insult to teenagers to assume that they are all so one-dimensional in their tastes.

[Melissa]

Bev wrote: "There seems to be a lot of vampires, zombies and dystopian books around at the mo."

I think the vampire trend has been going on for awhile(I remember reading Amelia Atwater-Rhodes' vampire books and attempting to read Twilight in high school), but I think all the zombie and dystopian novels is a new trendy.
Elise- it does kind of seem like an insult to teenagers to assume they're all one-dimensional.

[Bev]

Thats exactly what I was thinking. There should be more choice for all ages. I guess publishers and book sellers are just pushing for what they think will sell.

I like such books but I am getting ready for a sea change in new books. ( Not a teenager - 42!)

[Nancy from NJ]

I am also amazed at how many vampire, werewolve books, etc are being published and read. I for one think there are much better topics than these books but that's me. I did read both the Twilight series and the first twoHunger Game books and din't see the accolades but I don't suspect I will like 50 Shades of Gray either. That said I may begin one of Cassandra Clare's books next.

[Jonathan , A dream within a dream]

It's all very limited. You've pretty much either got to like paranormal books, romances, dystopian or science-fiction/fantasy as a YA.

[Rachel]

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[Bev]

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Nice choice Rachel. I do like the pern books and I have a Cormac McCarthy book to read too.

[Elise]

Once I've finished Afghanistan, Where God Only Comes to Weep, which is apallingly written (I'm doing it for a challenge), the plan is like this:



Course, it won't happen like that, but it's a good plan!

[Carey]

my next five reads will be to kill a mockingbird, wild, takers, the secret life of bees and the bell jar.

[Bev]

Catch 22
The Thread
Never let me go
The Kite Runner
and either Elantris, Mistborn or Uglies.

[Nicollette]

1.Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
2.the memory keepers daughter
3. Uglies
4.The Forgotten Garden
5.Neverwhere

[Pippa]

Haha, your comment made me laugh Teri! Yes, I do that too. My next five are:
The Equality Illusion: The Truth About Women And Men Today
Zero Degrees of Empathy: A New Theory of Human Cruelty
A Study in Scarlet
The Time MachineUglies

[Nancy from NJ]

I hope to read the following in no specific order

The Next Always
More Than You Know
City of Bones
A Duty to the Dead
The Book of Summers

[Jonathan , A dream within a dream]

I'm already reading a few of these together.

[Bev]

Jonathan I enjoyed Locke Lamora and love Day of the Triffids but I find the Ghormenghast trilogy a bit hard going. Still not read Neil Gaiman though.

[Veronica]

My next 5 reads are:

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[Marion]

Well, I had to change my next 5 reads list.

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[Zakiya]

Going to start Torment today.

Next 5:
-The Red Pyramid
-The Last Straw
-Dog Days
-Passion
-Across the Universe

[Jonathan , A dream within a dream]

Bev wrote: "Jonathan I enjoyed Locke Lamora and love Day of the Triffids but I find the Ghormenghast trilogy a bit hard going. Still not read Neil Gaiman though."

Both are very good going so far. Haven't started Titus Groan but I think (optimistically) that I'll like it because of my love for the language of a book...

[Bev]

I always thought I would love Titus Groan but I never have. It is not about the writing style but the POV of the author I think.

[Pippa]

I didn't like the Gormenghast trilogy. I found the first book boring, so didn't go on.

[Julie]

My next 5 reads are: , , , ,

[Sunny]

Every time I plan out my next five reads, something else snags my fancy. But, for now, it'll be:
Fifty Shades Darker
Message in a Bottle
The Wolf Gift
Three to Get Deadly
Defending Jacob

[Julie]

My next 5 are: , , , ,

[Nicole]

Knowing God by J.I. Packer
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
State of Wonder by Ann Patchett
United States of BananaGiannina Braschi
The Case for Christ by Lee Strobel

[Jason]

My next 5 are: , , , , . Not in this particular order though.

[Kelli]

After 11/22/63, will be -

Fatal Error JA Jance
Shadowland Peter Straub
Ghost Story Peter Straub
A More Perfect Union JA Jance
Dismissed with Prejudece JA Jance

[Julie]

My next 5 are: , , , ,

[Claire]

The Claiming Of Sleeping Beauty by Anne Rice
Enchantments by Kathryn Harrison
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Just Kids by Patti Smith

Could do with a much longer summer holiday as I have loads more that I want to read!

[Julie]

My next five will be: , , , ,