A book for someone who doesn't like books

[Stephanie]

Don't get me wrong, I enjoy reading. But I almost never pick books that I really love. You will see from my lists that I have a hard time even remembering books I've read.

Books I've loved/liked enough:
Room
The Time Traveler's Wife
The Namesake
Unaccustomed Earth
The Hunger Games


Books that I did not like:
The other two Hunger Games books
A Visit from the Goon Squad


I also like books about history (including fictionalized history) and short stories.

My last demand - nothing that's too dense that I can't pick it up and put it down throughout the day/week and pick up where I left off easily. I usually read in short bursts throughout the day.

[Karen]

Based on The Namesake you might like Brick Lane or White Teeth. Also Small Island was probably my favorite historical fiction novel I read this year.

[Lenmeo]

Have you tried Revolution by Jennifer Donnelly?

[Thomas]

I have given away more copies of "Ender's Game" by Orson Scott Card to young male adults who say they don't like to read and I never get them back. I have heard from some of these young men how I started them into reading books with that book.

[Lenmeo]

Thomas wrote: "I have given away more copies of "Ender's Game" by Orson Scott Card to young male adults who say they don't like to read and I never get them back. I have heard from some of these young men how I ..."

Ender's Game is definitely an amazing read (-:

[Stephanie]

Thanks for all of the great suggestions. Hitting the library tomorrow!

[Thomas]

There were a couple of parts of Enders Game that always bugged me, so when I wrote my second novel I fixed those items and punched it up from more of a military persons perspective. I won't put the name of my book because I am not trying to be cheesy and endorse it, but those who loved Enders Game they should check it out.

[karen, future RA queen]

did any of these work out for you??

[Stephanie]

My 15-month-old enjoyed perusing Small Island today, but I have not yet read a word. I also picked up Brick Lane. I promise to let you know when I actually get through them. To be fair, I just picked them up this week, after finding another book at the library that looked interesting (The Leftovers by Tom Perotta, which was good not great) and a book I started 3 years ago and returned because it was due and never finished (Oracle Bones by Peter Hessler).

[karen, future RA queen]

hahaahh what an advanced child! sure - i will wait patiently! even if it doesn't make it into the paper, i will be curious for my own mind.

[Sam~~ we cannot see the moon, and yet the waves still rise~~]

OOh, i guess I'll have to also look at the books suggested to you, Stephanie, since I seem to have similar interests. :)

[Yolanda]

For some reasons, "One day" always reminds me of Time Traveler's Wife...so you may want to try that novel?

Talking about history related book, I remember liking "God and generals" by Jeff Shaara. It is about American Civic War written in couple of important historical characters' perspectives. If you are into American history, it's pretty good. (it's a prequel to the "killer angel", but I don't wanna recommend since I haven't read a page of that novel). Shaara also authored "The steel wave", which is about D-day landing...so WW2 stuff.

I'd like to recommend Edward Rutherfurd's books, but Rutherfurd's books may be "too dense" for you, since you may not remember everything when you picked up the book again-I do, but I am only a twenty pages into the "New York"( and then i had to return the book to the library, didn't have time to change status on goodreads)especially "London" and "New York").

My history teacher mentioned the books before, the ones name after a city (ex. London) are compose of stories of inhabitants of the city from different eras, the time zones range from the time when the city was built to roughly 21th century. ( for "New york", it would be from the story of original Dutch settlers to 9/11)

(sorry about the long comment and I apologize if you've heard of the books already and didn't like them)

[Nicolle]

Yolanda wrote: "For some reasons, "One day" always reminds me of Time Traveler's Wife...so you may want to try that novel?

Talking about history related book, I remember liking "God and generals" by Jeff Shaara. ..."

I got the same vibe from One Day.

You could try How I Live Now as it's historical and a bit of a tear jerker in the end.

If you liked the Hunger Games you should definitely try Divergent. It is pure magic!