BlackAdder7 said:

Larry McMurtry's Lonesome Dove series was an incredible read

Ed McBain is just good fun

Janet Evanovich, same good fun

Bernard Cornwell the arthur saga, the archer series, the saxon series, all historical fiction set in england and France..

Bernard Cornwell, the Sharpe series..

George Pelecanos...writes beautifully, and also writes about the music of the times the stories are set in, usually around washington d.c. and baltimore..

Michael Connelly..the Lincoln Lawyer Series, and the H. Bosch series..awesome..

John Sanford..the Prey Series, and the Virgil Flowers series ("that fucking Virgil Flowers")

Lisa Scottoline...great writer..

Dennis Lehane...he wrote Gone Baby Gone, Mystic River, and Shutter Island, among others...great writer

Love the Harry Bosch series. I'm reading Echo Park right now after finishing Nine Dragons a few weeks ago.

dJJ said:

So, no fans of Dostojevski on this forum?

does loving the fact that he held up part of my college couch count? If so he was a mighty fine wordsmith!

Stephen King

Carol Joyce Oats

Charles Dickens

George Eliot

Pearl Cleage

Laura Hillenbrand

Toni Morrison

George R.R. Martin

Louise Erdrich

Augusten Burroughs

Haki Madhubuti

Walter Mosley

Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo was captivating

I loved The Great Gatsby

The Kite Runner

Walk Two Moons

Dancing the Dream by MJ

The Scarlet Letter

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe (sp?)

BlackAdder7 said:

babynoz said:

BlackAdder7 said:

Larry McMurtry's Lonesome Dove series was an incredible read

Ed McBain is just good fun

Janet Evanovich, same good fun

Bernard Cornwell the arthur saga, the archer series, the saxon series, all historical fiction set in england and France..

Bernard Cornwell, the Sharpe series..

George Pelecanos...writes beautifully, and also writes about the music of the times the stories are set in, usually around washington d.c. and baltimore..

Michael Connelly..the Lincoln Lawyer Series, and the H. Bosch series..awesome..

John Sanford..the Prey Series, and the Virgil Flowers series ("that fucking Virgil Flowers")

Lisa Scottoline...great writer..

Dennis Lehane...he wrote Gone Baby Gone, Mystic River, and Shutter Island, among others...great writer

Love the Harry Bosch series. I'm reading Echo Park right now after finishing Nine Dragons a few weeks ago.

gonna check this out ASAP

XxAxX said:

babynoz said:

Love the Harry Bosch series. I'm reading Echo Park right now after finishing Nine Dragons a few weeks ago.

gonna check this out ASAP

Yeah the Lincoln Lawyer stuff is pretty good.

i used to love reading, always had a book on the go but my concentration levels not good these days.. so i start a book & then find other stuff i have to do, might get back to the book 2 days later & 4gotten what's happening

love all the classics, thomas hardy, daphne du maurier, romantic shit i will always read marian keyes for a light hearted read, she's very funny.

i gave my husband a kindle, they're brilliant if you are a reader.

NDRU said:

XxAxX said:

gonna check this out ASAP

Yeah the Lincoln Lawyer stuff is pretty good.

i'll need a new supplier.. i think my favorite borders bookstore is going under. part of the corporate bankruptcy proceeding

XxAxX said:

NDRU said:

Yeah the Lincoln Lawyer stuff is pretty good.

i'll need a new supplier.. i think my favorite borders bookstore is going under. part of the corporate bankruptcy proceeding

You can see a complete list of all the Borders stores they're closing here. Hope yours isn't one of the ones cut!

dJJ said:

Mine:

Bret Easton Ellis: Less then zero and the rest of his books

Caleb Carr: The Alienist

Carlos Ruiz Safon: The shadow of the wind

Marilyn French: All

Nick Hornby: How to be good

Peggy Orenstein: Flux

Robin Norwood: Women Who Love Too Much: When You Keep Wishing and Hoping He'll Change

Sandor Marai: all books

The Secret History by Donna Tartt is the BEST book- I love this book! I have read it, at least, ten times, not joking. Also "The Tragedy of Miss Geneva Flowers" by Joe Babcock, "Mother Finds a Body" by Gypsy Rose Lee and "The Journals of Sylvia Plath"- those are some of my faves

I liked "The Traveler" by John Twelve Hawks.

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JRR Tolkien

Terry Goodkind - The Rahl series

Orson Scott Card - The Ender's Game series

E. Lynn Harris - All his books but his second (Just As I Am) is the one I've read the most

Paulo Coehlo - The Alchemist Love it. One to read annually.

Niccolo Machiavelli - The Prince. Political Science

Guy Johnson - Echoes of A Distant Summer An incredible book I found browsing a D.C. bookstore looking for something for the flight home. Still trying to figure out why I enjoy it every time I read it.

Doug Cooper-Spencer - This Place of Men

Ellen G. White - The Great Controversy

Ellen G. White - The Desire of Ages

William L. Shirer - The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich

There's more . . .

NDRU said:

off the top of my head...

Stephan King

Tom Robbins

Tolkein

C.S. Lewis

T.C. Boyle

Barbara Kingsolver

Carl Hiaasen

Milan Kundera

Shakespeare is not my favorite writer, but you can't NOT mention him!

I like him and forgot to mention him.

scores of others...but my mind isn't sharp for such details this morning

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support your local book sellers.....

while you still have them

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Wow, so many books, so little time

I just had American Gods by Neil Gaiman delivered (bought it for myself for valentine). I'll start with that book.

dJJ said:

Wow, so many books, so little time

I just had American Gods by Neil Gaiman delivered (bought it for myself for valentine). I'll start with that book.

Efan said:

XxAxX said:

i'll need a new supplier.. i think my favorite borders bookstore is going under. part of the corporate bankruptcy proceeding

You can see a complete list of all the Borders stores they're closing here. Hope yours isn't one of the ones cut!

i think the one near me is safe for now, thanks!