favorite author

[The1calledTKE]

Steven Ambrose

[SigkapAlumWSU]

mine aren't classics, but still good..Katherine Neville and Anne McCaffery

[KappaStargirl]

I guess that would all depend on what you like to read!!

Books I recommend to just about everyone:

A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN by Betty Smith

HOLES by Louis Sachar

HARRY POTTER AND THE SORCERER'S STONE by J.K. Rowling

BARREL FEVER by David Sedaris

ONE FOR THE MONEY by Janet Evanovich

THINGS FALL APART by Chinua Achebe

Let me know if you want anything else...I am a librarian (but I specifically work with teens) and will send you a list from our Reader's Advisor if you let me know what you like.


always happy to help a reader in need

[KSig RC]

hmm . . .

Try Ishmael, by Daniel Quinn - a very bizarre, nearly-essay book that really makes you think about the role of humans in the world. Sort of like Stephen Jay Gould but in fiction form.

I also love Fitzgerald, also Vonnegut and Joseph Heller . . .

[SilverTurtle]

Some favorites:

Jack Kerouc
Douglas Coupland
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Ray Bradbury
Susan Douglas
J.D. Salinger

Also, if you're looking for a quick, fun read, I love the Harry Potter books (J.K. Rowling).

I just read American Gods by Neil Gaiman. A lot of the guys I know love his stuff. I thought it was okay (wasn't really impressed), but then I loved the end. I hear Neverwhere is better.

I also love Shel Silverstein's poetry and books!

[juniorgrrl]

I'm not much of a reader anymore, been way too busy.

I did just pick up the Princess Diaries at B&N. It was a very fun, easy read. Too quick though. I did the whole book in ~1.5 hours.

Helen Fielding is also good - she wrote Bridget Jones' Diary and Bridget Jones on the Edge of Reason.

My all time favorite book is A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole. He was an amazing Louisiana author that comitted suicide prior to the publishing of his book. His mom finally got it published and he won a pulitzer for it. Its hilarious, and hits SO close to home for anyone who knows and loves New Orleans.

A book I read many years ago but that is still really cool is The Alchemist by Paulo Cohelo. Its an awesome book

[TriSigmaTX]

I know it's girly, but I love Robert James Waller books (he did Bridges of Madison County).

But, Eric has turned me on to Ayn Rand. Finished Fountainhead and am starting Atlas Shrugged. Amazing.

[Betarulz!]

Within the past couple of weeks I've really been thinking about gettign back to reading some real literature (I bet my HS english teachers would be surprised to hear that!!! In all truth, I think that their classes are the reason why I feel that I need to get back to it since I havent' taken an english class here at college)

Anyways

Another vote for Fitzgerald - Gatsby is one of my favorite books ever.

Also, I love Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
The Right Stuff by Thomas Wolfe
Invisible man by Ralph Ellison
anything by Steinbeck
A clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess (get a Nadsat dictionary online to help you with the dialect)