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Here is the place to post books that you think everyone would enjoy to read. Also, feel free to start your own thread in this section asking other members for a certain type of recommendation.

These are some books I read last month that I would recommend

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society
The Language of Flowers
When God Was A Rabbit
A Place of Execution

I agree with Harry Potter! And I'll add The lord of the rings :)

Ok, since I think EVERYONE should read classics in order to appreciate the works of those who have gone before, I'm going to recommend:

Animal Farm
Of Mice & Men
The Pit & The Pendulum(or anything by Poe)
The Old Man & The Sea(or: To Have & Have Not)
Lord of the Flies

These are all "short reads" mostly, & WELL worth it. For those into paranormal stuff, take a step back in time with these classic, genre introducing recommendations:

Dracula by Bram Stoker
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde by Stevenson

I have been enjoying Steven James's Bower's Files series. Good reads and they even have a nice message in them.



Really fun books Suspense thrillers.

I've really enjoyed them. Scary serial killer, and healing theme in there too boot. Availible in Kindle format. Good reads. Definately

Yay Hugh! Thanks, I defintely need to read these!!

Lisa, I love Dracula and The old man and the sea, haven't tried the other's except for Frankenstein and quite honestly the history of The real Frankenstein castle is waaaay more interesting

I just finished EVERYONE needs to read this book!

Dierdra wrote: "I just finished EVERYONE needs to read this book!"

OOH, that does sound good!!

I'm rereading , it is soo good.

I never re read books I have to many I want to read as it is!! Actually I take that back, if it is a book in a series and a long time till the next one comes out I will reread a book but sometimes not even then!

I own over 300 books and am always buying more, so it would be bad if I didn't reread them once in a while (besides, give me a year or two and I won't remember the ending anyway)

The Book Thief was definitely amazing.

Lord of the Flies
Catcher in the Rye
Perks of Being a Wallflower
Perfume
Lord of the Rings
Looking for Alaska
Love Medicine
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

for now...

The Book Thief was an incredible book. I read that one too a few months back. Read Lord of the Flies last week, that was good, but not outstanding for me, even though it's a classic :) LOTR/Hobbit I would recommend as a complete set. One compliments the other.

I just got done with In Cold Blood by Truman Capote. That was amazing too, & I would highly recommend it, especially since it's a true story. It'll give you chills, make you mad & make you sad all at the same time.

The Book Thief is the only book that has made me cry a river :( It's beautiful and heartbreaking at the same time.

I'd like to recommend Dostoievski's Crime and Punishment. It might be long and heavy literature, but it's awesome.

I think you all might like this one:

And there is a giveaway going on for it. Here's the link:
http://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho...

NEW RELEASE THRILLER: The Orphan Factory (The Orphan Trilogy, #2) has just been published.

A coming-of-age spy thriller novel, it is book two in The Orphan Trilogy and a prequel to The Ninth Orphan.



An epic, atmospheric story that begins with twenty three genetically superior orphans being groomed to become elite spies in Chicago’s Pedemont Orphanage and concludes with a political assassination deep in the Amazon jungle.

Go on another frenetic journey with the ninth-born orphan as he busts out of the clandestine orphanage he knew as home and goes on the run across America.

The Orphan Factory's Amazon link: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B008M9WWKW/

Just finished THE SNOW CHILD, a first book by Eowyn Ivey. Part tragedy, part struggle to exist in 1920 Alaskan wilderness , part fairy tale.