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Favorite Books?

The Descent by Jeff Long is a good read (not to be confused with the crappy movie).

Changeling (Chris Kubasik) is pretty good...imagine suddenly turning into a three meter troll at the age of 15 and trying to cope with it. :)
 
The things we carried by Tim Obrien.

we had to read this for school, and this has to be one of the best books we actually read in school. Another was The Great Gatsby. That was a book I really liked. The movie however. They kind of sucked.
 
I am getting hocked onto the Morganville Vampires by Rachel Caine.... they are really good and so different to the whole love between human and vampire as its about two humans at the first book
 
Foundation and Earth, Isaac Asimov.

Really blew me away when the robot series and the foundation series were linked together.

Moving Mars, Greg Bear

Really awesome book. Makes you really think about the implications of nanotech. ;)

The integral Trees, Larry Niven.

OK, I could go on, but I'll stop here. :p
 
Now I don't have any time to read books,but in my earlier days I do have a great interest in it.Some of my favourite books are five point someone,tree mistakes of my life,two states all of them written by chetan bhagat,a great writer.
 
I am just going to cut-and-paste a reading recommendation I made to a classmate (minor edits to protect the innocent):


Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
The Martian by Andy Weir
Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn
Dark Places by Gillian Flynn
The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker
The Girl Who Would Be King by Kelly Thompson
Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie
vN by Madeline Ashby
iD by Madeline Ashby
The Alchemy of Stone by Ekaterina Sedia
Little Brother by Cory Doctorow
The Dead Key by D. M. Pulley
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
The Heart Collector by Jacques Vandroux
Bones Burnt Black by Stephen Euin Cobb


Matthew, here is a short list of (not terrible) books I have read recently. Kind of a mix here, and I didn't include any of the non-fic stuff I read in between, though there was a very good biography of J. R. R. Tolkien I read, which gave me the impetus to tackle The Silmarillion (and then LoTR again)...

Anyway, Little Brother has to do with over-reach of government entities.

Gillian Flynn just got her book Gone Girl made into a movie, but I think it's the weakest of her three, so I didn't recommend it here. I think Alice Sebold's The Lovely Bones would be in the same category as Flynn...

Jeffrey Eugenides is a freak, and his two novels are not for the light-hearted (and sex features heavily in both these books). That's it for the straight Fiction category. The other books are variously scifi/fan... well, The Dead Key is more of a thriller, as is The Heart Collector.

The Martian is good old-fashioned Hard sci-fi, vetted by actual NASA scientists, apparently. Bones Burnt Black is in a similar vein, though with a murder mystery thrown in for good measure. The Golem and the Jinni is a fantasy novel which has kind of a steampunk feel, though it doesn't really fall into that genre... The Alchemy of Stone would be, though.

Ancillary Justice is an awesome freshman scifi novel (it got the triple-crown of science fiction awards: Hugo, Nebula and Arthur C. Clarke); the sequel isn't quite as good, but I am hoping it will make a good interlude between the first and the third of the series (maybe later this year).

The Girl Who Would Be King is a fresh look at a super-powered girl (or two), and Asby's novels are kind of post-cyberpunk... another "it might happen" dystopian near-future take on robots.

These are just the best of a long list of things I've read in the past couple years, I hope you find something worthwhile to read.
 
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, in Chinese. Because it improves my reading.
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As I read my post from six years ago, I am trying to think if there was anything I should add now.

Then I wonder if I have the energy to actually go through my lists and rank them.

This is the cost of depression-- you have no energy to even do things that you know you would enjoy.
 
Used to read a ton of Dean Knootz novels, when I was younger. A while ago, maybe eight years ago, went on a trip to Nantucket and softly got into The Stand . After that not much of a big name novels lately.

Been into japan anime books lately:

Gunslingergirl, think about like a war that has some flavors into it.

Death note: CSI basically only with Death walkers with one another.

Naturo - super infamous ninja war.

Ah there are way too many to list I cannot think ontop of my head lately....
I will one day get like the magna into those things I watch on the t.v. though. So much reading, in so much time.
 
Lightbringer from Brent Weeks. Collecting all his books in first edition hardbacks, and signed, was super expensive as well ;)
 
My current one, I read around 100 pages into it, Doctor Sleep, as I mentioned at least twenty dozen times, I am worry about my mental health :)
 
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