I love to read and was pondering if there is anything new out there or old out there that I may have missed reading and that one would suggest to read while soaking up some sun this summer. I always love sun and good read they both go hand in hand in wee brain…thanks…I enjoy mystery,murder-not too much blood & gore (got sleep sometime)some christian authors too,not into cowboy books,wee bit of romance at times not to racy please(my brain likes to imagine more than read 
,have enjoyed cat mysteries,I’ve also have devoured my teen’s books too if they looked good,have a book I am currently reading it’s an oldie I found at a sale Mr. and Mrs. Bo Jo Jones. If U’d want to check it here is how :
http://www.amazon.com/Mr-Mrs-Jones-Signet-Books/dp/0451163192
thanks a bunch Happy Reading 
this one book called "Gregor the Overlander". its really good. its about a kid who falls into this underground world where theres giant bats, rats, bugs, and spiders. its really cool, and a good read. i read it in about 3 days cuz i wanted to fiish it soo badly. theres about 4 or 5 more books after it in the series, i have them on order, and theyre coming friday. u should get it!!!
Cry of the Peacock by Gina B. Nahai
Standing in the Rainbow by Fannie Flagg
Silent to the Bone by E.L. Konisburg
All fantastic reads. Real page turners.
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did you read "The Outsiders" by S.E. Hinton? that’s a great book =]
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NEXT by Michael Crichton. Very entertaining. Crichton always delivers a surprising eye-opener.
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The Forgotten Fifth, by Gary Nash
(this is a non-fiction history book. I didn’t see these genres listed, but you asked for good books, and this is a great one!)
anything by Jeffery Deaver
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-url/102-5501807-6221735?%5Fencoding=UTF8&search-type=ss&index=books&field-author=Jeffery%20Deaver
A Storm in Flanders, by Winston Groom (the guy who wrote Forrest Gump. This is another history book though)
The Book of air and Shadows, by Michael Gruber
sorry, I mostly read non-fiction so i’m struggling to think of good recent fiction for you!
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I’m reading a New York Times Bestseller, and It’s an awesome book.19 minutes, by Jodi Picoult.
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i read this book called "pretty little liers" by sara sheperd, and i really liked it. it’s a chick book, but a mystery at the same time. If ur not into that sorta stuff, then i would sugest manga. (that’s anime in book form) Fruit Basket is one of the most common ones; known through out all of Japan.
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i think you’re going to love "The Bar Code Tattoo (Point Thriller)" by Suzanne Weyn. Its setting is in the 2025, and the thriller in it is how teenagers wait in anticipation for their 17th birthdays because they can have their bar code tattoo that had replaced the licenses and IDs. red for the plot in my sources. the plot is kind of futuristic, like everything in the future is scary.
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http://www.amazon.com/Bar-Code-Tattoo-Point-Thriller/dp/0439395623/ref=cm_lmf_tit_6_rdssss2/102-6433788-8610509
Hi–I recently read:
The Mark of the Lion by Suzanne Arruda, it was an excellent mystery set in 1919 Africa with a very cool protagonist, it’s first of a series so I am looking forward to more.
Also I recently read "Sacred Cows" and the sequel "Secondhand Smoke by Karen E. Olsen, both which I really enjoyed.
I like mysteries too, I’ve read so much it takes a lot to impress me, but these two authors have stood out. For non fiction I read Lee Iacocca’s new book "where have all the leaders gone" but I don’t think your’re from the US so you might find his rants boring.
Also "An Inconvenient Wife" by Megan Chance was good too.
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I am recently retired and made a list of favorite authors. I tend towards modern day action / adventure but these are pretty solid authors:
D. Baldacci
S. Cannell
S. Coonts
N. DeMille
J. Grisham (but his last book was lame)
D. Hagberg
R. Littell
R. Ludlum (deceased but good books still coming out in his name)
R. Peters (novels and serious non-fiction)
W. Smith
D. Silva
S. Turow
H. Coyle
R. Piniero
J. Lescroart
Enjoy your summer!
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For One More Day by Mitch Albom(Tuesdays with Morrie author)(quick read that took me a few hours to read.)
Karen Kingsbury "Oceans Apart"(made me teary eyed)
Read the above two.
Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen(reading now)
Summer Sisters Judy Blume(reading now also.)
Have you read any Tony Hillerman books?(His books are mysteries that take place in the Southwest.)
I could list more but that is a list to get you started.
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work at library and like to read for fun also
I’m really enjoying Summer Pleasures by Nora Roberts. The fist book is about a horror writer.
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this one book called "Gregor the Overlander". its really good. its about a kid who falls into this underground world where theres giant bats, rats, bugs, and spiders. its really cool, and a good read. i read it in about 3 days cuz i wanted to fiish it soo badly. theres about 4 or 5 more books after it in the series, i have them on order, and theyre coming friday. u should get it!!!
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"Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer
"Beneath the Wheel" by Hermann Hesse
"Plague" by Gary Birken
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some Christian authors too…
Christian authors with some mystery/murder…
Ted Dekker – Blink
Bill Myers – Blood of Heaven trilogy
Robert Whitlow – Jimmy
Sigmund Brouwer – Double Helix
James BeauSeigneur – The Christ Clone Trilogy
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Go for the John Grisham books they have all of the qualities you mentioned they even have a couple movies! I would start with thte client or the Firm!
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One of the qualities of a good summer read is that it can be put down and taken up again at a moment’s notice, but at the same time be interesting enough to read in just a sitting or two. The works of both Frank McCourt and Alexander McCall Smith will keep you entertained waiting for your flight in airports and on the beach.
Occasionally, I pull out a book that I am reading and share it with my students. This past year I discovered that these two very entertaining authors are suitable to either read aloud or photocopy for a room full of super-critical teenagers. Indeed, both McCourt and Smith have kept my homeroom audiences mesmerized.
—Frank McCourt’s "Angela’s Ashes" (1996) and "Tis’ " (1999): Reading aloud the chapter in "Tis’ " that retells this Irish-American’s first day as a teacher in a Staten Island high school kept a room of Hispanic and African-American eighth-graders completely quiet; afterwords, they opened up and talked about the chapter without any urging. I may use this same selection as a part of my first day of classes next year.
—Alexander McCall Smith also writes entertaining slices of life that can be pulled out of context and used with inner-city secondary students. They, however, relate more to the scenes of Edinburgh than to his Ladies’ Detective Agency series that he sets in Africa. Start with "44 Scotland Street" (2005), first serialized in the Edinburgh newspaper, "The Scotsman". Then for a little romance and a more adult read (rated PG-13), meet middle-age divorcee, Isabel Dalhousie, beginning with "The Sunday Philosophy Club" (2005).
Are we on the verge of a Celtic renaissance?
I’ve also taught a world survey of literature at the university level. My students particularly enjoyed reading contemporary novelists Margaret Atwood and Amy Tan.
Signed an English teacher, Ph. D. in 19th and 20th-century British fiction (1995)
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If you haven’t read The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseinie you must read it! Also The Pact and My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult., For One More Day, by Mitch Albom is a good read too.
I work in a Barnes & Noble store, so I have some experience with what is selling well but I have read these and they are excellent.
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here is a list of books that i remember enjoying:
*catcher in the rye
*little altars everywhere and the divine secrets of the ya-ya sisterhood by rebecca wells
*crazy ladies, she flew the coop, american pie by michael lee west
*i absolutely love the harry potter series, can’t get enough
*i just read the books twilight and new moon by stephenie meyer and have the third book "eclipse" on pre-order.
*the time travellers wife by audrey niffenegger
*the brief history of the dead by kevin brockmeier
*most books by fannie flagg: fried green tomatoes, welcome to the world baby girl, standing in the rainbow.
*books by maeve binchy: the lilac bus, silver wedding, circle of friends, the copper beech, the glass lake, evening class, tara road, scarlet feather, quentins
*books by preston child and lincoln douglas but only the ones they wrote together not ones they have written on their own:
relic, reliquary, mount dragon, cabinet of curiosities
*tithe: a modern faerie tale and valiant: a modern tale of faerie by holly black
*most books by michael crichton: congo, sphere, jurassic park, the lost world, timeline, jurassic park 3, prey, state of fear (very good book about global warming)
*books by alice hoffman: the river king, blackbird house, green angel, the probable future, blue diary, practical magic,
second nature, seventh heaven
*wicked
*the last sin eater
*many books by dean koontz- watchers, the frankenstein series, the "odd" series and many others that i can’t think of right now but i have rarely been disappointed by one of his books.
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Here’s a few books (all oldies -sorry) I couldn’t put down and have reread many times:
The Secret History, Donna Tartt…dark & compelling college intrigue
Snow Falling on Cedars, David Guterson… I could see all of it, the descriptions were so vivid
Miss Smilla’s Feeling for Snow, Peter Hoeg…read it with a blanket!
Alias Grace, Margaret Atwood… 19th Century Canada, maids & murder
Persuasion, Jane Austen…aaah "you pierce my soul"
The Dark is Rising Sequence, Susan Cooper… started reading it when I was 10 & still rereading at 34.
To Kill a Mockingbird…just read it again, always worth a visit
Cloudstreet & Dirt Music, both by Tim Winton
The Great Railway Bazaar, Paul Theroux… armchair travel mmm
Famous Five, Enid Blyton…always good for avoiding something that needs doing
Oh no, I think I’ll have to start reading them all again! They’re all very visual and atmospheric… when I read the titles I feel like I’m there. Happy reading to you too (c;
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Twilight, by Stephenie Meyer. There is aslo a sequal to it called New Moon. The third book-eclipse- is coming out in august. It’s a romance, but has a little gore in it. It’s about a human girl named Bella Swan who falls DEEPLY in love with a vampire named Edward Cullen. It’s one of the best young adult books ever!
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Anything by Anna Quinlan, Anne Tyler, Jan Karon, John Irving, John Grisham, Sophie Kinsella and for laughs – David Sedaris. Check your local library website for their selections by any of these.
Reading is the best!!!!
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"Meesha, Guardian of Grand Mountain", is a great young adult fantasy novel. When threatened by an ancient and overpowering evil, Meesha and her young friends must face more than just the sweeping changes of adolescence. They must grapple with their ability, rather their destiny, to change into dragon form to defend the safety and security of their home, Grand Mountain, their way of life, and indeed their very existence. Lots of female heroes. You can find it on Amazon.com or at http://www.redearthpub.com
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