January 23, 2012
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Okay, I'm queuing up things to read after I finish the Hunger Games trilogy. Recommendations, o wise crowdsourced interweb of friends?
Posted by Ian Williams at January 23, 2012 11:23 PMI read all of the Game of Thrones books and loved them! I just finished the most recent one and am dreading the long wait until he writes another. I started the new, time travel Steven King book last night and so far so good!
The Alienist by Caleb Carr.
Art Of Fielding is exquisite.
You might enjoy The Panic Virus by Seth Mnookin. Also recently enjoyed The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes.
did you read The Book of Basketball by Bill Simmons yet? awesome - can't say enough good things about it. it's put together in such a way that you can read for 15 minutes at a time and get full satisfaction.
1Q84
"History of the World in 100 Objects" is fantastic, even for a non-history guy like myself.
I also second the "1Q84" recommendation.
I loved "Ruin Creek" by David Payne.
I echo the praise for the Game of Thrones books. I'm on number 5 now and have been working through them eagerly since...last spring? It's been a while. They are LONG but worth the effort, most of the time.
Another recommendation for George R.R. Martin's "A Song of Ice and Fire" series (_A Game of Thrones_ being the first). Also, if you like science fiction, I would recommend _The Player of Games_ by Iain M. Banks.
Oh my god I'm downloading these from Amazon as we speak... more if anyone has suggestions!
clavell's "shogun"
"REAMDE" and "Anathem" by Neal Stephenson.
Ian, I recently started working at an independent bookstore so I have a bunch of titles for you: Ready Player One ('80s references galore!); The Marriage Plot (still mulling over the ending); Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (on my ever-growing TBR list); The Elegance of the Hedgehog (a few years old but awesome); A Visit From the Goon Squad (last year's Pulitzer Prize); and finally my favorite book from last year, Just Kids by Patti Smith. I read it in the car on the way to Iowa City for the funeral of my 96-year-old Grandmother, who, like Smith, was also an artist and a book lover and a nonconformist.
I second the nomination for Just Kids. That book is just sublime.
I just finished City of Thieves by David Benioff, and I really, really liked it. Highly recommend.
I haven't read it yet, but I'm hearing lots of wonderful things about The Flame Alphabet by Ben Marcus.
Also, I loved Tina Fey's Bossypants and Merrill Markoe's Calm, Cool and Contentious.
"The Hero with a Thousand Faces." Everyone must read this at some point in life.
If you liked Hunger Games, you'll probably dig Divergent by Veronica Roth. Game of Thrones Books 1-3 were great. The rest have been painful, and he'll never finish the series at his current rate. A totally different flavor - I recently finished and enjoyed listening to The Kitchen House.