Best book you've read lately?

I LOVE reading! I’ve been hoarding free books I get from a cool website that lists all the book deals (free and good deals) Amazon has.

So I got to wondering what books have my fellow dopers read they fell in love with?

Me:
Room by Emma Donahuge
Trains, Brains and Video Games by Alisha Hart
This little piggy went to the liquor store by A.K Turner
We need to talk about Kevin – can’t remember the author

Of course there’s a million not recent and some recent I can’t think of

So what about you, what great books have you read lately?

I’ve been snagging books via FreeBook Sifter.
It’s not one I got from there, but Code Name Verity was excellent.

Some good books I’ve read lately:

Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
Hounded by Kevin Hearne (first in the Iron Druid series)
Impulse by Steven Gould (latest in the Jumper series)
Angelfall by Susan Ee (first in the Penryn series)
Under Heaven by Guy Gavriel Kay
Slow Apocalypse by John Varley
Lucifer’s Hammer by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle (inspired to re-read by the above)

Well I can’t honestly say they were my favorites, but given the list of your favorites, I’m guessing that you would really enjoy two books I recently read by William Landay:

Mission Flats
Defending Jacob

They are both intense, psychological works of fiction that seem similar to some on your list.

My recent favorites include two non-fiction books exploring relatively unknown historical events:

Shadow Divers by Robert Kurson
The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson

Embassytown by China Miéville. I haven’t been disappointed in a book by him yet - not something I can say for any other authors I’ve been reading lately. (I’m looking at you, Jonathan Lethem).

Also, if you have several centuries to kill, you might want to take a look at the SDMB Book Recommendation Thread Compendium that is stickied at the top of the Cafe Society forum.

Agreed on Ready Player One.

Crossroads Road is a hilarious novel about a man offered “the opportunity of a lifetime.” I didn’t know this until just now, but it’s apparently free to borrow with Amazon Prime. It’s $3.99 otherwise, which is a steal.

Cool!! I’m going to have to go check those out!