I’m getting ready for a long trip tomorrow where I won’t have consistent access to internet. My solution: Pack my Kindle with books. Last time I was in this situation in a non English speaking locale, I went through 27+ novel length books in a couple of weeks and by the end I was rereading several of those for lack of anything better.
Your mission, should you accept it: Recommend books I should read, especially if they’re available in Kindle format. Not a fan of mainstream fiction or straight up romance. (I’ve already poked through io9.com’s book club listing and picked up a few recent selections)
Recent books I’ve enjoyed:
Posleen series by Ringo (skipping the OH JOHN RINGO NO parts),
Dragon in Chains by Daniel Fox,
God’s War by Kameron Hurley,
Sun of Suns by Karl Schroeder,
Pterry,
Belisarius series by Weber,
Valor’s Trial by Tanya Huff,
Accelerando by Charles Stross,
Temeraire by Naomi Novik
Boneshaker by Cherie Priest.
Well that was going to be my recommendation.I will link to this too, which is an extension of the free library of sorts (sanctioned by Baen, but not run by Baen.)
May I suggest the Vorkosigan saga by Lois McMaster Bujold. You can find it in the Baen free library and in the above link.
Thanks guys! Unfortunately I’m already familiar with the Baen Free Library and Bujold. I’ll give the 5th Imperium site another poke though to see if there’s anything I haven’t already devoured there.
Hmmm, how about this then. I just finished reading the Hunger Games series by Suzanne Collins (going by memory on the name of the author so the spelling might be off) and really liked it. It’s available for kindle and, though YA scifi, it’s fairly high quality. It’s a distopian future story in the vein of The Running Man. They are fast reads but its a start.
Obama’s Wars by Bob Woodward. Very readable and very interesting.
Are You There, Vodka? It’s Me, Chelsea Light, short, and funny. Way outside my normal range but I figured anybody who has had three NYT bestsellers must have something going for them. The Bang Bang book was not as good – haven’t read the Horizontal one.
Yes! YA fiction is some of the most narrative…well… least boring!.. stuff published today. I’m in my 50s and I devoured The Hunger Games.
And then was even more enthralled by** Patrick Ness**'s Chaos Walking series: The Knife of Never Letting Go, The Ask and the Answer, and Monsters of Men.
I just picked up The Knife of Never Letting Go, but haven’t started reading it yet. I will bump it to the top of my list.
To the OP, in the interest of diversifying your reading collection, have you sampled the wares of Christopher Moore? I believe that all his books are available on Kindle and Lamb, in particular, is one of my top 10 favorite books. But I have yet to read one of his books that I don’t like.
They are all comedy novels, but (most) have an urban fantasy bend to them. Lamb doesn’t, it’s about Jesus’s best friend Biff, and Fool doesn’t, it’s about King Lear, but I believe that all the rest do. Other than Lamb I would suggest A Dirty Job, Bloodsucking Fiends, and Practical Deamon Keeping.
I’ve quite enjoyed the two first books from the “Gentlemen bastards” series, by Scott Lynch, “The lies of Locke Lamora” and “Red seas under red skies”. Decent page turners about con artists in a fantasy world.
Mary Roach writes some fun nonfiction. I’ve read her Stiff, about what happens to dead bodies. I’ve also got Bonk on my Kindle, as well as Packing for Mars, though I haven’t read them yet. I hear Spookisn’t as good, though.
GRR Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire series, if you haven’t already read it. It’s a fantasy series that’s heavy on the political machinations and light on the supernatural/magic, and it’s fantastic. (They’ve just filmed a series for HBO.) There’s four books, with a fifth due out soon.