I always see people asking for suggestions of different books to read, and I LOVE reading so I thought a recommendation post might be fun. I read all sorts of stuff, but among my favorites are autobiographies of anyone a little bit scandalous, Sci-Fi stuff involving Vampires/etc, and Murder-Mystery type fiction (A lot of detective type stuff). Unless you're really curious, or actually looking for some books to read, I don't blame you if you don't make it through this whole post.
For Autobiographies/Memoirs:
The Dirt- Motley Crue
Kiss and Make Up- Gene Simmons
TommyLand- Tommy Lee
The Heroin Diaries- Nikki Sixx
Tweak- Nic Sheff
A Piece of Cake- Cupcake Brown
(This one is an AMAZING story. This girl was abandoned, shifted from foster home to foster home, raped, addicted to drugs, got pregnant as a teenager, and even worked as a prostitute, and ended up as a very successful lawyer!)
A Wolf At the Table- Augusten Burroughs
(Same guy from 'Running with Scissors. Intense, bizarre, emotional, but very good.)
Fantasy/Sci-Fi Books: (Nowhere near as "Geeky" as it may sound)
The House of Night Series- P.C. and Kristin Cast
(This is more or less like Twilight mixed with Harry Potter. Directed more towards younger readers, but entertaining none the less.)
The Sookie Stackhouse Series (Starts with "Dead Until Dark")- Charlaine Harris
(This is the "Southern Vampire" series True Blood is based off of. I started the books first, and as expected, they're much more detailed than the show, and I think I like them a little better.)
Author Mario Acevedo: Starting with The Nymphos of Rocky Flats, these books are pretty much about anything and everything supernatural, all rolled into one. Vampires, Zombies, Aliens, Werewolves, etc etc.
(Not to mention, as you probably could have guessed by the title, they've got a very sexual element to them.)
For Murder/Mystery/Detective Fiction:
Anything by Stuart Woods or James Patterson.
Woods' books have gotten a little more brief and not as good lately, but if you start with some of his earlier Stone Barrington or Holly Barker books, they're fantastic. Lately most of his separate series have kind of mixed together. For Patterson- I LOVE the Alex Cross series, and there are like a million books in that.
Tess Gerritsen is also a great author with books like The Bone Garden and The Surgeon.
Other:
Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns- Khaled Hosseini
(These are set in the middle east and are SO good, and I can almost guarantee they will make you cry. I truly think they are must reads, though.)
Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs- Chuck Klosterman
(Pop Culture commentary at it's finest)
ANYTHING BY CHUCK PALAHNIUK. Seriously, I love it all. But two of my favorites were Lullaby and Invisible Monsters.
Candy- Luke Davies
(Yeah, like the Heath Ledger/Abbie Cornish movie, only WAY better.)
My Horizontal Life and Are You There Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea- Chelsea Handler
(This woman is ridiculously funny. And these are all real life stories. If you watch her show you'll appreciate them even more because you realize the crazy things she says about her life are all true. She also just released Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang, but I haven't read that yet.)
I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell- Tucker Max
(Male equivalent of Chelsea Handler, only maybe more of an asshole. You're either going to be completely offended by this or laugh so hard when you read it that you almost pee your pants. Go to TuckerMax.com for an idea of the "stories" you'll be reading. He also releases his 2nd book, Assholes Finish First, in September.)
I'm sure you didn't notice, but I finally decided to spell giveaway without the hyphen. Yes, I am that OCD that every time I made a post I wondered if that was how I should do it or not, and finally decided I didn't like that, and went back and changed it in all recent posts. Haha. This is my life.
You have very good taste! I adore Chuck Palahniuk and Augusten Burroughs. Gonna have to write down some of your recommendations and check 'em out!
ReplyDeleteAlso wanted to holla at a fellow Hoosier! I'm down in Brown County, and I frequent Bloomington all the time :)
i like it without the hypen too! LOL
ReplyDeleteI hope they serve beer in hell is one of my FAVORITE books!
ReplyDeleteI used to bring it to read during boring lectures and in the library but I had to choose a different book because I laughed so loud I was disturbing the people around me.
I just adore books! I agree completely, the Sookie Stackhouse novels are so so good.
ReplyDeleteI like to read all sorts of different things.
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins is in that not really nerdy sci-fi category and is a hell of a book. I don't want to explain it, cause it'll sound weird, but it's an "oh my god. I can't put this book down cause it's soooo awesome!" sort of book. the sequel Chasing Fire is equally as good.
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer is unbelievably good too! The entire book is a series of letters going back and forth between people.