kenzie!

The Forest of Hands and Teeth and any of the Ellen Hopkins books. I think they're technically teen books, but I've recommended them to adults, and they loved them too!

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Dame Kenz Matilda Jayhawk-Rocksalt, heir to the family diamonds.

CocoaCoily

I'm up to book 6, book 7 is on the way. I'm already fretting about when I'm done! I'm waiting for book 8 to be released in MM paperback, so they're all the same. Ack, the hardcover doesn't even release till the end of the month.

Le sigh, Wrath is still my favorite, but I love reading them all. These are definitely my kind of vampires. MMM!

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Soficurls

"Crime and Punishment" by Fyodor Dostoevsky. Best book I have ever read in my life!

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CurlyBunnie

Geroge R.R. Martin's series "A Song of Ice and Fire"

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The Mitch Rapp series by Vince Flynn. I'm itching to read one right now but I know if I start I'll never get any work done,lol

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curlylaura

Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel.

It's set during Henry VIII reign and Thomas Cromwell is the hero of the story, even though I know the historical outcome I still have to keep reading it just to know what happens next. It's really good.

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GirlWithUkulele

I'm surprised no one's mentioned Jellicoe Road by Melina Marchetta yet. This is one amazing book. It's about a 17-year-old girl named Taylor who's had some kind of difficult past, who tries to find her mother and make sense of her memories. And of course, the enigmatic Jonah shows up again, to add to it all. If you read this one, you have to keep going after page 100. It's a bit hard to follow up until that point, but it's totally worth it.

I think I'll re-read it; I've mentioned it, like, 4 times on this website :S

Also, try Saving Francesca. It's another amazing one by Marchetta.

missbanjo

The Dresden Files by Jim Butcher. Starts with Storm Front and book 12 Changes just came out this month. If you saw the very very short lived tv series (12 eps) on Sci Fi in 2007 you got the gist but missed a LOT. Butcher usually puts the first couple of chapters on his website about a month before each is published:
http://jim-butcher.com/books/dresden/1/ch1/
I'm not really into his Codex Alera books but they ended in Nov after book 6.

I also LOVE Sherrilyn Kenyon's Dark Hunters and Patricia Briggs' Mercy Thompson and Alpha & Omega series. A&O is a sort of spin off of Mercy.

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FunkyCurlGurl

Dream Boy by Jim Grimsley. My god, that book is hauntingly beautiful.

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Totally gotta ditto this. While I enjoyed books one and two, I was officially hooked with book three and have been a Harry Dresden junkie since. I always PREorder the novels.

Butcher has mad plotting skills, and he's got madder "ratcheting up the stakes" skills, so that once you're in, you're hooked and can't stop, because the complications and complexity of what's going on just keeps sharply rising. It's insane. It's the novel equivalent of a monster rollercoaster ride with a good friend.

I almost skipped the novels cause I hated the tv show. Boy, did that suck monkey hiney. But a fantasy-writer friend insisted I try it,and he was right. The novels are an amazing urban fantasy ride, with so much action, humor, big-stakes and ever-spiraling tension that if you can set it down and go to sleep, you're a much stronger person than I am.

I found the same effect with SPIN (a sci fi novel) and Ender's Game (also sci-fi) and Neverwhere (fantasy by Neil Gaiman) and The Cemetery Book (also Gaiman). Just had to keep, keep, keep reading.

The Lincoln Rhyme mystery/suspense novels also hooked me bad. I used to get the same "can't put it down" effect from Julie Garwood's historical novels and Anne Stuart's romantic suspense, but I haven't experienced that from those writers in many years.

I have thousands of books in my library, but as I got older, it was harder to keep my attention. So, when a novel does hook me, hurray.

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Res

This sounds really interesting! I like learning about past conquerors.

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BlackCherryChutney

Stieg larson's books. I am buying the last of the saga on tomorrow!

curlylaura

Ooh yes, I agree. I'm about to start the 2nd one.

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gagirl09

Looooovvvvve this series go Lisbeth!!!

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I've only read The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, but I liked it!

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curlylaura

Lisbeth is an awesome character!

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alessi

love the one you're with by emily giffin

mzmillion

What are the Steig Larson books about?????

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The Passage by Justin Cronin was amazing. I'm rereading it.

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WurlyLox

Finding it too hard to explain myself without writing a novel, I found this pretty good explanation from Amazon:

It is the story of a crusading reporter, Mikail Blomkvist, who has been convicted of libel for his exposé of crooked financier Wennerstrom. Then another Swedish financier, a rival of Wennerstrom, wants to hire Blomkvist to solve the decades-old disappearance of his niece from the family’s island compound in the north of Sweden. If Blomkvist works on the project for a year, his employer will deliver the goods on Wennerstrom. Blomkvist takes the job and soon finds himself trying to unlock the grisly multigenerational secrets in a hideously dysfunctional family’s many closets. Helping him dig through those closets is the novel’s real star, the girl with the dragon tattoo, Lisbeth Salander, a ward of the state who happens to be Sweden’s most formidable computer hacker and a fearless foe of women-hating men. Larsson has two great stories (and two star-worthy characters) here, and if he never quite brings them together—the conclusion of the Wennerstrom campaign seems almost anticlimactic after the action-filled finale on the island—the novel nevertheless offers compelling chunks of investigative journalism, high-tech sleuthing, and psychosexual drama.

The above is just about the first book. Both Blomkvist and Lisbeth are in the next book, which I recently finished. I assume they're both still in the third, although I haven't read it yet.

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