Good fiction/literature book recommendations?

I've been reading a lot of non-fiction but want to balance it out with some fiction books:





Some books I enjoy:


Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility


The Namesake


The Life of Pi


The Lord of the Rings trilogy as well as The Hobbit


The Golden Compass


The Handmaid's Tale


The Kite Runner


Gentleman and Players





Here are some books/series I did NOT like:


The Phantom Tollbooth


Robert Jordan's really long "Wheel of Time" series


Mists of Avalon


The Painted Veil


Snow Flower and the Secret Fan


Moby Dick


The Alchemist





Thanks!!

Good fiction/literature book recommendations?
Wicked. It's the Wizard of Oz told from the witch's point of view. Very entertaining.
Reply:I read Moby Dick and finished it inside a week. Great novel and brilliantly written. Herman Melville is a genius and it's a shame you didn't enjoy it.





If someone were to ask you what it was about, would you be able to answer them? How would you answer them? What did you learn from the novel?





It's a book full of symbolism and somehow has a chamelion effect everytime it's read.





Anyway, just thought I'd throw that in there.





I am, personally, a classics reader~~fiction. I am over half way finished with Count of Monte Cristo, by Alexandre Dumas. Wonderful, riveting. Highly recommended. If you can tackle 1200+ pages, it's worth every minute of the read. I am about to begin A Suitable Boy, by Vikram Seth. 1700 pages, but a page turner. After that, it's an off beat read by Tom Robbins with Jitterbug Perfume.





Good luck to you and whatever you choose.
Reply:If you liked Handmaid's Tale - I also liked many other books by the same author.





I also recently enjoyed "The Mermaid Chair" and think I'm going to read "Bridges of Madison County" (Couldn't do it when it was being overhyped, but can stand to think of it now.)
Reply:for sci-fi / mystery / romance --- try J D Robb's 'in Death' series. They have humor and mystery and are set in NYC in 2060 or so.





The Wizard of Oz books are good too.





How about Charles Dickens?
Reply:You should read these books:





To Kill A Mocking bird


The Conch Bearer


The House on Mango Street


Kite fighters


Autobiography of Fredrick Douglass


Inkheart


Inkspell


Sadoko and the thousand cranes


The Breadwinner


Al Copane does my Shirts


White Lilacs


The mystery of platform 19
Reply:If you liked Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility, I'd try Persuasion. I think its the best, apart from P%26amp;P.





I'd also recommend Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell, which is my favorite book, although it is a love-it-or-hate-it-book. It's this creepy, dark, incredibly involving fairy tale, set in regency England, so you have this balance between this light, witty tone, almost reminiscent of Jane Austen, and this dark, mysterious magic and magical history.
Reply:Atonement by Ian McEwan was really good.


The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield was really heard to put down even at 3 am when i was really sleepy.


Her Royal Spyness by Rhys Bowen was a fun mystery novel set in the 1930's.


I also really enjoyed Seventeenth Summer by Maureen Daly because of all the great details.


Stardust was also fun to read.
Reply:Alot of the books you listed under the "what you like" section, I also enjoy. I think you would like:





The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time- Mark Haddon





Marly and Me- Josh Grogan





Running With Scissors and Sellevision-Augusten Burroughs





The Great Gatsby- F. Scott Fitzgerald





Girl With a Pearl Earring- Tracy Chevalier





that should be a good start for you
Reply:The only one I haven't read is the first:





A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini (author of The Kite Runner)


Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez


Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood


The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy