Criminal Evidence- Marjie Britz

Beautiful Lies- Lisa Unger

I am rereading Grube's translation of Plato's Republic. I love the lyric quality of this translation. Nearly poetry, at least to me.

What's the name of the book, softness?

Smoke by Elizabeth Ruth

Rereading Steppenwolf (Hermann Hesse) and Losing Control (Tom Warner).

The Plague, by Camus.

Again.

Herodotus The Histories
Neil Gaiman American Gods and Stardust

Reading a compilation of stories called "Zombie's, The recent Dead"

e-reader book for cheap. But it's got some great authors including Neil Gaiman.

I am looking for science fiction recommendations. Any one have any favorite authors or titles?

Melissa

Do you want straight scifi or fantasy or steampunk?
I like Asimov and Orson Scott Card for scifi plus Douglas Adams and Kurt Vonnegut.Can't go wrong with H.P. Lovecraft either though he is more horror.
For urban fantasy I like Neil Gaiman, comedic fantasy is Terry Pratchett, and straight fantasy I like Michael Moorcock.
For steampunk H.G. Wells, Arthur Conan Doyle, Lavie Tidhar and Gail Carriger.

Thanks Wolf. Any Sci fi subgenre (no fantasy). I especially like Cyberpunk (William Gibson, for example). I also like Card. I think Gaiman and Lovecraft might suit me.

Melissa

hard to choose which to put down.
 

90 Minutes in Heaven by Don Piper

and

Five Wishes by Gay Hendricks

I gave up on the book I was reading (Forever Amber) by Kathleen Windsor
and traded it in for a different book:

Running
 

"What I Talk About when I Talk About RUNNING a memoir"
by Haruki Murakami

reading this again, can't seem to get enough of it

Greco

I recently finished

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I really, really liked it.

I am currently reading No Mercy by Sherrilyn Kenyon and anxiously awaiting the latest Charliane Harris Sookie Stackhouse book as well as the next Jacqueline Carey Namah installment.

I've just finished 'The Imperfectionists' by Tom Rachman
It was enjoyable but quite slow and ambling.

Now I have several books that I started but wasn't immediately taken with..
I used to have a rule that I would read at least the 1/3 of a book, and if that point I still wasn't in to it - I could walk away from it. Now I seem to have a shorter attention span.

Any feedback on this list?

The Night Watch by Sarah Waters

Juliet, Naked by Nick Hornby

The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber

The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy

The Double Bind by Chris Bohjalian

The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz

"Star Begotten" HG Wells

i loved the Crimson Petal and the White---you need to give that a try, there entire first chapter is set in the second person....its short but it drew me in and i thought the book was very interesting...its main protagonist is a victorian prostitute....very good book

Living in End Times by Slavoj Zizek

Perhaps I need to give it another try, thanks.

I got a ways in to it. I'm usually a big fan of any literature set in London, and the premise of this appealed to me, but I wasn't really drawn in.

I know it was a well liked book when it came out.

Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac

I think I like it better then OTR. Now if only I could get Big Sur and Desolation Angels in.

I may or may not be a music snob myself :D

I'll try that story again. I do love Nick Hornby.

Thank you.

I just finished Pillars of the Earth and will now begin

The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Dewey by Vicki Myron

The Cat Who Could Read Backward by Lillian Jackson Braun

The Brothers Karamazov and The Idiot, Dostoyevsky

In Suspect Terrain, by John McPhee. I think I enjoyed this more the second time around. John McPhee writes about geology in a way that makes it come alive. If you live in the east or are interested in geology, this non-fiction page turner might teach you a few things you didn't know.

Empire of Illusion-the end of literacy and the triumph of spectacle