What's Everyone Reading?

For fiction, The Book Thief was excellent. I also enjoyed Maine, a good family drama story.

For non-fiction, I'm loving Malcolm Gladwell right now and recently read both David & Goliath and Outliers.

If you want something that will keep you busy for some time, try the Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon. So far there are 7 books in the series (Outlander is the first), the 8th to come out in June. I'm rereading it (again) right now myself.

I also really enjoyed The Deed of Paksennarion by Elizabeth Moon, and the Sword of Truth series by Terry Goodkind.

I like to read motivational psychology. Just finished Die Empty by Todd Henry and loved it. Very motivating and good tips.

In my reading group, most people who read Divergent thought it was OK, but liked the 2nd book less, and if they went on to the 3rd book they didn't care for it.

I liked the Hunger Games series and the Matched series. The Fault in Our Stars is also very good.

I love The Number One Ladies Detective Series.

Little Bee by Chris Cleve (I've also liked his other books but all of them are very intense.)

Seeing that you are in Texas, you might like Crazy Women Creek: Women Rewrite the American West.

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

Eleanor and Park

Cold Sassy Tree

Firefly Lane

Annie Freeman's Fabulous Traveling Funeral

Light Between Oceans

Hotel at the Corner of Bitter and Sweet

The Book Thief

Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library--a middle level kids' book, but if you are a book/library nerd like me you will love it! (Think Willy Wonka in a library instead of a chocolate factory.)

I Am Malala

Poisonwood Bible

I love anything by Anne Lamott. She challenges the way I think and makes me think about things in a totally different way. Bird by Bird is my favorite, but I also really liked Plan B and Help, Thanks, Wow! She writes about writing, life, addiction, faith, God, and fat thighs. Love her!

Like Water for Elephants

Ella Minnow Pea

A Lesson Before Dying

The Memory Keeper's Daughter

I could go on and on and on and......

I have recently enjoyed:

State of Wonder by Ann Patchett
The Circle by Dave Eggers
All Joy and No Fun by Jennifer Senior
The Pleasure of My Company by Steve Martin
Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri

I hated Divergent, but I seem to be in the minority.

Several others have suggested Barbara Kingsolver. She is an excellent writer, one of my favorites, and The Poisonwood Bible is really wonderful. The novel The Bean Trees (not Bean Eaters, that's a poem by someone else) is great too, as is Animal Dreams.

I just finished "Rivals in the Tudor Court" by D.L. Bogdan. It is her second book.

I'm in between books today. I read Michael Connelly's latest (The Gods of Guilt) the other weekend. Getting ready to read the most recent novel by James Lee Burke.

I highly recommend any of the 4 novels that John Hart has written. Unfortunately, he hasn't put out any new work very recently (last 2 years)... or I'd have been on that yesterday. The Last Child, The King of Lies, Iron House (the most recent, from 2011), or Down River. All of them were great!

The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver.

Right now I'm reading Sophie's Choice (William Styron), and really liking it.

Recently read Water for Elephants (Sara Gruen) and loved it.

A few others that I've read and loved (I could list pages and pages of favorites from the floor to ceiling bookcases on all four walls of my study):
The Fifth Sacred Thing (Starhawk)
The Thomas Covenant series (Stephen R. Donaldson)
The Game of Thrones series (George R.R.Martin)
Yes is Better than No (Byrd Baylor)
Yonnondio (Tillie Olsen)
The Master and Margarita (Mikhial Bulgakov)
Catch 22 (Joseph Heller)
The Foundation series (Isaac Asimov)
Dandelion Wine (Ray Bradbury)
The Time Traveler's Wife (Audrey Niffeneger)
The Robber Bride (Margaret Atwood)
Stranger in a Strange Land (Robert Heinlein)
Prodigal Summer (Barbara Kingsolver)

ETA: Queen of the Castle, thanks for reminding me. I loved the Ender Wiggin series and the Alvin Maker series (both by Orson Scott Card).

I am reading Wolves in Midwinter by Anne Rice. I love her books.
A book that I recently read that I thought was really good is Bianca's Garden by Theresa Neumann. It is a historical book based in Italy during WWII. I really loved this book.

Hi A.,

I just read Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northrup. Its the real life experience of a free black man from New York who was kidnapped and sold into slavery in the bayous of Louisiana. Obviously its a hard, sad read but I felt compelled to read the book before I watch the movie.

I'm starting on the Outlander series, again. They are making it into a series on Starz and although I read it many years ago, I really enjoyed it and want to enjoy it again before the TV interpretation comes out.

I'm glad you asked this question. I always like new suggestions. Maybe I'll try the Poisonwood Bible. Seems like a good one.

Ooh, I am re-reading Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver. It is quite good, I also loooved her novel The Lacuna. I usually get hooked on one writer for a spell so maybe next I will read The Bean Eaters.

Wool by Hugh Howey is a good read. Gone Girl was fantastic for the first half but petered out, I ended up disappointed, and I think a lot of readers felt the same, but don't let that hold you back from at least borrowing it from the library. Divergent I though was ok. It just isn't one of those books that I will read again, but it was fine for passing the time.

I just finished Zoo by James Patterson.

I'm re-reading Childhood's End by Arthur C Clark and
Being a Green Mother by Piers Anthony.
For school (9th grade) our son's reading Lord of the Flies (I had to read it for school and I hated it)
He just finished reading Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A Heinlein.

Additional:
My son's teacher says Lord of the Flies is one of those books you really really like or you really really hate.
The story itself wasn't that bad but that image of the pigs head on a spear with the flies all over gave me nightmares for weeks.

We also read the Skulduggery Pleasant books when ever a new one comes out.
The Maleficent Seven and Last Stand of Dead Men were excellent and we can't wait to find out what happens next!
Our son is about ready for his first Stephan King novel.
He'll be reading The Shining soon.

The Four Agreements by Miquel Ruiz-sel help

My daughter (19) and I read Divergent and did enjoy it. We went to the movie last week and enjoyed it as well.

We are currently reading Insurgent which is the 2nd series of Divergent now and I like it as well.

Love this question!!

Have not read Divergent, but with it now a movie and being advertised so much I am thinking about it. I probably won't see the move anytime soon.

The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
How she survived her father's alcoholism and her parents hippie lifestyle. So sad, there were days she and her sibs fought over a stick of butter as it was the only food in the house.She turned out great despite the struggling upbringing. Books starts out with her at a high end restaurant eating lunch and as she looks out the window she sees her mother garbage picking for food and how she handles her mother's refusal to change.

The Memory Thief by Emily Colin
Her husband dies mountaint climbing with his best friend. She marries best friend only to find the husbands soul comes back in someone else's body and finds his wife and best friend have married. The book enfolds as you watch the characters struggle to find out who loves the wife, and really the first husbands son, the most.

Friendship Bread by Darien Gee
A mom is struggling with life and over coming tragedy, meets another lady in a struggling with a different life stage tragedy and then a third. They band together and support each other.

Save Me by Lisa Scottoline
A mom volunteers for lunch duty to keep an eye on her daughter who is being bullied. She witness it happening one day, intervenes perhaps too harshly, to the bully infront of witnesses. The daughter runs off to the bathroom and everyone sees the mom yelling at the bully. Then an explosion happens and the mom is left with making the choice of getting the bully to safety or finding her daughter and rescuing her instead. You see how the town, parents, and commuity react to her choice.

Happy reading!

I've been reading Nancy Drew lately :)

I like fiction for young adults because they're clean. My recent favorite is the Percy Jackson series by Rick Riordan. He has a follow up series called Heroes of Olympus. I like them because I feel smarter reading them because they're about Greek mythology.

Also, you should join the Goodreads site. It's social networking, but with books. I love it. You can see what your friends are reading, read reviews, and make reading lists. Check it out.

Have you read Night Circus?

I just started Velocity by Dean Koontz

I love political thrillers. I just finished The Forgotten by David Baldacci. I love ALL Baldacci's books, and Mike Lawson's Joe DeMarco series. And I read anything by Brad Metzler and James Patterson.

I can also read anything between Hannah Kristen to Anita Shrieve to John Grisham as well as a lot of Christian fiction like Charles Martin and my favorite author ever Francine Rivers (she's more historical romance).

Have fun finding a book!

The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford. Delightful read.

The Consequences Series by Aleatha Romig

Wow, I'm so excited by the books listed because a lot of them I've never heard of! Sadly, I only have 2 friends who actually READ books, which is a little bit depressing. As a family, we read a lot, so I go to the library every week & a lot of books I'll just check out based on the title or the cover, to find new authors.

I'm currently reading Rain of Gold by Victor Villasenor, Sink Reflections by Marla Cilley, My Invented Country by Isobel Allende & just finished Love my Rifle More Than You by Kayla Williams. I'm listening to The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls while I drive. I have upstairs books, the downstairs books, the one I leave in the car, the one I listen to in the car, but at least the themes vary so I don't mix up the plots!

I've loved all the books so far by Nicholas Sparks. Awesome author!

I've read the Nora Roberts Boonsboro trilogy mentioned below. That was a good series.

Lisa Scottoline...I've read one of her books. And my Mom has read quite a few and said she has enjoyed all of them.

Becky Wade. I just found her book, Undeniably Yours. It was very good. Found a second book she wrote, titled 'my stubborn heart'. It is good so far.

I just started reading regularly again about 2 years ago and I love it so much more than watching t.v.

I gave up tv for Lent though, so I read even more than I did before Lent.

I'm reading the The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou. I decided to go through and read some of the award winning works of authors I had not read before (and should). I started by reading I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. There's a reason why it's considered an modern classic. She's an amazing woman.

I am reading and have read my daughter's books. We sorta like the same things.
Her books, are popular with adults too.
ie: the Fablehaven series
The Mysterious Benedict Society series.
GREAT series. Once you start you wanna just keep reading ALL of the books.

I am so burnt out and tired of reading other types of books. I read these books for fun and it is relaxing.

i love this sort of question!
B, you are my kinda girl. love your reading list (although i loved lord of the flies, in a horrified sort of way.)
i'm reading 'the buddha in the attic' for my bubble bath reading, and loving it. i would never have guessed that a book written in the first person plural could work so well! brilliant and fascinating. in my bedroom is 'maddaddam', the third of atwood's trilogy. i don't love it as much as the amazing first one, but that might just be because the first one introduced this terrible but compelling world. in the car is a blast from the past, king's 'the stand', which i'm enjoying in a whole new way from the last time i read it, decades ago. and on my kindle is the incredible donna tartt's 'the goldfinch' which everyone is rightly talking about.
:) khairete
S.

I am currently reading Death's Acre. It is nonfiction...about the "body farm" in Tennessee.

I'm glancing over at one of my bookshelves and here are a few on it: The Painted Bridge (interesting), The Hanging Wood, The Salt Road (this was a quick, good read), The Cold Cold Ground, The Other Rembrandt, Heartbreak Hotel, The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, Ruth Downie's Roman Empire series, The Lorax, The Poisonwood Bible, The Wet Nurse's Tale, Mel Starr's Hugh de Singleton books. So a mix of historic fiction, mystery, crime, etc.

I'm reading The Inn Boonsboro trilogy by Nora Roberts. It's a little cheesy but I'm too far into it now!

Just finished Divergent and Insurgent!
Didn't love it like hunger games but it was a okay read

About to start I am Malala!

The invention of wings by Sue Monk Kid. Historical fiction at its best. Wonderful read and based on the lives of real women.

I love Sci-fi, Supernatural and Fantasy. I even stalk the "young reader" sections. I enjoyed the Percy Jackson books and a set about a boy named Pendragon (it's need a while).

I just finished Larry Correia's Monster Hunter's International and Grimnoir Chronicles Trilogy. He's a bit of a anti-government, gun nut, but the stories were good.

I just finished Sharp Objects because I enjoyed Gone Girl, I would definitely recommend it but it is dark and fair warning, you will probably never eat pork again.
I am reading 11/23/63 by Stephen King right now, about a man who time travels to try to stop the Kennedy assasination.
I also recently read the latest trilogy from Robin Hobb. For anyone who likes Game of Thrones, this is another fun fantasy series. It is definitely lighter than George RR Martin, but I love the way the books all connect. The Assassin's Apprentice is the first one in the first trilogy, Farseer, but you can read the trilogies out of order. Tawny Man, Liveship Traders, and Rain Wild Chronicles are the other trilogies, I enjoyed them all. I did not enjoy the Soldier Son trilogy, which is set in a different world.

I always recommend dedicated readers to tackle the "A Song of Ice and Fire" (abbreviated as ASOIAF) series, which is the series that the HBO show "Game of Thrones" is based on. AMAZING, but gargantuan, and the series is still being written.

I breezed through "The Hunger Games" a few summers ago after I read all the "ASOIAF" books and really enjoyed them as well.

I started to read "Ender's Game," but just couldn't get into it, although if I had more time and fewer distractions I probably would have enjoyed it.

I read rather 'light', as it were. More reading for pleasure, less for edification these days....

Love love love Elinor Lipman books. Funny, witty and full of good characters. Catherine Schine is also a new favorite author.

Just finished a memoir "Mad Women" by Jane Maas. (as opposed to Mad Men) Maas was an advertising exec and eventually president of an agency (she ran the "I love NY" campaign) and has great stories to tell of Madison Ave in the 60s and beyond. Loved it, loved her 79 year-old woman's take on the past and such an interesting time in the industry.

Now reading "Mail" by Mameve Medved. Like Lipman's writing-- educated, funny glimpse of a divorced writer who is falling for her mailman while her mom is encouraging her to reach a little higher in regard to men, after all, he didn't go to Yale, now, did he? Not quite "chick lit", I love these sorts of books. If you like references to Filene's Basement and hilarious descriptions of situations-- this is it.

I just started The English Girl by Daniel Silva. I finally finished the third book in the Girl Who Kicked The Hornet's Nest trilogy. I also recently finished The Dinner (Herman Koch - didn't love it) and The Twelve Tribes of Hattie (Ayana Mathis - fair). I plan on reading A Thousand Splendid Suns (Khaled Hosseini) next - loved The Kite Runner although it was incredibly sad. Oh -and I just read Pippi Longstocking and Swiss Family Robinson but I don't think family reading really counts.