My reading list :) Suggestions?

[stephb]

Here's the books I've been reading lately, starting with a few old favorites I've read again and again for years, then some great new books I've read recently! I have a receptionist job and most of my time is spent waiting for the phone to ring, so I've always got to have a book to entertain me! Since I started this job I read 1-2 books a week.

Old favorites:

Marley and Me- John Grogan
Memoirs of a Geisha- Arthur Golden
Transformers Exodus- Arthur C. Irvine
The Harry Potter series- J.K. Rowling

New favorites:
Been There, Done That- Carol Snow (AWESOME BOOK! Highly recommend!)
The Hunger Games series- Suzanne Collins
The Selection- Kiera Cass
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan- Lisa See
The Notebook- Nicholas Sparks

Upcoming reads-
Shanghai Girls- Lisa See
One Pink Line- Dina Silver
Kat Fight- Dina Silver

Does anyone have any suggestions for what I should read next?

Right now I've been looking for something similar to Marley and Me- I'm a big dog fan! And another thing I really loved about the book was how it was also about their early married life and their experience raising children. I'd like to find more books like that.

 

[readsalot]

Icemark Chronicles, Narnia, Shipbreaker and The Drowned Cities.

 

[Hedwig]

I'd also recommend JK Rowling's newest, "The Casual Vacancy". Utterly different from the Potter series but no less wonderful to read.

 

[DeQuan Foster]

The Twelve by A.S. Washington its a great read http://www.amazon.com/Twelve-S-Wash..._B00AN9JAYU_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1363051606&sr=1-1

 

[Meadow337]

Books similar to Lisa See:

The Calligrapher's Daughter - Eugenia Kim

Another similar author is Amy Tan.

Sky Burial, An Epic Love Story of Tibet - Xinran Xue is one the most profoundly moving books I have ever read. Today Xinran Xue runs a charity - http://www.mothersbridge.org/ if you have the urge after reading to find out more.

I include a review of it for you.

I n the world of fiction reviewing, extraordinary is an over-used word. Yet there really is no other way to describe Chinese author Xinran's second book, Sky Burial. It is extraordinary in so many ways-the subject matter, the setting, the central character, but mostly its authenticity and the author's continuing search for the woman whose life is told here. Sky Burial is the true story of a Chinese woman's 30-year search through Tibet for news of her lost, presumed dead, husband. Xinran is working as a radio journalist on a women's programme when a listener calls in to tell her about Shuwen. Xinran travels hundreds of miles across China to interview her and, over two days, Shuwen opens her heart and reveals her tragic, scarcely imaginable life story. Xinran returns to her life and spends the subsequent 10 years trying to find Shuwen again, researching her story and writing this book-a homage to an ordinary woman's extraordinary life-long search for the truth. The story is a simple one: Shuwen meets her intelligent, idealistic husband-to-be while they are both training to be doctors. After less than 100 days of marriage, Kejun travels to Tibet as a Chinese army doctor and before long, Shuwen is notified that he has died in an "incident". Shuwen decides to join the army herself, travel to Tibet and find out if he really is dead, and if so, how and why he died. And then, as if travelling to a closed country like Tibet as a young woman in the 1950s is not difficult enough, Shuwen quickly becomes separated from her unit and, close to death herself, is taken in by a family of Tibetan nomads. Her transformation from Chinese doctor to nomadic Buddhist is a long, painful and at many turns, deeply distressing one. Sky Burial is a slight book-little more than an extended short story-and yet the ground it covers is immense, not just because of the fascinating glimpse it offers into a land and a people still largely unknown in the West. Despite its tragic themes of loss and survival in one of the world's harshest landscapes, it is an uplifting tale of unwavering loyalty and immeasurable inner strength. -Carey Green