Books you want to read 2016!

[Linda, Charlie Brown and Beau]

I am looking for new reads and hoping to possibly find a new author.  What book are you reading now and what are some of the books you hope to read this in 2016!  The first book I read this year was The Guilty by David Baldacci - part of Will Robie series and a quick read! Now I am back to my favorite pastime - "Bridge for Dummies".  I have read this book so many times it is falling apart.  Going to download efile on ipad.  I just cannot seem to remember some things it teaches you to do.  I guess I took up bridge too late in life! LOL

[Joan Bollaert]

I've got on my to read shelf:   Trust No One by Paul Cleave;  Euphoria by Lily King; The Pieces We Keep by Kristina McMorris; A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman; My Grandmother Asked Me To Tell You She's Sorry by Fredrik Backman.

I've read and seen the made for tv of  "Olive Kitteridge" and love it.. by Elizabeth Strout ( complex character that I just loved... many didn't).   I also like books by Liane Moriarity (lighter reads)

I just finished "Lila" by Marilynne Robinson and didn't care for it but it has good reviews... I thought it was trite and empty.  Two other books by the same author where the location and characters appear are "Gilead" and "Home"..Gilead being the first, Home second and then Lila, though it's not a trilogy and they can be read independently.    I hesitate to read the first two since I didn't care for the last one but might just to see what the fuss is about since everyone else seemed to like them.   Bear in mind I'm the only person on the planet who didn't like The Kite Runner.  LOL    :)

[Linda, Charlie Brown and Beau]

Thanks for the recommendations Joan.  I am going to start reading the Backman books.  You were not the only one who didn't care for the Kite Runner.  I was not keen on it either. Our book club read it and I think I was the only one with negative feedback!

[Joan Bollaert]

Also "Beach Music" by Pat Conroy. Great writer

[Lynda Kamrath]

I am an incessant reader and read daily.  My latest author is Ginny Dye and I am reading her Bregdan  Chronicles, novels about the Civil War.  There are eight books and I got hooked on the second one.  They aren't in our library here so I have to purchase the books through Amazon.  I also enjoyed the Twilight Series by Stephanie Meyers.  Those are books about the vampire community in Seattle.  Not for everybody, but I liked them.  Before that I was reading the Outlander Series, eight books by Diana Gabaldon.  So, I guess I like stories of witches, vampires, time travel, and historical fiction.  Series by the same author appeal to me.  I have all of Dean Koontz's books and he had two series, the Frankenstein books and Odd Thomas.  I liked both of them, but his all time favorite book of mine was Watchers, a story of a dog with artificial intelligence.  He loves golden retrievers and have them in many of his books.  There are a lot of good recommendations of books here in the Book Lovers Group.  Enjoy.

[Linda, Charlie Brown and Beau]

Thanks Lynda.  I like to find a good series also.  My sister kept trying to get me to read the Twilight series and I never got around to it.  I will look at that.

[Lynda Kamrath]

It is a quick read and easy reading level.  I think Bregdan Chronicles is about the same (reading level that is).  Did you also read the book Thousand Splendid Sunsets by the same author as Kite Runner?

[Linda, Charlie Brown and Beau]

Yes, and I enjoyed Thousand Splendid Sunsets,

[Lynda Kamrath]

You would probably like the Bregdan Chronicles.  I just finished the seventh book and order the eighth and ninth.  I guess you could say I am hooked.  Love the characters.

[Lynda Kamrath]

Now eleven books by Ginny Dye and I look forward to the release of every one.  I think Diana Gabaldon is up to 10 books now with the Written in My Own Hearts Blood book.  Her little series with Lord John is interesting and there are about four books in that series.  He was an interesting character in the T.V. series and adopted Willie, Jamie's son.  I like to read the same author and get everything I can from the library or buy them on line.  I guess Ginny Dye would be my recommendation, but this post is getting rather old.  Maybe a new post may revive it.  Keep reading, Linda.

[Nancy, Ned, Clancy, and Charlie]

I have recently read 3 books by Lisa Genova - The well-known, Still Alice about a women with Alzheimer's,  Left Neglected about a woman who is in a car accident that leaves her with a traumatic brain disorder, and Love Anthony about Autism.  I read the scrapbooking mysteries and teashop mysteries by Laura Childs, and the Jack Reacher books by Lee Child.  I like anything by J.A. Jance.  Other authors I love are Dana Stabenow, Sue Henry, Nevada Barr, Stewart Woods, Diana Gabaldon, Sue Grafton.  I have been re-reading Agatha Christie too.

[Joan Bollaert]

Still Alice is on my " books I love " shelf

[Nancy, Ned, Clancy, and Charlie]

Try her others! They are just as wonderfully researched and written.