Received $100 gift card to B&N. What books do I absolutely need to get?
Received one of my favorite (and classic) birthday presents: $100 gift card to B&N. What books do I absolutely need to get? Some authors I love: Jo Nesbo, John Sandford, Liane Moriarty, Gillian Flynn, Stephen King, James Lee Burke. Most recent books read: Sleeping Beauties, The Girls in the Garden, the most recent book in the Hangman’s Daughter series by Oliver Plotsch, all the Flavia de Luce books…
Hit me up with your recommendations! Thank you!!!
Did you like sleeping beauties?
It was…. ok. I was actually somewhat disappointed, I felt that the guys (Stephen and Owen) took an oversimplified women=good/men=evil viewpoint. I gobbled the book up, and absolutely loved some of the characters, but I felt sadly empty at the end… which is so hard to say as I LOVE Stephen King!!!!
I have not enjoyed a lot of his more recent stuff…but I’ll probably read this anyway. If you haven’t yet, you should read Horns by Joe Hill. It’s one of the best books I have ever read.
I read Horns, really liked it! Actually like all of Joe Hill’s stuff!
Maybe try The Secret History by Dona Tartt ( please give a pass on author’s correct name spelling.) Its an interesting mystery, the writing is solid. Been some years since I read it, but I remember it as a good step up from most of the paperback fodder without being difficult. Hope this is helpful.
I read The Secret History when it came out, and definitely enjoyed it! Did you read The Goldfinch? I have not, and wonder if I should.
@Melissa I liked a lot of it…I’d say on balance, it’s worth the read. If you can find it, something else you might enjoy is Joyce Carol Oates’ “Bellefleur” because it is also sort of a mystery, gothic kind of thing. I wouldn’t necessarily recommend her other works to you until you’d read this, because she’s all over the place and it looks like you quite enjoy more the puzzle, maybe less the relationships or personal revelation stuff? And her other stuff is definitely more character introspection. Nothing else quite like Bellefleur. I’m that way sometimes, too, give me a good mystery, but nice when both mystery and good characterization, sense of time/place balance well, and the writing has some depth. Trying to think of others, but those 2 definitely stand out.
@Melissa I loved The Goldfinch! I listened to the audiobook. Great narrator. I got so much yardwork done that summer because I didn’t want to stop listening while I worked lol!
Found the Goldfinch a chore to read at times, book never seemed to end but brilliant book.
Anything by Wally Lamb, Jodi Piccoult, John Grisham, Greg Iles, Louise Penny, or Jeanette Walls
LOVE Greg Iles! The Penn Cage novels are soooooooo good!
And, I haven’t read Grisham in a while, but thinking about Camino Island and/or The Rooster Bar
Enjoyed Camino Island, Reading Rooster Bar now ?
I love Sara Paretsky’s V.I. Warshawski, Michael Connelly’s Harry Bosch and Lincoln Lawyer series. Historical fiction, Burial Rites, News of the World and Alias Grace. Have you read Lonesome Dove? Awesome! Non-fiction The Devil in White City or anything by Erik Larson…and happy birthday ???
Thank you!!!!
If you like Jo Nesbo, you should read Lars Kepler’s Joona Links series: The Hypnotist, The Nightmare, etc. It’s excellent Scandi crime noir written by a husband/wife writing team. Good stuff!!
Yes! those are so good,, and Jussi Adler Olsen
Stuart MacBride
❤️ Hangman’s Daughter series
Have you read Dark Matter?
Yes! Blake Crouch is pretty good.
After The Fall?
Arnaldur Indridison
Deep Freeze by John Sandford if you’re a Virgil Flowers fan.