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sarea ([personal profile] sarea) wrote2008-08-08 11:24 am
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Requesting: Book recs!

About a month or so ago, I joined PaperBackSwap and have slowly but surely whittling down my book collection. There are pluses and minuses about the program; there are certain types of books that are perfect for it and others that would be more reasonably dispatched elsewhere. Still, I have about 19 credits to my name right now, but I don't know what books to request (I haven't ordered even one).

While they have a fairly wide selection, popular books often have waiting lists (that can be several hundred people long), so it's not that I can't think of a single book I want; it's that the ones I want are all waitlisted. :/

But I KNOW there must be great books to read that aren't "super hot" anymore and thus would likely be available.

So if you have the inclination, please tell me: What are your favorite books? What's something you've read recently that you really enjoyed? When someone asks you to recommend books, what 3 books pop immediately to mind?

I have wide and varied interests/tastes, so really I'm open to just about any rec. :D
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[identity profile] selinakyle47.livejournal.com 2008-08-08 07:16 pm (UTC)(link)
I just finished Elizabeth Lowell's Blue Smoke and Murder and it was pretty good. If you can't get that, maybe try The Wrong Hostage, which features some of characters in the previous book.

[identity profile] mynuet.livejournal.com 2008-08-08 07:17 pm (UTC)(link)
Have you read the Southern Vampire series by Charlaine Harris, or the Otherworld series by Kelley Armstrong? Both are awesome, imo.

[identity profile] noelleleithe.livejournal.com 2008-08-08 07:30 pm (UTC)(link)
As I think I've mentioned before, I read mostly nonfiction, and a lot of that is medical and/or social history. I recommend "Polio: An American Story" by David M. Oshinsky and "The Great Influenza" by John M. Barry. Also anything by David Halberstam.

[identity profile] obtabius.livejournal.com 2008-08-09 02:20 pm (UTC)(link)
I would rec The Eyre Affair by Jaspar Fforde, Power of One by Bryce Courtney (which is amazing) and Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman. Oh! and something by Alice Hoffman, The Probable Future is lovely.

[identity profile] corianderstem.livejournal.com 2008-08-13 02:58 am (UTC)(link)
Oh good! I'm glad you're liking that site!

Hey, back from vacation - we should get together for sushi at that place in my neighborhood soon. You can try the lobster roll, and I can give you back that discount card you'd given me. ;-)

Oh! And I think I finally learned what they wrap those lobster rolls in - soy paper. Wait, that doesn't sound right. Soy something.
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