Requesting: Book recs!

[sarea]

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

Comments

[mynuet.livejournal.com]

Have you read the Southern Vampire series by Charlaine Harris, or the Otherworld series by Kelley Armstrong? Both are awesome, imo.

[sarea-okelani.livejournal.com]

Re: Charlaine Harris, alas, they only have Sweet and Deadly and A Secret Rage. But I will put the Southern Vampire series on my wishlist!

They do have books 1, 3, and 4 of the Otherworld series though, woot! (Women of the Otherworld is the full title right? Want to make sure I don't get the wrong thing.)