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

[obtabius.livejournal.com]

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.

[sarea-okelani.livejournal.com]

Thank you for the recs!!