I simply asked "What's everyone reading?" and I got sooooo many great answers. We truly think alike in books, that's for sure!
So many of the books were already on my bedside table or on my queue at the library, but here are some I added:
Devil in the White City
Confederacy of Dunces
Sarah's Key
The Book of Awesome
The Marriage Plot
The Kitchen House
Winterdance
Black Dagger Brotherhood Series
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
I've never read Jodi Picoult or Janet Evanovich, but their names came up so many times that I'm going to try one of theirs and see what I think.
Jen Lancaster was another one that showed up a lot. Believe it or not I had never read any of her books until a few weeks ago when someone sent me an email and suggested I was "channeling" her. Now I've read all but one. She is my kind of girl. I actually like her better than Chelsea Handler.
A few people asked what kind of books I like and so here goes:
I am a voracious reader, but not really picky. I like books with good characters and good plots, but it doesn't need to be "deep" for me to love it. I read a lot of historical novels, fantasy, sci fi, YA, horror, biographies and some chick lit and some mystery. I like series a lot and I get sad when they end. I don't read much non-fiction.
Some of my favorite books/series are:
Judy Blume - who doesn't love her? She taught us so much.
Harry Potter (Someone suggested I might punch them for reading these books. I LOVE these books and I think JK is a genius. I'm currently reading them out loud to my kids each night before bed. We are on book 2.)
Hunger Games - Loved them and can't wait for the movies (which I'm sure I'll hate). I read her first series too Gregor the Overlander to the kids. It's like Hunger Games Lite for little kids.
Twilight - Wanted to hate them, but I loved them even though they were cheesy, misogynistic and Edward was a bit creepy when you thought of Bella as your daughter and him stalking her.
Dragon Tattoo series - The names of people and places hurt my brain, but after awhile I just gave them nicknames and it was much easier. The Swedish movies are really good, I'm anxious to see the American version now.
Game of Thrones series - I watched the HBO series and got hooked and wanted to read the books. So far I've only made it through the first. I needed a break. A lot of characters to keep track of.
Anything by Stephen King. One of my all time favorite books is The Stand. I read The Dome over the summer and really liked it. I have his newest one on my queue at the library.
Anything by Philippa Gregory. I really like her newest series The Cousins War.
If you like Philippa you might like Carolly Erickson. She's more historical than fiction though.
Bossypants - Tina Fey is perfect in every way.
Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? - Mindy Kaling could totally hang with me and Tina when we go to lunch.
The Passage and The Twelve
Anything by Cassandra Clare - She writes YA fantasy stuff.
The Help
Anything by Cinda Williams Chima - Another YA fantasy
Diary of a Wimpy Kid Cabin Fever (the boy is reading that to me these days)
The Historian - Awesome book
Room - I read this a before they found that girl that had been living in that man's backyard. Jacey Duggard maybe? It was surreal listening to her true story after just finishing this work of fiction.
Speak - YA - A good one if you have teenage girls, you should read it together and discuss.
In the Woods - American author who writes mystery/detective novels set in Ireland. Her characters are some of my favorites, her plots can be a bit thin at times.
The Outlander Series - Ah-may-zing. I need a flow chart half the time to figure out where we are, but I don't mind because they're so good.
The Tipping Point - very cool
Outliers - super interesting. I would like to raise a couple of Outliers.
The Hangman's Daughter - mystery, historical, all of the above
River of Doubt - Historical, written by a lady who lives down the street. She finds really random and relatively unknown historical facts and then writes incredibly interesting stories about them. Her newest one sounds great too. It's on my list.
Anything by Sarah Vowell, she's funny AND she's smart.
A Discovery of Witches
Becoming Marie Antoinette
50 Shades of Grey
The Forest of Hands and Teeth
Anything by Celia Rivenbark - I want to meet this woman and go to a PTA meeting with her. She is hysterical!
Divergent Series - I met Veronica Roth at a conference last year and giggled like a school girl. I would like to be her when I grow up (Yeah, she's like 25, but still way more mature than me.)
Crossed
Matched
Room
In the Woods
Faithful Place
The Likeness
The Fault in the Stars
The Silent Wife
Gone Girl and anything else by Gillian Flynn
A Discovery of Witches series (so far I've read the first one and I'm on the second one now)
Wool
The Bone Season
Anything by Lauren Oliver
The Dead-Tossed Waves
Right now (4/12/14) I'm reading:
Shadow of Night
Grave Mercy
Selection
Looking for something funny to read when you're done with Tina and Mindy? Check out my books:
People I Want to Punch in the Throat: Competitive Crafters, Drop-off Despots, and Other Suburban Scourge - available for pre-order now on Amazon
I Just Want to Be Alone (Vol 2)
I Just Want to Pee Alone (Vol 1)
and the books of my friends (I really eat lunch with these people. OK, sometimes it's more like I'm eating a PB&J and chatting with them online, but still that's pretty close):
I Heart My Little A-Holes by Karen Alpert
Moms Who Drink and Swear by Nicole Knepper
Ketchup is a Vegetable and Other Lies Moms Tell Themselves by Robin O'Bryant
Parenting: Illustrated with Crappy Pictures by Amber Dusick
Hair of the Corndog by A.K. Turner
Motherhood of All Meltdowns by Crystal Ponti
Wow, this was great. I love to talk books, can you tell? Let's do this again in 6 months, shall we? Be sure to add more books recommendations to the comments.
Psst ... wanna talk online about books and eat PB&J sandwiches together? Let's do it! Friend me right here.
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