I decided to make this column after clinking on the link to a book called Rats Saw God by Rob Thomas provided in Puking Faerie Dust's contest. (http://allpoetry.com/contest/2431893)
After reading a little about the book, it made me interested in reading it. That's what I'm hoping will happen with this column. I know that there are many of you like me on this site who love to read. That's why I am asking anyone who is interested to make a list of their favorite books, maybe write a little something about what they are about or why they liked them, and classify them under a genre (Romance, Crime, Mystery, Horror, Science-Fiction, Non-fiction, Other). I'd be happy with as much, or as little, information as you guys feel motivated to give.
My whole goal with this is to provide a list of books that others may be interested in reading. I know I'll end up checking out books people give me, and I'm encouraging others to do so as well.
So, what books have inspired you? Now make the rest of Allpoetry want to read it.
I'll start with a basic list of books I like, and you guys feel free to comment below with as few or as many books that you'd like me to add.
CRIME (Fiction or Non-fiction)
-In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
(Based on true events. Two criminals murder a family in Holcomb, Kansas. Considered Non-fiction. There was a movie based on it, also called In Cold Blood)
HORROR
-The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon by Stephen King
(I know with Stephen King you either love him or hate him. However, this book is probably my favorite of all his books I've read. A young girl is separated from her older brother and mother while walking on a trail in the woods. She realizes quickly, that maybe there are things in the woods that really do only come out at night)
-It by Stephen King
MYSTERY/SUSPENSE
-Obedience by Will Lavender.
(If you like psychological thrillers, you’ll love this book. It’s the book that made me actually look forward to taking Logic and Reasoning. A college professor gives his class an assignment that involves solving a case and saving a made up girl. However, the “task” soon hits way too close with reality when the clues start involving real people and true events.)
ROMANCE
SCIENCE-FICTION
-1984 by George Orwell
(It’s what Orwell thought the world would be like in 1984. It was written in 1948, even so, Orwell wasn’t too off track with his predictions. The book that created the famous Big Brother.)
NON-FICTION
OTHER
-The Rainmaker by John Grisham
(I love Grisham’s books. I’ve read almost all of them and I haven’t come by one yet I didn’t enjoy. This one, however, is my favorite. A lawyer helps his client fight against their insurance company after her son dies because they couldn’t pay for the medical care after their insurance company refused to help out)
-The Rum Diary by Hunter S. Thompson
(Author of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, as well as Hell’s Angels, Thompson tells the story of a man who moves to Puerto Rico to work as a journalist for a newspaper. He meets a girl there where a love triangle ensues. Not considered a romance novel though. I believe, last I heard, that Johnny Depp will play the part of the main character in the upcoming movie based on this novel)
-Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
(Based on his real experiences with being held as a prisoner of war in Dresden during WWII. Of course, as always with Vonnegut, there are definitely some unconventional analogies and metaphors.)
-The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
(One of the most beautiful books I’ve ever read. Very political and very relevant to today’s current events. It’s about a man who grew up in Afghanistan but left when the Taliban grew too strong. Many years later he must return there to save the son of his once best friend. It’s really amazing.)
*list by Puking Faerie Dust. I don't know all the genres they belong in so I put them all under OTHER*
-48 Psychosis by Sarah Kane-
(it's a play, but a great read.)
-Black and Blue by Anna Quindlin
-Candy by Luke Davies-
(a really good movie, too)
-Darkness Visible by William Styron
-Ellen Foster by Kaye Gibbons
-Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
-Our Little Secret by Kevin A. Carey
-The Rest of Her Life by Laura Moriarty
-Second Star to the Right by Deborah Hautzig
-Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes by Chris Crutcher
-Suffer the Flesh by Monica J. O'Rourke
-The Almost Moon, The Lovely Bones and Lucky by Alice Sebold
-The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
-The Hanged Man and The Rose and the Beast by Francesca Lia Block
-The Passion of Alice by Stephanie Grant
-The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
-The Road by Cormac McCarthy
-Violet Dawn by Sandra E. Waldron
-Keeping You a Secret by Julie Ann Peters
-Bastard Out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison
-Burned and Impulse by Ellen Hopkins
-When She Was Good by Norma Fox Mazer
-Horror High: Mr. Popularity by Nicholas Adams
(a little cliche, but a really good read for me)
-Spellfall by Katherine Roberts
(a bit kiddie fantasy)
-When Dad Killed Mom by Julius Lester
-Midnight Pearls by Debbie Viguie
( little bit more kiddie fantasy)
Those are just a few of my favorites. I practically own a library and it would take way too much time to list them all. But now it’s your turn. What’s your favorite book/s and why? Please be sure to at least have an author’s name listed. If you can’t think of anything else or don’t have time I understand. Also, if you don't want to add any books, but just want to comment on one's that are already listed, feel free to do that as well. If you hated a book I or someone else loved, that's fine. Vent about how much you hate it.
Thanks,Khourey
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