Any suggestions for a good book?

[A Cyrenian]

Can you give me some suggestions for a good read (beside FreeRepublic)?

I've always like Tom Clancy's books and Dean Koontz.

I started using Kindle and thought I would ask you what you liked.

Thanks for your help.

[Persevero]

I second In Cold Blood. Great read.

Spoiler below? If so ignore if you haven’t read:

I read an interesting analysis on the book, later, which demonstrated that author Capote totally ignored the homosexual angle as the motivation for the beginning of the murders. The two murderers were homosexual partners in prison. When the feminine one of the two showed sexual interest in the young lady, the masculine one got jealous and murder-y. Made sense.

[6ppc]

https://www.amazon.com/Outside-Context-Problem-Christopher-Nuttall-ebook/dp/B009TR6VXU
Try this one. Christopher Nuttall has become one of my favorite authors. This is the first book in a trilogy. Hard to put down. Self published with some typos but the story is compelling.

[Guenevere]

You mean THE Brad Thor who suggested assassinating President Trump while being interviewed by Glenn Beck?

[gdzla]

If you enjoy history:

Anything written by Sir Winston Churchill.

[Auntie Mame]

I’m a reader. Best book I’ve read in quite a while is:

I am Pilgrim, by Terry Hayes (2014 release)

Also just finished “A Gentleman from Moscow.” Fantastic, elegant writing with a hint of suspense.

If you’ve just gotten a Kindle, sign up for Bookbub and you’ll get a daily email with a list of free and low cost Kindle books. I’ve discovered new authors I love by getting the free books. One series I really like is the Fiona Griffiths books by Harry Bingham. I think I got the first one free on Bookbub and then bought the rest, they are just that good.

[Covenantor]

Matt Bracken’s all ready mentioned.

All of Charles McCarry’s novels.

Thomas Perry, start with “The Butcher’s Boy” or “Metzger’s Dog”

Randy Wayne Wright’s “Doc Ford” series, early works are the best.

[6ppc]

Lucifer’s Hammer is great as well as The Mote in God’s Eye and Footfall.

[Bonemaker]

“Jules Verne’s Mysterious Island.
A bunch of guys get stranded on an island and make stuff from scratch, like a telegraph system. Plenty of detail on methods of thriving, not just surviving.”

Gilligan’s Island.

[aquila48]

“The Camp of the Saints” by Jean Raspail. A riviteng novel that prophetized what’s going on in the world today.

Another one is “Submission”, by Michel Houellebecq, a disturbing novel about how the west will meekly submit to Islam.

Both authors are very provocative.

[laweeks]

Scattered Siblings . . . Lawrence Weeks . . . about 50 year search for a birth mother . . . very uplifting

[ought-six]

You can’t go wrong with Nelson DeMille. All of his books are good reads. However, some are series, so it’s best to start at the beginning on some of them. His character development is superb.

[Scarpetta]

Two Pulitzer Prize winning books I really loved:

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole

[Swordmaker]

Anything by Michael Connelly, especially the thrillers featuring LA detective Harry Bosch or his half-brother Mickey Haller. Amazon Prime has a GREAT video series called Bosch based on the Harry Bosch books and of course there is he Lincoln Lawyer movie based on Mickey Haller.

You should read them in order, including the out-of-series Mickey Haller books because they often have interactions together.

Anything by John Sandford is excellent as well. Usually a thriller writer in the police genre, I just read a hard Sci-Fi novel co-written with Ctein that was excellent. That was “Saturn Run.”

Also, for good mysteries, anything by the two sisters writing under the pen name of Perri O’Shaunessy is excellent.

International thrillers: Vince Flynn

Space Opera, nothing beats old time E.E. “Doc” Smith and the Lensman or Skylark series. Don’t expect anything “hard” science about it and suspend disbelief, and just enjoy 1930’s to 1950’s space opera of the good guys vs. the bad guys with rollicking good fun.

Supernatural? Try Jim Butcher’s Harry Dresden series about the only practicing private detective Wizard in Chicago. Also a lot of fun. Need to be read in order. Also try Fred Saberhagen’s Dracula series if you can find them. Begin with “An Old Friend of the Family.” Saberhagen takes the Bram Stoker story and turns it on its head by assuming that Stoker was a vampiraphobe and that Dracula is actually one of nature’s good guys. . . and just misunderstood.

Have you read Dean Koontz Frankenstein series? How about the Odd Thomas series?

[Hardastarboard]

In no particular order, pretty much anything by:

Bernard Cornwell (extremely well done historical fiction)

Michael Connelly (murder mysteries - not a bad one in the bunch - one of the best overall writers of this group)

David Baldacci (murder mysteries - likewise)

C.S Forester (Napoleonic era sailing novels)

Patrick O'Brien (Ditto)

Robert Heinlein (science fiction)

Phillip K Dick (science fiction)

Lee Child (Jack Reacher novels - incredibly well written, although the later ones seem to have been either phoned in or ghost written)

[airborne]

The entire “Jack Reacher” series by Lee Child.

[6ppc]

For non fiction I recommend “The Making of the Atomic Bomb” by Richard Rhodes. Won pulitzer prize. Great history of the Manhatten Project.

[ought-six]

Anything by Elmore Leonard.

Also, British author Mo Hayder’s “Walking Man Series” is very good:

Ritual (#1 Walking Man Series)
Skin (#2 Walking Man Series)
Gone (#3 Walking Man Series)
Poppet (#4 Walking Man Series)
Wolf (#5 Walking Man Series)
Birdman
The Treatment

[Swordmaker]

You may also want to try:
James Patterson
John Sanford

I assume you mean John Sandford. . . easy error.

[Scarpetta]

Follett’s epic Pillars of the Earth is probably is best know work for good reason.

[abclily]

“Killing England” by Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard.

The historical footnotes are fantastic!