What are you reading right now?

climbingsingle

I need some new books to read. Help! I recently finished:

Orphan Train
The Girl On The Train
Big Little Lies
Labor Day
The Paris Wife
All of Gillian Flynn's books. And please don't say Goldfinch. It's the only book I ever started and didn't finish.

blabla89

My book group recently read Wolf Hall and everyone loved it (which almost never happens) so I highly recommend it. Now I'm reading the sequel, Bring Up the Bodies, which isn't quite as good. The Luminaries was good too, but it's looong.

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I'm about to start Wild by Cheryl Strayed (the book the Reese Witherspoon movie is based on)! Have heard good things!

NowIAmSyp

Oh my gosh, I LOVED Wolf Hall and Bring up the Bodies- great recommendation if you like Tudor-era England.  

I am reading Reconstructing Amelia by Kimberly McCreight right now- and I am intrigued- it's hard to put the book down.  

climbingsingle

I'll check those out!

Reconstructing Amelia was good. I liked it.

MizLiz3

I recently finished the Mindy Kaling book, and Revenge Wears Prada.  I wasn't super impressed with either but they were quick, easy reads.  Waiting for me to read over spring break this week are Sycamore Row, and The Husband's Secret.  I love all of the Elin Hilderbrand books, and I can't wait for The Girl on the Train to come in from the library.

buttercup1958

I finally finished the two books that I was reading Fluke by Christopher Moore and Mr.Penumbra's 24 Hour Bookstore. They were both really great. I also finished and loved these books Hotel on the Corner of Bitter By Jamie Ford and Sweet, Someday, Someday, Maybe By Lauren Graham, The Skeleton Crew By Deborah Halber, The Truth by Michael Palin, Meet Me at the CupCake Cafe by Jenny Colgan, Girls in White Dresses By Jennifer Close, and The Tower, The Zoo, and The Tortoise By Julia Stuart. I loved all these books!

jacques27

I'm currently reading Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and would definitely recommend it.  She has a few other books, too (Half of a Yellow Sun is apparently being adapted to a movie soon). 

theartistformerlyknownas

OMG I never finished Goldfinch either. Glad I'm not the only one.

No recommendations cuz I'm reading What to Expect. :-p

LadyMillil

I'm reading All The Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr. It's good so far. Recently I read Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel and The Rosie Project by Graeme C Simsion. Both were fantastic.

LabLove86

I'm still working on the GoT series . . . . but I love it!

hellosweetie1015

I'm reading The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss. It's fantasy, but it's fantastically well-done fantasy. It's also almost 700 pages long. But so worth it.

jdluvr06

I'm reading The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund Morris. It's pretty good. I've been having a bit of trouble gettting into it, but think that has to do with me reading nothing but non-fiction for a while.

Blergbot

I'm reading The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro (Never Let Me Go, The Remains of the Day). He's one of my favorite authors. I am a total book snob, so it's a relief to read something so beautifully written.

JoanE2012

I'm reading This is Where We Live.  So far, not too bad.  I'm on the waiting list for the Nightingale by Kristen Hannah.  I saw it on the NY Times bestsellers.....it sounds good, and I hope it is.....I'm like #70 or so in line for it!

NowIAmSyp

climbingwife  what did you think of The Girl on the Train?  I think that might be next up on my list...  worth it??

climbingsingle

soontobesyp said:

climbingwife  what did you think of The Girl on the Train?  I think that might be next up on my list...  worth it??

Defintely worth it. It was a great read. I finished in it 2 days.

sophhabobopha

Ugh hated Goldfinch. I'm reading Coma by Robin Cook and The Lady in the Tower about Anne Boleyn.

FiancB

I hated Goldfinch too. I really had to force myself to finish it. Lots of nursing books for school.  Listening to Gone Girl on Audible.  Sometimes I break out a book about herding dogs or chip away at LOTR. 

... and I MAY have just started The Impatient Woman's Guide to Getting Pregnant.  The baby rabies, I has them. 

theartistformerlyknownas

FiancB said:

I hated Goldfinch too. I really had to force myself to finish it. Lots of nursing books for school.  Listening to Gone Girl on Audible.  Sometimes I break out a book about herding dogs or chip away at LOTR. 

... and I MAY have just started The Impatient Woman's Guide to Getting Pregnant.  The baby rabies, I has them. 

I really liked Talking Charge of Your Fertility. Some of it might be old news to someone in medicine, but maybe not.

Sugargirl1019

hellosweetie1015 said:

I'm reading The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss. It's fantasy, but it's fantastically well-done fantasy. It's also almost 700 pages long. But so worth it.

LOVE THIS SERIES. Dying waiting for the third book to come out.

I've just started the third book of the Outlander series. I'm obsessed!

(I just finished a fantasy trilogy by Terry Brooks.. based on his High Druid of Shannara series. First book is Wards of Faerie. Enjoyed it, very entertaining series. It's a story about elves dwarves and men, and of course dark creatures.)

arrippa

I just finished the 3rd book of Harry Potter. I am taking a break since I have to read a book for a church class that I am taking and Turn Right at Machu Picchu for book club.

FiancB

lolo883 said:

FiancB said:

I hated Goldfinch too. I really had to force myself to finish it. Lots of nursing books for school.  Listening to Gone Girl on Audible.  Sometimes I break out a book about herding dogs or chip away at LOTR. 

... and I MAY have just started The Impatient Woman's Guide to Getting Pregnant.  The baby rabies, I has them. 

I really liked Talking Charge of Your Fertility. Some of it might be old news to someone in medicine, but maybe not.

I heard that is pretty much the definitive book and I will definitely read it when we get a little closer to trying. Thought I'd start with something a little lighter. So far, so good. 

climbingsingle

sophhabobopha said:

Ugh hated Goldfinch. I'm reading Coma by Robin Cook and The Lady in the Tower about Anne Boleyn.

Which Lady In The Tower are you reading? I see two about Anne Boleyn.

Chipmunk415

I just finished re-reading Kushiel's Dart by Jacqueline Carey. I own copies of her entire Kushieline Legacy series, along with the companion Naamah trilogy. On to Kushiel's Chosen!

For those interested in sci fi/fantasy/ alternate reality, Kushiel's Dart and the subsequent novels are in an alternate time line of pre Renaissance Europe involving a nation descended from angelic beings. One such individual is Phedre, the protagonist, who is marked by Kushiel's Dart, and "condemned" to feel pleasure in pain, and provide infinite compassion in the face of exceptional suffering. She is trained by a nobleman to be a spy and see the patterns in those who would grasp at power as well.

 It's a bit BDSM, but it's not a straight porn novel- there's actually a decent plot and these books are a  guilty pleasure of mine.

The Naamah companion series is set about 150 years in the future after the 6 Kusheline books, and starts just before the "discovery" of the American continents. If you read the first 6 books, you'll pick up on a lot of tie ins found in the Naamah cycle to the prior books.

missdelilah

I'm halfway through the Dark Tower series by Stephen King.  I wasn't all that sure that I was going to like it, but DH was super insistent that I read them.  I'm really enjoying them so far, but I think it's the kind of series that's probably going to be a little bit confusing until I get to the end, which is odd because when he was writing the books (and it took about thirty years to write them all), King really didn't have a great idea of where the plot was going.

jdluvr06

missdelilah said:

I'm halfway through the Dark Tower series by Stephen King.  I wasn't all that sure that I was going to like it, but DH was super insistent that I read them.  I'm really enjoying them so far, but I think it's the kind of series that's probably going to be a little bit confusing until I get to the end, which is odd because when he was writing the books (and it took about thirty years to write them all), King really didn't have a great idea of where the plot was going.

I love love love The Dark Tower series. Seriously one of my faves.

sophhabobopha

climbingwife said:

sophhabobopha said:

Ugh hated Goldfinch. I'm reading Coma by Robin Cook and The Lady in the Tower about Anne Boleyn.

Which Lady In The Tower are you reading? I see two about Anne Boleyn.

Alison Weir. Love her stuff!

erinkelsey3

I've been chugging through it for about a year now... but I'm almost finished the Game of Thrones series. It's hefty, but amazing.

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Drooling over these lists! I am currently reading Doctor Faustus (pushes up glasses and snorts), but some of my favorite reads this year were:

1. Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides

2. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children - Ransom Riggs

3. The Mortal Instruments Series - Cassandra Clare <--NOT the movie. First book is City of Bones

4. Wicked - Gregory Maguire 

Goldfinch was okay in my mind, but not groundbreaking. Station Eleven I just can't get through.

I totally just downloaded all of your suggestions @Sugargirl1019

littlepep

I just read The Dead Key by DM Pulley. I got it free with my Amazon prime as a pre-release, but it was really good.