Who's written fiction within the last 5-10 years, that deals realistically with the experience of American people under 40? [more inside]
posted on Dec 14, 2007 - 26 answers

I'm looking for books with quirky storylines or quirky characters doing strange things. [more inside]
posted on Sep 20, 2007 - 60 answers

Book series for children and young adults? Recommendations welcome. There is [more inside]
posted on Oct 23, 2006 - 49 answers

Please recommend some good novels about people between 25-35. [more inside]
posted on Aug 30, 2005 - 24 answers

I'm trying to get into reading again, and am looking for fiction authors who write well-defined characters and seem genuinely to like people. [more inside]
posted on Mar 26, 2005 - 55 answers

Melancholy fiction for a dark season: here in the Northeast U.S. we're in the midst of a particularly miserable January. I'm looking for some contemporary fiction that echoes the bleakness of the weather. What extraordinary books have you curled up with recently that are elegiac, darkly funny or otherwise wintry in tone?
posted on Jan 27, 2005 - 50 answers

What are your favourite historical fiction novels? [more inside]
posted on Dec 11, 2004 - 47 answers

As a lay...very lay...student of Roman Republic and Empire, and anticipating the upcoming HBO/BBC series Rome with relish, I'm reading everything I can get my hands on about both Republic and Empire. Currently I'm reading an abridgement of The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire I just inherited. What next? [insert Latin for "more inside" here].
posted on Sep 2, 2004 - 19 answers

i'm reading gibson's pattern recognition. i'd like something the same, but better. more inside.
posted on Jun 20, 2004 - 28 answers

Please recommend fantasy novels for someone who doesn't like fantasy novels (more inside).
posted on Mar 23, 2004 - 59 answers