Need book ideas!

Check out anything by Jen Lancaster - especially her fiction book: Wish You Were Here

Also Stacey Ballis

I also just started reading a cute series - Dog On It! by Spencer Quinn  It's a mystery that is told from the point of view of the dog - Chet. There are a few books in the series, but I've just gotten through the first one.

Have fun on vacation!

what sort of reading are you into? and since it is vacation are you looking more for the serious, have time to sit down and read it finally, type of book, or more then fun, lets enjoy it, I don't care if I fall asleep reading it on the beach type.

So many options out there!

Have you read the three Girl with the Dragon Tattoo books?  Stieg Larsson is the author.

It really does depend what you're into, but for nonfiction:  "Dove" by Robin Graham (yes, it's old, but it's good!) or "Maiden Voyage" by Tania Aebi.  Both solo sailor stories.  Or "Long Way Down" by Ewan Macgregor if you'd prefer motorcycles

For fiction:  Gregory Maguire is quite good, Terry Pratchett is one of the best authors ever.

Ready Player One

And right now I am listening to Redshirts - a goofy book sort of from the perspective of a "redshirt" of a star trek-style space ship, where every "away mission" seems to result in the gruesome death of a crew member, while certain top officers never seem to suffer any lasting harm.

Let's Pretend This Never Happened, by Jenny Lawson (the blogess.com) - hilarious memoir

Ready Player One was excellent. 

Daemon and Freedom(tm) by Daniel Suarez were also very good.

anything by Neal Stephenson is a good bet.

Cryptonomicon was one of the best novels I've read in a long time.  Pretty long but the multiple story lines are intertwined excellently.

I never did attempt his Baroque Cycle trilogy (Quicksilver etc..)... any good?

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig

It's an older book but was recommended on this site when the subject of the Applachian trail came up - it sounded interesting to me so i picked it up this year to read when i was on a beach vacation and it was very entertaining - including laughing out loud - and informative

It's A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson

Another vote here for THE HUNGER GAMES. quick read and it will definately capture your attention

Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman.  Kahneman is a Nobel prize winner in economics.  He invented behavior economics.  This book is a popular lit version of the science of decision making.  It is very interesting book if you ever wonder why people do what they do.  It is not written in a stilted academic style but its not a murder mystery either.  The author is not talking down to his readers.

The Paris Wife by Paula McLain.  This is a fictionalized account of Ernest Hemingway's and Hadley Richardson's marriage and divorce.  It is well written. 

I am reading both right now, actually just started, but I like them and will finish them quickly.  For me that's the true measure of how much I like a book.

TW

I read A Moveable Feast last year -- Hemingway's account of their (happy) Paris time.  Wonder how depressing it would be to read the later book after reading that...

I read A Moveable Feast a long time ago.  Hadley is the narrator of the story, but McLain, perhaps unconsciously, mimics Hemingway's writing style.  The mood in the first part, where I am, is on the upswing. The American expats are hard partying, brilliant, original people.  Pauline is not on the scene, yet. Let you know tomorrow.

Olympic Dream by Henry Rono.  

It was incredible to read the story of a man who broke 4 world records in 81 days, and find out he was a raging alcoholic.  He went into depth about how before he set those records, he would get completely wasted the night before and was hungover while running.  He talks about running against Alberto Salazaar, etc.  

I stated in another thread, I can't imagine the times he could have posted if he was sober.  Great man, and he is actually trying to take another go at running.