Yes, you have to read "Sick Puppy" and everything else Carl Hiaasen has ever written =)
The "Eldest" series by Christopher Paolini all made the NYT Bestseller list (Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr) - though I've only read the first and don't know how you'd like it if you've seen the movie first.
Surprisingly, The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom wasn't as painful as I'd thought it would be (borderline good, actually) but it's been years since i read it and could be way off.
The Lovely Bones by Alice Siebold was a book I really had no interest in reading - it's about a young girl (maybe as old as 13?) who is kidnapped and killed. The story is told from her POV after her death. It's about her famliy's struggle to cope with her disappearance. She watches them for years but I think she decided to stop watching them when her bones were found (like now she could rest in peace that they had their closure or something). The story was actually quite heartbreaking and I really liked it - despite my resistance to all the crappy chick-lit books my mother sends me.
I've looked over the NYT Bestseller lists since 2001 and most everything on there is utter crap (either because I read it and hated it or because it just looks like it must be utter crap
The only qualifying non-fiction that I know of is The Meaning of Everything by Simon Winchester - it's an ok read, but Simon Winchester's The Professor and the Madman is so much better! Alas, it was published in 1998(ish) but you should read it, anyways. I think I even still have an extra copy around here I could send you if you want.
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Date: 2009-06-01 09:59 am (UTC)The "Eldest" series by Christopher Paolini all made the NYT Bestseller list (Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr) - though I've only read the first and don't know how you'd like it if you've seen the movie first.
Surprisingly, The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom wasn't as painful as I'd thought it would be (borderline good, actually) but it's been years since i read it and could be way off.
The Lovely Bones by Alice Siebold was a book I really had no interest in reading - it's about a young girl (maybe as old as 13?) who is kidnapped and killed. The story is told from her POV after her death. It's about her famliy's struggle to cope with her disappearance. She watches them for years but I think she decided to stop watching them when her bones were found (like now she could rest in peace that they had their closure or something). The story was actually quite heartbreaking and I really liked it - despite my resistance to all the crappy chick-lit books my mother sends me.
I've looked over the NYT Bestseller lists since 2001 and most everything on there is utter crap (either because I read it and hated it or because it just looks like it must be utter crap
The only qualifying non-fiction that I know of is The Meaning of Everything by Simon Winchester - it's an ok read, but Simon Winchester's The Professor and the Madman is so much better! Alas, it was published in 1998(ish) but you should read it, anyways. I think I even still have an extra copy around here I could send you if you want.