Book Tips

I read quite a lot of books, some I like, some I don't - naturally. I also love to share the joy, and have therefore decided to give my best book tips. Since I know everybody has different tastes I will also refer to similar books that one might have read. All to make it easier to you. If it is a series I recommend (I love book-series) I will include the title of the first book.

A Place Called Here
Author: Cecilia Ahern
Type: Stand alone book
Genre: Fiction, chic lit
If you like: PS. I Love You, Meg Cabot
Short description: The protagonist, Sandy Shortt, has ever since she was a child been obsessed with finding people and things - even the one stray sock. One day, when out on a morning jog, she finds herself where all the missing socks are - along with everything else she's looked for - and she finally realises what she should be doing.

Black Magician Trilogy, The
Author: Trudi Canavan
Type: Trilogy
Genre: Fantasy
First book: The Magicians' Guild
If you like: Harry Potter, The Wheel of Time, Eragon, David Eddings, Lian Hearn
Short description: A slum girl, Sonea, joins her friends in throwing stones at the magicians as they are forced out of the inner parts of the city. The impossible happens, she finds her stone penetrating their magic shield - she used magic. The search for her begins and Sonea finds herself in a world completely unknown to her.

Georgia Nicolson's Diaries
Author: Louise Rennison
Type: Series, eight so far
Genre: Teen-fiction, diary-form
First book: Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging
If you like: The Princess Diaries, I'm Alice (I Think), Meg Cabot, Gilmore Girls
Short description: Georgia is a teen-age girl living in Britain. She's mad as a loon and by far the funniest character I've ever had the pleasure to meet. If you want to laugh until your stomach aches, these are the books to read!

Guy Next Door, The
Author: Meg Cabot
Type: Stand alone book
Genre: Fiction, chic-lit
If you like: Cecilia Ahern, Cabot's younger books
Short description: Melissa is a young reporter in NY. She rescues her nighbour from being murdered, but in the process becomes the caretaker of the neighbour's animals. Not the ideal situation. Therefore, she seeks help from the only living relative to the neighbour, who says he'll help, but instead sends a friend to pose as him... This book is for those who like Meg Cabot, but not necessarily the over-use of exclamation marks in the Princess Diaries.

The Kite Runner
Author: Kahled Hosseini
Type: Stand alone book
Genre: Fiction
If you like: To read!
Short description: Young Amir is witness of a horrible event, then makes the wrong choise. Years later he has to return to his choldhood home, perhaps his only chance of redemption.

Tomorrow When the War Began
Author: John Marsden
Type: Series, total of seven books
Genre: Fiction, war
First book: Tomorrow when the War Began
If you like: How youths deal with war (I can't think of any other book/author who's done anything similar)
Short description: Seven youths go camping over the week-end. When they come back, their homes are deserted and their animals dead. Thiar land has been invaded. Now starts their struggle to survive and make a difference. Is it right to kill for your land? In defense? Where does the line between soldier and murderer go?

Twilight
Author: Stephenie Meyer
Type: Series, total of three (+ one to come) books
Genre: Fiction, young adults, vampires
First book: Twilight
If you like: Black Magician Trilogy, Harry Potter, Meg Cabot, Katarina von Bredow, Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Short description: Girl moves to a small town to live with her father. Girl meets boy, who turns out to be a vampire. They embark on an amazing and well written love story you don't want to miss.

Wheel of Time, The
Author: Robert Jordan
Type: Series, 11 so far
Genre: Fantasy
First book: Eye of the World, the
If you like: Lord of the Rings, Black Magician Trilogy, David Eddings, Philip Pullman Terry Goodman
Short description: Three young farmers - Rand, Mat and Perrin - are drawn into an ancient war between good and evil. They may be the keys to a victory, to which side is still unknown. The amazing thing about this book is how the women and men are portrayed, and the humor in which it is written.