List good recent books

[Havoc]

i really don't keep up with new ones and i need one for a plane ride next week

these are the only two i know about that i might get
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[Chigworthy]

No Country For Old Men is decent if you already dig McCarthy. If not, you might want to try his newer one The Road.

[runnerkid]

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[milliehatchett]

Rant by Chuck Pahlaniuk is exceptional...

[realmenhatelife]

I'm enjoying The yiddish policemans union by Michael Chabon right now and I'd definately recommend his previous novels, especially kavalier and clay.

Check out Cruddy- by Lynda Barry

and Geek Love by Katherine Dunne

not new but two of my favorite novels.

[jetdog]

the historian by Elizabeth Kostova, is a really intelligent, historically set vampire novel. Nothing at all akin to what's her face....that vampire book writer down in New Orleans...you know...the one who wrote that movie with Brad Pitt and Cruise....Damn I just can't think of her name right now, anyway the book is nothing like her writing.

[jax]

I'm reading A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini for my book club. So far its a pretty good read.

The New Orleans vampire writer is Anne Rice but I think she moved to California.

[Yerdaddy]

Only recent fiction I've read was Absurdistan. It was excellent. But now I'm back in the 19th century with Mark Twain and 20th with Raymond Chandler and Hemmingway so I guess I can't help you much.

[JPMNICK]

Rant by Chuck Pahlaniuk is exceptional...

I just finished Choke by him and I thought it was GREAT. he is def one of the best out there right now.

[suggums]

Sci-fi wise, I just finished John Scalzi's trilogy that started with Old Man's War, then The Ghost Brigades, and The Last Colony which just came out in hardback last month. I'd definitely recommend them as enjoyable summer reads, a new and fun take on the whole Starship Troopers concept. He's clever and funny and very readable, and also has a long-running blog that occasionally gets his columns printed in big papers. His standalone novel, The Android's Dream, is just as good in its own right and pretty hilarious for sci-fi.

Fantasy wise, the most recent ones I read were Brandon Sanderson's Elantris, and the first in his planned trilogy, Mistborn: The Final Empire. Loved them both, another clever new writer with realized and convincing universe(s) whose work I am really looking forward to reading more of.

[mildly amusing]

Rant by Chuck Pahlaniuk is exceptional...

i just picked this up but haven't have time to read it...i really liked his earlier stuff (Choke, Invisible Monsters) but i didn't really like Haunted, so i was hoping this one would be better...

It's not new but Spike Walker's "Working on the Edge" is a great quick read about Alaskan crab fishing...

[Chigworthy]

But now I'm back in the 20th century with Raymond Chandler and Hemmingway so I guess I can't help you much.

I just got my Chandlers out of the attic. Classics. I've also been eyeing my Steinbecks.

[furie]

I'm reading A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini for my book club. So far its a pretty good read.

The New Orleans vampire writer is Anne Rice but I think she moved to California.

i thought she gave up on vampire books....

[prothunderball]

Chuck Klosterman's first to books are fantastic nonfiction books. His second two, not so much.

[Judge Smails]

I'm not really into fiction per se. I'm kind of a history buff so I picked this up for my vacation next week:

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Funny, because around the end of the show today, Ron said something along the lines of "We are Rome" in his discussion of our love of gory movies.

[jax]

i thought she gave up on vampire books....

She did. The last book she wrote was about the life of Jesus.

[milliehatchett]

i just picked this up but haven't have time to read it...i really liked his earlier stuff (Choke, Invisible Monsters) but i didn't really like Haunted, so i was hoping this one would be better...

It's not new but Spike Walker's "Working on the Edge" is a great quick read about Alaskan crab fishing...

In my opinion, Rant is better than Haunted although, when I gave Haunted a second read - I found that I like it better than the 1st time I read it. My favorite so far is Lullaby.

I am also a major fan of Tom Robbins.

[klaus_kinski_Jr]

Queenpin - Megan Abbott
Payback - Russell James

[Havoc]

i forgot to thank you guys for the suggestions. i ended up getting the road for $9 and i think tomorrow i will try and track down that new woody allen book. when i come back i'll probably get some of the others you guys recommended. rant will most likely be the first one i get

[Wallower]

Sci-fi wise, I just finished John Scalzi's trilogy that started with Old Man's War, then The Ghost Brigades, and The Last Colony which just came out in hardback last month. I'd definitely recommend them as enjoyable summer reads...

Seconded.

[drjoek]

I just got The Warren Zevon Bio discussed on the show for Fathers day starte reading it and couldn't put it down Very good read