Good Reads..... - Schaumburg,IL

I loved The Help! I also really enjoyed the dragon tattoo series. The Emily Giffin books are great, like, Something Borrowed and Baby Proof. I love books w strong female leads! Anything by Luanne Rice as well.

I read the Help for my book club. I liked it a lot. Another mama was asking about books. Here is a list of my favorite authors. I just got the newest Susan Elizabeth Phillips book. It was wonderful. Made me laugh out loud.

I love the following. I will try to put them in genre's These are my favorites and I go to the bookstore the day they come out. they are all good reads. if you want just light fluff make you laugh go for janet evanavitch quirky funny characters

Romance
Nora Roberts she has a lot of trilogy sets my fav is the chesapeak series
which she later added another one too so there are 4 lol but you can get them all in one book now. she has a vampire series a demon series and a couple of witch series. but they can all be read as stand alones also. she is my #1 favorite author.

Susan Elizabeth Phillips has about 20 books which will make you laugh out loud till you cry. has a loosely put together series about a fictious football team called the chicago stars.
Susan Wiggs
Elizabeth Lowell does both current and historical all stand alones with some characters floating between books
Judith McNaught
Judith Michael
Jude Deveraux loads of books with characters from 2 different families floating between as well as a bunch of other stand alone books

Julie Garwood favorite series is called the rose series 2 novels and then 3 smaller novella's
Jayne Ann Krentz loads of trilogies and stand alones with some characters that float between books
Mystery
Nora Roberts
J.D. Robb (nora roberts writing under different name lol futuristic crime drama starring eve dallas )
Jayne Ann Krentz
Elizabeth Lowell
Julie Garwood
Kay Hooper (really creepy paranormal stuff) the bishop series I think there are about 10 or 12 of them now
Catherine Coulder the fbi thrillers
Lisa Scottoline
Iris Johansen the eve duncan series is great
Lee Child
Harlan Coban
Legal Thrillers
John Grisham
David Baldacci
Historical Romance
Amanda Quick (jayne ann krentz writing under different name)
paranormal futuristic romance
Jayne Castle (jayne ann krentz)
children's literature which I also enjoyed
all J. K Rowling harry potter books
lois lowry

good luck

I also loved The Help. I recently read 'The Art of Racing in the Rain' and really enjoyed it. I highly recommend 'The Hunger Games' Trilogy if you haven't read them. They are different, but well worth the read.

Happy reading!

I loved The Help -- a Mamapedia suggestion, but I can't say I loved The Art of Racing in the Rain. If you like reading books written by a dog, then Racing in the Rain is for you. If you're not into dog books, don't bother.

My other recent favorite was Water for Elephants. I'd try that over Racing in the Rain.

Firefly Lane by Kristin Hannah and The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein

Hi!

Have you read The Lost Symbol? Another good book is The Memory Keeper's Daughter.

Hope this helps!

The forgotten garden - Kate Morton.

Nice read!

Room by Emma Donoghue...couldn't put it down!