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NFT: Any great new book recommendations, primarily fiction?

yatqb : 5/18/2016 3:10 pm
Looming for mystery, thriller, spy stuff, historical fiction.

I "give at the office," so not looking for the Anne Tyler depressed character-study type of book.

Thanks in advance.
Children of Earth  
Metnut : 5/18/2016 3:20 pm : link
and Sky by Guy Gavriel Kay has been great so far (I'm about 40% in), as all of his stuff his.

It's a historical fiction/fantasy set in Venice/Holy Roman Empire/Ottoman Empire shortly after the fall of Constantinople.
Try  
Jack in MD : 5/18/2016 3:23 pm : link
Duplicity by Newt Gingrich and Pete Earley. Good Washington based thriller.
Well I got a non fiction recomendation  
weeg in the bronx : 5/18/2016 3:33 pm : link
Chin: The Life and Crimes of Mafia Boss Vincent Gigante by Larry McShane
He's family I have to plug the book.
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halfway through  
UConn4523 : 5/18/2016 3:35 pm : link
I Am Pilgrim and its awesome. Its been recommended by a ton of people on BBI.
Matt Sumell's Making Nice  
BurlyMan : 5/18/2016 3:51 pm : link
Linked collection of stories from POV of a Long Island kid dealing with the deal of his mother in irreverent fashion.
s/b ^^^^^  
BurlyMan : 5/18/2016 3:51 pm : link
death not deal
I'm nearly incapable  
lugnut : 5/18/2016 3:59 pm : link
of doing fiction anymore, but I audio-booked All the Light We Cannot See recently and it was fantastic. Made a 24-hour car ride enjoyable, believe it or not.

Set during WWII, German soldier, blind French girl, orphanage, fleeing, missing father, historic jewel, crossing paths...

It won a "biggie" a couple years ago (Pulitzer, even?). Just enormously imaginative and entertaining.
L.A. Confidential by James Ellroy  
MadPlaid : 5/18/2016 4:41 pm : link
awesome book. Terrific movie.
The Heroes by Joe Abercrombie  
Hades07 : 5/18/2016 5:35 pm : link
Story of a battle told from both sides of the line. Really good characters in it.
A Prisoner of Birth  
Hawkeye : 5/18/2016 5:46 pm : link
....was fantastic. It is by Jeffrey Archer. It is a modern day version of The Count of Monte Cristo. All about revenge. Really well done.
Midnight in Peking  
SwirlingEddie : 5/18/2016 6:24 pm : link
A social history wrapped in a crime story of an actual event so not truly fiction, but it reads like it. A young Englishwoman is murdered in 1930s Peking as colonial China and the world are on the cusp of great change. A fascinating time and place is revealed through the storytelling of the mysterious murder investigation.
I'll take crap for this  
AP in Halfmoon : 5/18/2016 6:54 pm : link
But the Outlander series is very good. More historical fiction than romance
The Robert Galbreath (aka J.K. Rowling) series  
Bill in TN : 5/18/2016 8:01 pm : link
are clever and interesting. Good mysteries with a pair of main characters that should develop well.

Also, Gutshot Straight and Whiplash River - Leonard Elmore-ish stuff with a great pair of lead characters.
Left out  
Bill in TN : 5/18/2016 8:02 pm : link
Lou Berney authored the last two.
Jussi Adler Olsen's Department Q mysteries  
scouser : 5/18/2016 8:41 pm : link
are very different from many mysteries. More complicated
I've read 5 of the 6 - "Keeper of Lost causes", "The Absent One", "The Purity of Vengeance", "A Conspiracy of Faith" and "The Marco Effect".

If you enjoy detective books you can't go wrong with Peter Robinson (My favorite) and Peter James.

Finally Ian Rankin(Inspector Rebus) and Val McDermid's Tony Hill - Carol Jordan stories. Outstanding.
If you like detective stories I recently read a few Michael Connelly  
steve in ky : 5/18/2016 8:47 pm : link
books that were pretty good.
The 6th Extinction: A Sigma Force Novel  
BigBlueDownTheShore : 5/18/2016 8:52 pm : link
A James Rollins book who is slowly becoming the new Michael Crichton.
There's some pretty good non-fiction...  
manh george : 5/18/2016 9:24 pm : link
over here. It got covered in dust.
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I second Peter Robinson  
AP in Halfmoon : 5/18/2016 11:31 pm : link
Excellent detective novels, like a modern Sherlock Holmes
Thanks for the suggestions. Enjoyed "I Am Pilgrim"  
yatqb : 5/19/2016 9:20 am : link
and really like the Rebus series. He and Siobhan are great characters. Ellroy's stuff is also great.

I'm a voracious reader and appreciate the recommendations. One author who hasn't been mentioned here is Walter Mosley, who has a zillion series' out. I like the Easy Rawlins series best, along with the first two Socrates Fortlow books. Another is Stuart Kaminsky (now deceased) who wrote a great series with Inspector Rostnikov as chief protagonist.

Any of Elmore Leonard's westerns.  
Russ in Queens, NYC : 5/19/2016 9:33 am : link
Any of Alan Furst's WWII spy novels.

Philip Kerr's Bernie Gunther series about a German detective in pre-war, war, and post-war years.

In a similar vein, Jonathan Raab's Nikolai Hoffner series is also worthwhile.

George MacDonald Fraser's Flashman series is fantastic.

For a nice take on the Roman military in the East, Harry Sidebottom's Warrior of Rome series is pretty unbeatable.

Larry McMurty's Berrybender chronicles about a British family making it's way west through the American frontier in the 1830s was excellent, I thought.

Finally, La Salle, by John Vernon about that explorer's expedition to map and chart the Mississippi.

There's plenty more, but that's all I could come up with off the top of my head...
A buddy of mine wrote a book that got rave reviews  
RC02XX : 5/19/2016 9:37 am : link
from those in the intelligence and military community.

It's called Overwatch. I haven't read it yet myself, but several of my friends have said great things about it. Might be what you are looking for.
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That Egyptian jet thread  
Shadow : 5/19/2016 10:03 am : link
vanished like a good fiction novel.
Le Carre  
Percy : 5/20/2016 6:13 pm : link
The Night Manager. (Not new, but I missed it when it first came out --and it's terrific.) Also: Connelly, The Crossing. And Kanon, Leaving Berlin.
RE: I'll take crap for this  
SomeFan : 5/20/2016 8:19 pm : link
In comment 12962614 AP in Halfmoon said:
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But the Outlander series is very good. More historical fiction than romance


My wife and sister love that series. Seems to include a lot of soft porn for the ladies.
Fiction: The Life of Pi by Matin Yan.  
BlueLou : 5/20/2016 8:51 pm : link
Coming of age "travel" fantasy that addresses some serious issues in unusual ways. A Huck Finn of the interior mind, extremely imaginative.

Non-fiction - Hammer, Joshua. A Season in Bethlehem : Unholy War in a Sacred Place. Free Press


Two fantastic reads. Hammer's book is an eye opener in several ways about the Israeli - Palestinian conflict in general, with to my mind a strong slant to sympathy for the Palestinians.
Memory Man  
dep026 : 5/20/2016 8:54 pm : link
and longest mile by David Baldacci. First two books in the series. Has some football revelance in both as well.
There is some typical romance  
AP in Halfmoon : 5/20/2016 9:11 pm : link
But it's also very good historical fiction. It covers the Jacobite uprising through the Revolutionary War.
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