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Good Books to Read for Women

May 29th, 2011

When it comes to books, my policy is, the more you’re intrigued by the blurb, the less intriguing you’ll find the actual book. But that’s just me. Some of the most famous books have fascinating blurbs and reviews, but turned out to be rather disappointing when I read them. But this article is not about those. This article is about some of the good books to read for women. Some of these may be classic books to read, and some may be more contemporary good books for teenagers. The list of good books for teenage girls and good books to read for young women, compiled below, is a must read! So, go ahead, and choose away!

  • The Time Traveler’s Wife ~ Audrey Niffeneger
  • The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society ~ Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
  • Holes ~ Louis Sachar
  • Harry Potter Series ~ J.K.Rowling
  • Twilight Series ~ Stephenie Meyer
  • In Death Series ~ J.D.Robb
  • Midnight Bayou ~ Nora Roberts
  • Love Story ~ Erich Segal
  • Chesapeake Bay Saga ~ Nora Roberts
  • Man, Woman and Child ~ Erich Segal
  • The Sands of Time ~ Sidney Sheldon
  • Little Women ~ Louisa May Alcott
  • Purple Hibiscus ~ Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
  • The Red Tent ~ Anita Diamant
  • The Bad Mother’s Handbook ~ Kate Long
  • The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time ~ Mark Haddon
  • The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane ~ Katherine Howie
  • The Undomestic Goddess ~ Sophie Kinsella
  • Eat, Pray, Love ~ Elizabeth Gilbert
  • Sign of Seven Trilogy ~ Nora Roberts
  • The Darkest Evening of the Year ~ Dean Koontz
  • The Circle Trilogy ~ Nora Roberts
  • The Jester ~ James Patterson & Andrew Gross
  • Pride and Prejudice ~ Jane Austen
  • Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus ~ John Gray
  • The Women’s Murder Club Series ~ James Patterson
  • Gone with the Wind ~ Margaret Mitchell
  • The Kite Runner ~ Khaled Hosseini
  • The Vanishing Shadow ~ Margaret Sutton
  • The Blood of Flowers ~ Anita Amirrezvani
  • Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood ~ Rebecca Walls
  • Rmember Me ~ Sophie Kinsella
  • Shopaholic Series ~ Sophie Kinsella
  • Born In Trilogy ~ Nora Roberts
  • Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, A Young Man, and Life’s Great Lesson ~ Mitch Albom
  • Midwives ~ Chris Bohjalian
  • Beginner’s Greek ~ James Collins
  • Water for Elephants ~ Sara Gruen
  • Ella Enchanted ~ Gail Carson Levine
  • To Kill a Mockingbird ~ Harper Lee
  • The Secret Life of Bees ~ Sue Monk Kidd
  • A Thousand Splendid Suns ~ Khaled Hosseini
  • The Senator’s Wife ~ Sue Miller
  • The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants ~ Ann Brashares
  • Bridget Jones’ Diary ~ Helen Fielding

The good books to read for women, mentioned in this list above, are some of the best selling books of all time! You can blindly pick out any book from this list, and rest assured that you’ll be transported into a world of wonder! Happy Reading!

Best Book Series of All Time

May 25th, 2011

Harry Potter
I may be out on a limb here, but Harry Potter is one of the best fantasy books of all time. As kids, we’ve spent our times playing ‘Dungeons and Dragons’, creating a make believe world, but when it comes to writing a story about the same, you’d have to think a thousand times. The author, J.K. Rowling has superbly brought us up close and personal with witches and wizards with her fantastic fantasy novel series. The battle between good and evil has been going on for centuries and her Harry Potter series follows the life of an eleven year old orphan boy, Harry Potter, that he in fact is a wizard and that he has magical powers. His life takes an unexpected turn when he joins Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Quite frankly, if you still haven’t read the books, then might I suggest that you get them today. The movie adaptation might seem thrilling but they are nothing compared to the books.

Lord of the Rings
An epic fantasy written by J. R. R. Tolkien is actually a sequel to his previous novel, The Hobbit, but the fantasy trilogy, Lord of the Rings became a much bigger work than the previous one. The story is set in North-West Middle-earth where a hobbit named Frodo Baggins receives the Ring from his cousin, Bilbo Baggins. Frodo has to destroy this Ring before the evil, Dark Lord Sauron gets his hands on them. The Ring can only be destroyed by throwing it in the fire of Mount Doom. So he sets his journey along with few friends, Samwise Gamgee, Pererin Took, Meriadoc Brandybuck, Gandalf, Aragorn, Legolas, Gimli, and Boromir. The books vividly describes this difficult journey and shows how good will always prevail over evil no matter how small and less powerful one can be.

The Twilight Saga
Twilight, written by American author Stephenie Meyers, is a four book series about a fantasy romance between a human and a vampire. Bella Swan, the human 17 year old girl, moves in with her father in Forks, Washington, and immediately falls in love with a boy from her school. What she doesn’t realize in the beginning is that this boy, Edward Cullen, is in fact a 104 year old vampire. Their love story is of a different kind where Bella can’t seem to keep herself from thinking about Edward and wanting to be with him for all eternity; and on the other hand, Edward tries desperately to control his lust for blood and not kill Bella. As you read the books, you can literally sense the erotic tension between the two and see how both keep risking each others’ lives to find meaning behind this “relationship”.