So I'm thinking of getting a new ereader to replace an old kindle and kick start my reading habit again. Basically a long time ago I got into reading books then my kindle. Things happen and I got so far out of the reading habit I'm not sure I could read a whole book. Well not in one reasonable hit, currently read books over years.
So my question to you good people is what should I read? What would I like?
Nothing too hard right? Oh! Clues needed. Well I hit late school/uni years loving the whole distopian thing of George Orwell but especially Aldous Huxley. Joseph Heller and catch 22 hit a chord. I used to buy all the Baldacci thriller books for a few years when they came out but he's gone off the boil IMHO. IIRC he's even co-authored one of his books in a series he writes.
I like thrillers that grab early on, some spy thrillers. I think there was one I liked (bought it twice by.mistake) set before during and after WWII in eastern Europe along the Danube IIRC by Furst.
I liked JRR Tolkien too but can't get past the stodgy Silmarillion, unfinished tales and the other less read books. Just wish he'd done something the calibre of the rings, even the Hobbit is a nice read (read it at 14/15 quickly followed by the rings and purchases of a few others that I couldn't get through). I have read Conan Doyle, G K Chesterton, Bram Stoker, Homer, Thucydides and some other classics. Used to be big into Homer in primary school, albeit in easier versions I reckon, translated a bit at gcse too.
I think I ticked 44 or so in the 100 classics list in that American library website list. Not interested in the Bronte type of book or the books those who are into would like so there's a lot ruled out among that 100 list.
So anyone got any ideas? Open to fantasy (within reason if based on northern European mythology), thrillers (no Stephen king or scary thrillers) and even non-fiction (biographies bore me especially sporting ones).
I guess this is an ideas thread. Ideas for interesting reads but also how do you find interesting reads for kindle? Is there a trick for randomizing the search function to get interesting reads? No point buying an ereader if you can't find new books, authors, etc to interest you.
