The book I always recommend is Birdsong by Sebastien Faulk. I don't read much fiction but I picked this up while travelling in a book swap thing in a hostel and I thought it was fantastic, very powerful and haunting storyline based around the trenches of World War I

A book I got recently which I didn't think would be good, but was, is "Beyond the Crash" by Gordon Brown, he wrote it in a couple of months after being voted out last year, and it's actually a very revealing and interesting account of the financial crisis and Brown's dealings with some of the shady characters in the big banks who were trying to blag the government as well as everybody else. It's not too long a book either so one you can read quite quickly and it does shed light on what was going on.

Now reading Redemption Ark by Alistair Reynolds. He's an ex astro-physicist, so the science fiction is based very much on the art of the possible. It's brilliant stuff. Also like Iain M Banks. Best book is tricky...but probably The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks.

I am into motorsport reference/ technical literature, so Moto gp technology and four stroke performance tuning are two informative books. Also i am a keen cyclist, lance armstrong autobiograpy is a pretty good read as are tour de france history books.

Keith Richards... Life. As he says."I haven't forgotten any of it". God only knows how!!If you want a page turner, Harlan Coben and Michael Connelly.

I'm just reading the Girl Who Kicked the Hornets Nest, which is the third of a trilogy.

Book 1 is The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

Book 2 is The Girl Who Played with Fire.

All fantastic reads.

Kris Radlinskis autobiography is also a very good read for any RL fan.

I read all three on holiday recently. Really enjoyed them. The books were published posthumously, so we won't be hearing any more from Lisbeth Salander.

I liked the bit right at the end of the third book, were she........

Only kidding.

Robert crais is also a good holiday read as well similar to the lee child jack reacher books

Everyone should read 'sophies world'

best book '1984'

"My Bit: A Lancashire Fusilier at War" by George Ashurst .

This is the true story of a Wigan lad who fought in most of the major battles of the first world war. An amazing read.

George R R Martin is a great shout, G, A Song of Ice and Fire - he's really paved the way for modern fantasy writing now. And Abercrombie is a delicious writer. Hugely influential the pair of them (and I speak from experience

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Quite a few people here seem to enjoy reading novels. But how many have ever read a novel that has a rugby league background and is set in a fictional town set five miles north of Warrington. Details of my four novels which are all inspired by being a Rugby League fan and the old saying about work "They could write a book about this place. It would be a best seller" are given on my web site www.geofflee.net And what am I reading? Have just started on "The Death of Marco Pantani" The Italian racing cyclist.

Quite a few people here seem to enjoy reading novels. But how many have ever read a novel that has a rugby league background and is set in a fictional town set five miles north of Warrington. Details of my four novels which are all inspired by being a Rugby League fan and the old saying about work "They could write a book about this place. It would be a best seller" are given on my web site www.geofflee.net And what am I reading? Have just started on "The Death of Marco Pantani" The Italian racing cyclist.

Just finished 'The Dirt' by Motley Crue, massively entertaining read.

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Marco Pierre whites autobiography / devil in the kitchen is a great read, fascinating!

...on the other hand
for any posters on here with youngsters who are having trouble sleeping, I can whole-heartedly recommend Iestyn Harris' autobiography...just a couple of pages, and the little mites will be in the land of nod.

Currently reading 'Going Rogue' by Sarah Palin, and it's a suprisingly good read.

Other than that I read alot of political books and autobiographies (Clinton, Powell, Blair, Campbell, Brown). Sports aswell.

Birdsong is one of the best I've ever read, an absolute masterpiece. Another classic set during WWI is Ernest Hemingway's 'A Farewell to Arms'.

Can recommend the last book I read as well for a piece of non-fiction. 'Gomorrah' by Roberto Saviano, which is about the extraordinary power and influence exerted by the Neopolitan Mafia.

Favourite novel of all time would probably be 'A Hundred Years of Solitude' by Gabriel García Márquez.

Thanks to SLIMply a treble for pointing out that the link does not work. My web site is actually www.geofflee.net The one I had put on was pure fiction.

Thanks to SLIMply a treble for pointing out that the link does not work. My web site is actually www.geofflee.net The one I had put on was pure fiction.

Quote ="glee"Thanks to SLIMply a treble for pointing out that the link does not work. My web site is actually www.geofflee.net The one I had put on was pure fiction.'" i bought one of your books outside a ground in yorkshire years ago, and made you sign it just incase you became mega famous! it was a good read.

Quote ="glee"Thanks to SLIMply a treble for pointing out that the link does not work. My web site is actually www.geofflee.net The one I had put on was pure fiction.'" i bought one of your books outside a ground in yorkshire years ago, and made you sign it just incase you became mega famous! it was a good read.

What am I reading now? Harry Potter.

What should you read? Harry Potter.

What is my favourite book? Harry Potter.

As you can tell, I'm not much of a reader. The 7 Harry Potter books are the only fiction stuff I've read. Aside from that it's just autobiographys of people I like.

That's not a bad start. May I suggest Matthew Reilly as an author you might enjoy? A slight step up from JK, but not too much. Imagine James Bond could fly, travel through time, get shot in the head fifteen times and still save the world.

Not classics, but bloody brilliant non the less.

I may do that

summer coming up so there will be many time's I'm sat out in the sun just enjoying the weather, so reading will help pass some time. Thanks for the reccomendation!

Start with the Jack West trilogy.

Seven Ancient Wonders
The Six Sacred Stones
The Five Greatest Warriors

You'll be hooked!

Will do thanks again for the help, always wanted to read more but just never heard of anything over much that would catch my attention. But will check these out definitely.

Eagle Series by Simon Scarrow.