Read any good books lately?

I have started this thread to bring the Harry Potter discussion into the watercooler area. If you have read any of these books or other books that interest you, please feel free to sound off here.

Now this is my kind of thread!
It took me exactly 10 hours to read Order of the Phoenix (not all in one stretch ).
Besides that I just finished reading The Cabinet of Curiosities by Douglas Preston and Licoln Child. I need to find another good book to read. Any suggestions? I like mystery, crime, and classic literature.

Not a Harry Potter fan at all, but I love books - try to read a few a week. Most of the time, I cam't remember the names or plots a day after, but I do remember that I was not crazy about The Lake House (Patterson's new one - it is a sequel to an older book of his) or Lisa Scottoline's new one, Dead Ringer, but I really, really enjoyed a recent book called Sons of Fortune by Jeffrey Archer.

I just can't get myself to start on Harry Potter, maybe I don't want to work that hard to get involved. Seems like you get caught up in a whole new world. The most involved I am is in the "The Cat Who" series. Very, very light reading. I also started to read the Mitford Series and it's the same vein of light reading. I really like bio's and am now reading "An Ancedotal Life" by Carl Reiner and sometimes actually laugh out loud. Favorite fantasy book -- Archangel, favorite factual book -- All's Fair.

"Life of Pi"

I enjoy "The Cat Who" series as well as it is light reading and I found the Mitford series very good as well.

Obviously, I have read the entire released Harry Potter series. I also read Grisham, Rice, King, and Oke. Other than that I have all the Little House books and have started on the Cat Who series.

I have always loved classic lit. (I think I was the only one in my sixth grade class to do reports over the likes of Shakespeare and Emily and Charlotte Bronte. )

Basically, I love reading and will read just about anything.

Same here. I did reports on Ayn Rand and would recite Langston Hughes by heart. I was wondering about the Cat Who series. I think I'll start on those. I get a little leary about newer literature and always fall back on Gone with the Wind, Moby Dick, and Frankenstein. I've read them so many times I have lost count.

What about Shogun, Taipan, Noble House....etc. I started reading these classics when I was still in grammer school. I think my original reason was because they were so long (I was glad to see Order of the Phoenix was 870 pages ) but have since reread them all because they were great!! Hey how about Patricia Cornwell...muder, mystery, and you can devour one in a day!!

I love the Harry Potter books. I have the Order of the Phoenix sitting on my table at home, but I haven't started it yet. I'm letting the anticipation build.

I love to read too. I just finished Les Miserables, which was a wonderful book. I thoroughly enjoyed it, even though at least 500 of the 1259 pages were beyond me. I just don't know my French history well enough.

I generally enjoy Jeffrey Archer, Maeve Binchy, Grisham, and one of my favorites is Dick Francis. I read a couple of the Cat Who series but never really got into them.

My real love is children's books. Probably one reason I love the Potter books so much. I have the Little House books, the Anne of Green Gables books, the Chronicles of Narnia, and several other series you've probably never heard of. I usually re-read them about every 6-8 years.

I really like Nelson DeMille - Dirk Pitt adventures! Also, Robert North Patterson & Scott Turow - not many legal thrillers I don't enjoy - John Lescroait (spelling is worng I know) is very good also.

Ann Coulter's Treason is a good book for "socio-political" junkies!

The Art of Deception - good car book
Anything by David Baldacci - Absolute Power, The Simple Truth, The Winner, Total Control

As for Literature -- I have read everything F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote. Short stories, novels, letters. Read Zelda's works also. I read all the bios on them also. My favorite short story is "Bernice Bobs Her Hair". The last bios I read about them was "Sometimes in Madness is Wisdom, a Marriage" and "Zelda, Her Voice in Paradise"

For light reading and great humor - the Stephanie Plum series by Janet Evanovich. I'm currently reading Nora Roberts but I will read about anything. Stephen Ambrose and Ken Follett(sp?) are other authors I like.

Loved the Harry Potter series, I've yet to get my hands on the newest one.

Confederacy of Dunces

Holes

The Space Trilogy - C.S. Lewis's science fiction trilogy is brilliant--I have heard rumblings of bringing it to the big screen (technology will now allow them to recreate the worlds).

Anything by Charles Dickens

Anything by Jonathan Edwards or Brenning Manning.

OOTP is great. Since there are some of you out there who have not yet read it but plan to, I'll try not to go into any details within this thread. If we need to, we can always make a Harry Potter Spoiler thread.

I've read all the Harry Potter books and then again out loud to my children. My 5 year old son want to play Quidditch more than anything. I also re-read the Hobbit, and the Lord of the Rings trilogy after the movies came out.

The audio version is a good investment as well. They are great for car trips and flights as well as just being able to share the stories together much like was once done with radio shows.

My husband just bought them all at once on CD (OUCH!), but it does intertain the kids during road trips.

Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly by Anthony Bourdain. I may never eat out again. Actually, I found it funny and entertaining.