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I've been on a delicious brain candy binge the past month, devouring the Night Huntress and Vampire Academy series, but now my brain feels like it's going to be sick. This is the literature equivalent of realizing that I can't eat a whole bag of marshmallows as a snack anymore.

Please recommend something that is a little more thoughtful and intellectual (not to be a snob since I thoroughly enjoyed those books). Maybe something along the lines of Memory, Sorrow and Thorn by Tad Williams, or Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern, or Penryn and the End of Days by Susan Ee.

I'm willing to step out of my comfort zone. Thanks!

Nevada,

You might find the following suggested reads fit the intellectual level you seek. Each one entertains, while forcing the reader to think and ponder the "what ifs" of life. They are listed in alphabetical order by author, not preference.

The Stolen Child by Keith Donohue
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Inverted World by Christopher Priest
Dust by Charles Pellegrino

Nevada
I think you'd like my end-of-days novel A TIME OF DEMONS Or my horror short story Ghost Brother...email me at [email protected] and I'll send you a free mobi, epub or PDF of them. Kathryn Meyer Griffith

What would be stepping out of your comfort zone?

Now that I'm asked to define what is outside my comfort zone I'm hard pressed to do so. I read a wide variety of books, really just whatever I get my hands on first which is why I never make any progress on my TBR list.

I don't read much horror (except Stephen King sometimes, but he's on everyone's list - amiright?).

Thrillers and mysteries are okay, but I get disappointed b/c I usually figure out who did it very early on and am not too interested in the 'how' part of those stories. Dean Koontz is amazing though. Also, I've read all of the original Sherlock Holmes stories.

I like biographies (not so much autobiographies) and read Alison Weir's Tudor bios, and about people ranging from Varina Davis (First Lady of the Confederacy) to Nikola Tesla to Churchill to Marilyn Monroe to Dave Grohl (he's on my list of people to have dinner with if I ever become rich and famous).

I am an unadulterated and unashamed Austenite. I also like the Brontes, George Eliot, Louisa May Alcott.

Steinbeck is another favorite, East of Eden is IMO a masterpiece. I also enjoy Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald. Haven't managed to get into Thoreau and Emerson though.

Westerns can be really good, I have read all of Zane Grey's novels and recently finished Shane by Jack Schaeffer which was so simply wonderful.

Then Sci-fi, Fantasy, PNR, UF, YA/NA, etc. are really my go-to genres where I do most of my reading.

Sorry for such a lengthy answer but I just love to read and any time I can find new great books I'm truly happy. I did pick up Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro on Jim's suggestion and while I don't dislike it, I'm not sure that I like it either.

Thanks!

I have a new one The Stolen Tower. Fantasy and sex and sorcery.

I can recommend the one I am reading at the moment - it's a military/historical sci-fi and it's very good. The IX

Have you read _The Jane Austen Book Club_, by Karen Joy Fowler? Also, if you like Hemingway, you might enjoy _The Paris Wife_; the author (name escaping me at the moment) takes on the voice of Hadley (Hemingway's first wife). It made me want to read _A Moveable Feast_, which I just picked up at Barnes and Noble yesterday. =)