Weekend Reads: 9 Books Huffington Post Readers Recommend (PHOTOS)

Last weekend, you told us about the books that you couldn't wait to read. We had too many responses to fit everything into one slide show, so here are nine more books HuffPost readers were loving and looking forward to finishing over the weekend.

Consider your weekend plans booked! And let us know what book you can't wait to read this weekend.

1 of 9

"Divisadero" by Michael Ondaatje

1 of 10

First Slide

Previous Slide

@

romeo7 says: I finished "Divisadero" this weekend. Never read "The English Patient" but will now. His writing is lyrical, gorgeous, loved it.

7 Things You Need To Know Before You Get Married

8 Ways Humans Could Cause Our Own Extinction

Eating Badly: 7 Consequences Of Fast Food

The 13 Of The Weirdest Short Stories Ever Written

The First Athletes Ever And 7 Other Moments In Sports History

7 Sex Myths Debunked

romeo7 says: I finished "Divisadero" this weekend. Never read "The English Patient" but will now. His writing is lyrical, gorgeous, loved it.

comments(79)

Total comments: 79 | Post a Comment

1 of 10

Comments

[Schweik]

01:03 AM on 11/11/2010

All those who fell victim to cultural relativism and multi-culti indoctrination should read "The Blank Slate" by Steven Pinker. Soon.

[Schweik]

12:56 AM on 11/11/2010

Just finished re-reading Drowned World by J. G. Ballard.
One of the best post-apocalyptic novels.

[YABookShelf]

12:25 PM on 11/09/2010

I've read most of Micheal Ondaatje's writing, other than The English Patient and Divisadero. Personally, I think that his earlier novels and poetry are much better than his later works. Whereas In the Skin Of A Lion has poetic imagery that is beautiful, books like The Collected Works Of Billy The Kid and Coming Through Slaughter have an amazing energy and vitality. I highly recommend his early works. Anil's Ghost has the same poetic language, but the language is ultimately shallow in my opinion.

[RhiannonRings]

01:40 PM on 11/08/2010

I'm always looking for British mysteries. I've read Rendell, Barbara Vine, Minette Walters....any ideas?

[ReesieKitty]

03:52 PM on 11/09/2010

You MUST read Christopher Fowler's 'Bryant and May' series! They go from the Blitz up to modern day, following two eccentric police detectives in London's Peculiar Crimes Unit. Most of the books take place when they are both older and long past retirement age and fighting just to keep their unit open. Each book is filled with wonderful London trivia and arcane tidbits of history about everything from theaters to secret societies to chaos theory to the occult to London's underground 'lost' rivers. I've thoroughly enjoyed every single book in the series!

[RhiannonRings]

05:47 PM on 11/09/2010

Thank you so much, that sounds right up my alley!

[Culture101]

10:36 AM on 11/08/2010

I am slightly disappointed at the above list, was hoping for at least a few classics

http://cult101.blogspot.com

[HappyVomit]

02:53 AM on 11/08/2010

Just can't get into Murakami, I find him overrated, but then again I've only tried 2 of his books. Anyone suggest a good one to start with that's not The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle?

[jukesgrrl]

12:10 AM on 11/08/2010

I'm on my third waltz with Raymond Chandler.

[RedDogBear]

09:15 PM on 11/08/2010

Of all the many authors I love Chandler is the one that holds up the best after multiple, multiple, multiple readings. I just re-read The Big Sleep for around the 10th time and I still loved it even though I almost knew every word by heart. The atmosphere he creates is so engaging. I was going to say so real but its not exactly real its more like poetry which of course he started out to write originally. To me Chandler is the Homer of modern America.

[Steamboater]

05:42 PM on 11/07/2010

If anyone likes time travel novels, one of the best is Jack Finney's. "Time and Again". It was published I believe in the 1970's and is really an ode to old New York City of the Gay Nineties or near about. A young man is approached by a man working on a government project and the young man goes back in time after well, if you saw the movie, "Somewhere In Time" with JaneSeymour, you'll know how he does it. The film was really a take-off on the book but the book is so much better and the characters have nothing to do with the film at all, neither the storyline. Full of terrific atmosphere and even old photos of New York of the late 19th centrury, this one's a keeper to be read more than once and is the sort of book you read wrapped up in a warm blanket on the couch in front of lit fireplace. .

[Steamboater]

05:32 PM on 11/07/2010

1. "Pick Up Your Parrots And Monkeys: The Life of A Boy Soldier In India" by William Pennington, a memoir of the last days of the British Raj.

2. "Sands Of Death" by Michael Asher. 1880 and the true story of a French expedition to map a route for a railway to cross the Sahara and those that survived at the hands of theTauregs. A story of both Taureg and western colonial arrogance.

3. "Unbeaten Tracks In Japan: by Isabella Bird. Bird travels solo to Japan in 1878 and recounts her experiences.

4. "The Winter Queen" by Boris Akunin. Akunin is a highly international popular russian writer of a series of mysteries taking place in Tsarist Russia with Erast Fandorin as the sleuth investigating, in this novel, a student who shoots himself in the Alexander Gardens, with the shooting connected to a murder and to the orphange run by an English woman, an orphanage both victims have left their fortunes to.

[Skyhawk]

03:48 PM on 11/07/2010

I recommend The Immortal life of Henrietta Lacks.

[RhiannonRings]

01:39 PM on 11/08/2010

That was so interesting, I couldn't put it down!

[MarionMoy]

01:02 PM on 11/07/2010

Re: Deep Creek: Yes, I definitely want to be Grace Sundown when I grow up. Seriously, I found DC an enjoyable and moving read, quite unlike anything else out there in historical fiction. That kind of spare, considered modernist prose, freighted with emotion, is so out of step with contemporary practice that it sent me back to Cather, Hemingway & Stegner. Very refreshing.

[CaraJ]

12:19 PM on 11/07/2010

"Deep Creek" by Dana Hand--oh, yes. Lovely novel on American race relations, if lovely is the word to use re: mass murder/genocide. A tad old-fashioned (because it has a plot, plenty of solid characters to hate or root for, and a Western setting) but very sophisticated structure. Re-reading is key. I always do like fiction based on true events.

[frank day]

02:14 PM on 11/07/2010

This and the above reviews have convinced me I need to read the book
TY. I have a hard time finding NF I think is worth the reading time. :-)

[LloydCreek]

07:00 PM on 11/06/2010

a fest of great stories, all weekend...Our Kind of Traitor by John Le Carre, Side Jobs by Jim butcher, and a (reread) of Deep Creek by Dana Hand.

[tploomis]

04:26 PM on 11/06/2010

Super Sad True Love Story by Gary Shteyngart. The Thousand Autumns of Jacob DeZoet by David Mitchell. Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simonson. Chronic City by Jonathan Lethem. Invisible by Paul Auster. --- my favorite reads over the last six months.

[tploomis]

04:12 PM on 11/06/2010

Haruki Murakami is one of my favorite writers. I wait for each new book to come out. They are all very, very good. I agree that is in in line for the Nobel Prize.

[LaurieAnn]

07:32 PM on 11/07/2010

Murakami is one of my all time favorites as well.