Some books to consider…

Life of Pi, Yann Martel
Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut

Some authors to consider…

Horror: Dean Koontz, Stephen King, Yann Martel
Military: Dale Brown, Tom Clancy, Michael Crichton
Male: Khaled Hosseini.
Female: Nora Roberts, Sue Monk Kidd, Amy Tan, Helen Fielding, Barbara Kingsolver.
Mystery: John Grisham, Michael Connelly.
Advice: Rachel Simmons.
Sci-Fi: Isaac Asimov, Philip K. Dick, Robert Heinlein, H. G. Wells

If you liked…

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, then you might like: Pudd’nhead Wilson, by Mark Twain or A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, by Mark Twain

The Scarlet Letter, then you might like: The House of Seven Gables, by Nathaniel Hawthorne or Hobomok, by Lydia Maria Child

The Great Gatsby, then you might like: The Last Tycoon, by F. Scott Fitzgerald or The Day of the Locust, by Nathanael West

Black Like Me, then you might like: Ceremony, by Leslie Marmon Silko or Going to Meet the Man, by James Baldwin

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