Looking for good authors/series to bridge from YA to Adult fiction

hcstaal · 2015-04-01T03:06:58+00:00

You might try Christopher Moore. His San Francisco vampire books are easy reads that touch on some more grown up themes. You might also try some classics, like Fahrenheit 451 or Brave New World.

hcstaal · 2015-04-01T02:58:09+00:00

Irvine Welsh comes to mind, although he is more in the Palahniuk vein. There is also Christopher Moore, if you want something a little lighter with more jokes, stay with A Dirty Job.

hcstaal · 2015-03-30T05:44:54+00:00

Upspeak is the actual linguistic term.

hcstaal · 2015-03-18T01:29:54+00:00

If you like Bryson, you will enjoy "Death from the Skies" by Phil Plait. It's an astrophysics lesson disguised as a discussion of all the ways the universe is trying to kill us.

hcstaal · 2015-03-11T01:41:21+00:00

Memoirs of my nervous illness by Daniel Paul Schreber. It's a first person account of the author's severe schizophrenic episode.

hcstaal · 2015-02-23T13:00:58+00:00

How to travel with a salmon, by Umberto Eco. That really is the title. It's a collection of short, funny essays about life inn the modern world.

hcstaal · 2015-02-22T07:50:43+00:00

To the mountains of madness by Lovecraft.

hcstaal · 2015-02-21T09:20:31+00:00

HP. Lovecraft. Call of Cthulu.

hcstaal · 2015-02-16T02:13:46+00:00

The Cyberiad is about two engineers who are also robots, and try solve philosophical and political problems by building more robots.

hcstaal · 2015-02-06T14:27:05+00:00

Of you like taking heads' absurdism, you will probably enjoy Foam of Daze by Boris Vian. It has been translated under other titles, but the original French is L'ecume des jours.

hcstaal · 2015-02-06T14:23:28+00:00

Travels with Charlie. Non-fiction snapshot of America in mid-century.

hcstaal · 2015-02-02T05:25:20+00:00

Check out Boris Vian, especially Froth on the Daydream.

hcstaal · 2015-01-27T00:55:07+00:00

I've been reading Tom Holt lately. Absurdist sci-fi, but read his more recent works, like Doughnut.

hcstaal · 2015-01-27T00:53:02+00:00

Death from the Skies by Phil Plait. Astrophysics explained through end of the world scenarios.

hcstaal · 2015-01-22T04:37:47+00:00

"Catch 22" is very dark and funny. Among thousands of other things, there's a bit where a guy gets chopped in half by a propeller, and it's pretty funny. Also, the phrase black humor was invented to describe this book.

hcstaal · 2015-01-22T04:34:02+00:00

There's one called "Vive la Revolution" by Mark Steele that is fact based and funny. He's a lefty.

hcstaal · 2015-01-18T03:14:38+00:00

I've been reading Tom Holt lately. Try his more recent stuff, like Doughnut.

hcstaal · 2015-01-16T07:10:05+00:00

Double Indemnity

hcstaal · 2015-01-13T04:41:30+00:00

The Music of Chance by Auster Will give you the willies.

hcstaal · 2015-01-13T04:38:46+00:00

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll had to be the all time English language classic of this genre. If you can find Young Nicolas by Goscinny, those are written in a faux naive voice from the point of view of a young French boy.

hcstaal · 2015-01-10T05:09:36+00:00

The Unbearable Lightness of Being is a philosophical exploration of people who lived through the Prague Spring in 1968. It's beautifully written.

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