Need recommendations please!

[MegBusset]

No chicklit
No 'book club' books
Nothing over 500 pages as I have joined the '50 books in 2013' thread and would like to have a fighting chance :)

I like (off the top of my head): Thomas Pynchon, Jim Dodge, Steinbeck, Angela Carter, Neal Stephenson, Philip K Dick, James Ellroy, Raymond Chandler. Possibly really good YA (Pullman kind of thing).

YA stuff will help you to meet your target more quickly! Have you read the 'Gone' series by Michael Grant? Four so far and another out this year - pretty good: better than Hunger Games. Dystopian.

Have you read Pullman's Sally Lockheart series? Love these.

Some old sci-fi type stuff? John Wyndham?

Have you read Donna Tartt's The Secret History? Or The Little Friend?

How about Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn.

Night circus was very lovely and I think fits with your list of authors. It MIT be on the long side but is worth it (then you can squeeze in a couple of short ones to compensate)

Tsk. Might.

I picked 'Night Circus' up in town the other day but the page I opened to was all present tense. Is it like that all the way through? It drives me bonkers.

Thank you

Read a couple of the Sally Lockheart books and enjoyed them. Will check out Clockwork.
Didn't like The Secret History but it was a looong time ago I read it.

It is magical. (No recollection of tense weirdness so I presume it either wasn't all like that or manages to be non-annoying. I am very intolerant of weirdness usually.)

Thanks, Barry. Will have another look.

Meg - you might like Neil Gaiman. American Gods and Anansi Boys are both well worth a read.

The "Wool" omnibus - It's usually much cheaper as an omnibus than to buy each episode separately, and it's frequently free on Kindle if you have one, if you keep an eye out for it.
Lost Girls by Jason Halstead is good, and I second John Wyndham and add John Christopher - I don't think either of them ever wrote anything bad (apart from 'the Pendulum Swings' but I won't mention that shite if you won't )
I read a thriller called Icarus Rising recently that was good, sort of like a modern Alistair MacLean, a thriller, and very gripping.
Have you ever read anything by Neal Asher or John Scalzi? I can recommend both of them, especially the Old Man's War series.

I enjoyed The Snow Child recently.

Read American Gods although find Neil Gaiman a little overrated.

OOo that sounds nice sleepy I just downloaded it to my Kindle and only £1.49 which is always nice