What books are good to read during rainy days?

On rainy days, I'd want to read humorous or at least light-hearted books. So my suggestions would be:

Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynn Jones (300 pages of fantasticness). It's a fantasy novel about a girl, Sophie Hatter, who believes she will amount to nothing in life. The Witch of the Waste finds her and turns her into an old lady, which reinforces Sophie's bleak outlook on life, except that she finds herself inside the great Wizard Howl's moving castle. It's an adorable book. Definitely rainy day material.

Any of the Harry Potter books (some are more light-hearted than others). But maybe Prisoner of Azkaban or Goblet of Fire.

Or some of the classics like Pride and Prejudice or Emma by Jane Austen (not necessarily light-hearted, but they're rainy-day books, nonetheless).

My Personal Favorites:

Lord of the Rings by J.R.R Tolkien

Hunt For Red October by Tom Clancy

The War of the Worlds by H G Wells

The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton

The Gods Themselves by Isaac Asimov

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson

Cases rarely come much colder than the decades-old disappearance of teen heiress Harriet Vanger from her family's remote island retreat north of Stockholm, nor do fiction debuts hotter than this European bestseller by muckraking Swedish journalist Larsson. At once a strikingly original thriller and a vivisection of Sweden's dirty not-so-little secrets (as suggested by its original title, Men Who Hate Women), this first of a trilogy introduces a provocatively odd couple: disgraced financial journalist Mikael Blomkvist, freshly sentenced to jail for libeling a shady businessman, and the multipierced and tattooed Lisbeth Salander, a feral but vulnerable superhacker. Hired by octogenarian industrialist Henrik Vanger, who wants to find out what happened to his beloved great-niece before he dies, the duo gradually uncover a festering morass of familial corruption—at the same time.

Book 2 The Girl who Played with Fire.

Book 3 Released in October 2009

I agree with Lyra.

Howl's Moving Castle & Harry Potter would be *great* if you were in the mood for something lighthearted (not so much the last few Harry Potter books).

However, the *best* option in my opinion would be Coraline by Neil Gaiman. It would be fitting, since it starts out with Coraline being bored on a rainy day :p. It's also one of my favorite books ever and has a rainy day type of mood.

I agree with Harry Potter books.

I would also add Dan Brown "Angels and Demons", "The Da Vinci Code". I found both books very interesting. They are definitely not boring by any means.

You might enjoy David Baldacci. His "Camel Club" series I would give 2 thumbs up. Very good books. Very good reads.

To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee.

I highly recommend.

one hundred years of solitude by gabriel garcia marquez

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anything by francesca lia block, jack kerouac, chuck palahnuk

I recommend Twilight Saga ^__^

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Where the Heart Is by Billie Letts

Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson

Crank by Ellen Hopkins

The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides

The Secret life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd

Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher

White Oleander by Janet Fitch

Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen

The Blue is for Nightmares (collection of 4 books in the series) by Laurie Faria Stolarz http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/det...

Dead Witch Walking (The Hollows, Book 1) by Kim Harrison http://www.amazon.com/Dead-Witch-Walking...

Cut by Patricia McCormick

The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky

Twisted by Laurie Halse Anderson

Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli

Catalyst by Laurie Halse Anderson

Looking for Alaska by John Green

Just Listen by Sarah Dessen

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

Wintergirls by Laurie Halse Anderson

Story of a Girl by Sara Zarr

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The Rules of Survival by Nancy Werlin

Sweethearts by Sara Zarr

Lost It by Kristen Tracy

Two-way Street by Lauren Barnholdt

When It Happens by Susane Colasanti

Before I Die by Jenny Downham

Bloom by Elizabeth Scott

Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac by Gabrielle Zevin

Perfect You by Elizabeth Scott

Harmless by Dana Reinhardt

I Heart You, You Haunt Me by Lisa Schroeder

Paper Towns by John Green

http://www.amazon.com/Paper-Towns-John-G...

Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks, The by E. Lockhart

The Adoration of Jenna Fox by Mary E. Pearson

Jellicoe Road by Melina Marchetta

13 Little Blue Envelopes by Maureen Johnson

Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist by Rachel Cohn

Living Dead Girl by Elizabeth Scott

Madapple by Christina Meldrum

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What I Saw And How I Lied by Judy Blundell

Waiting for Normal by Leslie Connor

The Missing Girl by Norma Fox Mazer

Shift by Jennifer Bradbury

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson

The Sweet Far Thing (The Gemma Doyle Trilogy) by Libba Bray

Jerk, California by Jonathan Friesen

How Not to Be Popular by Jennifer Ziegler

Sucks to Be Me: The All-True Confessions of Mi... by Kimberly Pauley

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

Peeled by Joan Bauer

Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World by Vicki Myron

The Juvie Three by Gordon Korman

Looks by Madeleine George

North of Beautiful by Justina Chen Headley

Black Box by Julie Schumacher

City of Glass (Mortal Instruments) by Cassandra Clare

ghostgirl by Tonya Hurley

Need by Carrie Jones

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Wondrous Strange by Lesley Livingston

Raven by Allison van Diepen

A Certain Slant of Light by Laura Whitcomb