What type of Nikon lens is good to get?

At the moment i have a nikon d3000, with 3 lens, the one that came with it, a close up, and a cheap screw on fisheye type of lens.
i want a lens like one that came with it but better, any suggestions?

What's your budget? And what kinds of things do you like to shoot? I'm going to suggest the 50 1.8 AF-S or 17-55 2.8.

Nikon makes 73 different lenses, each of which has a specific purpose. To properly recommend a lens, a few things must be known:

1. What is the focal range you need: do you need a super telephoto, telephoto, wide-angle, super-wide angle, or normal lens?

2. Do you need a zoom or prime lens?

3.Is this specialty lens (macro, fisheye, perspective control, portrait, defocus control, etc)?

4. How fast of a lens aperture do you need (low light or standard)?

5. How fast does the lens need to focus (AF, AF-S)?

6. What is your budget?

7. Do you need a DX or FX format lens?

8. Do you need any other features; Vibration Reduction, etc?

That will narrow down the list of the 73 lenses to one, two, or three choices.

You just don't get a new lens. You have to need it first. The kit lens is very good but most beginners don't appreciate it due because they know there are bigger and longer lenses out there. You really have to know what you are doing though to take advantage of what you already have.

If you can't seem to fit large subjects in the picture get a wide angle lens. If you can't make far objects seem near, get a telephoto lens. If you want to make small objects look large, get a macro lens. Here. Try to get a better understanding of lenses then make your decision. It's hard to keep that cash just lying around there isn't it?

http://keerok-photography.blogspot.com/2011/05/lenses-so-many-of-them-there-is-no-best.html

For a beginning kit, to have the range that covers what most people want to do, I recommend three categories of lenses:
1. Something wide. The kit 18-55mm VR covers this well enough for starters, and very cheaply.
2. Something long. The 55-200mm VR is a very economical telephoto for starters.
3. Something macro. This will be the most expensive of the three, because nikon does not offer macro in its kit or or consumer zooms. The least expensive macro that will auto-focus on the D3000 is the 40mm Micro-Nikkor. The 18-55mm VR does focus pretty closely, so I would save the macro purchase for last, when you realize that the 18-55 VR just isn't getting close enough for you.

Serious telephoto begins an 300mm, but those lenses get expensive and heavy fast, and still require a lot of work to get those great professional close-ups. Macro is much more accessible for a beginner, which is why I recommend that over a longer tele.

Tamron AF 70-300mm f/4.0-5.6 Di LD Macro Zoom Lens is much sharper than my Canon 28-135 IS lens which cost twice as much used on that big auction site. I'm about to replace that with Tamron's 28-75 f/2.8 lens based upon my favorable experience with this lens.