Holiday reads.....what would you say was this year's 'must read'?

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Earthymama · 18/06/2008 10:27

I'm taking loads as usual, some by C J Sansom, Lionel Shriver's latest, Barbara Kingsolver's Prodigal Summer, Andrew Taylor. I've got a couple by Iain Banks, Owen Sheers, Jodie Picoult.

One holiday I read David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas, another time, Meg Rosoff's How I Live Now...and really loved them.

So what should I take this year that would have the unputdownable factor?

PS does anyone else read loads if they get the chance? I read really quickly and DO talk to DP, but feel really guilty as everyone says, disapprovingly, ' Don't you do anything but read?'. I love the chance to just lie on the beach for a few hours and read without interuption. Of course there's the coach to the airport, the wait to board, the flight, journey to resort......so there's at least one book under my belt. So I NEED to take lots......

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Bridie3 · 21/06/2008 15:27

Squilly, I'd add Playing with the Moon (Eliza Graham)to that category--frap lit! Good term.

squilly · 19/06/2008 20:58

I loved David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas too. Have you tried Margaret Attwoods Oryx and Crake. Another apocalyptic tale, very well written, but totally different to Cloud Atlas.

I read too much too and read pretty much anything. Chick lit, crime, booker prize winners, kids books...if it comes under my radar it gets read. And sometimes I feel guilty and sometimes I just enjoy myself

A good one I read was Diane Settlerfield's 13th Tale. It was kind of old fashioned, almost Jane Eyre-ish, and intriguing, though it's not an intellectual book at all. A kind of frappaccino of a book rather than an espresso.

I love these threads. Can't get enough of 'em.

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Earthymama · 19/06/2008 00:13

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