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Are you a bookworm?

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Zebraa · 06/08/2008 22:32

Can you list a few books that you absolutely fell in love with?

I need a new book to love.

I'm in dire need of recommendations as I don't read the back of books.

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Clairedaz · 10/08/2008 13:13

If there are any dog lovers out there, then a must read is "Marley and Me" and "A Dog Year" - have laughed and cried with these books.

Pruners · 10/08/2008 09:17

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Desiderata · 10/08/2008 01:55

And you have to read Dickens. All of them.

Shakespeare and Dickens understood the human pshyche more than anyone else alive or dead.

Desiderata · 10/08/2008 01:54

I'm with you on both Jane Eyre and the Shadow of the Wind.

Both truly excellent.

BitOfFun · 10/08/2008 01:19

Look out for "The Other Hand" by Chris Cleave this month - I was lucky to read it in advance as I work in a bookshop and it blew me away! Funny and sad, and really makes you think x x

bozette · 09/08/2008 21:16

My favourite book has to be the Count of Monte Cristo. Love it, read it every couple of years. Am also very fond of Jane Eyre.

That makes me sound more sophisticated than i really am! I also often re-read Jilly Cooper when i have nothing new around!

Recently read great book, The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon. Would reccommend it highly.

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Love2bake · 09/08/2008 16:33

Just read The book Theif which I loved.

Am currently reading 'half of a yellow sun'

I love books so much, I am always reading something.

I want all the new richard and judy picks as they look great. Also want the new one by Jane Fallon, as her last one was so funny (getting rid of matthew).

Clairedaz · 09/08/2008 16:26

The first few pages of a book usually tell me here are my fav's;
Kite Runner
A Thousand Splendid Suns

All books by Dan Brown, Jane Green, Martina Cole, Wilbur Smith, Clive Cussler.

A good thriller, weepy or a feel good book.

LadyThompson · 07/08/2008 15:34

FiveGoMadinDorset - vvv excited that you mentioned Penguins Stopped Play it's a WONDERFUL book and you don't have to like cricket at all. It's a character piece.

I loved

the Rabbit books by John Updike

The End of the Affair by Graham Greene

PosyFossil · 07/08/2008 15:22

I would recommend these based on what you said because although they are not classics they are quite challenging (for me anyway!) - they are modern classics I guess. Possession would appeal to anyone who has studied English at Uni and/ or has an interest in poetry. Beloved gets better each time I read it and makes me cry about the inhumanity of slavery and is spooky too!

Possession by A S Byatt

The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst

Beloved by Toni Morrison

I really love all three!

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Zebraa · 07/08/2008 10:09

Oh my word, lots of little bookworms out there! Thank you guys.

My favourite book in the world is Anna Karenina. I love her. I also adore Little Women.

I love variety. I like reading out of my comfort zone (which is classics).

So all recommendations welcome. I'm going to compile a list soon and get cracking. Might review them once I've read them?

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solidgoldbrass · 07/08/2008 00:31

Again, not knowing your tastes but if you want something more literary than mass-market fiction here's a random selection of my favourites..
Brighton Rock by Graham Greene
American Psycho by Brett Easton Ellis (not recommended if you don't like grossness or violence but it is interesting)
The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe (this was the original Gothic potboiler, it's hard work but at the same time it's gloriously overblown melodrama and fun to read to see how much/how little has changed in fiction over the centuries)
The Wasp Factory by Ian Banks - this is one of the very few books that made people come up and speak to me on the Tube to say they had read it too.
To Kill A Mockingbird (I had to read this at school, liked it, forgot about it, read it again as an adult and it's one of those books that always makes me well up)

The Da Vinci Code (OK OK I am kidding. And I haven't read it in full myself, only a few pages and chucked it down in disgust at quite how bad it was - and I have quite a fondness for trash fiction).

babs10000 · 06/08/2008 23:43

I capture the castle is brillinat.

Somerset Maughan
HE Bates
Rumer Gooden

cathcat · 06/08/2008 23:41

I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
Firethorn by Sarah Micklem
anything by David Mitchell
Don't lets go to the Dogs Tonight by Alexandra Fuller
anything by David Sedaris/Augusten Burroughs.

3Ddonut · 06/08/2008 23:28

Being Dead - Jim Crace
The Loop - Nicholas Evans
If nobody speaks of the remarkable things - John McGregor
An Equal music - Vikram Seth
Life on the refigerator door - Alice Kuipers
Ferney - James Long

Also enjoyed, the other boleyn girl - phillipa gregory and two caravans - marina lewskya

FiveGoMadInDorset · 06/08/2008 23:12

The Raj Quartet

babs10000 · 06/08/2008 22:52

rosamund lehman anyone? And George Orwell 'Coming up for air'.

babs10000 · 06/08/2008 22:50

Hnagover square amzing but slaves of solitude even better

babs10000 · 06/08/2008 22:50

have you read George Eliot? Middlemarch and Silas Marner are sublime

SixSpotBurnet · 06/08/2008 22:49

Hangover Square - Patrick Hamilton

babs10000 · 06/08/2008 22:49

Oh my god return of the native is one of my fave books ever..loved in the line of beauty on tv..tried folding star but actually found it too gay..

Need to try Tremain - have youread Carol Shileds?

babs10000 · 06/08/2008 22:49

Oh my god return of the native is one of my fave books ever..loved in the line of beauty on tv..tried folding star but actually found it too gay..

Need to try Tremain - have youread Carol Shileds?