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OK - I want new things to read. Please can you list two books- one classic, one modern- you think everyone shoulf read.

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seeker · 22/10/2008 22:45

I'll start. Pride and Prejudice and The Kite Runner, by Khalid Hosseini.

OP posts:
ahundredtimes · 23/10/2008 14:52
ohdearwhatamess · 23/10/2008 14:50

Anna Karenin
Accidental Tourist

lilibet · 23/10/2008 14:50

ok - a very obvious one

The Hours - Michael Cunningham

and

Mrs Dalloway - Virginia Woolf

angelene · 23/10/2008 14:47

Classic - Catch 22

Another vote for The Secret History in the Modern category. This one got me back into reading again after years of avoiding books.

ahundredtimes · 23/10/2008 14:46

[realizes is at a disadvantage never having read Kite Runner or 1000 suns]

How about - and they still have to ones you think everyone should read, yes?

The Woman in White
Case Histories

or

Gullivers Travels
Cloud Atlas

ahundredtimes · 23/10/2008 14:46

[realizes is at a disadvantage never having read Kite Runner or 1000 suns]

How about - and they still have to ones you think everyone should read, yes?

The Woman in White
Case Histories

or

Gullivers Travels
Cloud Atlas

Lotster · 23/10/2008 14:46

Oh, mine are already done, just want to second The Time Traveller's Wife; beautiful, moving book.

If you like friendship tales, The Divine Secrets of the Ya Ya Sisterhood is wonderful. Mine is dog eared after being read by friends and their mums too!

ahundredtimes · 23/10/2008 14:42

Maybe people have done it without realizing?

Am going to check.

lilibet · 23/10/2008 14:41

Ooooh interesting

(puts thinking cap on)

ahundredtimes · 23/10/2008 14:33

YES! Twofalls they do, I agree.

Oh it would be a gooood game Seeker, and it'd be good to read them together I think. [phones Tillybookclub]

GColdtimer · 23/10/2008 14:32

actually, although that wasn't my intention, mine sort of do. Don't they?

zippitippitoes · 23/10/2008 14:31

yes books which have some sort of correspondence with each would be interesting

GColdtimer · 23/10/2008 14:29

Oliver Twist
Small Island

VintageGardenia · 23/10/2008 14:27

Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
Memoir - John McGahern

ahundredtimes · 23/10/2008 14:25

MyEye's books go together well too.

I think that should be the game. [tricky]

ahundredtimes · 23/10/2008 14:24

American Pastoral is a ruddy good book.

ahundredtimes · 23/10/2008 14:23

Are these books supposed to complement each other - as I believe my choices do - or just be good?

ahundredtimes · 23/10/2008 14:23

[swoons at Rosamund Lehman]

Middlemarch

and

The Stone Diaries

MorticiaDoom · 23/10/2008 14:22

Brave New World- Aldous Huxley

The Bloody Chamber- Angela Carter

buttercreamfrosting · 23/10/2008 14:21

The first one that popped into my head was A Town Like Alice but arguably it could be classic and modern?
Whatever it is, I always loved it.

Lilymaid · 23/10/2008 14:01

Pride and Prejudice and To Kill a Mockingbird (unless that counts as a classic too).

lilibet · 23/10/2008 13:52

Woman in White - Wilkie Collins

A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving

MKGisHavingaGirl · 23/10/2008 13:06

Les Miserables -Victor Hugo
The House of Spirits- Isabel Allende

ChloeandAlfie · 23/10/2008 12:52

Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier
Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks

Awesome (in the real sense of the word)....

LittlePeanut · 23/10/2008 12:35

Was going to say The Kite Runner as well.

OK then, The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield, and Jane Eyre.

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