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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.

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OrmIrian · 23/10/2008 11:47

Bleak House
WOman on the edge of time - Marge Piercy

Eniddo · 23/10/2008 11:46

Brideshead Revisited, evelyn waugh
The Wind Up Bird Chronicle, haruki marakumi

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plantsitter · 23/10/2008 11:45

Vanity Fair and The Crimson Petal and the White (am obsessed by this book)

justneedsomesleep · 23/10/2008 11:44

Rebecca
Time Travellers Wife

RubyShivers · 23/10/2008 11:43

Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte

The Republic of Love - Carol Shields

(or White Teeth - Zadie Smith )

nellynaemates · 23/10/2008 11:40

Agree with 1984.

Was about to say Kurt Vonnegut "Slaughterhouse 5" but now thinking Margaret Atwood "Handmaid's Tale" after reading Kittyfloss's reply.

Undecided!!

KittyFloss · 22/10/2008 23:03

1984 or catch22 (wasn't sure if that was a classic)

Good Omens, my favourite book ever ever, or The Handmaid's Tale.

I'm obviously not very good at the one thing lol.

latermater · 22/10/2008 22:59

Middlemarch, and

Birds of America (short stories by Lorrie Moore). American Pastoral great too, but Lorrie Moore is way more entertaining and I feel redeemed by Sebastian Faulks recently including it in his "20 immortal books I own" or some such list...There is a collected short stories out too. I am going to start reading it again as soon as I've finished it - and I never do that.

ElfOnTheTopShelf · 22/10/2008 22:56

The Catcher In The Rye
Rachel's Holiday

My fave classic and not so classic

SixSpotBonfire · 22/10/2008 22:54

DH's suggestions:

The Brothers Karamazov

Fever Pitch

snice · 22/10/2008 22:52

Anna Karenina
Birdsong

beansmum · 22/10/2008 22:52

Charriere?

beansmum · 22/10/2008 22:51

ooh and Papillon - Henri something

SixSpotBonfire · 22/10/2008 22:50

Jane Eyre

The Secret History

beansmum · 22/10/2008 22:50

Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson

American Pastoral - Philip Roth

Salleroo · 22/10/2008 22:49

Wilkie Collins 'The Woman in White'

The Time Travellers wife

thisisyesterday · 22/10/2008 22:47

oooh hard.

I have lots of classics. erm
probably either "1984" or "if this is a man"

i don't read a huge amount of modern stuff but will have a think on it!

liahgen · 22/10/2008 22:46

the red tent, (does that count as classic? )

call the midwife

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