If I tell you some books I have loved, can anyone recommend something I would like?

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BlameItOnTheBogey · 07/03/2009 15:10

Books that I have most enjoyed are; To kill a Mockingbird, Catcher in the Rye, 1984, A Town Called Alice. YOu get the picture. I really want to read a Good book. Not one that is forgettable as soon as you put it down.

Any suggestions?

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Leannabanana · 07/03/2009 19:01

have you read the time travellers wife...i forget the author but could never forget the book....

or The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini.

both fantastic {in my opinion...}

FiveGoMadInDorset · 07/03/2009 18:54

Cold Comfort Farm as well is brilliant.

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BlameItOnTheBogey · 07/03/2009 15:30

Thanks so much for all the replies. I know MN would come up trumps. Am off to look up the ones recommended on Amazon now. I haven't even heard of most of these which is great!

I did try using the Amazon suggestions thing but it is thrown by the fact that I have bought loads of random books for family members (e.g. 'how to do flicky hairstyles in 3 easy steps' for my 9 year old niece, or 'build your own paper dinosaur from a toilet roll' for my 4 year old nephew) so it keeps recommending really bizarre things.

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popsycal · 07/03/2009 15:26

I love all those

ones i enjoyed John Irving: A prayer for Owen Meany, The Hotel New Hampshire
Paul Auster: the book of illusions
Isabeelle Allendre - anything really

will keep thinkig

leoleosuperstar · 07/03/2009 15:26

Have you tried looking your books up on Amazon and they suggest books for you.

Very good usually - gets me everytime.

FiveGoMadInDorset · 07/03/2009 15:22

Any other Neville Shute, especially, On The Beach, Far Country and Trustee for a Tool Room, thinkhe also wrote The Pied Piper which was an amazing book.

recently The letters of the Mitford Sisters I really enjoyed

Daphne du Maurier

William Boyd - Any Human Heart, or any of his.

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