What book are you reading now because it is doing my head in that I can't find something I want to read so am going to steal your ideas instead..!

Alone in Berlin is excellent

also love Janet Evanovich

I've just finished Janet Evanovich's latest, Plum Spooky. Very lighthearted, easy to read and good fun, about a bail bond enforcer called Stephanie Plum. There's a whole series of them, usually with a number in the title - this is one of her 'between the number' books.

Not highbrow by any stretch of the imagination, but it was good Sunday-afternoon-on-the-sofa reading!

I enjoyed Little Stranger, although it took a while before I got into it (and I was a bit disappointed by the ending). Liked the writing style though.

american gods by neil gaiman.

is good, but not as good as neverwhere, also by him, which i just read

twilight series at the mo. They are ok, keeping my interest up to now.

Havent read anything really good in years.

I second the Bill Bryson books, very good,and very funny.

Angelas Ashes Frank McCourt is my fave book of all time. Read and re read this book.

Read the Steig Larsson trilogy - first one was really good, next two were good but not as exciting as the first one. The Outcast was originally written as a filmscript and it has a very spare style. I thought it was quite good - a page turner. I'm currently reading Chris Mullins' political diary A View From the Foothills and I'm really enjoying it.

I've just finished the good (although upsetting and sometimes frustrating) 'Day After Night' by Anita Diamant and now I'm hunting through my bookshelves for a contemporary book set in Israel (or I might just reread 'One Palestine, Complete: Jews and Arabs Under the British Mandate' by Tom Segev for the historical context somewhat lacking in above novel).

To Serve Them All My Days. (am reading stuff I remember watching on tv dramas in the 70s, also just finished Clayhanger)

(they are also helping me get over my bonnet phobia)

I am reading The Bookseller of Kabul as recommended by someone on here.

Have you read The Kite Runner or A Thousand Splendid Suns?, I couldn't put either of them down so highly recommended.

I have just started Alone in Berlin by Hans Fallada. I love books that are dark and he is such a good writer.

I wish I could spelunk

What is spelunking?

Im re-reading Anne of Green gables. Picked it out randomly from my bookshelf for some reaon and read the first page.
Hooked all over again

The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver. It is about a family where the father is a missionary that goes to the Congo right before all hell breaks loose. I felt like I was in the mind of the person relating that chapter.

Other books I enjoy are all of the Nevada Barr books, featuring Anna Pigeon, a national parks ranger who gets stationed in various parks across America. Crimes are committed and she gets involved in solving them. The books are set in various parks, one with caves in the Southwest, or in upper Michigan, or the Rockies. Anna is in her fifties and always off hiking, snorkeling, spelunking or some other vigorous activity and I wish I was in that good of shape!

I'm reading "The Childrens' book" by AS Byatt which I am REALLY enjoying.
Just finished "The Little Stranger" which was ok but not as good as the blurb suggested.
"Blacklands" by Belinda Bauer was really good and slightly disturbing.

I think that the main reason I disliked The Outcast was that I thought it was trying to be Ian McEwan, who I can't stand.

I'm reading New York, by Edward Rutherfurd. Love it!

Steig Larrsons books are brill, too, I agree.

Patricia Cornwell -Scarpetta, one of her better ones actually, not too gruesome.

Oh dear - I hated 'The Outcast' and 'Fingersmith' - I'm on the wrong thread aren't I? Can I stay - if I sit in the corner?

I've just finished 'Shakespeare's Truth' by an author I've not heard of before - Rex Richards and it was FAB! Very Dan Brown-esque and even had the Queen being kidnapped and Prince William being bumped off in a particularly nasty way! It's a real 'why-dunnit' rather than 'who' to be honest...based around the fact that Shakespeare couldn't even write his name, barely a book, it tells the story of why who actually wrote the plays/sonnets was kept a secret for years by the Royals. A blindingly good read. Hope his next book's as good!!

I quite liked 'a prayer for Owen Meany' and read his most recent one a while ago - title escapes me, but its about tattoos.
Just read 'Stone Virgins' by Barry Unsworth on recommendation from DP
I rather liked 'Jonathan Strange and Mr Norris' too
Wouldn't recommend 'Chesil Beach' by Ian McEwan though, its a bit thin, but I suppose it is well written

'One Day'

in was the only book in wstones top ten that I hadn't read

Have you read any other Sarah Waters books? If not, don't let The Little Stranger put you off, I thought Fingersmith and Affinity were much better. Like you half way through I wished the whole lot would go up in flames .

Recently read The Outcast by Sadie Jones which i thought was excellent and have just started The Road home by Rose Tremain which looks promising.

Only read a couple of pages - can't say I'm particularly grabbed by it yet - hence the fact that I'm on here instead of reading it!