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Desperate plea: need a cracking book to read...

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LadyThompson · 10/03/2010 21:37

Ok, I like literary fiction (favourite authors John Updike, Evenlyn Waugh, Graham Green and Jonathan Coe); I like comic novels; however, I will also read the occasional page turner (say, by David Nicholls) and I even read (and thoroughly enjoyed) the dreaded Twilight books.

I need something that is going to hook me in. Stylishly written would be great, but, as I say, I read and enjoyed the Twilight books Old or new, it doesn't matter. Please help!

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LadyThompson · 10/03/2010 21:46

I've never heard of Chris Cleave. (By the way, if I suddenly vanish, it's because I have gone to bed as I am pregnant and very tired (and I wish I had a book for bed ) I am however very grateful for everyone's suggestions. It would be helpful if people could roughly describe what sort of book it is (sorry, I'm being demanding!)

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LadyThompson · 10/03/2010 21:44

I have only read one Mantel, a very early one called An Experiment in Love. What's good about A Place of Great Safety?

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Rooble · 10/03/2010 21:43

Have you read The Other Hand by Chris Cleave? Really does hook you in, and is quite funny (but at the same time can be very shocking) - I don't know anyone who didn't enjoy it. A relatively quick and easy read, so will probably only last you a couple of days though. (I couldn't put it down)

LadyThompson · 10/03/2010 21:42

I haven't read the Donna Tartt actually. Maybe I should.

I had heard The American Wife was good.

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choosyfloosy · 10/03/2010 21:42

August 1914 by Barbara Tuchman (nonfiction)
A Place of Greater Safety by Hilary Mantel (ABSOLUTELY UNMISSABLY GREAT in fact I am going to stop there because if you haven't read it oh boy)

MimsyStarr · 10/03/2010 21:40

Have you read The Secret History by Donna Tartt? It's an old one, you probably have.

choosyfloosy · 10/03/2010 21:40

The American Wife by Curtis Sittenfeld
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Time's Arrow by Martin Amis
How Far Can You Go by David Lodge
The Reason Why by Cecil Woodham-Smith (nonfiction)
Lyndon Johnson: Master of the Senate by Robert A Caro (nonfiction)

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