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If I tell you which books I've enjoyed recently, can you recommend some more to add to my amazon order, please?

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Olihan · 11/06/2010 23:22

Over the last couple of months I've read:

I Capture the Castle - Dodie Smith
The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets - Eva Rice
The Virgin Suicides - Geoffrey Eugenides
The Children's Book - AS Byatt
Wolf Hall - Hilary Mantel
The Wilderness - Samantha Harvey
Brooklyn - Colm Toibin
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society - Mary Ann Schaffer
Digging to America &
The Clock Winder - Anne Tyler
Resistance - Anita Shreve (have read almost all of hers though)
Three Cups of Tea - Greg Mortensen
American Wife - Curtis Sittenfeld
The White Queen - Philippa Gregory (read all of hers too)

Still to go are:

Love in a Cold Climate (Penguin Modern Classics) - Nancy Mitford
A Place of Greater Safety - Hilary Mantel

I've also read but didn't really enjoy

A Case of Exploding Mangoes - Mohammed Hanif
Purple Hibiscus - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The Cellist of Sarajevo - Steven Galloway

So what do I order next?

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purpleturtle · 11/06/2010 23:28

Yes, The Secret Scripture is also on my bookshelf.

Have you read The Historian? I loved that.

ruckyrunt · 11/06/2010 23:28

ok - ta, have been lining up chuncks and then falling asleep, not sure whether it is the book or I am really tierd...

wukter · 11/06/2010 23:28

Not dissimiliar to Brooklyn in mood and tone and subject, too, I suppose.

purpleturtle · 11/06/2010 23:27

Wow! Wolf Hall alone took me about 3 months!

I actually gave up on The Cellist of Sarajevo, although I enjoyed the other two in your 'reject' list.

I'm not sure I can actually help you, but I am familiar with several titles from your list. Have you read other Anne Tylers? She's consistently good, IMO.

wukter · 11/06/2010 23:26

True IMO.
but you have to give it chunks of time, you canb't do 5 mins here, 10 mins there.

OP Can I recommend The Secret scripture by Sebastian Barry.

gaelicsheep · 11/06/2010 23:26

Well having read none of those (and not even heard of most of them) I am no help at all I'm afraid. I find it really hard to find any books I fancy reading when I look. I think maybe the cost puts me off - I so hate the thought of wasting £10 on a crap book, and our library is rubbish.

Respect to you for managing to read so much!

ruckyrunt · 11/06/2010 23:24

Not sure but can I ask you a question?

Wolf Hall - I have been told once you get to page 150 it is ok - is this true or not in your opinon?

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