If I tell you what I like could you suggest some reads please?

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After years of not having time to read because of dc, sleeping etc, I now have time to read but I am struggling to find new titles.

Recently I have read and loved..
The Kite Runner
A Thousand Splendid Suns
A Year in the Merde (Stephen Clarke) - Very Funny!!

I also love autobiographies - whether the person is famous or not.

Because someone recommended her, I have recently read a Jodi Picoult book but I wasn't impressed.

If you have the same taste, what have you enjoyed recently?

The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger is the best book I have read in years...

I have seen that in the library - I shall put it on my list to get out next time.

Thanks

life and times of the thunderbolt kid...bill bryson's autobiography.... it's wet your pants funny!

cutting for stone..unusual family saga set in ethiopa/usa...ties up a few too many ends but really enjoyable writing style

Dunno about matching your list, but I just finished Things My Girlfriend and I Have Argued About by Mil Millington and got some very looks by laughing loudly in the school playground

oh and a tall man in a low land by harry pearson, about his travels in belgium. A year in the merde wasn't my cup of tea nor this but they were a similar style (if that makes sense!)

I have read and enjoyed "The life and times of the Thunderbolt Kid", pollywolly, so we are on the right track. In fact I should look out some more Bill Bryson stuff as he is always funny.

Thanks Flame, shall look for that one, and the Harry Pearson one tomorrow at the library.

Going on hols to Wales next week and I have planned for lots of nice weather so dc will play, leaving me with lots of time to read.

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I have read those books and enjoyed them.

Try: One Half of a Yellow Sun it's about Biafra - written by a young Nigerian girl (then). I couldn't put it down.

The Poisonwood Bible which I have loaned out to people who have read all the above and loved it. (About a family of Missionaries that go over to the Congo)

Birds Without Wings which is about when Turkey and Greece divided etc and the lives of people in that era and what they went through. Found this particular book a little tedious at first but then got into it and loved it.

Orchid is lovely too - Japanese

The Fourth Queen which is about the late 1800's and a Scottish girl that got shipwrecked and sold to Harem. Brilliantly saucy and colourful.

And finally my favourite book of all
*The Red Tent' which is just amazing and all the above (far as I am concerned) stand in it's shadow, (my friends and sisters agree with me).

I would recommend:

One Day

Twenty Chickens for a saddle

Nine parts of desire

Hideous Kinky

Little Face

Jeffrey Eugenides: Middlesex

Donna Tartt: The Secret History

Small Island by Andrea Levy.
The Attack by Yasmina Khadra.
Alone in Berlin by Hans Fallada.
Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky.
Agree with One Half of a Yellow Sun.

loved "lily aphrodite"
is kind of cookson but with very interesting historical bits. and am fussy

19th wife
american wife

One Day
The Help

Have justfinished The Help - Kathryn Stockett - loved it. If you like one half of a yellow sun the same author wrote Purple Hibiscus

I've just started Alone in Berlin and am enjoying it so far.

The Help is pretty good - but I didn't like the ending.

Half Of A Yellow Sun = good.

I found The Poisonwood Bible unreadable but I think I am quite alone in this.

Middlesex is pretty good but The Virgin Suicides is much better.

imho

I couldn't finish The Poisonwood Bible either.

Hurray - I am not alone!

Life of pi

Saving fish from drowning

memoirs of a geisha

the island

Atonement

Agree American Wife and Half a Yellow Sun,also She's Come Undone-Wally Lamb-gripping, harrowing but also uplifting story.
The Road Home-Rose Tremain
This Book Will Save Your Life-A M Holmes

My recommendations...

Wolf Hall - Hilary Mantel - about Thomas Cromwell and Henry 8th's marriage to Anne Boleyn. A big read, but very engrossing

The Road Home - a warm insight into the life of an economic migrant

The litte Stranger - Sarah Walters - spooky tale of the paranormal in the home of poverty stricken post war landed gentry.

Anything by kate Atkinson