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179 replies

Fishpants · 19/10/2011 15:33

I'm hoping to gather some ideas and some real people recommendations rather than the Top 100 Novels to Read Before You Die type lists.

Disclaimer: I know it's hard to pick just one, so you can pick more than one if you really must. [hwink]

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Sossiges · 19/10/2011 15:34

Anything by Georgette Heyer, well any of her Regency romances

Hullygully · 19/10/2011 15:36

My Family and Other Animals
The Cider House Rules
Such A Long Journey
Midnight's Children
Blindness
Ballet Shoes
Middlesex
Her Son's Wife
The Vivisector
Blood Meridian

I'll stop at 10....

Sossiges · 19/10/2011 15:38

Moonshine - Victoria Clayton

Sossiges · 19/10/2011 15:39

Anything by Victoria Clayton [hsmile]

Sossiges · 19/10/2011 15:42

Gone with the wind

Fishpants · 19/10/2011 15:42

Hully Midnight's Children? I tried that a couple of times and could barely get past page 5...is it worth persevering, then?

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Hullygully · 19/10/2011 15:42

yy to Gone With The Wind

Hullygully · 19/10/2011 15:43

It is quite simply superb. And The Satanic Verses.

rockboobs · 19/10/2011 15:43

All The Pretty Horses - Cormac McCarthy, frankly any of his books if you want beautiful prose.

Weaveworld - Clive Barker, the most interesting tale I've ever read, first read at 13 and reread a million times over since then, it stands alone as my favourite book EVER.

The Outlander Series by Diana Gabaldon, which is vast but the first 3 novels are the most fascinating, after that they get a bit indulgent.

Hullygully · 19/10/2011 15:45

rock - I think Blood Meridian is better than the Pretty Horses Trilogy (though I loved them too).

rockboobs · 19/10/2011 15:53

Hully - I'm yet to start Blood Meridien. Its on my list, I'm looking forward to dark winter evenings when I can stay in and read a good book again.

Meita · 19/10/2011 15:54

Anything by Octavia Butler, for instance 'Kindred'
Or, Ursula LeGuin. Really love most of her books, too.

Hullygully · 19/10/2011 15:56
chickensaresafehere · 19/10/2011 15:57

Rebecca
The Stand
A Thousand Splendid Suns

heymammy · 19/10/2011 16:00

Shogun - James Clavell
The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck, ooh and Of Mice and Men
The Godfather - Mario Puzo...not a dull page in the whole damn book

FearfulYank · 19/10/2011 16:04

I love Stephen King: The Stand is my favorite. The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon is a newer one that is superb and Firestarter is a cracking good story.

For laughs I like Wodehouse.

Maria De Los Santos is another one I'm getting into. The titles are Love Walked In and Belong to Me, which are rather trite but the imagery in the books is great.

So many more...I'll have a think and get back to you. :)

MrsJohnDeere · 19/10/2011 16:08

Pride and Prejudice
Or
Rebecca
Or
Alias Grace

renaldo · 19/10/2011 16:08

Summer people by Marge Piercey

Hullygully · 19/10/2011 16:09

Oh yes, I love ol Marge

renaldo · 19/10/2011 16:11

we have similar tastes Hull :)
who is her sons wife by?
Ballet shoes in not quite as good as the vicarage children book

Hullygully · 19/10/2011 16:13

I have just got an adult book by Noel. V excited.

Her Son's Wife is Dorothy Canfield (Fisher possibly). It's a Virago mod classic. It is SO GOOD. I keep giving it to people.

Ooo and The Rector's Wife and everything by Elizabeth Taylor

GHAHSTLYGHOULYpants · 19/10/2011 16:14

To Kill a Mockingbird
The Catcher in the Rye
The Great Gatsby
The Kite Runner
Captain Corellies Mandolin
A Room With a View
A Patchwork Planet
Middlesex
Wild Swans
Amsterdam

There is a Nick Hornby one about a family and the man has a breakdown and it ends with him trying to fix the guttering outside the house when it is pouring with rain? Its is brilliant.

Love JD Salinger, Anne Tyler, Carol Sheilds, Rose Treman,

Hullygully · 19/10/2011 16:14

What's the vicarage one?

Hullygully · 19/10/2011 16:15

yy Anne Tyler (not last five or so) and Rose Tremain. Expecially Music and Silence and the one with lots of snow.

Capt Corelli but not the shit shit shit end.

Cloud Atlas

Hullygully · 19/10/2011 16:17

Helen Dunmore

A Place of Greater Safety and Wolf Hall

(sorry I'm going to need 500 or so)