Have you read any good books lately?

[jampot]

Has anyone read any good books lately? I really like to read chick lit books because they're so easy - trouble is I can't seem to find any good ones now. I've read and can thoroughly recommend The Shopaholic series by Sophie Kinsella, The Devil wears Prada, Easy (although it's a little honest), Crossing the Paradise Line by Anabelle Giles. Can you recommend any others?

JanHR... couldnt be bothered reading the whole thread but saw that you liked the Kay Scarpetta books. I read them and loved them but then found James Paterson who is FANTASTIC and I can read a book of his in a day (if uninterrupted by nagging ds and dh!!!) The writing is brilliant and are all real page turners though not for the faint hearted and definitely not chick lit!!

Marghanita Laski, Little Boy Lost - not easy to find, published many years ago, small re-issue recently, Amazon have it. Am very fussy about books, almost nothing is ever good enough but this one IS.

Has anyone read Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell?
It had a good write-up in the ST and was sold out when I asked for it.

I just finished the Republic of Love by Carol Shields. The two main characters are a 35 yo single female - never married but bit of a serial monogamist and the second is a 40 yo man, 3 times divorced - a bit unlucky rather than a bastard. I loved it, as I have the other Shields books I have read. I must admit that she died quite recently of breast cancer and this has also motivated me to read all of her works as a kind of tribute.

I have just finished House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III and highly highly recommend it. Totally took me by surprise. The author gave great insights into so many interesting areas like migrants who have been granted asylum, recovering addicts, a man who leaves his wife, being a copper. I am curious to see the movie now (with Ben Kinglsey) even though I know that movies are never as good as books, I would still like to see what they did with it.

Love all Paulina Simons, especially 11 hours.

Also Phillapa Gregory and Jill mansell