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If I share my taste in books can you suggest what I could read next?

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Miaou · 31/01/2006 15:00

Here's what I have read recently:

The Bonesetter's Daughter
The Poisonwood Bible
The Sweetest Dream - Doris Lessing
The Fifth Child - Doris Lessing
Eden Close - Anita Shreve
Lots of Ruth Rendells
The Dark-Adapted Eye - Barbara Vine (Ruth Rendell)
Roccoco - Trigiani
Instances of the Number Three - Salley Vickers

Any suggestions of what to read next? Am just finishing The Fifth Child (mumsnet recommendation!)

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Piffle · 31/01/2006 15:02

jodi picoult

Piffle · 31/01/2006 15:02

Also have your read any other Anita Shreves they are excellent

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Miaou · 31/01/2006 15:05

Have read one or two AS piffle but Eden Close was the only one I really enjoyed. Didn't like The Last Time They Met.

What do you recommend by Jodi Picoult? (not heard of her)

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mummytosteven · 31/01/2006 16:23

Wild Swans by Jung Chang (if you've not already read her)
Ripley series by Patricia Highsmith
Grasshopper and No Night is too Long by Barbara Vine

zippitippitoes · 31/01/2006 16:33

Jenny Diski skating to antarctica

the healer by greg hollingshead

mummytosteven · 31/01/2006 16:35

oh yes, Skating to Antartica is very good, as is her travelling on a train across the USA one (racking my brain now!)

snowleopard · 31/01/2006 16:38

Have you tried Rose Tremain, Margaret Atwood, Carol Shields?

MrsSpoon · 31/01/2006 16:39

Jodi Picoult is fab, my favourite of hers so far as been Plain Truth.

Piffle · 31/01/2006 16:49

Any Jodi Picoult although My Sisters Keeper is superb. Also Mercy is excellent oh dang they're all bloody good.

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Miaou · 31/01/2006 16:52

I've read the blind assassin, that was good - might try another atwood.

rose tremain - what did she write?

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moondog · 31/01/2006 16:52

Kate Atkinson
Behind the scenes at the museum

Superb

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Miaou · 31/01/2006 16:54

oooh yes, read that a few years ago, brilliant

what about chocolat? etc - any good?

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mummytosteven · 31/01/2006 16:55

Only read Five Quarters of the Orange (good read, but freaked me out a bit at times), and Coastliners, which I found very dull.

mummytosteven · 31/01/2006 16:55

Oranges are not the only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson is very good.

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Miaou · 31/01/2006 16:58

oooh quite like being freaked out

read OANTOF a few years ago, enjoyed it

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MrsSpoon · 31/01/2006 17:00

In the last few months I have loved Case Histories by Kate Atkinson and I know this much is true by Wally Lamb.

moondog · 31/01/2006 17:00

Oh,Wally Lamb's is a BIG love of mine MrsS!!

MrsSpoon · 31/01/2006 17:01

I cried when it was finished Moondog, just wanted it to go on and on. His others are good then?

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Miaou · 31/01/2006 17:03

Wally Lamb, did he write She's Come Undone? If so, it's fab

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cull · 31/01/2006 17:06

Joanna Harris and Alice Hoffman are 2 of my (many many) faves
or for fluffy don't have to think much books i love rosamunde pilcher
Have you read anymore Amy Tan? Thousand Secret Senses is my favourite of hers.

Blandmum · 31/01/2006 17:07

Asta's Story by Barbera Vine....one of her best

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Miaou · 31/01/2006 17:09

thanks cull - what do you recommend by alice hoffmann?

will add the other amy tan to my list

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Miaou · 31/01/2006 17:10

thanks mb - lurve b vine

am going to see what I can request from the library!

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moondog · 31/01/2006 17:10

yes miaou

moondog · 31/01/2006 17:10

yes miaou