Holiday reading 2012 ! Roll up with your suggestions

[jen127]

I am off on holiday next week and need some suggestions on books to read whilst away.
I am currently binning 50 shades of shite as it is awful.
I am open to any suggestions at all.
Cheers

keep reading it and have lots of sex on holiday - it is utter shite but still serves a purpose!

Lol!
I will bring it with me as an emergency read!

Jilly Cooper - a much better choice :o

I read Jilly when I was 16! I need something a little bit more challenging !

Marking my place as we are due to go on holiday and want a good read. However I do have a few books that I haven't started so might take one of those.

Thank God you're excluding 50 shades...my facebook is rife with sweaty palmed, overexcited women loving it, but it seems like dreck to me!
I read the Crimson Petal and the White on hol a few weeks ago, was an easy read without being airheaded. Maybe read Letters between Six Sisters, a collection of letters between the Mitford sisters, its a fabulous read and not too deep for sunlounger reading! (

I was just suggesting Jilly Cooper as an alternative to 50 Shades. I think I read her when I was about 16 too, along with Danielle Steel

Recent books I've read and enjoyed -

Rules of Civility - Amor Towles
When God Was a Rabbit - Sarah Winman
Me Before You - Jojo Moyes
The Hunger Games Trilogy - Suzanne Collins
The Marriage Plot - Jeffrey Eugenides
My Dear I Wanted To Tell You - Louisa Young
The Paris Wife - Paula McLain
How To Be A Woman - Caitlin Moran
The Reader - Bernhard Schlink
A Perfectly Good Man - Patrick Gale (nearly finished)

(Read but not enjoyed quite as much -

Lucky Break - Esther Freud
Night Waking - Sarah Moss)

I'm going to read Freedom by Jonathan Franzen which DH just finished and said was excellent (big American family saga) and will probably take How to be a Woman as well as I've not read and is supposed to be hilarious. Not interested in 50 shades of shite either.

I'm finding jubilee heavy going.

The Blackhouse by Peter may
The series by whatserface who wrote the woman in black, about a detective. serallier. They're great.
Visit from goon squad.
Civility. Yes that good.

Rudeness ? Try "bared to you "

Night waking is great read
Colonel gadaffis hat
Defending Jacob is excellent
Paris wife
The return of captain John Emmett is ACE
HOPE And glory

Liked the new eugedenies

stringcheese - have you read The Corrections also by Jonathan Franzen? I thoroughly enjoyed that, but haven't got round to reading Freedom yet. Also, I liked Donna Tartt's two novels - The Secret History, and The Little Friend.

jen - if you like thrillers then I'd recommend Blacklands and Darkside both by Belinda Bauer - set on Exmoor and both excellent. There's a third one also but I can't remember the title (haven't read it yet). Also recommend Sophie Hannah's crime/thriller novels.

jumping yes it's one of my fave books, so hilarious and brilliant. Really looking forward to Freedom.

this

just read My Dear I wanted to tell you by Louisa Young in a day...brill.
Also loving the Susan Hill Serrailer detective novels.

I recently reread The Future Homemakers of America by Laurie Graham and was reminded of how good it is.

I read that too was ok

The Observations by Jane Harris

Company of Liars by Karen Maitland

Fingersmith by Sarah Waters

All long, involving, well-written books - great for holidays.

Thank you for the suggestions ! has anyone read Chris Brookmyre? I have had him recommended? I will take a look at the suggestions and purchase a few of them
jumpinginmuddypuddles I also read Danielle Steel and the flowers int he attic around that era....

I tried the new jilly Cooper, Jump, while i was pregnant... utter pants, i couldn't finish it.
Freedom and The Corrections both great. I've got into William Nicholson recently, the secret intensity of everyday life, set in sussex, is the first of a trilogy, very well written.

Stokey, I just bought that William Nicholson based on the cover reviews. Like the idea that there's more to read if the first one is good, and it sounds like it is.

Given this thread's theme, am flagging our summer reads 2012 page in case you miss it. :)

I second/third The Corrections. It's a great involving read.
Last year, I read 'The Help'. I thought it would be naff, but I really enjoyed it.
Where are you going? Perhaps we could match the book with the place?

I read "help" as well and was abit so, so!
So Iwll go for corrections in addition to the other suggestions .
I suppose I should pop over to the MN link to see what other suggestions there are.
Thanks to everyone

Jane Harris's new book "Gillespie and I" is compulsive and full of twists. Don't be put off by the cover! Keeps you guessing till the last paragraph....