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I loved Gone With The Wind.....

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lovelybunchofcoconuts · 18/02/2014 17:46

It's half term and I'm in bed with a bug.
Can anyone recommend a similar epic book to Gone With The Wind?
I've read The Thorn Birds and I liked that too.
Please can anyone recommend a similar Epic? Or a series?

Thanks.

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joanofarchitrave · 18/02/2014 17:53

I adored Through A Glass Darkly when I read it as a teenager - think it was a series too but I only read one.

joanofarchitrave · 18/02/2014 17:53

There was a thread recently about the Mists of Avalon series by Marion Zimmer Bradley - also fabulous.

chemenger · 18/02/2014 17:59

The Cazalet books by Elizabeth Jane Howard.

Catsmamma · 18/02/2014 18:00

The Poldark series by Winston Graham (I think) ....there's about five or six books all together I think

bruffin · 18/02/2014 18:10

The White Oaks of Jalna series

HindsightisaMarvellousThing · 18/02/2014 18:14

Forever Amber - a lovely long historical indulgent read.

lovelybunchofcoconuts · 18/02/2014 18:48

You lot are brilliant!
Thank you Smile

I'll give them a look.

Please keep any suggestions coming.

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scarlettsmummy2 · 18/02/2014 18:52

Penny Vincenzi sagas are generally good. I would start with 'Windfall'.

mmack · 18/02/2014 21:56

Gone With the Wind is my all-time favourite and I liked The Thorn Birds too. Have you read East of Eden or A Town Like Alice? Both epics with war and romance.

MsAmerica · 19/02/2014 01:31

I'm not sure I'd call "A Town Like Alice" an epic, and it's certainly not as vivid as GWTW.

How about something like Shogun, set in 17th century Japan?

DuchessofMalfi · 19/02/2014 18:15

Have you read any R F Delderfield? I've read a few, and particularly enjoyed To Serve Them All My Days - it's a long novel, but he did write series as well, such as A Horseman Riding By.

lovelybunchofcoconuts · 20/02/2014 15:45

Thank you, I will have a look at that one too Smile

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Molivan · 20/02/2014 19:56

Gone With The Wind is my favourite book, I've read it three times and was just thinking the other day it's about time I read it again. If you like that sort of rambling epic, I would recommend A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry. I bought it and then picked it up and put it down a number of times before I took it on holiday and "forced" myself to read it. I absolutely loved it and, actually, think it's about time I read that again, too.

petal2008 · 21/02/2014 10:49

Ooh yes Forever Amber! Read that about 30 odd years ago, I was gripped. Think I might read again now after being reminded.

Mouse1234 · 21/02/2014 11:37

The sequel to gone with the Wind, by Alexander Ripley is also very good, if that's any use?

iseenodust · 21/02/2014 11:42

Agree Poldark & Delderfield. For American again what about The Grapes of Wrath?

yourlittlesecret · 21/02/2014 15:19

Oh Gone with the Wind takes me back. I read it in my teens 100 years ago.
Around the same time a similarly epic and exotic love story set in India was The Far Pavillions by MM Kaye.

SnookyPooky · 21/02/2014 18:17

GWTW is my absolute favourite book and film ever.
Also loved the Thorn Birds and Forever Amber.
Can recommend the Wideacre series by Phillipa Gregory.

mmack · 21/02/2014 18:24

Yourlittlesecret, I just looked up The Far Pavillions on Amazon and it looks amazing. It will be on my summer holiday list for sure.

FuckyNell · 21/02/2014 18:26

Morgans run is excellent

HelgatheHairy · 22/02/2014 15:39

Love Gone With the Wind and think The Mists of Avalon is ALMOST as good.

SaltyGoodness · 26/02/2014 17:08

I loved the same books as you OP.... I think you'd love the Clan of the Cave Bear series.

A Fine Balance is STILL sitting unread on my shelf after so many years... really must get round to it one of these days.

Cthulu · 26/02/2014 18:50

ooh, Clan of the Cave Bear!

I do like aspects of GWTW, but..but...it's soooo racist. I can't get past the idea that the Klu Klux Klan are the Good Guys.

MonstersBalls · 26/02/2014 18:54

Have you read Wild Swans?

I really enjoyed it.

janesnowdon1 · 27/02/2014 11:06

Scarlett always reminds me of Becky Sharpe so I think Vanity Fair would be a good follow on read. Susan Howatch also wrote some great family sagas such as Cashelmara and The Wgeel of Fortune.

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