Book suggestions please!

[notnowbernard]

Hi

Feel able to get back into reading a bit again now that dd2 is approaching 1st birthday.

Any recommendations? Fancy a bit of a challenge but nothing too brain-bending, IYKWIM!

I need to exercise my mind

depend on what kinds of books u like im currently reading winter in madrid a kind of war story i feel its challangeing other than that i read the memory keepers daughter. i also read a chicklit called rescuing rose on holiday it was good not my usual book

tell me what u like and ill suggest

real life?
romance
biography?

brick lane by monica ali
small island by Andrea Levy
half of a yellow sun by Chimamanda Adichie
Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood

If you like a bit of fluffy chicklit read my mum's book!
If you like shockingly hilarious filth, read my mate's OH's book! (topical as it has Elvis impersonators in it)
Plug plug plug, both in Waterstones etc...

Thanks for all suggestions

Am heading for the library tomorrow.

Random Acts of Heroic Love - its brilliant.

the kite runner - utterly fabulous!!

try John Connolly - the Book of Lost Things.

I recommend random acts of Heroic Love too - just make sure you're not too far from a hanky - it's pretty intense!

like your list, totalchaos.

The Rise and Fall of a Yummy Mummy by Polly Williams
This Book will save your Life by A.N.Homes
The Pact and my Sisters keeper both by jodi Picoult

Just read all on holiday.
First one is great chick lit.
Also The silk harmony factory if you fancy something a bit heavier.

If you're ever stuck deciding what to read Richard & Judy book club selections are usually good.

Hi again,
I forgot the best book that I've read in the last few months. That is The Island by Victoria Hislop. A really great read - I didn't want it to finish

The Magus by John Fowles
To kill a mockingbird by Harper Lee
Carter beats the devil by Glen David Gold
The secret history by Donna Tarte
The blind assassin by Margaret Atwood
ummmm.....
...just read the house at Riverton which was quite good, bit of a page turner.

The Kite Runner
Shadow of the Wind
Rebecca
The Memory Keeper's Daughter
Dr Zhivago

The Woods Harlen Coben, in fact anything by Harlen Coben if you want a page turner and a damn good story.