Calling all BOOKWORMS!

[DazedEmma]

I have a few more weeks off sick (back problem) and am flying through books. I literally have no books left in my reading pile so I'm going to put in an order of books when I've compiled a big reading list!

Help me! What are a few of your favourite books? List a few in case I've read the one you recommend.

I will read EVERYTHING so am open to all your recommendations....

wild swans is fab and the thornbirds

Have you read:

The Kite Runner

The Secret River - Kate Grenville

Philip Pullman's dark materials trilogy.

I've just finished Human Traces by Sebastien Faulks and thoroughly enjoyed it. Quite long though.

A thousand Splendid Suns-Khaled Hosseini
Notes on an Exhibition-Patrick Gale
Resistance-Owen Sheers
I Capture the Castle-Dodie Smith
Bird Song -Sebastain Faulks
Crow Lake-Mary Lawson
The Poisonwood Bible-Barabara Kingsolver

Welcome to Temptation - Jennifer Crusie
A Place of My Own - Micheal Pollan (not fiction)
American Gods - Neil Gaiman
Crow Lake - Mary Lawson
The Robin Hudson series of books by Sparkle Hayter

The Book People are selling 10 Harlan Coban books for £9.99. They are really gripping thrillers, I love his stuff.

I would be happy to post you any of the ones that I've listed if you want, so long as you promise to post them back. (I have had to buy Welcome to Temptation 3 times through lending it and it getting lost as it's my good mood book for when I need a laugh.)

ooh kerrymum i just read the op and was about to say cloud atlas- great book eh?

lighter read - anything by anita shreve, i read them when i am not well, somehow comforting!

oh - recently read joyce carol oates "unles" liked that too

Not sure how bad your back is, but if you can make it to the post office, you could get rid of some of the books you've read, and get new ones, via Bookmooch - I love it!

Engleby by Sebastian Faulks
Certain Girls by Jennifer Weiner
Spa decameron by Fay Weldon
Terry Pratchett is v good

I have a zillion books of all genres, cat me and I'll post some ones I have recently enjoyed to you

The Dragonriders of Pern by Anne McCaffrey are my favourite all time books. I read them every couple of years, and love, love, love them. I am reading them right now actually.

You could list all the books that you've read on Read It Swap It and swap them for others. I joined last October and I've done about 100 swaps since then.

Do you like sci-fi? Alastair Reynolds is great, I recommend his Revelation Space series. Revelation Space is the first one, then Chasm City, then Redemption Ark. There is a fourth one out which I haven't read yet called Absolution Gap. Each book is huge with lots of story lines that all weave together in a very clever way.

I thought Cloud Atlas was a clever book but I didn't really enjoy it. I much preferred his Black Swan Green which was a very different style. (David Mitchell)

If you haven't yet read them, then:

Life of Pi

the Unbearable Lightness opf Being by milan kundera

anything my Haruki Murikami

The five people you meet in heaven

The map of love by Ahdaf Souef

Esther Freud is good for a more light easy read

or Raffaella Barker for something bordering on chick lit

This Thing of Darkness by Harry Thompson will keep you going for a while.

I am absolutely riveted by it but it's taking ages to read!

the book theif is good too

oh - the history of love, nicole krauss

abbeya i read cloud atlas once and didn't like it - was reading it my "normal" way, a few pages a night/day

then took it on holiday and read it in great uninterrupted chunks over 2 days - much better!

It's just occured to me, will I ever read again once my baby is born????

English Passengers by Matthew Kneale - fab, funny, heartbreaking, really absorbing. Also Carter Beats the Devil by Glenn David Gould. Oh and The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver is excellent too.

And I thought The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters was huge fun too, but I know lots of people say it is far too long, so depends how you feel about cheeky Victorian pastiche.

DazedEmma - you might. Depends how you end up feeding - some people I knew could bf one-handed, and hold a book with the other, but not me. Don't think I could FF and read together either - one hand to cradle the baby, one to hold the bottle. Maybe you could set up some sort of book holder, like those ones for cookery books.

I love everything by Rose Tremain
also recently enjoyed Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood
in our book group we just read The Blood of Flowers by Anita Amirrezvani - lovely book, very insightful, gripping and interesting without being gory

Dazedemma - I have read loads since having my DS (6.5 months)!

The Time Travellers Wife - bit cheesy but fun

if i had a massive chunk of time i would read Dance to the music of time by anthony powell (about 4 volumes, 8/900 pages each)