If I told you what books I have read and enjoyed, could you recommend me my next read?

[Dragonbutter]

Just finished A thousand splendid suns by Khaled Hosseini and loved it.
Also loved The Kite Runner.

Other favourites include...
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
Small Island by Andrea Levy (also like andrea levy's other stuff)
Brick Lane by Monica Ali

So, what else might I like?

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hey, i never made it to the bookshop on account of DH's kind shopping on my behalf (grr but mmm, that's nice). still i think he did well.

Quint, I think i heard of that controversy when the book was first published. Things didn't end well between the author and the bookseller. Is that in the book?

I need this thread to be archived so i can look it up every time I need a new read.
Nobody swear or say anything controversial please, i need this thread to stay where it is.

The Outcast.
bloody hell it's good.

Another vote for the Outcast

Couldn't put The Outcast down.

I know. not sure what i'm doing on here. That book is calling me.

Thanks Gloriastits, surreylady and sugarpig!
The Outcast was brilliant.
Think i might start a thread about it if there isn't one already.
I had a couple of questions about why Lewis did what he did towards the end.

GloriaStits- those three are on my top favourite list too- I love Willian Boyd and would recommend anything by him.
Restless is his latest- it's great.
What I loved by Siri Hustvedt is fab too- she has a new one out - The Sorrows of an American.
Donna Tarrt - The Secret History
Patrick Gale- Notes from an Exhibition
Edward St Aubyn- Mother's Milk

I didn't enjoy Ali Smith-The Accidental either Gloria- nor did i like The time trveller's Wife ot The lovely Bones- whch lots of my friends loved.

I've just bought The Outcast and Half of a Yelow sun for holiday- why didn't yopu like half of a Yellow sun Dragonbutter? On another thread people who had read A Thousand Splendid suns- which I loved- and said they didn't think it was as good as the hype- recommended Half a yellow Sun which is why I bought it...interested as to what you thought.

I was enjoying it but wasn't getting much reading time (on here too much) and lost momentum.
I tend to either devour a book in a short period of time or plod on for a while, take a break from it, forget where i'd got to and lose interest.
And i wasn't really 'liking' any of the characters. I didn't feel i was identifying with any of them.

Glad you liked the outcast. will go visit your thread on it now. William boyd is fab isn't he? Every book he writes is so different from the last. Reminds me of Michael Faber in that respect.
Northernrefugee- so glad its not just me! I loathed lovely bones also- thought it was sentimental claptrap (but did like timetravellers wife - hmm...guess I like sentimental claptrap sometimes)
Have new recommendation for poisonwood bible lovers- Blood river. Non-fiction. journalist travelling through the congo. So good.

Ah yes, blood river, i'm waiting for MIL to finish it. I bought it for her birthday. Sneaky.

I think you'd like Shantaram

It's a doorstopper, but I found that I got through it quickly. Such a fascinating story and really richly told.

It's supposed to be the true story of an Australian guy who skipped prison and laid low in India (mainly Mumbai). If you've ever been to Mumbai, it's instantly evocative and if you've not, it's still great.

Notes From an Exhibition, Patrick Gale

Am watching this with interest. Will suggest a book, when I remember its name!

I can't believe this thread is still going.
Thanks