OK people, I'm about to order STUFF on Amazon. Please tell me your favourite books

[branflake81]

PS - no Lord of the Rings gnome type stories, no sci fi and nothing overtly chick lit.

thanks

I love Lee Child, Harlan Coben, Dennis Lehane, Robert Crais, Janet Evanovich, Kathy Reichs, early Patricia Cornwell (before she went all weird) and Marian Keyes.

Adele Parks is good. Mohsin Hamid's The Reluctant Fundamentalist is fantastic.

are you buying us all a book?

I just read the dexter books they were good.

A thousand splendid suns is amazing.

I am currently reading We need to talk about Kevin.

Oh and Can any mother help me (it was mumsnet in the war lol).

I'm afraid not

but thanks for the replies!

kite runner
thousand splendid suns
small island
brick lane
the poisonwood bible

The go-between is a belter if you've not read it

the book thief
notes from an exhibition

the corrections, jonathan frantzen
unbelievably good

Unless by Carol Shields

I agree with Corrections
also Nights at the Circus, Angela Carter

The book thief is great

The book thief is great

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The 44 Scotland Street series by Alexander McCall Smith are very gentle, enjoyable books - I get so involved with the characters I hate when the end comes.

The People's Act of Love is also quite good.

Life of Pi
We need to talk about Kevin
The vanishing act of Esme Lennox
Notes from an exhibtion
The curious incident of the dog in the night-time

Forgot to add Notes on a scandal

The Rain Before It Falls - Jonathan Coe
Case Histories - Kate Atkinson
Notes on an Exhibition is truly fab.
Also Jane Yardley and Clare Chambers.

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I know this much is true, Wally lamb

Also just reading Margaret Forster's Diary of an Ordinary Woman - fascinating.

Of my recent reads I can recommend "the seance" (a good ghost story set in Victorian times)

life of Pi
all Alexander McCall Smith
Georgette Heyer crime/detective books
Kathy Reichs (but not Karin Slaughter, sick woman!)
Christopher Brookmyre
Stuart - a life backwards by Alexander Masters