Are you a bookworm?

[Zebraa]

Can you list a few books that you absolutely fell in love with?

I need a new book to love.

I'm in dire need of recommendations as I don't read the back of books.

Oh my word, lots of little bookworms out there! Thank you guys.

My favourite book in the world is Anna Karenina. I love her. I also adore Little Women.

I love variety. I like reading out of my comfort zone (which is classics).

So all recommendations welcome. I'm going to compile a list soon and get cracking. Might review them once I've read them?

I would recommend these based on what you said because although they are not classics they are quite challenging (for me anyway!) - they are modern classics I guess. Possession would appeal to anyone who has studied English at Uni and/ or has an interest in poetry. Beloved gets better each time I read it and makes me cry about the inhumanity of slavery and is spooky too!

Possession by A S Byatt

The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst

Beloved by Toni Morrison

I really love all three!

FiveGoMadinDorset - vvv excited that you mentioned Penguins Stopped Play it's a WONDERFUL book and you don't have to like cricket at all. It's a character piece.

I loved

the Rabbit books by John Updike

The End of the Affair by Graham Greene

The first few pages of a book usually tell me here are my fav's;
Kite Runner
A Thousand Splendid Suns

All books by Dan Brown, Jane Green, Martina Cole, Wilbur Smith, Clive Cussler.

A good thriller, weepy or a feel good book.

Just read The book Theif which I loved.

Am currently reading 'half of a yellow sun'

I love books so much, I am always reading something.

I want all the new richard and judy picks as they look great. Also want the new one by Jane Fallon, as her last one was so funny (getting rid of matthew).

My favourite book has to be the Count of Monte Cristo. Love it, read it every couple of years. Am also very fond of Jane Eyre.

That makes me sound more sophisticated than i really am! I also often re-read Jilly Cooper when i have nothing new around!

Recently read great book, The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon. Would reccommend it highly.

Look out for "The Other Hand" by Chris Cleave this month - I was lucky to read it in advance as I work in a bookshop and it blew me away! Funny and sad, and really makes you think x x

I'm with you on both Jane Eyre and the Shadow of the Wind.

Both truly excellent.

And you have to read Dickens. All of them.

Shakespeare and Dickens understood the human pshyche more than anyone else alive or dead.

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If there are any dog lovers out there, then a must read is "Marley and Me" and "A Dog Year" - have laughed and cried with these books.