OK - I want new things to read. Please can you list two books- one classic, one modern- you think everyone shoulf read.

[seeker]

I'll start. Pride and Prejudice and The Kite Runner, by Khalid Hosseini.

[MorticiaDoom]

Brave New World- Aldous Huxley

The Bloody Chamber- Angela Carter

[ahundredtimes]

[swoons at Rosamund Lehman]

Middlemarch

and

The Stone Diaries

[ahundredtimes]

Are these books supposed to complement each other - as I believe my choices do - or just be good?

[ahundredtimes]

American Pastoral is a ruddy good book.

[ahundredtimes]

MyEye's books go together well too.

I think that should be the game. [tricky]

[VintageGardenia]

Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
Memoir - John McGahern

[GColdtimer]

Oliver Twist
Small Island

[zippitippitoes]

yes books which have some sort of correspondence with each would be interesting

[GColdtimer]

actually, although that wasn't my intention, mine sort of do. Don't they?

[ahundredtimes]

YES! Twofalls they do, I agree.

Oh it would be a gooood game Seeker, and it'd be good to read them together I think. [phones Tillybookclub]

[lilibet]

Ooooh interesting

(puts thinking cap on)

[ahundredtimes]

Maybe people have done it without realizing?

Am going to check.

[Lotster]

Oh, mine are already done, just want to second The Time Traveller's Wife; beautiful, moving book.

If you like friendship tales, The Divine Secrets of the Ya Ya Sisterhood is wonderful. Mine is dog eared after being read by friends and their mums too!

[ahundredtimes]

[realizes is at a disadvantage never having read Kite Runner or 1000 suns]

How about - and they still have to ones you think everyone should read, yes?

The Woman in White
Case Histories

or

Gullivers Travels
Cloud Atlas

[ahundredtimes]

[realizes is at a disadvantage never having read Kite Runner or 1000 suns]

How about - and they still have to ones you think everyone should read, yes?

The Woman in White
Case Histories

or

Gullivers Travels
Cloud Atlas

[angelene]

Classic - Catch 22

Another vote for The Secret History in the Modern category. This one got me back into reading again after years of avoiding books.

[lilibet]

ok - a very obvious one

The Hours - Michael Cunningham

and

Mrs Dalloway - Virginia Woolf

[ohdearwhatamess]

Anna Karenin
Accidental Tourist

[ahundredtimes]

[LadyGlencoraPalliser]

As Music and Splendour - Kate O'Brien

Any volume of short stories - William Trevor

[lilibet]

Loved it - one of the few books that I can stand as a film.

Brideshead Revisited anyone? [boak]

[lionheart]

Frankenstein and Beloved.

[Tillyscoutsmum]

To Kill a Mockingbird

Half of a Yellow Sun

No real correlation though ...

[slim22]

Iliad& Odysseus
Ulysses

[seeker]

I hadn't thought of them correlating in some way - but it does make for a better game. I'll have to think of another two now!