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.

Brave New World- Aldous Huxley

The Bloody Chamber- Angela Carter

[swoons at Rosamund Lehman]

Middlemarch

and

The Stone Diaries

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

American Pastoral is a ruddy good book.

MyEye's books go together well too.

I think that should be the game. [tricky]

Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
Memoir - John McGahern

Oliver Twist
Small Island

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

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

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]

Ooooh interesting

(puts thinking cap on)

Maybe people have done it without realizing?

Am going to check.

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!

[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

[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

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.

ok - a very obvious one

The Hours - Michael Cunningham

and

Mrs Dalloway - Virginia Woolf

Anna Karenin
Accidental Tourist

As Music and Splendour - Kate O'Brien

Any volume of short stories - William Trevor

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

Brideshead Revisited anyone? [boak]

Frankenstein and Beloved.

To Kill a Mockingbird

Half of a Yellow Sun

No real correlation though ...

Iliad& Odysseus
Ulysses

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!