What MUST I read?

[Zebraa]

Come on ladies, what are we reading then?

I have read loads over the years. My kids are all at school and I have a wonderful husband who looks after the kids lol.

I've just finished 'Across the Nightingale Floor' by Lian Hearne. BRILLIANT. I loved it. It's part of a trilogy so just quickly ordered the others and can't wait.

Before that I was reading 'A Thousand Splendid Suns' which was also great.

Am just about to start 'The Old MAn & The Sea' by Ernest Hemmingway while I wait for the rest of Lian Hearnes books to arrive. Oh and I also ordered a book called Apache.

I've been thinking about this and I have to say that in addition to my earlier suggestions, which were:

"Shikasta - Doris Lessing
American Pastoral - Philip Roth
Gilead - Marilynne Robinson
Still Life - AS Byatt
Any of Elizabeth Taylor's short stories.

and while we're at it, why not a little something by the sadly underappreciated master of American fiction

The Assistant - Bernard Malamud"

I would really recommend Ursula K LeGuin. I started reading her stuff when I was maybe 12 and over the years I've read pretty much most of her stuff. On reflection, I think of all the writers and all the books I've read (quite a lot), hers are the ones that have contributed most to my own imaginative inner life. I'd feel the lack of them had I not read them and my life is richer because of them.

Sweet Audrina by Virginia Andrews was good.