Recommend me some books please...

[lunavix]

I haven't sat down and read in ages, I really need to. So I'd like about 10 books, I'll buy in bulk off amazon, and force myself to read them! Would like a mix of genres.

I don't really like pure romantic drivel, except for very easy reading quirkiness (mike gayle for example.) Really detest everything else, rather embarrassed, but I like his for some reason!

Books have to draw me in, I have to feel like I'm there. The sort where you pick it up, and you just CANNOT put it down again.

Oh and I'm also a harry potter addict but who isn't!!!

Oh yes and I agree with janh about Gervase Phinn. His books are moving, funny and very easy to read. You always want more at the end.

sorry when writing Ian McEwan I actually meant Atonement not Enduring love..very different quality of story

Ndola,ggg. (I think we discussed this before-I was born there.) The author attended the same school as my cousins somewhere in Malawi (would have been mid 70s.) Have you read it? (Silly question I'm sure.)

The davinchi code by dan brown i think. its a real page turner, could not put it down.

Just back from holiday and read four excellent books in the following order:
The Ivy Chronicles
The Death and Life of Charlie St Cloud
The Laments
Case Histories - Kate Atkinson

The first 3 are all 'Richard and Judy's Summer Reads'. I loved them all and I'm now without a book as I can't face starting something else in case I'm disappointed after what I've just read.

The Pursuit of Happiness - Douglas Kennedy

charlie and the chocolate factory

Church of the Dead Girls - Stephen Dobyns.

A first-rate thriller which even my dh loved and he HATES thriller-type books usually.

Will second/third/fourth/whatever A Prayer for Owen Meany.

The Quincunx! (long thread on that somewhere from ages ago)

Really really want to strongly second/recommend Glen David Gold - Carter beats the devil as suggested by Marina, and his partner's book - The lovely bones by Alice Sebold - desperately sad, but lovely too. Love all John Irving, especially a prayer for owen meany, but also liked setting free the bears, more recently also highly recommend the Time travellers wife by Audrey Niffenegger (sp??) and Case Histories by Kate Atkinson

Notes on a Scandal by Zoe Heller. And Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood.

books!
someone said they liked Roberston Davies i adore him read all of it very funny.
also like Bill Bryson; david lodge; jose saramago; umberto eco stephen jay gould, lots of fantasie and sci fi too.
these are some of the books i read last year and liked.

old school by Tobias Wolf
american gods by Neil Gaiman
cloud atlas by David mitchell
the half brother by Lars S Christensen
snow by Orhan Pamuk