What books should I take on my holidays?

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I'm taking Great Expectations as I need to re read it for my degree, will be taking my book gruop choice which will probably be My Sister's Keeper and If This is a Man by Primo Levy, but would like some other suggestions.

I've loved The Quincunx, Prayer for Owen Meany, A Suitable Boy, Woman in White, Perfume, His Dark Materials and anythign by Jane Austen

I've really not enjoyed Lovely Bones, Angela's Ashes, A Boy Called It, and don't like Catherine Cookson type books

What would you suggest?

How about autobiographies?

some good ideas on this

I like to read non-fiction books on holiday, as I find they are easier to manage with lots of distractions.

If I read a novel, it would be something from a series so that I wouldn't have to get "into" it - such as an Inspector Rebus story by Ian Rankin.

Ben Elton's new book, Past Mortem is supposed to be great.

I really liked Kate Atkinson's Case History.

Dan Brown?

Do you like historical fiction? HAve you read the other bolyn Girl?

A sudoku book if you like puzzles?

My Sister's Keeper and If this is a Man are both fantastic books.

Hi, I recently returned from our 2 weeks hols & read 'Tis by Frank Mccourt ( 5 years after reading Angelas Ashes), Call Me Elizabeth by Dawn Annandale - true story about a mother who turns to prostitution to clear her family's debts & still reading Brick Lane by Monica Ali

Thoroughly enjoyed them all having not read a book for almost a year

Try A Complicated Kindness by Miriam Toews and why not try some Graham Greene ( I see you like the classics), try Travels with my Aunt is very good (or anything by him) and puts you in the travel mood.

I just finished Past Mortem by Ben Elton and it is great. Easy to read and witty. You can read it with no effort and is ideal to pick up and carry on each time your on the beach.

Case Histories, Kate Atkinson, Brick Lane, Monica Ali.

Anything by Tim Moore (travel stuff, although inclined to think it's a bit weird to be in one place and be reading about another,despite the fact it's always what I end up doing!)

I really enjoyed The Other Bolyen Girl. Have only read one Grahame Greene, I may have a look for some.