inspire me, I Desperately need good book to read., no horror, something fairly recent.....................

[katierocket]

Really want a good read but need inspiring. Hate horror, don't want anything really intellectual. here are some of my favourite books in no particular order to give idea of what I like.

Secret History
Wild Swans
Memoirs of a Geisha
Anything by Donna Leon
Pursuit of Happiness
Perfume
Wuthering Heights
Driving over lemons
Crow Road
The Beach
I don't know how she does it
anything by Marian Keyes

help please, otherwise I will be forced to try and finish sh*te cecelia ahern book 'where rainbows end' which is making me want to bite someone.

that African Ladies Detective series

perfect

honest

you'll thank me

read them enid but thanks
liked them too

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right

ok

Andrea Levy?

Small Island?

enid

ben elton? really?

Fruit of the Lemon?

v good

katie have u read all the marian keyes? I have most of them [if not all] and am half way through her latest which is quite good

ah enid, you're on my wavelength lady. Finished that before starting on sh*te bite worthy cecelia ahern book

not ben elton

erm........Hotel Babylon

("its like mainlining Popbitch")

what is fruit of the lemon?

I think I've read all of the marian keyes, which is latest?

hmm

have you done The Little Friend?

White Teeth, Zadie Smith
A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth
The Shipping News, Annie Proulx
..are my most recent reads.

anything by Toni Morrison.

or how about a classic like To Kill A Mockingbird or The Great Gatsby....?

I meant I'd finished Small island

Fruit of the Lemon is another Andrea Levy book

also that Linda Grant novel about Israel

brilliant

Brick Lane by Monica Ali

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was so excited about Little Friend (along with half of world) but very disappointed.

Love love to kill a mocking bird. that's the kind of thing I need. something were you put the book down and thing, thank god I read that, it was amazing.

Corrections?

the other side of the story by marian keyes.

Brideshead Revisited?

(is truly brilliant)

yes Nemo have read it.,

Enid, good call, is it really worth reading? only remember the tv drama

what about colour purple
lovely bones
tigers child/one child

Disgrace by J M Coetzee
Midnights Children