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I also really dislike Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera, and people think I'm crazy for that too :) Ha. |
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Ariana Franklin has a nice series about a medical examiner in medieval England that I can't get enough of. I second the Jim Butcher recommendation. |
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I'm mainly into British crime fiction, being British and all, so I'd recommend the following authors and my favourite book by each of them is: Chris Simms - ****'s Fire Mark Billingham - Sleepyhead Colin Dexter - The Wench is Dead Caroline Graham - The Killings at Badger's Drift Mo Hayder - Pig Island But anything by any of these is great, Mo Hayder is a fairly recent discovery for me but Pig Island had me hooked. Of American authors my favourites are Meg Gardiner and Sue Grafton. Also, Jonathan Kellerman's Alex Delaware books are fascinating. Beware reading those though, you'll find yourself analysing people around you! |
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oh! and anything by christopher moore, he's hilarious.
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Water for Elephants The Time Traveler’s Wife The Blind Assassin Atonement (Enduring Love by the same author is also great!) And adding anything by Alice Hoffman and Jodi Picoult. Also, if you like fantasy, I definitely recommend the Indigo series by Louise Cooper and Memory & Dream (and everything else) by Charles de Lint. |
Awesome ladies [and gents?]! Keep them coming!
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another mention here for The mists of avalon - it is phenomenal.
so last post was sci-fi (and by the way mandalinn i totally get why you would stop reading anything by OSC for political reasons, and if you read some of his other series you'd be outright offended).... this post will be cultural The Red Tent - Anita Diamant Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden ALL of Amy Tan's books are phenomenal but I think i like "The Kitchen God's wife" the best. But really, I've read every one and they are great. 1000 Splendid Suns & The Kite Runner - Khaled Houssini 100 Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (it's a tough read but worth it, if you want to experience the author in a lighter form Love in the time of Cholera is also really good) |
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These are the suggestions that I only received authors for with no specific works. Anyone have sugestions as to what the authors "best work" is? Chuck Palahnuick Neil Labute Chuck Klosterman Ariana Franklin Alice Hoffman And this is the list of all books that only got 1 vote. Anyone want to 2nd them so I can narrow the list down to 100? [I'd love 100 books with multiple votes!]. I've listed the title and author's last name. 1984 - Orwell #1 Ladies Detective agency - Smith A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - Smith And Irish Country Doctor - Taylor Angela's Ashes - McCourt Beach Music - Conroy Behold Your Queen - Malvern Bleak House - Dickens China Lake - Gardiner Coop - Perry Cotton - Wesselmann Crime and Punishment - Dostoyevsky Diary of the Provincial Lady - Delafield Dracula - Stoker Eat, Pray, Love - Gilbert Everything is Illuminated - Foer Farmer Giles of Ham - Tolkien Five Golden Rings - Laurens Frankenstein - Shelley Glass Castles - Walls Good Omens - Gaiman Heart Shaped Box - Hill House of Leaves - Danielewski Howard's End - Forster Howl's Moving Castle - Wynn Jones I Capture the Castle - Smith I, Claudius - Graves Indigo Series - Cooper Inferno - Dantes Jeeves - Wodehouse Jitterbug Perfume - Robbins Lamb: Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Friend - Moore Little Earthquakes - Weiner Lonsome Dove - McMurty Lorna Doone - Blackmore Love Story - Segal MASH - Hooker Memory & Dream - De Lint Mr. Midshipman Easy - Marryat Omnivore's Dilemma - Pollan On the Road - Kerouac Outlannder - Gabaldon Outlliers - Gladwell Paint it Black - Fitch Prince of Tides - Conroy Scaramoouche - Sabatini Second Glance - Picoult Sherlock Holmes - Conan Doyle Sleepyhead - Billingham Storm Front - Butcher Storyteller - Thompson Such a Pretty Fat - Lancaster The Book of Lost Things - Connelly The Confessions of Max Tivoli - Greer The Corrections - Franzen The Elegance of the Hedgehog - Barbery The Glass Lake - Binchy The Golden - Shepard The Good Earth - Buck The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society - Shaffer The Harvester - Porter The Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of the Apocolypse - Rankin The Kitchen God's Wife - Tan The Last of the Crazy People - Findley The Late Hector Kipling - Thewils The Little Prince - De Saint Exipery The Pickwick Papers - Dickens The Red Tent - Diamant The Secret Life of Bees - Kidd The Sevenwaters Trilogy - Marrillier The Shining - King The Sterile Cuckoo - Nichols The Stone Angel - Laurence The Sun Also Rises - Hemingway The Swarm - Schatzig The Three Muskateers - Dumas The Velveteen Rabbit - Williams The Water is Wide - Conroy The Wind-up Bird Chronicle - Murakami Tokyo - Hayder White Man's Grave - Dooling White Oleander - Fitch Wind in the Willows - Grahame I will post the final list in a few days... |
I really enjoyed Beach Music and Prince of tides by Pat Conroy.
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The Secret Life of Bees is adorable. I love it. Though you could cheat and just watch the movie... It, too, is excellent.
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Most re-read: Mists of Avalon
Second most re-read: The Hobbit Most loved classic series: The Lord of the Rings Most loved contemporary series: Outlander by Gabaldon Second place: His Dark Materials by Pullman Currently reading: Kate Mosse's Labyrinth Recently read: Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections Most loved classics: Knut Hamsun's Hunger and Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment |
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