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  • wild_wild_life
    wild_wild_life Posts: 1,334 Member
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    Awesome, I am trying to get back into reading again after being seriously distracted by Netflix for the last few years . . . I'll be checking a lot of these out.

    A few of my favorites

    1. Winter's Tale, Mark Helprin (Freddy and Frederika very good too)
    2. Franny and Zooey, JD Salinger (in love with anything by Salinger actually)
    3. A Cloud Atlas, David Mitchell
    4. To The Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf (OK, anything by VW)
    5. Recent easy reading fantasy series: The Kingkiller Chronicles series, Patrick Rothfuss -- ranks up there with the His Dark Materials series in readability, IMO
  • GormanGhaste
    GormanGhaste Posts: 430 Member
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    This is tough, not only saying just five, but for the fact that I rarely re-read books.

    Anne Fadiman's Ex Libris. Great collection of essays about books and reading. Highly recommended!

    Hmm, maybe list a few authors I really enjoy?

    China Mieville
    C J Cherryh
    Guy Gavriel Kay
    Sean Russell
    Terry Pratchett
  • SleeplessinBerlin
    SleeplessinBerlin Posts: 513 Member
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    Lolita - by the one and only Nabokov

    Middlesex - J. Eugenides

    The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared - Jonas Jonasson

    The kite runner
    Thousand splendid suns - both by K. Hosseini (I just purchased his newest book)

    What's eating Gilbert Grape - P. Hedges

    Rebecca - Daphne

    One flew over the cuckoo's nest - Kessey

    pretty much anything by Austen and Roald Dahl.

    Also - The emperor of all maladies - not a novel - a book about cancer.

    and so many more...
  • danapowell12
    danapowell12 Posts: 7 Member
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    Kay Scarpetta series by Patricia Cornwell
    Michael Palmer
    Heather Gudenkauf
    Sandra Brown
    John Green
    Sarah Dessen
    Lisa Gardner
    James Patterson
    Gillian Flynn
    Lauren Oliver
    Elizabeth Haynes

    I like pretty much anything by the above authors.
  • teachfl2
    teachfl2 Posts: 95 Member
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    I love reading all of the responses! It's always great to get some new recommendations. Mine are:
    - Eat, Pray, Love
    - Hunger Games Trilogy
    - Anything by Iyanla Vanzant
    - Who Moved My Cheese
    - Any books by Joel Osteen
  • zteven82
    zteven82 Posts: 13
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    A Song of Ice and Fire (also know as Game of Thrones to the TV people!)
    Mistborn Trilogy
    Night Angel Trilogy
    Harry Potter
    Name of the Wind (Kingkiller Chronicles)
  • KANGOOJUMPS
    KANGOOJUMPS Posts: 6,472 Member
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    I am not overly sure, but I got some good ideas from you all thanks
  • KindleKate
    KindleKate Posts: 24 Member
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    Gone With The Wind
    The Mayfair Witches (Book 1 Only)
    East of Eden
    The Historian
    The Kite Runner
  • SabrinaJL
    SabrinaJL Posts: 1,579 Member
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    the stand - Stephen king
    outlander series - Diana gabaldon
    his dark materials trilogy - Philip Pullman
    earths children series - Jean m. auel
    pillars of the earth - Ken Follett
  • jezama77
    jezama77 Posts: 138 Member
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    I think it is cool that so many people said Harry Potter. Modern classic!

    Here are mine:

    Harry Potter (of course!)
    A Separate Peace by John Knowles
    Lord of the Rings

    Those are the ones that I have re-read several times.

    I also think anything by Patrick Carman is great if you are into YA. Plus he has a great personality. I stalk him on fb and twitter and Scholastic events (I am a middle school librarian...)

    I have also greatly enjoyed The Time Traveler's Wife and The Book Thief.

    :)

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