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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, IMO0 -
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 Pratchett0 -
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.
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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.0 -
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 Osteen0 -
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)0 -
I am not overly sure, but I got some good ideas from you all thanks0
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Gone With The Wind
The Mayfair Witches (Book 1 Only)
East of Eden
The Historian
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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 Follett0 -
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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