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running_mom
running_mom Posts: 204 Member
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Does anyone have any good book suggestions? Here's a couple of the books I"ve read to get an idea of what I'm in to.

Time Travelers Wife
Lovely Bones
5 People You Meet in Heaven
My Sister's Keeper

But I'm open to anything : )
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  • ltf304
    ltf304 Posts: 132 Member
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    Water for Elephants, Eat Pray Love, anything by Nicholas Sparks, Something Borrowed. There are so many!! :)
  • SarahWrittenThin
    SarahWrittenThin Posts: 595 Member
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    Beloved- Toni Morrison
    The Black Dagger Brotherhood Series
  • christy_frank
    christy_frank Posts: 680 Member
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    Winter Garden, Kristin Hannah... BEST BOOK EVER READ. Anything else by Kristin Hannah...

    ANYTHING else by Jodi Piccoult.
  • AliCat2705
    AliCat2705 Posts: 22
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    The hunger game series
    Something borrowed
    Water for Elephants
    Dear john
  • SamanthaSteg
    SamanthaSteg Posts: 18 Member
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    The Help
    Book of Negroes
    The Forgotten Garden
    The Guernsay LIterary and Potato Peel Pie Society (horrible title, but fantastic book)
  • charlottebronte
    charlottebronte Posts: 88
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    Anne Bronte's The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
    E.M. Forster's A Room with a View
    Stella Gibbons' Cold Comfort Farm
    Lief Enger's Peace Like a River
  • Nenachaos
    Nenachaos Posts: 13
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    the tenth circle, the world on blood (by jonathan nassaw )charmed thirds and dear john
  • Atlantique
    Atlantique Posts: 2,484 Member
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    Into Thin Air, Jon Krakauer.

    It's Krakauer's account of the 1996 Everest disaster and a very compelling read. I'm re-reading it now for probably the 5th time. Riveting!

    He was hired by Outside magazine to go on an expedition that year and write about the overcommercialization of the mountain and the large number of inexperienced climbers. Everyone seemed to believe that there was going to be a major disaster sooner or later, and it unfortunately came in 1996. 8 climbers, including two guides, died. One man was left for dead 3 times but survived, athough he lost his nose, one hand, part of the other and parts of both feet. It's an amazing story.
  • lauraajohnsonrn
    lauraajohnsonrn Posts: 11
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    Water for Elephants by Sarah Gruen
    Plain Truth, The Tenth Circle, House Rules, any by Jodi Picoult
    Sookie Stackhouse mysteries by Charlaine Harris
  • Remi79
    Remi79 Posts: 346 Member
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    I just got hooked on Sophie Kinsella, she writes the Shopaholic Books, but there is also one by her called "Can You Keep a Secret" it's pretty funny.
    Nora Roberts is my favorite, Nicholas Sparks
    Gone with the Wind is a classic.
  • fitmom4ever
    fitmom4ever Posts: 130
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    Just finished Promise Me by Nancy Brinker, that was pretty good. I also agree, anything by Jodi Piccoult (recently finished House Rules, another good read).
  • kerriknox
    kerriknox Posts: 276 Member
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    I agree with Samantha - the forgotten Garden is fantastic (I am also a fan of the books you list as your favourites so I am sure you'll like this one).
  • christy_frank
    christy_frank Posts: 680 Member
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    I just got hooked on Sophie Kinsella, she writes the Shopaholic Books, but there is also one by her called "Can You Keep a Secret" it's pretty funny.
    Nora Roberts is my favorite, Nicholas Sparks
    Gone with the Wind is a classic.

    Agree w/ Sophia Kinsella & Nicholas Sparts....
  • BECav0602
    BECav0602 Posts: 200 Member
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    Anything by Emily Giffin, Jodi Piccoult (recently read The Pact and Handle with Care), Nicholas Sparks. I also LOVED The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein (it is told from a dogs point a view and very funny at times).
  • jesslarocque
    jesslarocque Posts: 5
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    The Help
    Book of Negroes
    The Forgotten Garden
    The Guernsay LIterary and Potato Peel Pie Society (horrible title, but fantastic book)

    Agreed! The Help was a great book, so was Water for Elephants!
  • divajj107
    divajj107 Posts: 17
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    Sarah, I'm sooo into BDB! HUGE fan of JR Ward. Did you read the angel series too?
  • beccapos
    beccapos Posts: 13
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    I agree with "Cold Comfort Farm" by Stella Gibbons and the Sookie Stackhouse series by Charlaine Harris. I'm a fan of Tana French's "In the Woods", "The Likeness", and "Faithful Place". Also, "Swing" and "Where the Truth Lies" by Rupert Holmes. Happy Reading!
  • lilRicki
    lilRicki Posts: 4,555 Member
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    The teenage series Percy Jackson is quite good, but you can plow through them in no time.
    I also love the "girl with a dragon tattoo" series.
    Anything by Alexandre Dumas (Count of Monte Cristo, Man in the Iron Mask, etc)
    Pillars of the Earth and World Without End - Ken Follet
    Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
    Sweetness in the Belly - Camilla Gibb
    The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
    A Thousand Splendid Suns and Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
    1984 - George Orewell
    Wicked - Gregory Maguire
    Three Cups of Tea - Greg Mortenson
    Illiad and Odyssey - Homer
    Tao of Pooh - Benjamin Hoff
    Celestine Prophecy - James Redfield
    Oryx and Crake - Margaret Atwood
    Rebel Sell - Joseph Heath

    I have tons more, but these are "up there" in my favorites
  • daffysbird
    daffysbird Posts: 42
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    I read Summer Sisters by Judy Blume recently and I absolutely loved it - a real pleasure to read, I'm not overly emotional but I have never laughed and cried at a book so much could not put it down!
  • Atlantique
    Atlantique Posts: 2,484 Member
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    The teenage series Percy Jackson is quite good, but you can plow through them in no time.
    I also love the "girl with a dragon tattoo" series.
    Anything by Alexandre Dumas (Count of Monte Cristo, Man in the Iron Mask, etc)
    Pillars of the Earth and World Without End - Ken Follet
    Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
    Sweetness in the Belly - Camilla Gibb
    The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
    A Thousand Splendid Suns and Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
    1984 - George Orewell
    Wicked - Gregory Maguire
    Three Cups of Tea - Greg Mortenson
    Illiad and Odyssey - Homer
    Tao of Pooh - Benjamin Hoff
    Celestine Prophecy - James Redfield
    Oryx and Crake - Margaret Atwood
    Rebel Sell - Joseph Heath

    I have tons more, but these are "up there" in my favorites

    Have you been following the mess around Greg Mortenson? About the fraud in Three Cups of Tea and the gross misappropriation and misuse of funds collected by his charity, etc.?

    Sorry to derail the thread, but that mess is getting bigger by the day! Hope you never sent that jerk any money. :(

    And for Margaret Atwood books, my faves are The Blind Assassin and Alias Grace.

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