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  • mommared53
    mommared53 Posts: 9,543 Member
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    The Bible and the Left Behind Books by Tim LaHaye. Actually anything by Tim LaHaye.
  • keiko
    keiko Posts: 2,919 Member
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    A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

    Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt

    House of Sand & Fog by Andre Dubus III

    The Good Earth by Pearl Buck This one is a really good book.

    We Were the Mulvaney's by Joyce Carol Oates
  • alifelessevident
    alifelessevident Posts: 390
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    A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

    Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt

    House of Sand & Fog by Andre Dubus III

    The Good Earth by Pearl Buck This one is a really good book.

    We Were the Mulvaney's by Joyce Carol Oates

    I LOVE Angela's Ashes- have you read 'Tis and Teacher Man? they are also very good
  • dothompson
    dothompson Posts: 1,184 Member
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    Older Stephen King ones like "IT","Thinner"...etc.

    I'm with you. I also like things by Dean Koontz.
  • heather0mc
    heather0mc Posts: 4,656 Member
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    oh sooo many to list:

    wicked - gregory maguire (planning to get the rest of the series, re-reading wicked first)
    confessions of an ugly stepsister - gregory maguire
    the harry potters
    the twilight books
    house of leaves - mark z. danieleski (sp)
    good in bed - jennifer weiner (all her books really, in her shoes, etc)
    chuck palinuck books
    hunter s. thompson books

    brain is starting to have flatulence...
  • yellow_pepper
    yellow_pepper Posts: 708 Member
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    good in bed - jennifer weiner (all her books really, in her shoes, etc)

    I enjoy Weiner a lot, too. Have you read the short story collection "The Guy Not Taken"? I haven't read "Certain Girls" yet - still waiting for the paperback.

    Other books I've read recently that I really liked:

    The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
    Interpreter of Maladies, a short story collection by Jhumpa Lahiri, author of The Namesake
    Fallen Skies by Phillipa Gregory, author of The Other Boleyn Girl - 500 pages, and I read it in 2 days!
  • MisoSoup79
    MisoSoup79 Posts: 517
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    Some have mentioned a few of my favorites already:

    Wicked
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    His Dark Materials

    Also:

    The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho
    The Wild Road - Gabriel King
    Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card
    Stiff: The Secret Lives of Cadavers - Mary Roach (Nonfiction)
    Ginny, The Dog Who Rescues Cats - Philip Gonzalez (Nonfiction)

    Children's Books:
    To Nowhere and Back - Margaret J. Anderson (1975 out of print)
    The Little Chalkman - Vaclav Ctvrtek (1970 probably out of print)
  • heather0mc
    heather0mc Posts: 4,656 Member
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    good in bed - jennifer weiner (all her books really, in her shoes, etc)

    I enjoy Weiner a lot, too. Have you read the short story collection "The Guy Not Taken"? I haven't read "Certain Girls" yet - still waiting for the paperback.

    i wait for her PB's too, then go to 1/2 price books and scope them out before i pay full price - hey im on a budget! i have read all of them except certain girls and guy not taken. i CRIED during good in bed. shesh!
    maybe i'll run over to the store next weekend and pick up the guy not taken...THANKS! :drinker:
  • nickybr38
    nickybr38 Posts: 674 Member
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    I don't know how to read. :glasses:
  • keiko
    keiko Posts: 2,919 Member
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    [/quote]

    I LOVE Angela's Ashes- have you read 'Tis and Teacher Man? they are also very good
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    I enjoyed both of those as well. But Angela was my favorite.
  • keiko
    keiko Posts: 2,919 Member
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    Some have mentioned a few of my favorites already:

    Wicked
    and
    His Dark Materials

    Also:

    The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho
    The Wild Road - Gabriel King
    Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card
    Stiff: The Secret Lives of Cadavers - Mary Roach (Nonfiction)
    Ginny, The Dog Who Rescues Cats - Philip Gonzalez (Nonfiction)

    Children's Books:
    To Nowhere and Back - Margaret J. Anderson (1975 out of print)
    The Little Chalkman - Vaclav Ctvrtek (1970 probably out of print)

    If we are talking childrens books that list would be so long for me. One that I really like is "The True Story of the 3 Pigs" The wolf really was framed.
  • isadoraworkman
    isadoraworkman Posts: 205 Member
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    I just finished reading 'The Book of Negroes' by Lawrence Hill and I quite liked it...it follows a young woman's journey through life from when she was abducted in West Africa then sold into slavery in the U.S. then through to her travel to Canada as a Black Loyalist and back to Sierra Leone...the book ends with her in London, UK.
    I enjoy historical fiction when it is done well..and this is pretty good. It is one of the books on the CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) Canada Reads competition...and a best seller.
  • bugmagnt
    bugmagnt Posts: 150
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    Already some of my favs have been names (To Kill A Mockingbird, Lord of the Rings trilogy, Memoirs of a Geisha).

    Other favs: anything by Alice Hoffman (wrote Practical Magic, which many know, but others are great too!), I just recently got into Jodi Picoult too -- Vanishing Acts was good! Also, Ursula LeGuin's Earthsea series, Douglas Adams.. and many more fiction as well as some non-fiction.

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