what books....

[Miss Mango]

Youre lucky I checked before I posted. Im lending my books to someone at work and I only gave them to her out of sequence

Haha, so I was risking getting my series muddled up by asking you Lol!
I have about 20 books to buy now after all the recomendations - I think I'll buy myself one a month!

 

[Starlight]

dont worry I googled it before I posted. Bizarre thing is I gave her book 1 then book 3 and she never even realised there was one missing

 

[Eire]

I had huge reply typed and silly thing wouldn't post. I'll come back another time!!

 

[Miss Mango]

dont worry I googled it before I posted. Bizarre thing is I gave her book 1 then book 3 and she never even realised there was one missing

Hahaha, I would have been the same - I'm awfully fond of being a bit unobservant sometimes

 

[Miss Mango]

I had huge reply typed and silly thing wouldn't post. I'll come back another time!!

Ahh that is one of life's biggest irritations when that happens! Its happened to me so often that I always copy my text before I post it and then that way if its lost I can just press ctrl+v and it will all be pasted again - its a good timesaver hun!

 

[dudette2001uk]

Hmmm...this is hard! In my relatively short lifetime I must have read thousands of books!

A few I do like include:

1. The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
2. The Twilight Saga - particularly Eclipse and Breaking Dawn - Stephenie Meyer
3. The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
4. Library of the Dead and Book of Souls by Glenn Cooper - compelling reading!
5. All books by Patricia Cornwell, Kathy Reichs and Karin Slaughter
6. Before I Fall - Lauren Oliver - had me in tears a couple of times
7. Before I Die - Jenny Downham - I was in floods of tears with this one (and I really am not a cry at books person!)
8. Thirteen Reasons Why - Jay Asher
9. The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas - John Boyne
10. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time - Mark Haddon

 

[Eire]

Hmmm...this is hard! In my relatively short lifetime I must have read thousands of books!

A few I do like include:

1. The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
2. The Twilight Saga - particularly Eclipse and Breaking Dawn - Stephenie Meyer
3. The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
4. Library of the Dead and Book of Souls by Glenn Cooper - compelling reading!
5. All books by Patricia Cornwell, Kathy Reichs and Karin Slaughter
6. Before I Fall - Lauren Oliver - had me in tears a couple of times
7. Before I Die - Jenny Downham - I was in floods of tears with this one (and I really am not a cry at books person!)
8. Thirteen Reasons Why - Jay Asher
9. The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas - John Boyne
10. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time - Mark Haddon

What she said !! I agree with most of yours except I would add, "Thousand splendid suns" , the True Blood books and I also love Stephen King and Dean Koontz.

 

[dudette2001uk]

Ooo, just remembered another one! Sleepers, by Lorenzo Carcaterra. How could I forget that one! I actually managed to buy this book twice...I picked it up once after reading the blurb, then must have put it to one side while reading another book. I then picked it up a second time, thinking that it looked like a really good book! At least I wasn't disappointed xx

 

[lynsey-j]

Don't know if I can pick just five!

- 'Room' by Emma Donoghue
- 'Shutter Island' and 'Mystic River' by Dennis Lehane
- 'The Girl in Times Square' by Paullina Simons
- Anything by Jodi Picoult!
- 'New York' by Edward Rutherfurd
- 'Girl, Interrupted' by Susanna Kaysen
- 'Gypsy Boy' by Mikey Walsh

 

[bunny_hops]

Don't know if I can pick just five!

- 'Room' by Emma Donoghue
- 'Shutter Island' and 'Mystic River' by Dennis Lehane
- 'The Girl in Times Square' by Paullina Simons
- Anything by Jodi Picoult!
- 'New York' by Edward Rutherfurd
- 'Girl, Interrupted' by Susanna Kaysen
- 'Gypsy Boy' by Mikey Walsh

I loved Room....WOW!!!

 

[lynsey-j]

I loved Room....WOW!!!

It took me a while to get into it but I'm so glad I stuck with it - such an amazing book

 

[Potatogirl]

OOH so many...in no particular order

-Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro remains my favourite (I LOATHE that it was adapted)
-A Pale View of Hills - same author (- he writes with a haunted, dreamlike quality that I love)
-Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell - Susannah Clarke
-The Tales of the Otori (All books in the series) by Lian Hearn
-Star of the Sea - Joseph O'Connor (so sad)
-Angela's Ashes - Frank McCourt - was hilarious and brilliant
-Tales of the City (again the series)- Armistead Maupin (funny and gay)
-Wild Swans -Jung Chang (- still a classic and the only autobiography I have ever liked)
-The Good Women of China - Xinran - amazing amazing amazing
-The Historian - Elizabeth Kostova - scary and real
-Steig Larson's stuff - why oh why oh why is he dead.......it's not fair. That was crass - I'm sorry.

God I LOVE BOOKS!!!!!