recommend your favorite book/authors!

Rach22 Posted: Feb 19, 2008 09:01 AM

recommend your favorite book/authors!

my friends and i started a book club...we are getting a list of books together.

we started with the kite runner last month and this month is Middlesex...that's a tough read...Kite Runner was really good..

thanks!

DeeDee1013 Posted: Feb 19, 2008 09:13 AM

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I like anything written by John Grisham.....

PeteysBride Posted: Feb 19, 2008 09:19 AM

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I grew up with classic literature but I have a guilty pleasure for 'pop fiction' like suspense and funny romance novels like the ones I write.

Suspense:
-Tess Gerritsen
-Dean Koontz

Romance:
-Jennifer Crusie (she doesnt write the bodice rippers-just REALLY funny cute beacy reads)
My favorite one by her is Tell me Lies-You laugh fom beginning to end.
-Sandra Hill-funny stuff. The best are the Cajun family series.

magbride Posted: Feb 19, 2008 09:38 AM

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Posted by Rach22

my friends and i started a book club...we are getting a list of books together.

we started with the kite runner last month and this month is Middlesex...that's a tough read...Kite Runner was really good..

thanks!

Loved both Kite Runner and Middlesex. I found Middlesex hard to get into at first, but then I got hooked.
I just finished Love in the Time of Cholera. I really liked it.
I'm currently reading Eat, Pray, Love--just started it but already enjoying it.

imas98 Posted: Feb 19, 2008 09:51 AM

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PattyK Posted: Feb 19, 2008 09:57 AM

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My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult is one of my favorites.
I aldo like Jeffrey Deaver, John Grishom & James Patterson.

futuremrsGafforio Posted: Feb 19, 2008 10:03 AM

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Anything by Jodi Picoult, or Sophia Kinsella!!

bonniejd Posted: Feb 19, 2008 10:17 AM

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I really liked the book The Memory Keeper's Daughter and if you like Kite Runner, definitely read A Thousand Splendid Suns (by the same author)- it was a great book.

I just bought a couple of books this week for vacation next week, so I'll let you know how they turn out.

Athee07 Posted: Feb 19, 2008 10:47 AM

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i just finished reading skinny b itch and wow all i can say is if you are ready to give up meat and be a vegan its a good read.... i have mixed feelings cause now i cant even look at chicken or meat!!!

MeNBobs Posted: Feb 19, 2008 10:58 AM

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David Sedaris is my favorite. He writes the funniest short stories but that is not really book club material.

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers is an old favorite of mine. I have read it about 3 times.

I usually like anything by Nick Hornby High Fidelity, About A Boy and a A Long Way Down are my favorites.

shopaholic07 Posted: Feb 19, 2008 11:00 AM

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Posted by futuremrsGafforio

Anything by Jodi Picoult, or Sophia Kinsella!!

I love Sophia Kinsella!!

znycgirl Posted: Feb 19, 2008 11:02 AM

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I was going to recommend Kite Runner!

I love the story behind 'Pride & Prejudice'...but that's a real classic.

Besides that, I don't get to read much. Just on vacation.

SusiBtoM Posted: Feb 19, 2008 11:10 AM

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Posted by magbride

Loved both Kite Runner and Middlesex. I found Middlesex hard to get into at first, but then I got hooked.
I just finished Love in the Time of Cholera. I really liked it.
I'm currently reading Eat, Pray, Love--just started it but already enjoying it.

I don't read as much as I used to, but am trying to get back into it. The TV writer's strike has helped a lot.
I am also reading Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert.
What a pleasant book to read. Actually puts me in a good mood.
I have the new Anita Shreve book at home, Body Surfing.
Next one on my list to read will be Kite Runner.

evnme Posted: Feb 19, 2008 11:25 AM

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jodi picoult- my sister's keeper, 19 minutes, the plain truth

john grisham- playing for pizza

phillippa gregory- the other boylen girl, the queen's fool, the boylen inheritance

davenjess Posted: Feb 19, 2008 11:27 AM

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ANY word ever written by Douglas Preston or Lincoln Child or anything written by them together.

Renee615 Posted: Feb 19, 2008 02:01 PM

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Posted by Athee07

i just finished reading skinny b itch and wow all i can say is if you are ready to give up meat and be a vegan its a good read.... i have mixed feelings cause now i cant even look at chicken or meat!!!

That was such an eye opening book..especially with the recent undercover cruelty cases about 'downer' animals and this latest recall of meat. It's so horrible the way these animals are treated and people just have no idea or ignore it because it is just too awful to face.

Anyway, besides that, I am a total chick lit fan...I love anything by Sophie Kinsella, Jane Green and Emily Griffin.

My Sister's Keeper, The Kite Runner and Marley and Me were also some of my favs.

Nina_m74 Posted: Feb 19, 2008 03:00 PM

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My all time favorite book is 'A Tree Grows in Brooklyn' by Betty Smith

apriladam9206 Posted: Feb 19, 2008 03:14 PM

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Jane Green--anything by her

tink79 Posted: Feb 19, 2008 03:58 PM

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I love chick-lit too!! Sophie Kinsella and Jane Green are awesome (Sophie even has a new book coming out next week!)
Read My Sister's Keeper and it was a little heavy but really good.
I'm reading a Kate White book now, she does murder mysteries, she's got a few books with the same character in each book that are good. Right now I'm reading Over Her Dead Body good so far.
HTH