Recommendations For Books

[robert551069]

Could anyone please let me know the titles of books they have found to be interesting, cheerful and real page turners. This is for my wife, who is a retired schoolteacher. She is unable to visit a library herself as she is disabled, but friends would collect books for her. She has a Kindle e-reader.
Thank you.

[yogasun]

Agree with ChillDoubt. One of my favourite books.

[slinky.kate]

peter may-the blackhouse
the lewis men
final book-the chess men.
just half way through the chessmen ,what a story,loving it.you can get them on kindle very cheap.

[Rosie29]

Anything by Anita Shreve. They are well written . I like her work. I've just started Justin Cartwright's " To Heaven by Water". Looks promising. Ian McEwan very good too - Helen Dunmore, Shirley Hazzard or John McGahern. My OH likes the Scarpetta stories but don't know who the author is. Good luck.

[Rosie29]

Yes chilldooubt - i agree - brilliant book.

[AlwaysConfused]

anything by Tom Sharpe is a real page turner. I've rarely read a book without laughing my head off!

[robert551069]

Thank you Always Confused, slinky kate and Rosie 29 for your helpful answers.

[sophie_1003]

I was going to reccomend that bednobs; just finished it yesterday and it was fantastic! The Man Who Forgot His Wife by John O'Farrell was also good and Eleven by Mark Watson. There was another one I read over Christmas which was good but can't remember what it was now!

[sophie_1003]

Just remembered; it was The Time Keeper by Mitch Albom

[knowabit]

Anything by Kate Morton... The Forgotten Garden is a wonderful book.

[DaisyNonna]

Love the Anne McCaffrey books now written by her son Todd. The Dragon series. Fantasy but somehow real. Interesting characters, tight plots. I always want to know at the end of each book, what happens next? Not always the same characters, different takes on the same world. For someone with a lively and enquiring mind these are different and thought provoking as well as being a good read.

[starone]

I was just going to recommend The Hundred Year Old Man who Climbed out of the Window and Disappeared, but I see you have already done so bednobs so I am too late. I think it is very good and a new theme. Translated from the Swedish original by Ray Bradbury.

[starone]

Couldn't resist it JJ, went straight to Amazon and bought a copy of Dead Simple. If I like it I shall buy more of his books.

[slinky.kate]

anna smith/scream in the dark