What is the best book you have ever read by a male author and a female author?

[chaptazbru]

Mine is The Pursuit of Happiness by Douglas Kennedy

and

The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton.

[Marijn]

Re Thomas Hardy; I just want to say...... I loved his books. He hasn't got much of a fan club on this thread so far.

[tenrec]

After reading this thread, I realised I haven't read a book for years. I went to the charity shop and I have bought a small (thin) book "Aesop's Fables".
My Mum used to read this to me when I was a child so I thought it would be a good starting point.

[craft1948]

Finished Dead Tomorrow yet chaptaz?

[gness]

I love Hardy, Notafish. Once followed a sign saying Hardy Monument this way....wrong Hardy :-((

[nabob]

Rendevous with Rama by Arthur C Clarke, great science fiction!!!

Wild Swans (Three Daughters Of China) by Jung Chang

[chaptazbru]

Not yet craft, about halfway through. Enjoying it so much.

[Terino00]

The Iron Heel by Jack London.

The narrator is female. the story was a prescient vision of the twentieth century written in 1906 and published the following year. London was an adventure writer and a political writer so it is a political adventure. Brilliant stuff.

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Everyone has seen this on film or TV but sitting down with Jane Austen's witty prose is another thing entirely.

[naomi24]

gness //Once followed a sign saying Hardy Monument this way....wrong Hardy :-(( //

Which Hardy was it? Oliver - partner of Stan Laurel? ;o)

[gness]

Kiss me Hardy if I remember correctly. Long time ago.

[naomi24]

Ah, right. THAT Hardy. :o)

[gness]

Haven`t joined in much because I can`t choose! Loved Perfume....Patrick Suskind.
Does anyone else enjoy J.L.Carr as much as I do?

[chaptazbru]

gness - I haven't heard of J.L. Carr, what type of books are they, thrillers, romance, crime, etc etc ?

[chaptazbru]

BlueScorpion - looked for Lynwood Barclay's latest in Asda today (they sell new books at half price), but sadly they didn't have it. I'll try again when I go to town on Monday and if they still haven't got it, I'll pop along to Waterstones. I must have that book!

[Marijn]

Gness, I'm glad somebody else on this thread likes Hardy too. :-) Chaptazbru, you've also inspired me to start a book. I haven't picked up a book for a good few weeks. I'm now reading Nerd Do Well by Simon Pegg. I like comedians' autobiographies, and childhood autobiographies.

[naomi24]

Jane Eyre has been mentioned - and Wuthering Heights - but has anyone read any other Bronte novels? 'The Tenant of Wildfell Hall' by Anne Bronte, and 'The Professor', by Charlotte Bronte, her first effort I think, are both well worth reading.

[micmak]

I like books about power. So politics, banking. Any recommendations. I have read the Money changers among others. Not really in to the classics.

[gness]

Whoops. Delayed reaction. J.L.Carr wrote A Month in the Country...Harpole Report....How Steeple Sinderby Wanderers Won The FA Cup. Month in the Country made into a film.

[chryslerjo]

Mrs Frisby and the Rats of Nimh. Read it as a child and have read it probably a further 10 timesas an adult. Just a brilliant story. I know..... not the most intellectual of answers but it's still my favourite!

[Flyhalf]

micmak. Anything by Michael Ridpath.

[micmak]

Thanks bigjack. Will check him out.