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.

[askyourgran]

I have a few can't really choose just one. Like Daisy I was absolutely taken with On the Beach by Nevil Shute, I was really horrified for days after reading it, as if the nuclear bomb had really wiped almost everyone out. My other all time favourite read (about eight times) is The Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers. I found that very atmospheric. And Tom Bradby's The Master of Rain, in fact any book by Tom Bradby.

[craft1948]

The best book I've read for years was by Sally Beauman and is called Dark Angel....................I've read it time and time again.

[askyourgran]

I noticed quite a lot have mentioned Lord of the Rings Trilogy, I enjoyed them too. If you see The Chronicals of Thomas Covenant by Stuart Donald, you would enjoy them. Fantasy fiction but enjoyable.

[Wharton]

chaptazbru - Best thread I've come across on this site - might I suggest that you ask others, such as worst 'acclaimed' novel ever? I could do it myself but that would be some sort of plagiarism!

[Zacs-Master]

Oooh, almost forgot. Dancers at the end of time by Michael Moorcock. Stunning representation of the tragic end to mankind.

[pusskin]

I've read many good books, but "Flowers in The Attic" was one of the favourites of mine yrs ago x

[DaisyNonna]

Still got a copy of that Zacs-Master. Living a very mundane life I love the sci-fi books by Anne McCaffrey and now her son Todd.

[Zacs-Master]

You lucky thing daisy. I'm going to get it on Amazon.

[Wharton]

The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists.

[Jemisa]

My fav is 'The Thorn Birds' by Colleen Mc.....

jem

[shaneystar2]

Definitely a tear room when I read about poor Ginger Dt :(
Winter in Madrid by CJ Sansom ..another brilliant book .
Goodnight all ..lovely thread
And may I just add as an oldish person these days where buying books doesn't come so high on the agenda apart from reference stuff ,books are expensive and I've always been a bookworm so support your local libraries and bookshops before they are gone .

[Jeza]

Just asked Mic his favourite book. He said Noddy. I think he is on the mend as he has his sense of humour back.

[looobylooo]

I too remember Flowers In The Attic, Pusskin, and all the others in the series aswell, loved them at the time, they were very popular back in the 80's..
Was the author Virginia Andrews?

[Wharton]

shaneystar2 - ditto

[shaneystar2]

I remember those too looobylooo.Yes Virginia Andrews.It was about incest .
The brother and sister ? And then there was Petals in the Wind and some others .Very thought provoking .

[Nodger]

Absolutely, Shaneystar. Among my earliest memories is our trips to the library as a family every fortnight and carefully choosing my six books and taking them to the counter to be stamped. I was so proud when I was allowed to graduate from the junior to the adult section (albeit carefully monitored by my mum so I didn't get any grown up books with sex in them). If the libraries go to the wall, it will be an absolute disgrace. This thread is wonderful proof of the joy of just reading.

[DaisyNonna]

The End of the Affair. Graham Greene.

[Marijn]

Cider With Rosie by Laurie Lee, and As I Walked Out One Mid Summer Morning. All of Laura Ingalls Wilder's books (they are nothing like the television programme). Winnie-the-Pooh. Angela Banner's Ant and Bee books.

[shaneystar2]

Ooh I know nodger .I was so proud of my library ticket as a child and used to haunt the local library looking for the latest Just William .It was all very hushed and the librarian sat up on a high chair in front of the ticket box and it fascinated me to watch her leaf through them .
Ours was a Carnegie Library .Beautiful Art Deco building which has since been knocked down and replaced by a glass and brick monstrosity but it's still a library .
I've been a member of a library somewhere all my life .

[craft1948]

Me too shaney, I joined my first library when I was 7.