books i haven't read yet

[b13thy]

what is the best book you have ever read - tell me so i can read them :)

[Clanad]

Something of Value... a mid-1950's novel by Robert Ruark about the Mau Mau uprisings in Kenya, East Africa. Extremely well written about the safari culture of the English colony leading to the independence of Kenya a few years later. The writer is intimately knowledgeable of the natives (Kykuyu and Maasai, especially) as well as the dangers involved in the hunting of African big game in its heyday. Ruark wrote other African based novels, but this one was the best, in my opinion...

[Retro]

The Vampire Lestat, by Anne Rice.

[shaneystar]

I am a murder mystery fan but for other reading I like most of the classics . Dickens, Austen,The Brontes.Early to middle 20th century writers like A.J.Cronin.Howard Spring,Evelyn Waugh,Graham Greene.To Kill a Mocking Bird by Harper Lee is a great book.. I like any historical stuff especially about Mary Queen of Scots.I read a very poignant book recently called The Twins by Tessa de Loos about these twin girls seperated during the war and only finding one another again in their old age.Tear jerking ! I think the best book I have ever read is My Son My Son by Howard Spring.
Join your local library and the world of books is your oyster.

[b13thy]

Hi shaney - i've virtually exhausted the library so am now trawling ebay for books to read, just hoping for some recommendations from fellow ABers so i can make sure i get some good ones (although i love getting really good books by accident)

[shaneystar]

b13thy this is a good website to trawl for books .I browse through this all the time..whoever maintains it does a great job but is is only for fiction
http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/index.html

[shaneystar]

Me again !!
This is a good sight too..I have bought quite a few books from here and sold some !
http://www.greenmetropolis.com/

[littleoldme]

An oldie but a goodie - Catch 22 by Joseph Heller. I like books that produce more than one emotion in the reader and Catch 22 does that. You can be reading a harrowing passage about the horrors of war one minute, and giggling like an idiot at some wonderfully silly comic moment the next.

[Drusilla]

The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold and To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee

[phoenixxx]

Other than classics - The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver. (Don't bother with any of her others though!)

[AliFlump]

Tokyo by Mo Hayder, and Birdman and Treatment by her too they are fantastic!

[Pies]

Good omens for me

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0441003257/qid=1131357883/sr=1-5/ref=sr_1_5/103-5262611-8134225?v=glance&s=books

Or the Brentford trilogy

http://www.the-flying-swan.co.uk/brentbooks.htm

[jno]

Catch-22, same reason as littleoldme

[Pythia]

Hi b13thy, I recently joined in with a 'free book club' - you send one book you recommend but don't want any more to one person, copy the email to 6 friends and sit back and see what you get. It's like a chain letter but useful. In theory you could end up with 36 free books other people recommend. (If there's a way to get your email adress to me I could send you a copy of the email).

So far I've had 5 books, not all I've wanted to read but's been interesting.

Best recent book I've read - The Time Traveller's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger. Blew my mind.

[SeaJayPea]

One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, by Ken Kesey

To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee

Any of Maya Angelou's volumes of autobiography - I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings is the first.

Anything by Steinbeck - The Grapes of Wrath is sheer genius.

and the best book I've read in a fair few years is The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time, by Mark Haddon

[Fletch937]

A book I would highly reccommend ~

The Talisman by S. King / P. Straub.

[MrsBadely]

One of the most surprising books I've read is Lorna Doone. I never fancied it for years because I thought it was a soppy melodramatic romance (a la Wuthering Heights) but turned to it out of desperation when stuck in a cottage in Wales in bad weather.

It's actually a fantastic adventure story, with loads of intrigue and a fair bit of humour. Lorna herself is a bit of a drip - typical Victorian heroine - useless and faints and the drop of a hat, but the romance element is only a very small part of the book.

[jake-the-peg]

I'm a big fan of Umberto Eco's Foucault's pendulum but I'd also highly recommend "The Saddlebag"

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0807083437/026-3622632-4862069

It involves an event that occurs in the desert and is seen from different perspectives by those involved.

Think Arabian knights told in the pulp fiction style

[andyk]

complicity by Iain Banks. A complete page-turner.

[cherrybomb]

Dream House by Alison Habens

The Queen and I by Sue Townsend

Grandfathers footsteps by Gillian White

My favourite authors/books ever

[mata hari]

"The Physician" by Noah Gordon, you won't want to put it down. A jolly good book, I've read it seven times!!