Recommended Books - An A B Miscellany

[sunny-dave]

After the bonkers list I posted earlier, I feel that the good burghers of AB must be able to come with some better suggestions.

So ... please post two or three fiction and two or three non-fiction books which have enriched your life and which you would heartily recommend to others.

I'll start with

Travels with my Aunt - Graham Greene
All Quiet on the Orient Express - Magnus Mills

Bad Science - Ben Goldacre
Life - Keith Richards
Rural Rides - William Cobbett

... over to you ...

Dxx

[mazie]

My Grandad gave me Bram Stoker's Dracula when I was 14 I loved it but didn't sleep well for about 2 weeks!
Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro Didn't want it to finish and it gave me food for thought for a while after.
His Dark Material - Philip Pullman. loved all 3 of these books.

[mazie]

All the Harry Potter books, which I've read a couple of times...I know, I'm very childish :o)

[sunny-dave]

I couldn't sleep with a window open for months after I read Dracula as a teenager ...

[sunny-dave]

The Pullman series is interesting - I loved the first one, was less impressed by the second and positively bored by the pseudo religiosity of the third ...

[mazie]

I still can't Dave x

[wolf63]

I'm reading an autobiography of Felix the station Cat from Huddersfield.

& Pete Wedderburn - Pet Subjects. I am easily pleased

[gness]

I'm not keen on Ken Follett but Pillars of the Earth is a wonderful read....
Perfume by Patrick Suskind.....

Any of J.L.Carr's books.......The Harpole Report is a hoot for anybody working in a school.....

My often read book......The Diary of a Nobody......George and Weedon Grossmith..... :-)

[gness]

Oh.....and The Seige of Krishnapur......J.G. Farrell....x

[pixie374]

"Pillars of the Earth"- and the one after- "World without End" are brilliant. Also, "Me Before You" and "Before I go to Sleep"

[gness]

I have World Without End in my to read pile, Pixie....is it as good?..x

[pixie374]

I've read them both several times, gness. I think it's brilliant.

[rockyracoon]

No book has ever enriched my life, but I agree with the Dracula comments, it was probably the best book I've read. Another that gave me food for thought, and lots of it, was My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult. It certainly made you think, even though it was a bit wet.

[wolf63]

I read Kate Morton - The forgotten garden. I enjoyed it

[gness]

Thanks, Pixie....will start on that......and not be able to put it down!

[NoMercy]

I couldn't get the English version so I read "Mil Soles Esplendidos" (A Thousand Splendid Suns) by Khaled Hosseini - which gave a true insight into the brutality of life under Taliban rule.

The Book Thief was one I could never get into.