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[LKappy]

What are your fav books?Here are mine: The Kite RunnerA Thousand Splendid SunsTime Travelers WifeConfessions of Max TivoliHouse of Sand and FogThe Memory Keepers DaughterThe Glass CastleThe Lovely BonesRunning With ScissorsBeautiful LiesTuesdays With MaurieMy Sisters KeeperThe Bright ForeverThe Alchemist False MemoriesCarolina MoonThe Irish Trilogy (Great smut!!!)
In The Garden Trilogy

[koala1966]

I don't know if you want my list, most of my favorite books are from my early years.  I still reread those, like The Black Stallion series, A Horse Called Bonnie, Strawberry Girl and A Little Princess.Some "grown-up" books that make my list are: Gone With the Wind The entire Clan of the Cave Bear series Love, Lucy The Arabian Nights Seabiscuit: An American Legend

[rajah1116]

Memoirs of a GeishaFive People You Meet in HeavenFor One More DayAny V.C. AndrewsTrinityQB VIITo Kill A MockingbirdThe Nanny Diaries

[Miss Daisy-NC]

I've been reading Fern Michaels' sisterhood books.....the first is "Weekend Warriors"

[CatwoMN]

If you're interested, Memory Keeper's Daughter is on Lifetime tonight.

ETA: Oops, old post....I PM'd LKappy but will leave this for anyone who might be interested in watching the movie.

[davsar]

Year of Wonders (Geraldine Brooks)
The Pillars of Earth (Ken Follet) - note does have sex and violence
The Poisonwood Bible (Barbara Kingsolver)
The Bonesetter's Daughter (Amy Tan)
Saving Fish from Drowning (Amy Tan)
The Handmaid's Tale (Margaret Atwood)
Tess of the D'Urvervilles (Thomas Hardy)
Like Water for Chocolate (Laura Exquirel) - note very sensual - you will want your dh near
The Master Butchers Singing Club (Louise Erdrich)
Family (J. California Cooper)
Obasan (Joy Kogawa)

[MLee]

I would love to keep this list current. I'm always looking for both fiction and non-fiction books to read.

[4theluvofscrapn]

 Recent book I read...
Escape by Carolyn Jessop about the FLDS.

I love anything by Patricia Cornwell too!

Hope someone loves this book too! Happy reading...

[lilmacgil]

Memoirs of a Geisha
Bodies Left Behind
The Kite Runner
Mercy (Jodi Picoult)
The Dark Half (Stephen King)
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Eyre (reading now and loving it)
Duma Key

More to come, hopefully sooner than later!

[koala1966]

Janet Evanovich's Stephanie Plum series is a must read. I've gotten so many people hooked on that series, even my non-reading Mom has read the first 6 books in as many weeks.


There's some really good teen fiction out there too - I absolutely love the Uglies-Pretties-Specials-Extras series by Scott Westerfeld.

[LaWanna]

Let's see a bunch of my favorites have been mentioned already, but here are mine.

Atlas Shrugged (Ayn Rand) - so far my all time fav.
The Angle of Repose (Wallace Stegner)
The Handmaid's Tale (Margaret Atwood)
Sense and Sensibility (Jane Austen)
To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee)



I have a literature degree so those are my more 'literature' related books, that I tend to read over and over. I also have some guilty pleasures like Stephen King and the Twilight Series. I also like reading my son's Harry Potter books. I like the Eragon series too by Christopher Paolini.
I am also trying to read the Bible through this year - it's pretty tough with all those 'begats and begottens.'

I guess my taste in books is like my taste in music - very eclectic.

[Art_Teacher]

I wish I had more time to read. I used to read all the time. The book I have read most recently that made the most impact on me was a Christian novel called "As Sure as the Dawn." I was unable to put it down. It was set in Roman gladiator times and I thought it was amazing!

[busymom923]

There are too many to name. The Kite Runner might be my absolute fave. Some of the classics llike Uncle Tom's Cabin, The Scarlett Letter, and To Kill a Mockingbird. My most recent read that I highly recommend is 19 Minutes by Jodi Piccoult. It's about a school shooting, but not probably what you think it will be about. You see so many different points of view, and it is really a book about family and social dynamics as well as social issues. It was fascinating reading, pure fiction, but also realistic in many ways.


I'm about to read Shanghai Girls. Has anyone read it?

[gonecamping]

I really liked the Kite Runner. I recently read My Sister's Keeper and loved loved it! Then I watched the movie..don't do it! The book was so good. My niece has some of her other books and she said they are really good so I am going to read a couple of them. I like the Sookie Stackhouse books as well. I haven't seen any of the series on HBO but the books are good. I also just read the new Stephen King novel Under the Dome. Highly recommend that one for any Stephen King fan.

[colormegirl01]

Not Without My Daughter Dear John
City of Bones (the immortal series)

Graceling

Marked (series)

Great Expectations

A Great and Terrible Beauty