It’s World Book Day – what one book would you recommend as a must read?
It’s World Book Day – what one book would you recommend as a must read?
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It’s World Book Day – what one book would you recommend as a must read?
Lying in Wait by Liz Nugent
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
All Quiet on the Western Front by Remarque
Too sad but helped me with my O’Level History essay on the First World War.
If someone said to me “You must read this book.” I don’t.
I fell for that with Wolf Hall.
The house on snow hill
The Kite Runner
The Dark Tower series – Stephen King.
The Mirror – Graham Masterton
The House by Simon Lelic.
Replay by Ken Grimwood ❤️
That’s a tough one
The sacred art of stealing – Christopher brookmyre or Terrible Beauty – Mark Frankland
Oooh that’s a tough one!
Birdman. Mo Hayder
Yes most definitely, actually any of Mo Hayder’s books. Mind blowing.
Creeped me out!
So disturbing!
The Kind Worth Killing, Peter Swanson
Although my non-crime one would be Our Song, Dani Atkins!
Keri Hulme’s The Bone People. Not crime though. I suppose Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistlestop Cafe would have to be the quirkiest rime novel, though.
Maybe I should try ‘Whistlestop’ again. I first gave it a whirl when in my late 20s – not a young man’s book.
@Tom Go 4 it!
Beneath the Snow by C J Carver
Too many…maybe Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks
Broken dolls by james carol
I Am Pilgrim
Gentleman from Moscow.
The Theseus Paradox by David Videcette
Birds without Wings, Louis de bernieres
Oh yes, good choice.
Death Dance by Linda Fairstein, or the Killing Floor by Lee Child (1st of 21& still a good read) hmmmm no fiction I am reading forces of nature by professor Brian Cox.
Brilliant!
I am pilgrim
Paul Doherty gallery of nightingales
Non crime favourite. . . . JANE EYRE. . . Charlotte Bronte. Crime favourite. . . AND THEN THERE WERE NONE . . . Agatha Christie.
Things Fall Apart by Chenua Achebe and A Good Man In Africa by William Boyd. Oh, and Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis.
A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving (non crime). All the Wicked Girls by Chris Whitaker (crime)
The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
The Watcher by Bella Jewel
Crime I’d say Cold Granite by Stuart Macbride (start of the series) non-crime I’d say Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller stunning book.
Tell no one Harlan Coben
Birdsong by Sebastian Faulkes, the Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
Or ‘The little drummer girl’
Ladykiller by Martina Cole.
The torment of others by Val McDermidd
Catch 22 by Heller.
A Night To Remember/Walter Lord.
Birdman. Mo hayder
The Chalk Man
Graphic crime – No Ordinary Girl by Cheryl Elaine. Thriller – Lightning by Dean Koontz. Non crime classic – Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte 🙂
@Chinelo
Curtis M. Lawson’s Newest Novel. TO KILL AN ARCHANGEL.
The Kind Worth Killing Peter Swansons
Perfect Remains and Perfect Prey by Helen Fields
To Kill A Mocking Bird
Cloud Atlas. By David Mitchell.
Blindsighted-Karin Slaughter ???
Sweet Pea
Odd Thomas
If tomorrow comes by Sidney Sheldon
The Hunt by TJ Lebbon
I would recommend two
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier and The murder of Roger Ackroyed by Agatha Christie
Love @Rebecca
eeny meeny. Written by M J Arlidge. Very good and there are books that follow on. ENJOY!
The passage, by Justin Cronin
Have you read the other 2 as well?
@Linda yes I’ve read all 3, tho the first book is the best in my opinion
Thx. Just purchased that!
@Linda hope you enjoy it