Name a book you read & loved only because it was recommended to you ?????
Name a book you read & loved only because it was recommended to you
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Name a book you read & loved only because it was recommended to you
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The Help
for me as well
@Katharine my last book I was able to recommend to my mom. She finished it the morning of the day she passed on and we discussed it laughing our faces off at “the pie” scene. She loved to read and I’m so happy we shared that
I read it & loved it too! It was really funny…
You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me. A memoir that shows the native American experience as the author explores his difficult relationship with his mom. It’s mostly prose but with some beautiful poetry. Someone I know recommended it to me, knowing how much I love reading. It was so beautiful.
To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Shadow of the Wind by
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
That whole series is amazing!
A discovery of witches
I loved that series! Now I’m working on replacing by paperback copies with hardbacked ones 🙂
The Women’s Murder Club Series x
The Tribute of Panem from Suzanne Collins
Is this related to the The Huger Games Trilogy?
The Hunger Games is the first book of the Tribute of Panem trilogy
Oh! I got it! Thanks for enlightening me? Those are great reads, really!
The Good Earth, I have read it twice, and must read it again and again.
@Maureen what is it’s subject matter
Life in China many years ago.
I read ‘The Good Earth’ as part of my book group many years ago, I didn’t think I would enjoy, I surprised myself by enjoying it?
Pearl Buck, it’s a beautiful book….
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire
YES! I’ve read ALL of his books! The Lion one gets a little bogged down in politics here & there, but he’s pretty spot on!
My Antonia by Willa Cather. I’ve read it once a year for almost 20 years now as a result of that recommendation. And another great recommendation was Flannery O’Connor
I have a copy of it but I’m thrown off by the fact that it’s part of a series & now I can’t read it because I can’t find the FIRST one.
The color purple!
I’ll second this too, the book was SO much better than the movie!
You, The Wife Between Us, Hidden Bodies, The Couple Next Door
@Jessica loved them all as well!
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
One of my absolute favourites!
Mine too, but I’d never have chosen in on my own. I’m so glad my friend insisted that I read it!
I don’t know if I would have read it either if my brother hadn’t recommended it!
I can’t say I loved it, but I stuck with it long enough to finish the series.
Will Robie Series by David Baldacci. My mom recommended it to me.
Pachinko
Eyes of the Dragon by Stephen King. My ex-mother in law recommend it. I absolutely loved it and read it every year
Great to hear that you love it Niki, I enjoyed it too, great story?
Sassafrass, Cypress and Indigo: A Novel by Ntozake Shange
The book of Negroes
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, by Mary Ann Shaffer
The God of Small Things.
On my TBR.
I have bad friends and they don’t recommend me books ??
@Jilliebelle my friends do not read. I once borrowed 1 my James Patterson’s novel called Suzanne’s Diary For Nicholas. That was probably in 2011. It’s still not returned. ?
You have all of us NOW!!!!
The Alchemist ❤️???
Me too! And it’s so incredible! ❤
Yes! He’s an amazing author, read some of his other works too!
@Lisa I listened to Hippie a couple weeks ago at work. It was also really good.
November 9
I normally do not enjoy any book someone recommends but I loved, loved, loved The 5 Love Languages. Not “only because” it was recommended. I loved it because it’s great, period!
The End of Alice
The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery. It’s possible I would have read it myself anyway, but it was recommended to me, and I did love it.
Anne of Green Gables … recommended by my mother <3
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry.
The Fourth Monkey by J.D Barker…
Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk
Dark Matter by Blake Crouch
Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything.
A friend sent it to me and I thought it was brilliant. Science made VERY interesting. Highly recommend it. Even better on CD for long car trips.
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak? ~ recommended by friend?
‘The Kite Runner’ and also ‘And the Mountains Echoed’ by Khaled Hosseini ❤
Call Me By Your Name and The Name of the Rose both recommended by my hubby (actually he technically recommended the movie of CMBYN first and then I read the book…otherwise I wouldn’t have known about it!) Also Cold Comfort Farm recommended by a friend.
The Monkey Wrench Gang
The Robe Novel by Lloyd C. Douglas
Enter Talking by Joan Rivers.
Alchemist.. Really provoking my life.. To know about importance of life goal after reading this novel..
@Abdul loved this book.
@Michelle share its summary
The Lost Years by Mary Higgins Clark was recommended by my Librarian. I absolutely loved it!
The girl in the train
Harry Potter.
Lord of the rings
Harry Potter.
Midnight breeeds series recommended by my best friend
Anne McCaffrey’s Pern series.
Eat, love, pray
In the house upon the dirt between the lake and the woods by Matt Bell
Big Little Lies.
Twilight
Once read a series by Josie Litton (Dream of Me, Believe in Me, Come Back to Me). While I was waiting for my physical therapy appointment to begin, I met an older lady who had just finished the book. When I told her I was working on my own novels, she smiled, and wished me luck. When I went back to do my session and finished, the receptionist says: “Are you Adam?” I told her yes. The lady had left me the book Come Back to Me, to read. I had to get the double novel of the first two before I could read it. Fantastic historical fiction.
Other Mentions:
Dragonlance Chronicles by Margaret Weis
The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
The Bronze Knight Trilogy by John Marco
Baumgartner’s Bombay by Anita Desai
There are more, but those were the first ones I thought of.
Dragonlance 🙂 Wow, I read those when they were FIRST being released! Took me back to my teens for a minute. Raistlin got a bum rap. He was a dick, yes, but so was his brother LOL. Rushdie is worth reading. That one specifically, but I’ve read several of his others & they were well, WEIRD….
“Pax” On recommendation of my 10 year old daughter. Short, well written, and a wonderful read.
I enjoyed ‘Pax’ too??
Elsewhere by Gabrielle Zevin. Kathy Boone Reel recommended it, and it gives me great joy and comfort every time I read it.❤️
Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur. I’d never even heard of it until my sister made me read her copy.
Homo sapiens, I don’t usually like non fiction but I read this because I trust the judgement of this friend. I was just blown away. It is fantastic
@Tessa here as well 🙂
@Paula too general for me
@Tessa Well, no worries then
The Hunger Games from Suzanne Collins. I loved it
Normally I’m not a YA fan, but, the Miss Peregrine series was recommended to me by a friend who knew I’d get a kick out of the old photos if nothing else, & the Catacombs series, for the same reasons.
The Rocket Boys
The NIghtingale, by Kristin Hannah.
Lake Success by Gary Shteyngart