I was worried about it because a lot of people said it was difficult to read. I didn’t find that to be the case. But I love all things Lincoln. I really liked that he interspersed first hand accounts from that time with the story of the spirits at the cemetery.
Read Lonesome Dove, then listened to it on a road trip, so good! Would have said I didn’t like westerners. Read News of the World, I think you’ll like it too..
All Harry Potters andentire Fever Series by Karen M. Moning for past ones. Alas Babylon by Pat Frank, Those Across the River by Christopher Buehlman, The Stolen Child by Keith Donahue, and The Bird Box by Josh Malerman for recent ones so far.
Crime and Punishment, All the Light we cannot see, A suitable Boy, My Name is Red, Rebecca, Gone with the Wind, A case of Exploding Mangoes. These are the ones I remember
Love John Sandford and Jeffery Deaver. Will check out Daniel Silva. Have you read Michael Connelly, Sara Paretsky or James Lee Burke? Three of my favorite mystery writers…
Paradise Lost by John Milton. After every section my jaw dropped in amazement at his imagery and use of the English language. I was prompted to read it when a professor asked the class if anyone had. When no one responded affirmatively, she shook her head and said, “Your loss.” I took that as a recommendation and am forever glad I did. Admittedly, it’s a difficult read, with entire semesters being devoted to it, but I got through it by reading it as prose, rather than poetry, and not stopping at the end of each line. And extensive footnotes helped. (Did you know he coined the word ‘pandemonium’ to describe the place where the fallen angels gathered?) Sorry to drone on about this classic, but it kind of explains how blown away I was with it.
I love seeing someone get excited over “Paradise Lost.” I read it in a Milton class at college so yes, practically the whole semester was dedicated to it. I thought it would be heavy at first but it’s amazing how quickly you get used to Milton’s flow.
The book deals with young girl’s and friendship in old Chinese. Woven thru it is foot binding with all it’s horror, and a secret code kind of writing that the men didn’t know about. Mesmerizing!!
I actually couldn’t put The Analyst by John Katzenbach down when I first started reading it. I had no expectations; I just bought it when I saw it at a book fair a few years ago. I read it so fast; I needed to know if all of the conclusions I was making up in my mind were true or not before reaching the next page, and so on, ??♀️
The hunger games and 50 shades although I skipped that one a lot because it was cheesy and not sexy at all but I liked the story twist of second and third book
Has anyone read both the book and seen the movie? I saw the movie by accident and wonder how similar it is to the book. Would it be worth it to read the book if you seen the movie?
The movie is overall nice, a beautiful adaptation. It respects the book and cuts off what it takes to stay within a couple of hours. It does so gracefully and without too many pretences. Still, a lot get lost on screen and to read the book is highly suggested 🙂
Before we were yours by Lisa Wingate
Almost anything by Nora Roberts and Julie Garwood. The Harry Potter series.
I just finished Nora Roberts In the Garden trilogy. It was so good!
If you haven’t read yet, try the Chesapeake Bay series and the three sister island.
Will do. Thanks!
Thomas Pakenham “The scramble for Africa”.
House Rules by Jodi Picault
Handle with Care is my favorite by her!
@Amanda that’s on my TBR shelf right now!!
It’s sooo good!! I bought my copy at Half Price books and it was signed by her!!!! I got so excited lol
19 Minutes and Small, Great Things are so good too!
19 Minutes was the first book is read of hers. So intense!!
Recently the woman in the window and the chalk man
These are the exact two books I was going to say!
I’m on the list at the library for Woman in the Window
The Help, Lilac Girls and Beneath a Scarlett Sky.
Fatherland Robert Harris
The Kitchen House by Kathleen Grissom and Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders (no relation 🙂 ).
I’m going to have to try lincoln again. Just couldn’t do it the first time around.
I was worried about it because a lot of people said it was difficult to read. I didn’t find that to be the case. But I love all things Lincoln. I really liked that he interspersed first hand accounts from that time with the story of the spirits at the cemetery.
My mum just finished Lincoln in the Bardo for her book group and loved it, so I’m going to give it a go.
I love Robert Harris! I’m waiting for Munich from the library…
11/22/63 by Stephen King
The Rarest Rose by H. A. Robinson
The Sun is Also a Star by Nicola Yoon
Miss Peregrine’s home for Peculiar Children. I could put it down but I didn’t wanted to. As soon as a woke up I took it and kept reading ??
That Night by Chevy Stevens
Twilight, the entire series. It helped to get me back into reading all the time
Anything by Jodi Picoult,
Also the language of flowers (can’t remember author name) and the casual vacancy by j k rowling
“Lonesome Dove” by Larry McMurty
Have you tried Centennial by James A Michener? If you loved lonesome dove you will also love this.
And Hawaii and The Source
Read Lonesome Dove, then listened to it on a road trip, so good! Would have said I didn’t like westerners. Read News of the World, I think you’ll like it too..
@Mary This is good to know! I loved Lonesome Dove.
The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
All Harry Potters andentire Fever Series by Karen M. Moning for past ones. Alas Babylon by Pat Frank, Those Across the River by Christopher Buehlman, The Stolen Child by Keith Donahue, and The Bird Box by Josh Malerman for recent ones so far.
The Time Travellers Wife.
Year one Nora Roberts
Swan song Robert McCammon
@Chinelo ！！！
Centennial- James A Michener
All of the hawks mc by lila rose
The One by John Marrs xx
My Torin by K Webster
The Stand by Stephen King
That one was so good, I read in 4 days! Not really a Stephen King fan, but that book? Wow!
Amazing book!
Crime and Punishment, All the Light we cannot see, A suitable Boy, My Name is Red, Rebecca, Gone with the Wind, A case of Exploding Mangoes. These are the ones I remember
A Little Life.
I read the Goldfinch in one weekend. Dishes piling in the sink. Bed unmade. But I started Saturday morning and finished Sunday evening.
Great effort!
I thought it would never end.
Dang, that book is a million pages long! Your eyeballs must have been worn thin! It was a very good book, but it took me a little longer. 🙂
@Rosemary My eyes really did hurt. But I couldn’t stop until I finished.
11.22.63
Harry Potter Series…..all of them
I just started reading. It is very good so far and I am only on page 13 of 2,934 LOL!
The Glass Castle and The Kite Runner are 2 books that had me hooked.
State of Wonder by Ann Patchett.
Rebecca, My Cousin Rachel, Strange Fits of Passion, many others
The earth children series by Jean m Auel!
my most recent one was Home Front by Kristian Hannah.
What I Loved by Siri Hustvedt.
The Secret History by Donna Tartt.
The Good Girl
Name of the Wind
The Kitchen House
Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell
In Cold Blood
Just picked this one up today?
✔The Hypnotist’s Love Story by Liane Moriarty
✔The last Mrs. Parrish by Liv Constantine
“Pillars of the Earth” by: Ken Follett.
Six Years by Harlan Corben
Dracula
The Court of Thorns and Roses series by Sarah J Maas.I stayed up all night the first night I checked them out.
When They Call You a Terrorist by Patrisse Khan-Cullors.
The alice network
Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls
Kindred by Octavia Butler.
(Thanks for the great question – Saving this post for TBR additions!)
The Kite Runner by Khaleed Hosseini
Pet Semetary
Swear on This Life. Renee Carlino
Jude the Obscure…I am a Hardy fan.
“No Name” by Wilkie Collins – even though I have read it dozens of times. Same with “I, Claudius” by Robert Graves.
Cathy Glass books
Under the Dome
I had a hard time with that one. I couldn’t like the characters.
I read it from cover to cover we in 4 days….it just took over my life….I can understand it’s not for everyone.
I liked the show.
Every John Sanford. Most Jeffery Deaver’s Most Daniel Silva’s
Love John Sandford and Jeffery Deaver. Will check out Daniel Silva. Have you read Michael Connelly, Sara Paretsky or James Lee Burke? Three of my favorite mystery writers…
Currently reading The Girls In The Picture by Melanie Benjamin, and it is totally unputdownable!!!
A Reliable Wife by Robert Goodrick.
11/22/63 by Stephen King
The hunger games series, the reader, before we were yours, what she left behind.
The alchemist read in one sitting on a floor
A Man Called Ove.
The Goldfinch
Most recently, (last couple of weeks) I hit a trifecta of I can’t put it down : The Wife Between Us, Need to Know and The Woman in the Window
I liked The Woman in the Window
I am reading, A Fall of Marigolds, now. It’s really good!
Station 11. Read it in one night. Classic couldn’t put downs: Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre, Cather In The Rye
One of us is lying
Heading Out to Wonderful. I love this book SO much.
Paradise Lost by John Milton. After every section my jaw dropped in amazement at his imagery and use of the English language. I was prompted to read it when a professor asked the class if anyone had. When no one responded affirmatively, she shook her head and said, “Your loss.” I took that as a recommendation and am forever glad I did. Admittedly, it’s a difficult read, with entire semesters being devoted to it, but I got through it by reading it as prose, rather than poetry, and not stopping at the end of each line. And extensive footnotes helped. (Did you know he coined the word ‘pandemonium’ to describe the place where the fallen angels gathered?) Sorry to drone on about this classic, but it kind of explains how blown away I was with it.
I love seeing someone get excited over “Paradise Lost.” I read it in a Milton class at college so yes, practically the whole semester was dedicated to it. I thought it would be heavy at first but it’s amazing how quickly you get used to Milton’s flow.
I love it when people are passionate about books they love.
I love to recommend books to people which many times fall on deaf ears. Anyway, I try!
Crossing the Borders of Time – Leslie Maitland
“Unbroken “ Lauren Hillenbrand.???
A Beautiful Poison
Snowflower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See.
I have this book. I need to read it
The book deals with young girl’s and friendship in old Chinese. Woven thru it is foot binding with all it’s horror, and a secret code kind of writing that the men didn’t know about. Mesmerizing!!
This reminds me, I very much enjoyed Empress Orchid by Anchee Min.
It was such a great book!
The Book Thief
Lilac Girls
Christy by Catherine Marshall
Redeeming Love by Francine Rivers
Memoirs of a Geisha
The Mark of the King by Jocelyn Green
Someone Knows My Name by Lawrence Hill
The Confessions of X
Salt to the Sea
The Light Between Oceans
Reconstructing Amelia
America’s First Daughter
The Pharaoh’s Daughter by Mesu Andrews
The Pearl that Broke its Shell
Mary: Mrs A Lincoln
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Piercing the Darkness by Frank Peretti
This Present Darkness by Frank Peretti
Thomas, why are you apologizing?
Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
A all The Light You Cannot See.
The Help
The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch.
City of Spades by mCGuiness
All books by Henry Miller ,Paul
Auster Charles bukovski
News of the World by Paulette Jiles, The Dry by Jane Harper and Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson…and following too!
News of the World – BEARTOWN – Ready player one –
Love ready player on, adding the other two to my tbr
Unbroken
Gosh, yes.
Everything Everything
The Couple Next Door
I guess Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe because I read the whole thing yesterday ?
Ordinary Grace
The Invention of Wings
The Night Circus
The Pillars of the Earth
Langston Hughes’ two memoirs, ‘The Big Sea’ and ‘I Wonder As I Wander.’
The Obsession by Nora roberts
Really liked this one, too!
The Clowns of God -Morris @West
Just Mercy
fierce kingdom by gin phillips\
Dark Places, Gillian Flynn
Cluck! Murder Most Fowl. The life of pi.
Gone Girl- Gillian Flynn
Bird Box.
wonder by r.j palacio
me too! that was my most recent couldn’t-put-down
MISBEHAVING
By H. Thaler
Harry Potter series
Da Vinci Code
Harry Potter series.
I finished listening to this whole series in one month, which was quite quick for a slow reader like me.
Need to Know…came out Jan 23rd….and all our Bookreporter readers are saying the same thing about it….
I actually couldn’t put The Analyst by John Katzenbach down when I first started reading it. I had no expectations; I just bought it when I saw it at a book fair a few years ago. I read it so fast; I needed to know if all of the conclusions I was making up in my mind were true or not before reaching the next page, and so on, ??♀️
Agree!
The Hazel Wood
Duma Key by Stephen King
The hunger games and 50 shades although I skipped that one a lot because it was cheesy and not sexy at all but I liked the story twist of second and third book
Those sex scenes were all the same they got so boring but wow, the story was fantastic.
I think all the Agatha Christies on first reading.
The Beach and Ready Player One
Anything Jodi Picoult!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Never let me go, by K. Ishiguro
Has anyone read both the book and seen the movie? I saw the movie by accident and wonder how similar it is to the book. Would it be worth it to read the book if you seen the movie?
The movie is overall nice, a beautiful adaptation. It respects the book and cuts off what it takes to stay within a couple of hours.
It does so gracefully and without too many pretences.
Still, a lot get lost on screen and to read the book is highly suggested 🙂
Harry Potter Series, Enigma by Robert Harris, the Black Echo by Michael Connolly
An object of beauty. Steve Martin
The Last Mrs Parrish ?
Winter in Madrid & The Book Thief
The Progeny by Tosca Lee….It was such a good book
Call me by your name by Andre Aciman
金庸小說(popular Chinese novel) , Harry Potter, Guns germs and steel
The Last Horizon by James Hilton.
A Simple Plan.
Dante Club by Matthew Pearl.
Anything by @Ann, if you havnt read her you should. Also Before We Were Yours, and @Sandra…check her out
A Walk to Remember by Nicholas Sparks
Everything by Kristen Hannah.
Tiem between Stitches by Maria Duenas
I loved the TV series based on this novel!
A Feast for Crows by George RR Martin.
Catch 22
The Big Book of Glues.
And also Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell.
“The Day of the Jackal” by Frederick Forsyth.
The Shining, Prince of Tides, The Cutting of Stone
The Visitors
Harry Potter series
Sarah’s key.
The Night Circus
Harry potter
Gentleman in Moscow
Girl in 6e
Across the Universe Trilogy
All of them?
Shibumi by Trevanian
Currently reading The Power by Naomi Alderman and it’s definitely on the list!
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford.
Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell
I know that I can “save this post” but I desperately wish that I could click something and generate a list.