Definitely agree about Age of Innocence and 100 Years. They’re two of my all time favorites. More recently, after reading Kate Atkinson’s Life After Life, I closed the book and thought, “This is the kind of book that reminds me why I love reading.”
A Little Life , The GoldFinch , A tree Grows in Brooklyn, The Other Side of Midnight , The Outsiders , Master of the Game , The Executioner’s Song …I could go on and on . All favorites at different times in my life
The Secret Life of Bees, by Sue Hubbell; Euphoria, by Lily King, The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold, A Three Dog Life, by Abigail Thomas, 11/22/63 by Stephen King,
The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury. The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd, The Help by Kathryn Stockett, The Beekeeper’s Apprentice by Laurie R. King, The Number 1 Ladies Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith, Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austin, Great Expectations by Charles Dickens.
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Alchemist by Paulo Coehlo, The Stranger by Albert Camus, Les Miserables and Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo , Feast of the Goat by Mario Vargas Llosa, Atomised by Mitchel Houellebecq, Short stories of Chekhov n Maupassant n m sure I must have forgotten a dozen dat ll cum to my mind after posting this
Three Men In A Boat by Jerome K. Jerome, 1066 And All That by W.C. Sellar and R.J. Yeatman, Excellent Women by Barbara Pym, Jane and Prudence by Barbara Pym, My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell, The General Danced at Dawn by George Macdonald Fraser, Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons, A Traveller in Time by Alison Uttley, The House in Norham Gardens by Penelope Lively, An Autobiography by Agatha Christie, Mrs McGinty’s Dead by Agatha Christie, Cards on the Table by Agatha Christie, Murder at the Vicarage by Agatha Christie, The Code of the Woosters by P.G. Wodehouse, My Life and Hard Times by James Thurber, Diary of a Provincial Lady by E.M Delafield, Our Village by Mary Russel Mitford, Recollections of Three Reigns by Frederick Ponsonby
Anne of Green Gables by LM Montgomery. It’s a popular Canadian classic, but the book has so much deeper meaning to me. I first read it when I was 8 or 9, and it was given to me by my foster mother, a no-nonsense woman who was very much like Marilla, (the woman who “accidentally” adopts Anne and becomes her mentor in life). The book has such a special meaning to me that is a bit different from the cult following given my own unusual upbringing.
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
One of my favorite books ever is the Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath.
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers.
That’s in my lil library. I shall give it a read.
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
That one is a masterpiece.
Definitely agree about Age of Innocence and 100 Years. They’re two of my all time favorites. More recently, after reading Kate Atkinson’s Life After Life, I closed the book and thought, “This is the kind of book that reminds me why I love reading.”
A Little Life , The GoldFinch , A tree Grows in Brooklyn, The Other Side of Midnight , The Outsiders , Master of the Game , The Executioner’s Song …I could go on and on . All favorites at different times in my life
Veiled Innocence by Ella Frank, 53 letters to my lover by leylah Attar, The breathing series by jennifer Donovan.. The list goes on
East of Eden , my Antonia, the shipping news, the old man and the sea. Autobiography of a yogi by Paramahansa yogananda, a million in one boy.
thanks for the suggestions…looking for a good read
Following this post.
Clan of the Cave Bear series, Hunger Games series, The Glass Castle and 11/22/63
T.H.White’s The Once and Future King. Taylor Caldwell’s The Listener.
The Signature of all Things. The Swan Thief.
The Secret Life of Bees, by Sue Hubbell; Euphoria, by Lily King, The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold, A Three Dog Life, by Abigail Thomas, 11/22/63 by Stephen King,
Love your selection.
I loooved 11/22/63
@Leslie thank you.
Dandelion Wine (Ray Bradbury)
The October Country was also a hit …
The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury. The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd, The Help by Kathryn Stockett, The Beekeeper’s Apprentice by Laurie R. King, The Number 1 Ladies Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith, Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austin, Great Expectations by Charles Dickens.
Jan Karon’s At Home in Mitford series, The Storyteller by Jodi Piccoult, any/all by Cathy Lamb
Little women by Louisa May Alcott
Rebecca It is a classic and it’s on a list of 50 books to read before you die!
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Alchemist by Paulo Coehlo, The Stranger by Albert Camus, Les Miserables and Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo , Feast of the Goat by Mario Vargas Llosa, Atomised by Mitchel Houellebecq, Short stories of Chekhov n Maupassant n m sure I must have forgotten a dozen dat ll cum to my mind after posting this
Mummys little angels by denise williams (disclaimer, it is very very sad)
The Help, The Hunger Games series, Thirteen Reasons why
Anyone read Stewart O’Nan?
Oh yes, love, love Stewart o’nan have read 5 of his books. Last night at the lobster is wonderful, they all are. I need to read another by him.
@Bonnie Have you read A Prayer for the Dying?
To kill a mockingbird, glass castle, catch me if you can
Three Men In A Boat by Jerome K. Jerome, 1066 And All That by W.C. Sellar and R.J. Yeatman, Excellent Women by Barbara Pym, Jane and Prudence by Barbara Pym, My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell, The General Danced at Dawn by George Macdonald Fraser, Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons, A Traveller in Time by Alison Uttley, The House in Norham Gardens by Penelope Lively, An Autobiography by Agatha Christie, Mrs McGinty’s Dead by Agatha Christie, Cards on the Table by Agatha Christie, Murder at the Vicarage by Agatha Christie, The Code of the Woosters by P.G. Wodehouse, My Life and Hard Times by James Thurber, Diary of a Provincial Lady by E.M Delafield, Our Village by Mary Russel Mitford, Recollections of Three Reigns by Frederick Ponsonby
Reading Gentleman in Moscow for a book club…..cannot get into it…….the gentleman just does not appeal to me, but I will finish it……anynopinions?
@Barbara I have tried to read it several times and I just can’t do it . I want to like it , it’s got such good reviews but it’s just not for me .
Pride and Prejudice, Gone With The Wind, North and South
My fave is TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD. I read it every summer just for joy.
I have also read it several times as well as my all time favorite Rebecca. Best book I ever read hands down!
Anne of Green Gables by LM Montgomery. It’s a popular Canadian classic, but the book has so much deeper meaning to me. I first read it when I was 8 or 9, and it was given to me by my foster mother, a no-nonsense woman who was very much like Marilla, (the woman who “accidentally” adopts Anne and becomes her mentor in life). The book has such a special meaning to me that is a bit different from the cult following given my own unusual upbringing.
I have not read mockingbird I guess that is a must read