Need Book Suggestions

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Cathlete
I am looking for a few good ideas on some reading. I have been way to bored.

Some books I have read are

Snowflower and The Secret Fan
My Sisters Keeper
Time Travelers Wife
The Glass Castle

Most of Dean Koontz except his recent release
Nicholas Sparks

That is to let you see I have a variety of taste. Any ideas would be appreciated.
 
How about these:

Peony in Love (follow up to Snowflower)
The Red Tent
The Dive From Clausen's Pier
Mary (story about Mary Todd Lincoln)
Gone With the Wind
Life of Pi
Memoirs of a Geisha
A Thousand Splendid Suns
The Kite Runner
Water For Elephants
The Other Boleyn Girl

These were all faves of my Book Club.

I'm currently reading In Cold Blood by Truman Capote, recommended strongly by several members of my book club....we'll see how it goes.

ENJOY!

Gayle
 
Those are great suggestions, Gayle!

Lisa See (author of Snowflower) just came out with a new book (haven't read it yet though) called Shanghai Girls: A Novel. I'm anxious to read it!

Also, The Art of Racing in the Rain was an AWESOME book I read a few months ago. (Told in the eyes of a dog, a very smart dog, about the family he lives with and the turmoils they go through and how he helps).

I've heard The Help by Kathryn Stockett is very very good. "set during the nascent civil rights movement in Jackson, Miss., where black women were trusted to raise white children but not to polish the household silver. Eugenia Skeeter Phelan is just home from college in 1962, and, anxious to become a writer, is advised to hone her chops by writing about what disturbs you. The budding social activist begins to collect the stories of the black women on whom the country club sets relies and mistrusts enlisting the help of Aibileen, a maid who's raised 17 children, and Aibileen's best friend Minny, who's found herself unemployed more than a few times after mouthing off to her white employers." (taken from Amazon)
 
banslug said:
I'm currently reading In Cold Blood by Truman Capote, recommended strongly by several members of my book club....we'll see how it goes.
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Gayle, In Cold Blood is on my top 10 list of favorite books. Very disturbing, amazing writing. If you haven't seen the film "Capote," you should check it out. Probably better to see the movie after the book, though.
 
Charlaine Harris-Sookie Stackhouse series and Grave Sight series
Wally Lamb- I Know This Much is True
Cormac McCathy- The Road
Neil Gaiman- The Graveyard Book

Right now I'm reading The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie Alan Bradley and Emily Bonte's Wuthering Heights.
 
In Cold Blood is on my to read list. I just finished The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer. Great book, but quite long.
 
Hi Banslug , Thanks for the List. Peony in Love Sounds like maybe that is my next book since I loved Snowflower so much. Is Peony about the same people? It has been awhile since I read it.

I have read the Kite Runner and Thousand Splendid suns which I loved. Also Gone with the wind and Scarlett.
 
Thanks Chris, Lore TeTe and Janie. I am writing all these down! In Cold Blood I did read years ago. What a Story!
 
Between Friends by Debbie Macomber is an easy read, great book about friendships. I highly recommend.

Jody
 
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Peony in Love isn't a sequel, and isn't about the same characters. It's a good book, though I didn't like it as much as Snowflower.
 
I'm almost done with The Help, which was recommended by a cathe.com friend. It is wonderful. Another book I recently read that I hated to see end is The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society.
 
buffettgirl said:
I'm almost done with The Help, which was recommended by a cathe.com friend. It is wonderful. Another book I recently read that I hated to see end is The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society.
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I just heard about The Help last night from a friend, and here it's been recommended twice. Sounds like a sign that I should read that book!

Thanks, guys!

Oh, and Beavs, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn has been on "my list" for years, and I still haven't read it! I promise to finish it before we meet in person!!!;)
 
TeTe said:
I just heard about The Help last night from a friend, and here it's been recommended twice. Sounds like a sign that I should read that book!

Thanks, guys!

Oh, and Beavs, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn has been on "my list" for years, and I still haven't read it! I promise to finish it before we meet in person!!!;)
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Well, then I'll have to re-read it so we can be book nerds in the East Village at some beatnik coffee shop.....or something.
 
The thing my Mom and I used to do to find books we wanted to read was to go to the bookstores and check out all the new releases. We'd read the synopsis and write down the name and author of every book we were interested in! Then, we'd go to the library! I read a ton of books that way!
 
SO MANY good books suggested!

I vote also for A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.
I just finished The Book Thief and LOVED it!
Peony in Love, no, not a sequel, just is a great story about the daughter (if I remember correctly).

TeTe, thanks for the input on In Cold Blood.....I'll be starting it tonight.

Gayle
 
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