What book are you reading???

I just finished a book called The Lottery about a slow (not retarded) young man who wins 12 million in a state lottery. I reminded me a bit of Forrest Gump, but it made me cry and made me laugh.

Last night I started Luncheon of the Boating Party by Susan Vreeland, a fictional story about the Renior painting by the same name. I'm reserving judgement until I get deeper into the book.
 
I just finished "Suite Francaise" by Irene Nemirovsky. Currently reading "Heart Shaped Box" by Joe Hill (a ghost story) and I have "Water for Elephants" on hold at the library.

I love reading:7

JJ
 
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. I started it a few weeks ago then got busy and had to set it aside. I'm planning to pick it up again after Thanksgiving.
 
Jhumpa Lahiri's The Namesake. It was on a bunch of best-book-of-the-year lists last year, and now it's a movie which is supposed to be very good. Anyhow, really wonderful and interesting writing about a first-generation Indian boy whose parents move from India to Massachusetts in the 1960s - their assimilation into American life. I also read a collection of short stories, Interpreter of Maladies, a few years ago by the same author, it was also excellent and won her the Pulitzer Prize.
 
I just finished "False Memory" by Dean Koontz. Now I'm reading "The New Rules of Lifting" for the second time. Very good stuff - and funny! Of course it's written for the male audience.
 
I'm reading (listening to while commuting, actually) Strength of His Hand by Lynn Austin. It's a novel about Hezekiah, one of the kings of Judah. It's a good book based on Scripture.

April
 
I just finished "Wuthering Heights" which started slow but got really good. Couldn't wait to get back to it each evening. I'm liking the old classics lately, but am ready for something modern now. ;)
 
I sooo glad this topic started again. I'm searching for something to read!
Ellen
PS Thanks for all the suggestions!
 
>JJ, I loved Water for Elephants.

Yeah! I'm looking forward to reading it. I requested it over 3 months ago.

JJ
 
I just got done reading "High Five" by Janet Evanovich. Thanks to lots of people on this forum I started checking out her Stephanie Plum books and I absolutely love them. They are easy, funny reads. The sixth one at my library is out right now so I am now reading "Dear John" by Nicholas Sparks.
 
I'm reading the Coldest Winter by David Halberstam which he had just completed before his all too tragic death. It is a very interesting account of the Korean War. I'm almost done and planning to pick up Eleventh Month, Eleventh Day, Eleventh Hour: Armistice Day, 1918 World War I and Its Violent Climax by Joseph Persico.
 
I just finished "World without End" by Ken Follet. If you read Pillars of the Earth by him it is along the same lines
Laura
 
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