Must reads - suggestions please!

We're going away for the weekend, to a little country town that has nothing to do except read and relax unless you wanna go to the next nearest town. Professor and I are stocking up on books at the library either tonight or Thursday night, so I thought I'd ask for some suggestions!

Fiction/nonfiction, don't mind either. Not big on sex scenes or heaps of bad language. I love reading period novels, particularly English, around WW1.

Any suggestions at all, and I'll see how many I can read in a weekend!

Atonement by Ian McKellan
Grapes of Wrath (one of my faves:) ) by John Steinbeck
Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood
The Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood
The Shifting Fog by Kate Morton
March by Geraldine Brooks
The Help by can't remember :lol:
Cloud street by Tim Winton

Anything by Jane Austen
Vanity Fair
If you like historical fiction Philipa Gregory is brilliant.

WW Period - The Remains of the Day, Atonement, Fallen Skies

The Book Thief.

Birdsong - sebastian faulks
Dirt music - tim winton


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The Book Thief.

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I have this somewhere and I'm done with it. Anybody who wants it is welcome, just PM me.

The Street Sweeper by Elliot Perlman. But you won't find it in a library, kinda new.

Geraldine Brooks - Year of Wonders, March, Caleb's Crossing if you can find it

I just finished reading Before I Go To Sleep by SJ Watson & it was fantastic. Think along the lines of 50 First Dates, where she goes to sleep each night & wakes up with no memory, except that it's way less romantic & more suspenful waiting to find out what happened to her. I could not put it down.

Katie Flynn has lots of good English books. They are more centred around WW2 though....

Just to stick with the Geraldine Brooks' theme People of the Book
Ken Follett - Pillars of the Earth - more 12th century England stretching forward
Allan Folsom - Day After Tomorrow - mystery

Both the seconde two are doorstops of books so good holiday reading