thread: Must reads - suggestions please!

  1. February 28th, 2012, 03:07 PM #1
    Bumperstump Cummerbund
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    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!
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  2. February 28th, 2012, 03:14 PM #2
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    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
    Cloud street by Tim Winton
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  3. February 28th, 2012, 03:23 PM #3
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    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
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  4. February 28th, 2012, 05:41 PM #4
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    The Book Thief.
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  5. February 28th, 2012, 05:49 PM #5
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    Birdsong - sebastian faulks
    Dirt music - tim winton


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  6. February 28th, 2012, 06:30 PM #6
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    The Book Thief.
    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
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  7. February 28th, 2012, 06:34 PM #7
    {sarah}
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    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.
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  8. February 28th, 2012, 07:01 PM #8
    chody47
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    Katie Flynn has lots of good English books. They are more centred around WW2 though....
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  9. February 28th, 2012, 07:03 PM #9
    LuluHB
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    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
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