Recommend a book for me...

LadyGuise

I recently finished reading Oil by Upton Sinclar (There Will Be Blood was supposed to be inspired by this book, but it was nothing like it and I thought the movie was horrible, but the book was really good!)

 And I am in the middle of Flesh and Blood by Michael Cunningham (the author of the Hours) but I really am not getting into it so I might just put it down.

Anyway...have any suggestions for some must reads?  I mostly read fiction and I am not into the Harry Potter kind of books.

Thanks in advance!

ses1199

I just saw the movie the Kite Runner and now I really want to read the book.  I loved the movie and I have heard the book is even better.

I also just read Middlesex for the Knot book club and really enjoyed that.

 

Cristin Welch

I know this book is "old news" but Eat, Pray, Love is FABULOUS! I cried at the end...because it was over and I wanted to keep reading. My all time favorite is the Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald

Cristin Welch

PS...the little girl in your siggy pic is SOOOO dang cute!

Just_Ali

A few books that I have enjoyed recently are:

The Thirteenth Tale

Water for Elephants

One Thousand White Women

If you are into funny books then I would suggest

Bitter is the New Black or Bright Lights, Big Ass by Jen Lancaster

My all time favorite book is

The End of the Affair by Graham Greene.

shell1016

I second kite runner (it's sad)

P.S. I love you was great, i laughed and cried a lot.

Eat, Pray, Love was good too

I'm a big Nora Roberts fan so any of her J.D. Robb books are so fun. Try and start with Naked in Death.

 

LadyGuise

ses1199... I read both The Kite Runner and Middlesex and loved both of them!!!

LadyGuise

Now I have a lot of books to look into...Thanks girls!!!

 MrsSDSU...I absolutely love The Great Gatsby!  I just love that life...flapping and prohibition and drama...LOVE IT!!!

balihaigirl

I'm reading The Secret Life of Bees and it is great.  I just finished The Glass Castle and I loved it (although it was so good that I couldn't put it down and read it in 2 days).  I also really liked the Kite Runner and his other book, A Thousand Splendid Suns. 

I also agree with Eat, Pray, Love. 

balihaigirl

Just_Ali - I loved Bitter is the New Black and Bright Lights, Big Ass.  Do you read her blog?  She is hilarious!!! www.jennsylvania.com

mrsdanigirl8

I'm probably late but here are my books:

Recently read -

Middlesex

Three Cups Of Tea
 

Currently reading -

The Glass Castle

The Falls

 

To read -

The Curious Incident of the Dog at Nighttime

In Cold Blood

Life of Pi  

Naked

The Other Boleyn Girl

Plain Truth

The Red Tent

The Time Travelers Wife

 

I loved Eat Love Pray, The Kite Runner, A Thousand Splendid Suns, The Secret Life of Bees, and The Memory Keepers Daughter (There are so many more but I don't want to overdo it...)
 

BBKiddo

I really liked Middlesex, it got a little slow in the middle but overall I loved it! I think Water for Elephants in a must read. I couldn't put it down. It was very fun and interesting and kept my attention the entire time. I also really liked A Thousand Splendid Suns. I want to read The Kite Runner once I finish The Glass Castle (which is also very good so far)

 

changingnames

  I've been enjoying some historical fiction lately (and some non fiction)- The Autobiography of Henry VIII with notes form his fool Will Somner by Margret George.  It's obvioulsy not an actual autobio but I like dit ad it got me itrested enough to start reading some non fictio including findong a copy of hte actual love letters he sent to Anne Boelyn (on display at the Vatican in England) and the Eric Ives book on Anne  which is good but non fiction so it's dry.  Now I'mm reading The Queen of Subtelties by Susanahh Dunn - not sure if it is good yet.