Recommend your best book (fiction) ever
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Anonymous
| Just arrived for 10 days of spring break - and would love to catch up on some reading. Please recommend the best novel you’ve ever read! No strong for genre. I have not read fiction in years. |
Anonymous
| OP. Bonus if it’s also funny. |
Anonymous
| Since you added funny, Carl Hiassen is hilarious, quality writing. I can't pick one. Maybe the others can. Bonus if you like to chuckle at "Florida man" |
Anonymous
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The War of Don Emmanuel’s Nether Parts by Louis de Bernieres
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Anonymous
| I loved the great believers by Rebecca Makai and the Overstory by Richard Powers |
Anonymous
Ughhh to both. Tedious! |
Anonymous
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Anything by Frederick Bachman
Anxious People and Britte Marrie Was Here are my favorites of his. Alice I have Been or Mrs Tom Thumb by Melanie Benjamin Sense of an Ending Julian Barnes Ruth Ware books or Lisa Jewel if you like mysteries. Last Mrs Parrish if you like Psychological drama mysteries Liv Constantine author Anything by Laine Moriartiy like Big Little Lies all her books are fun. |
Anonymous
| My favorite novel is A Prayer for Owen Meany, by John Irving. I've reread it several times. Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout and Gilead by Marilynne Robinson are up there, too. |
Anonymous
| One of my all-time favorite humorous novels is Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie. |
Anonymous
I hated Prayer for Owen Meany. |
Anonymous
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Ghosts, Dolly Alderton
Saturn’s Return to NY, Sara Gran The Boys, Katie Hafner The Office of Historical Corrections, Danielle Evans Happy all the time, Laurie Colwin Several People are Typing, Calvin Kalsuke |
Anonymous
| Harry Potter |
Anonymous
| The Heart's Invisible Furies by John Boyne |
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Richard Russo’s Straight Man is excellent and unexpectedly funny.
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Anonymous
| Y/N by Esther Yi -- hilarious and insightful |