Best novel you have ever read
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This thread qualifies as my favorite DCUM thread by a mile.
So many great books already mentioned. My top five favorites are Home, Marilynne Robinson The Promise of Rest, Reynolds Price The Angle of Repose, Wallace Stegner Three Junes, Julia Glass The Thornbirds (who wrote this? I'm blanking...) The Thornbirds certainly isn't great fiction, but I loved it as a teenager. It was so epic and romantic. Am going to print this thread out and use as my reading guide for the next few months. Thanks OP! |
Anonymous
| Who's read Gilead? That's next for me. |
Anonymous
| Love this thread too - I am in the middle of a fine balance, which is wonderful. Thanks! |
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Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez The Passion - Jeanette Winterson Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving (I also loved a Widow for One Year) Divine Secrets of the Yaya Sisterhood - Rebecca wells Enduring Love - Ian McEwan |
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A Pray for Owen Meany.
I just finished Unbroken (non-fiction) and loved it. |
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I love seeing so many of my favorites on other people's lists!
The Passion- Jeanette Winterson The Secret History- Donna Tartt Midnight's Children- Salman Rushdie Wise Children- Angela Carter Neverwhere- Neil Gaiman White Teeth- Zadie Smith Wolf Hall- Hilary Mantel |
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I liked White Teeth but LOVED On Beauty by Zadie Smith. She's such a talented author! |
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I loved Gilead! Home was more traditional in its style, but Gilead was fabulous too. Marilynne Robinson is a fantastic writer.
Loved Wolf Hall too. Best read so far this year. |
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| I second a Prayer for Owen Meany...also Garp by him. |
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| Gabriel Garcia Marquez's A Love in the Time of Cholera |
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| Confederacy of Dunces |
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Middlemarch
Persuasion (Austen) The Great Gatsby Portrait of a Lady What Maisie Knew (James) sounds like English 1 reading list, but I still love all these books, and I've reread them many times over the years. |
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| should be English 101, at Dartmouth |
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meant to say "English 101" at Dartmouth
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just off the top of my head a moving novel I read recently was Jeannette Winterston's Written on the Body (have not yet read The Passion as mentioned in another post).
I highly recommend it - a captivating read. I also love the poetic prose of Michael Ondaatje (The English Patient). A last and enduring favorite is Milan Kundera's "The Unbearable Lightness of Being. |