Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Need some ideas of good books! Here is my list:

1) House of Spirits - Isabella Allende
2) And the Mountains Echoed - Khaled Housseini
3) A Thousand Splendid Suns - also by Housseini
4) In the Time of the Butterflies - Julia Alvarez
5) Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver

Yes to A Thousand Splendid Suns.

I actually love everything by Kingsolver EXCEPT Poisonwood Bible, but that is her most popular novel.

Also love A Constellation of Vital Phenomena by Anthony Marra(?)

Op here - interesting about Barbara Kingsolver. Poisonwood Bible took me a while to get into but then I absolutely loved it. I also loved Animal Dreams by her.

DP: I did not like Poisonwood Bible at all, but Prodigal Summer is one of my favorite books.

Pp: and Anne of GG and Avonlea and all of the rest!

Here’s to you, Jesusa
A Passage to India
Into Thin Air
The Sleepwalkers
Dune
Hyperion

Anne of Green Gables, LM Montgomery
The Heart of the Matter, Graham Greene
Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte
Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
Light in August, William Faulkner

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Need some ideas of good books! Here is my list:

1) House of Spirits - Isabella Allende
2) And the Mountains Echoed - Khaled Housseini
3) A Thousand Splendid Suns - also by Housseini
4) In the Time of the Butterflies - Julia Alvarez
5) Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver

Yes to A Thousand Splendid Suns.

I actually love everything by Kingsolver EXCEPT Poisonwood Bible, but that is her most popular novel.

Also love A Constellation of Vital Phenomena by Anthony Marra(?)

Op here - interesting about Barbara Kingsolver. Poisonwood Bible took me a while to get into but then I absolutely loved it. I also loved Animal Dreams by her.

Anonymous wrote:Need some ideas of good books! Here is my list:

1) House of Spirits - Isabella Allende
2) And the Mountains Echoed - Khaled Housseini
3) A Thousand Splendid Suns - also by Housseini
4) In the Time of the Butterflies - Julia Alvarez
5) Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver

Yes to A Thousand Splendid Suns.

I actually love everything by Kingsolver EXCEPT Poisonwood Bible, but that is her most popular novel.

Also love A Constellation of Vital Phenomena by Anthony Marra(?)

The Power of One - Bryce Courtney
The Brothers K - David James Duncan
Angle of Repose - Wallace Stegner

House of the Spirits is also one of my favorites, OP. I'll add:

1) Persuasion, Jane Austen
2) A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Betty Smith

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The House of the Spirits is also one of my favorites! The obvious suggestion here is Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and also possibly Haruki Murakami. I would also recommend:

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Daughter of Smoke and Bone series by Laini Taylor (this is YA/fantasy)
Shogun by James Clavell

Op here - thanks! I love Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Most people love One Hundred Years of Solitude but I loved Love in the Time of Cholera.

I loved both, but One Hundred Years of Solitude took me three tries to read because I found the beginning slow (Shogun also has this issue FWIW). I had a long layover in Honolulu once and finally cracked the first 100 pages.

Some of my most favorites (it's hard to pick)

1. The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
2. Wait Til Helen Comes by Mary Downing Hahn (childhood favorite since I was 10)
3. This Tender Land By William Kent Krueger
4. The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey
5. The Giver by Louis Lowry
6. Yellow Crocus by Laila Ibrahim
7. I know this Much is True by Wally Lamb
8. Hunger Games Trilogy (don't judge!)
9. The Fourth Monkey Trilogy by J.D. Barker
10. The Dovekeepers by Alice Hoffman

Anonymous wrote:The House of the Spirits is also one of my favorites! The obvious suggestion here is Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and also possibly Haruki Murakami. I would also recommend:

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Daughter of Smoke and Bone series by Laini Taylor (this is YA/fantasy)
Shogun by James Clavell

Op here - thanks! I love Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Most people love One Hundred Years of Solitude but I loved Love in the Time of Cholera.

The House of the Spirits is also one of my favorites! The obvious suggestion here is Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and also possibly Haruki Murakami. I would also recommend:

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Daughter of Smoke and Bone series by Laini Taylor (this is YA/fantasy)
Shogun by James Clavell

The Aubrey/Maturin series by Patrick O'Brien.

Two classics that still blew me away with how good they were: Moby Dick and Frankenstein

Need some ideas of good books! Here is my list:

1) House of Spirits - Isabella Allende
2) And the Mountains Echoed - Khaled Housseini
3) A Thousand Splendid Suns - also by Housseini
4) In the Time of the Butterflies - Julia Alvarez
5) Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver