Best Book You've Read..

[Dreamsandlove]

Looking for some new reads. Need suggestions.

Current like crime thrillers, and positive uplifting books like the secret, law of attraction kind of books. Open to new ideas.

[MallyJ]

I have just finished Ransom Riggs Miss Peregrine home for peculiar children and the 2 books that carry on the story to the end. I really enjoyed them probably because they are just so different from those that I have read before.
I love a thriller but needed something a bit out of the ordinary... other old favourites are Cold Comfort Farm and all Fannie Flaggs boks....I started reading her with Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe. Her books are funny but also have that 'aaah' factor.

[dannyk13]

Any by Dennis Wheatley

[Jennykenny]

My favourite book, which I have been rereading at least twice a year for over fifty years is Betty MacDonald's The Egg and I. Don't let the title put you off. It is an account of how her and her husband tried to establish a chicken farm in the wilds of north west United States. Very funny and very interesting. I absolutely love it.
Also thoroughly enjoyed Terry Darlington's account of taking a narrow boat across the channel to France - Narrow Dog to Carcassonne.

[retrocop]

I have always enjoyed Papillon by Henrie Charriere. It is dated but is an account of the French penal system in the 1920s. The author,Papillon, was the prisoner who escapes.

[EcclesCake]

The Power of One by Bryce Courtenay.

[mikey4444]

Anything by P G Wodehouse !

[Cloverjo]

I loved Donna Tartt's first and third novels. The Secret History and The Goldfinch.

[chiaroscuro]

The novels of Leon Uris

[ladyalex]

I like Lindsey Davis's books about the Ancient Roman detective, Marcus Didius Falco.

Good stories, accurate history thrown in and a love story too.

Some of them have been adapted for radio.

[mikey4444]

ladyalex...I'll second that ! Although I am not so fond of the later ones, "starring" his daughter !

[Quizproquo]

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams. I never tire of it and the rest of the trilogy of five.

[mikey4444]

Are we allowed to say Enid Blyton and Malcolm Saville ?

I know that they aren't exactly new ........ !

[Cloverjo]

I don't think I'd go back to reading Enid Blyton as an adult, Mikey. I loved many of her books when I was young, but she wrote an awful lot of dross, too.

[mikey4444]

Alas Jo...you are right, but it was nice when we were young though !

[rockyracoon]

If you like crime, you'll find Michael Connelly is the King.

I'm not sure what the best book I've read is, but, Bram Stoker's Dracula will be way up there.

[webbo3]

A walk in the woods
Down Under
A short history of nearly everything.


Dave.

[cashier]

Agree with Michael Connelly, brillian. Also worth a read Mark Billingham, Martin Edwards, Jane Casey and Stuart MacBride.

[Cloverjo]

I also loved the first of the Gormenghast novels by Mervyn Peake. The subsequent books in the series were not as good, sadly.

[sinderella]

Do the Birds Still Sing in Hell? Horace Greasley.true story

[jackthehat]

Swedish Author - Camilla Lackberg.
Crime-thrillers set in a small area of Sweden.......gripping from start to finish. Start with 'The Ice Princess'........you'll be hooked.