What is the best book you have ever read by a male author and a female author?

[chaptazbru]

Mine is The Pursuit of Happiness by Douglas Kennedy

and

The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton.

[lairdoftheclan]

The Nights Dawn trilogy by Peter F Hamilton
Pandoras Star and sequel Judas unchained by same

[lairdoftheclan]

Pandora's Star and Judas Unchained by Peter F Hamilton
also Nights Dawn trilogy by same

[chi-chi66]

I remember in the late fifties still at school, getting my first adult book from the library......Francoise Sagan....Bonjour Tristesse. I don't remember if I read
any of her following novels, this was her first.

[SeanHolden]

The best book by a man is One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez and by a woman, Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

[SeanHolden]

The best book by a man I have read is One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez and by a woman, Wuthering Heights, by Emily Bronte

[SeanHolden]

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, has the most arresting and startling opening line of any book which telescopes time and expands curiosity in an instant.
"Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice."

[jonesytwotwo]

Birdsong. Sebastion Faulks. Read and re-read now 3 times.

[chaptazbru]

Yes, excellent book jonesy.

[TheNovice]

very difficult, but not seen James Clavell mentioned so I'll suggest Noble House....great story, excellently told by a great author

[DTCwordfan]

"The flighty purpose never is o'ertook
Unless the deed go with it: from this moment
The very firstlings of my heart shall be
The firstlings of my hand."

Macbeth Act 4.

[DTCwordfan]

sorry wrong thread!

[shaneystar2]

Hi again chaptazbru
Great thread and just thinking of a few more old favourites .
I loved AJ Cronins books .The Stars Look Down and Hatters Castle especially .
Seeing craft mention Georgette Heyer reminded me of Jean Plaidy whom I read avidly as a girl .
Mustn't forget Agatha Christie either .Miss Marple and Tommy and Tuppence Wasn't so keen on Poirot though.The books by Josephine Tey are good too A Shilling for Candles ,Brat Farrar .etc .
I like a good spy novel as well.Len Deighton ,John le Carré.
Reading a series atm by David Downing set in Germany pre and after WW11. Brilliant
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Downing

[rockyracoon]

That's just remnded me of another good book, Judas Child by Carol O'Connell, it's one of them that stays with you for awhile. I also enjoyed Bram Stoker's Dracula, after gettng used to the old style language I found it an excellent read.

[hc4361]

Cry, the Beloved Country - Alan Paton
Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame

[DaisyNonna]

The Wild Swans by Jung Chan really affected me.

[deltabravo]

Mine are "The Great Escape" by Paul Brickhill and "Black Beauty" by Anna Sewell

[spotsandstripes]

The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold

[chi-chi66]

I have just bought from Sainsbury's, Fifty Shades of Grey, by E L James.
It seems to be a book you would read in a plaincover, so I heard. Talked about a lot recently......we shall see!

[jules_word]

The God Delusion

[cesc]

There are so many - Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett, the Shardlake series by C J Sansom - good medieval whodunnits, all of Agatha Christie, Enid Blyton when I was a child, Michael Connelly and lately Belle and the sequel The Promise both by Lesley Pearse