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.

[pywackit]

Bridge of Birds by Barry Hughart
and
Wizard of the pigeons by Megan Linholm
I defy you to read the first one without laughing out loud and the second without really thinking quite deeply

[pywackit]

Wizard of the pigeons by Megan Lindholm
and
Bridge of Birds by Barry Hughart
The first to make you think and the second to make you laugh out loud in public.

[murraymints]

lord of the flies ..Graham Greene..and...flowers in the attic..Virginia Ironside..

[murraymints]

william Golding I meant ..not Green !!!!...still early !!

[ocelotjanie]

The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco. Gaudy Night by Dorothy L Sayers.
Quality!

[Jan1957]

Can't decide between It and The Stand, both by Stephen King, so both of them and Black Beauty by Anna Sewell.

[chaptazbru]

The Stand is my fave Stephen King book.

[nannybooby]

Another book I loved as a child The Box of Delights dont know who wrote it but the expression "they scrobbled the punch and judy man " has become part of my every day language, love the word scrobbled !

[chaptazbru]

There are SO many excellent reads aren't there, absolutely love all your answers. Getting some tips for books I've not yet read or even heard of !

I love books that stay with me for a while and I can go over them in my mind, sign of a brilliant author.

[emmie]

look up an author Kate Mosse, Labyrinth, a very good book, sort of Dan Brown only ten times better.

[chaptazbru]

I'll add it to the list em !

[emmie]

do not confuse with that strumpet model..

[naomi24]

Labyrinth is sitting unread on my shelf, em. Must get around to reading it.

[nungate]

The Box of Delights - I re read that one every year! I met Virginia Ironside once when I bought one of her books for my mum - she was extremely nice.
I've been reminded of so many books just reading through the posts of this thread. Happy memories of sitting on the bus reading Jean Plaidy, Agatha Christie, and Dorothy L. Sayers - there's an awful lot of books I now want to download onto my kindle - thanks for that!!

[chaptazbru]

Chuckle em ..

It's been great nungate, all those fab books.

[nannybooby]

ust cecked the box of delights was written by John Masefield

[chaptazbru]

nungate likes that book too .....

[bensmum]

Do try to read Labyrinth - it's a great read and so much better than Dan Brown's stuff. (Mind you, most things are!). I've also read Sepulchre and Winter Ghosts by Kate Mosse and they're also excellent. She evidently has a new one, Citadel, out in September which I look forward to reading

[naomi24]

Bensmum, my husband said Labyrinth is a good book. I will get around to it.

[joggerjayne]

Has anyone picked The Bible?