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.

[EcclesCake]

Maybe not the best books I've ever read, but they've stayed with me.

Female author - Lynne Reid Banks, The L Shaped Room

Male - Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

or Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha

[chaptazbru]

Eccles - have you read A Thousand Splendid Suns by the author of Kite Runner? Even better than Kite Runner.

[EcclesCake]

I have, and I enjoyed it, but as I was in Kabul when I read The Kite Runner it has a sentimental attachment.

[chaptazbru]

I see. There's a film too (Kite Runner) which I enjoyed, but thought the book was better.

[nungate]

I've loved reading this thread, there now so many more books I shall have to acquire as well as going back to re reading some old favourites.

[emmie]

345 answers, is that a record, or book...

[EcclesCake]

I enjoyed The Kite Runner film but found the book more evocative. It was particularly special when I realised I was in the same district it was set and I could look up the hill and search for the peach tree!

[chaptazbru]

Shows how many people enjoy a good read !

[chaptazbru]

Eccles - Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns both made me cry, extremely well written. I can imagine how you felt being in the same place The Kite Runner was written about, how lovely.

[redman41]

My Injury Time Watch only Stops when we have Won by Sir Alex Ferguson

[chi-chi66]

I think this thread should be an ongoing thread, as is The Aposeothis of AB,

there will always be a contributor, as people are joining AB every day, so

more books and opinions.

[chi-chi66]

^^^ Apotheosis of Ab Editor......

[naomi24]

It was mentioned earlier, but personally I think 'A Thousand Splendid Suns' by Khaled Hosseini was far superior to 'The Kite Runner' - although I enjoyed that too.

[craft1948]

lol @ redman..................The Optimists Handbook by Kenny Dalglish

[cruciaddict]

The Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver

Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy

The Forsyte Saga - John Galsworthy

[emmie]

i can't handle reading Thomas Hardy, he makes me want to bang my head on the floor in despair

[cruciaddict]

The Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver

Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy

The Forsyte Saga - John Galsworthy

I also loved To Kill a Mockingbird (read three times) On the Beach, A Thousand Splendid Suns, We Need to Talk About Kevin (not loved in this case, but a great piece of writing as was Double Fault) Brave New World - Aldous Huxley. I belong to a book club and we have read some great and some not so great books. A good read is This Thing of Darkness about Darwin and the captain of the Beagle, Robert Fitzroy by Harry Thompson.

[emmie]

i add To Kill a Mockingbird as well, it's a superb book. And one of my top ten of all time.

[BlueScorpion]

Chaptazbru just to let you know the latest Linwood Barclay "The Accident" is now out in paperback. That was a very good book

[chaptazbru]

Brilliant Blue, thanks for that. I will certainly be purchasing it.

Don't think Mo Hayder has been mentioned on here - has anybody read her books? Excellent, but a tad disturbing !