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i'll read anything from dahl and rowling to fleming and gardiner to bronte and wilde to freud and nizetche - so recommend me something that moved you and tell me why you liked it.
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.one child by torey hayden, it had me in tears because haydens true stories are told with such truth and passion.
i have read all her books and find them facinating, i laughed and cried at them all, and felt amazed and humbled at the kids strenths and ability to win through despite their terrible lives.
i have read all her books and find them facinating, i laughed and cried at them all, and felt amazed and humbled at the kids strenths and ability to win through despite their terrible lives.
Great Expectations (Dickens). Thriller, mystery, romance, humour, social comment - it has the lot, and no matter how much you read it, you'll find something you missed before.
For a more modern read, try Kevin Brooks' 'Lucas'. Just a simple story of a girl's friendship with a local outcast and how everyone was wrong about him. It's the first book I've read in years that had me in tears at the end (yes, it's a real weepie).
For a more modern read, try Kevin Brooks' 'Lucas'. Just a simple story of a girl's friendship with a local outcast and how everyone was wrong about him. It's the first book I've read in years that had me in tears at the end (yes, it's a real weepie).
I recently read Suite Francaise by Ir�ne N�mirovsky. She died in the gas chambers during the war and this is a book that she wrote from the view of a Jew in France during the occupation.It was meant to become a five part work but of course that never happened .Very moving
Nella Last's War is good too ... a woman living on her nerves in Barrow in Furness during the war who wrote her diary everyday for the Mass Observation Archive.Great insight into how people managed then and also in it's own funny way quite moving as you see her stand up to her husband and go out and do voluntary work for the WRVS when he clearly wants her at home at his beck and call !
Nella Last's War is good too ... a woman living on her nerves in Barrow in Furness during the war who wrote her diary everyday for the Mass Observation Archive.Great insight into how people managed then and also in it's own funny way quite moving as you see her stand up to her husband and go out and do voluntary work for the WRVS when he clearly wants her at home at his beck and call !
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez - never has a book made me cry, laugh and shout out loud at the characters so much. It is wonderfully evocative of turn of the century Colombia and the characters are so real you feel like you know them. It has a wonderfully epic feel to it and as I neared the end I rationed myself to a chapter a day because I couldn't bear to finish it. When I did I blubbed my eyes out! Wonderful stuff. Birdsong by Sebastian Foulkes is a great book too - but much sadder than LITTOC. Have the hankies ready! My other three all time favourites are Boy by Roald Dahl, To Kill a Mockingbird and (predictable, I know, but fantastic) Catcher in the Rye - must have read it 50 times and it still feels as fresh as ever.
Thillers - anything by Harlan Coben or Lee Child.
A Case For Faith - fascinating whether you are religious or not. Really helped me.
Sati by Christopher Pike - an unusual take on religion.
Jane Eyre - the only classic I read without hating it.
Firestarter - best Stephen King by far.
The Queen and I by Sue Townsend. Hilarious, well written, and an interesting way of analysing social culture.
Currently reading The Big Picture by Douglas Kennedy for the 5th time - still so gripping I missed my train station.
My favourite of all time is 'Kiss Mommy Goodbye' which is not yet published I'm afraid. Written by a friend, I started reading it at 9pm and read all 600 pages without putting it down once. If / when it's published, snap it up - I defy you not to love it.
A Case For Faith - fascinating whether you are religious or not. Really helped me.
Sati by Christopher Pike - an unusual take on religion.
Jane Eyre - the only classic I read without hating it.
Firestarter - best Stephen King by far.
The Queen and I by Sue Townsend. Hilarious, well written, and an interesting way of analysing social culture.
Currently reading The Big Picture by Douglas Kennedy for the 5th time - still so gripping I missed my train station.
My favourite of all time is 'Kiss Mommy Goodbye' which is not yet published I'm afraid. Written by a friend, I started reading it at 9pm and read all 600 pages without putting it down once. If / when it's published, snap it up - I defy you not to love it.