Pride and Prejudice The Sun Also Rises The Grapes of Wrath The Sheltering Sky The Unbearable Lightness of Being Mrs. Dalloway
Some books I have enjoyed recently and recommend:
The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver (Delightful!) One Day by David Nicholls (Witty. Compelling. Hip.) City of Joy by Lapierre (It captured India for me while I was traveling there.)
Books I recall enjoying immensely but probably couldn't tell you more than ten words about because of my poor retention for non-essential material:
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (Japanese lyrical realism, effortless braiding together of the absurd and the mundane. Unfettered prose. Wryly funny.) A Prayer for Owen Meany (Lovable characters, epic story, total page-turner) Geek Love (Circus freak unravels family's dark past, really puts the "pathetic" in "sympathetic character.") I second Kim's Grapes of Wrath nod, plus almost anything else by Steinbeck Ken Follett's Pillars of the Earth (epic medieval tale that's equal parts political intrigue, murder mystery, and romance against all odds)
And I am currently embroiled in Game of Thrones (first in the high fantasy Fire & Ice series—think Tolkien, but darker and with good/evil lines more fuzzily drawn...and with thankfully a lot less goofy singing) and am enjoying ripping through it in time for HBO to premiere its series adaptation next month!
Some of my absolute favorites:
ReplyDeletePride and Prejudice
The Sun Also Rises
The Grapes of Wrath
The Sheltering Sky
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Mrs. Dalloway
Some books I have enjoyed recently and recommend:
The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver (Delightful!)
One Day by David Nicholls (Witty. Compelling. Hip.)
City of Joy by Lapierre (It captured India for me while I was traveling there.)
Books I recall enjoying immensely but probably couldn't tell you more than ten words about because of my poor retention for non-essential material:
ReplyDeleteThe Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (Japanese lyrical realism, effortless braiding together of the absurd and the mundane. Unfettered prose. Wryly funny.)
A Prayer for Owen Meany (Lovable characters, epic story, total page-turner)
Geek Love (Circus freak unravels family's dark past, really puts the "pathetic" in "sympathetic character.")
I second Kim's Grapes of Wrath nod, plus almost anything else by Steinbeck
Ken Follett's Pillars of the Earth (epic medieval tale that's equal parts political intrigue, murder mystery, and romance against all odds)
And I am currently embroiled in Game of Thrones (first in the high fantasy Fire & Ice series—think Tolkien, but darker and with good/evil lines more fuzzily drawn...and with thankfully a lot less goofy singing) and am enjoying ripping through it in time for HBO to premiere its series adaptation next month!