Books!
 

BOOKS! lol.
Has anyone got any recommendations on a good book? Hasn't got to be anything in particular, just want a read.
I've recently read 'the time travellors wife' and have convinced myself that you can never read a better book; so yeah; prove me wrong! (please?) :)
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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn and The Kite Runner are a couple that I really like.

Oh where to begin???

Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
Junky by William Burroughs
The Outsider by Albert Camus
Crime And Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Notes From Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Commitments by Roddy Doyle
The Count Of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
Anything by STephen King but ESPECIALLY The Dark Tower series
The Fortress Of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem
The Deer Park by Norman Mailer
Torture Garden by Octave Mirbeau
Confessions Of A Mask by Yukio Mishima
Animal Farm by George Orwell
Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
The Discworld series by Terry Pratchett
The Harry POtter series by JK Rowling
The Catcher In The Rye by JD Salinger
The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien
The Lord Of The Rings by JRR Tolkien
The PIcture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

YES, The Bell Jar is awesome! And Catcher in the Rye.

Yeah, I've read Catcher in the rye, 'tis good :) I really really like To Kill A Mockingbird :-D
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catcher in the ryes good - i studied it for gcse english literature!

Also all the shopaholic books are sooo good - confessions of a shopaholic (sophie kinsella) is the first one. i like them anyway....

I just finished The Girl In The Red Coat by Roma Ligocka, it was brilliant. Equal parts heartbreaking and inspiring.

I have never read a better book than the Bible. I'm strongly atheist, but it is an excellently well written story, but also the most violent book i've ever read.

The Satanic Bible is pretty interesting too. I like how it accepts humour and sex into it's teachings, rather than rejecting them.

The Anne Rice books are awesome also =]

The Dark Tower series by Stephen King. Words cannot express how much I love that man for writing it.

Actually, anything by Stephen King.

Anything by Clive Barker, especially the Books of Blood.

And the Amory Wars by Claudio Sanchez and JTHM by Jhonen Vasquez. [Comics, but also a good read]


And Mr. Men! [Proud to be a fan since I was four, before my childhood was ruined by their re-release :( ]

Some great suggestions above! In addition:

Anything written by Neil Gaiman
Running With Scissors by Augusten Burroughs
the Odd Thomas series by Dean Koontz
The Living End by Stanley Elkin

The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea by Yukio Mishima
Tropic Of Cancer by Henry Miller

Just finished One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey - really really good and interesting read.

House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski.

Jodi Piccoult's books are amazing. She is not afraid to tackle difficult subjects and does so in a sensitive but real way, they are beautifuly written.

anything by pauolo coelho will be an isightful read i would think
he has written so many books i have read every single one and loved them all, very touching
i also like colom toibin whi is an irish writer who can handle very underlying topics and andle great frustration in the parts
one book i loved was the american boy by andrew taylor which mentions edgar allen poe as a young boy but the story does not focus on him centrally,but the book is enthralling
there are many more i saw on the road an old classic and the big list at the start listed a lot of greats do not ignore have read most of them
pm me if you need advice i am obsessed with books and reading