Recommended Reading
Dear dragontree book clubbers,
It would be nice if we all suggested books that we have enjoyed reading but because we've read them they will not be chosen for our book club meetings. This would be good for those times you feel uninspired to choose new books!!
Please contribute!!!
posted by dragontree @ 3:24 pm
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a short listing....
the glass palace - amitav Ghosh... recomended by xtie (even though she vehemently denies it!!).. a facinating and bittersweet trawl though colonial Burma... just my sort of thing..
The chrysalids... Windham Lewis..
Post-apocalyptic social realism.. i just loved this when i was twelve... hum... maybe i should re-read before i recomend..
Da vinci Code... need i saw more..
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gosh my spelling seems to have deteriorated since i read Dan Brown..
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My recommendations are:
- ‘The Wind-Up-Bird Chronicle’ by Haruki Murakami
This book is set in Japan and is about a young couple, their cat and other strange characters and how their lives relate to each other, with some historical references. Good continuous read!!
- ‘An Equal Music’ by Vikram Seth
This novel is set in London around Hyde Park and the Wigmore Hall. It is a good piece of writing, a love story entangled with music. Classic music lovers will probably appreciate it even more than I did!!
- ‘A Suitable Boy’ by Vikram Seth
Absolutely loved it!! I would not have minded if it carried on for longer. I got really attached to this book!! I suppose you can say it is an Indian soap opera, but a very good one, with loads of historical references, which I always appreciate!!
- ‘The Kite Runner’ by Khaled Hosseini
This novel is set in Afghanistan and California and it is a story about the friendship of two little boys and how their lives went apart. Very emotional!!
I will also recommend three classics:
- ‘1984’ by George Orwell
- ‘The Lord of the Flies’ by William Golding
- ‘Brave New World’ by Aldous Huxley
oh I was going to suggest 'A suitable boy' but Sonita got there first! I would add 'memoirs of a Geisha' by Arthur Golden if anyone has not read it and Wild Swans by Jung Chang. Anjan I definitely have not read the glass palace!!! (but i will!) For anybody that likes lord of the rings style fantasy then read 'The Earthsea Trilogy' by Ursula Le Guin - v. good. 'God of Small things' - Arundhati Roy - another favourite.
I shall add more as i think of them.
Also just thought of another recommendation - 'Cloud Atlas' by David Mitchell. Really different and unusual. The futuristic bits are a bit difficult to get the head round at times but overall really worth reading.
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