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Originally Posted by MissChievous
I was just going to come in here to recommend The Kite Runner and I guess someone beat me to it! I just finished it and I thought it was really good, but sad.
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ditto
I like this thread
I've read quite a lot of good stuff over the past couple of years, will post some recommendations when i've read the thread...
Some of the books i'd rec have already been mentioned i think, so sorry for repetition:
Grotesque – Natsuo Kirino
The Book of Lost Things – John Connolly
Tuesdays With Morrie & Five People You Meet In Heaven – Mitch Albom
Breakfast At Tiffany’s – Truman Capote
Trainspotting – Irvine Welsh
Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
A Thousand Splendid Suns & The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
All the Harry Potter books – J.K. Rowling
Lord of The Rings & The Hobbit (and others..) - Tolkein
We Need To Talk About Kevin – Lionel Shriver
White Oleander - Janet Fitch
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time – Mark Haddon
His Dark Materials Trilogy - Phillip Pullman
Girl With A Pearl Earring - Tracy Chevalier
American Psycho - Brett Easton Ellis
Perfume - Patrick Suskind
The Virgin Suicides - Jeffery Eugenides
The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
Girl, Interrupted - Susanna Kaysen
Dracula - Bram Stoker
Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
Geisha of Gion - Mineko Iwasaki
An Unquiet Mind - Kay Redfield Jamison
The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
Half of a Yellow Sun & Purple Hibiscus - Chimamanda Ngosi Adichie
That's it for now, but i'll probably add some more later.
I loved Mitch Albom's books, but haven't read the most recent yet, i didn't think i could cope with it as it sounded like it'd hit too close for comfort.