Book lovers - need your suggestions

[MrDude21]

Hello ED,

I don't read much and would love to start reading again, I want recommendations on a book that I will get grasped into, anything that will make me not want to put it down at all.

I am interested in genres such as Historical (based around war, Great Depression) feminism, dystopian, fantasy, tragic, play books (such as 'An Inspector calls') and books with brain teasing or mind blowing cliff hangers.

- To Kill a Mocking Bird

- Of Mice and men

- Handmaids Tale

- Harry Potter Trilogy

- An Inspector Calls

- On the Run

- Anne Franks Diary

- Street car Named desire

- Animal Farm

- 1984

The above books are examples of books I have read and has been stuck with me, I can remember these ones from page to page and now I'm looking for a book alike, something that I will never forget!

Would love to hear suggestions on books alike or what you may think I would like based on the above information.

Thank you

MrDude :)

[civilservant]

some good tips from ED folk here http://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/forum/read.php?20,284950,1884939#msg-1884939

happy browsing!

[siousxiesue]

What a Carve Up. Jonathan Coe

Middlesex. Jeffrey Eugenedes

Grief is the thing with feathers. Max Ported

The Lacuna or Poisonwood Bible. Barbara Kingsolver

Smilla's feeling for snow. Peter Hoeg

[Inbound]

Wind up bird chronical Haruki Murakami

1Q84 parts 1 2 & 3 Haruki Murakami

The Double Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Jude the Obscure Thomas Hardy

Grimus Salman Rushdie

100 Years of Solitude Gabriel Garcia Marquez

They all revolve around the human condition and will challenge your own perception of your id

[Siduhe]

Night Film by Marisha Pessi - took me a while to get into it but it was a cracking read by the end.

These two don't neatly fit in your preferred categories, but books that have stuck with me and which I regularly come back to include Fierce People by Dirk Wittenborn and Manhattan Nocturne by Colin Harrison (may be out of print).

[Saffron]

The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress - Robert Heinlein

The Humans - Matt Haig

The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson

Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bront?

Mortal Engines - Philip Reeve

Sophie's Bakery for the Broken Hearted (Good Grief) - Lolly Winston

[uncleglen]

The Last Kingdom books by Bernard Cornwell are very good as they represent the goings on during the time of Alfred the 'Great'.

[NewWave]

go to Cherner books on Lordship lane, I've had some amazing recommendations given to me in there which opened a whole world of authors and books I would never have found otherwise.

[Gaynor Hill]

I been reading lots of classics I downloaded Oodles Books it's all free took a while to get used to not having actual book but so much choice in Oodles

Gaynor

[Robert Poste's Child]

Try going to the library and looking at the section with the staff recommendations. If you like reading on a device you can also borrow audio and ebooks free.

If you liked Harry Potter, try Philip Pullman's Dark Materials series. Also for children but much more literary than HP.

[sjw]

sebastian faulkes trilogy--birdsong- girl at lyon d'or and charlotte grey stretches from first world war to the second.

[Lynne]

"life after life" Kate Atkinson

anything by Barbara Pym

"Master and Commander" by Patrick O'Brian (then the other 19)

[SingingWilks]

Wolf Hall and Bring up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel.

[Sue]

Robert Poste's Child Wrote:

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> Try going to the library and looking at the

> section with the staff recommendations. If you

> like reading on a device you can also borrow audio

> and ebooks free.

>

> If you liked Harry Potter, try Philip Pullman's

> Dark Materials series. Also for children but much

> more literary than HP.

Also Phillip Pullman's new book (prequel to His Dark Materials) - first volume of The Book of Dust, La Belle Sauvage.

Agree with Wolf Hall and Bring up the Bodies, though I didn't think I liked historical novels.

And almost anything by Terry Pratchett - both wise and funny!

[clockworkorange]

Eagle in the sky by wilber smith - quite an ending!

If you like adventure, most things by wilber smith are decent. The Courtney series, and songbird in particular

[Ann]

I really liked The Book Thief by Markus Zusak. Think it fits your brief nicely.

Can always find a good second hand book at St Christopher's charity shop on Lordship Lane.

[DaveR]

The Noise of Time by Julian Barnes is fantastic. It's a fictionalised biography of Shostakovich during the 'reign' of Stalin.

[Godenigh]

oh wow, i found here some books that really seems to be worth reading. thanks a lot. sorry i can't add anything else here OP.

[TE44]

The forest of hours by Kersten Ekman. Loved this book it's a travel through time with a troll like creature.