I need a new book

Any suggestions?

I am about to finish The Passage which has been great and I like all sorts of genres so I'm open to all suggestions.

What have you read this summer that you have really enjoyed?

Oh SMS I read the Cross Stitch series about once every 2 years! Call me crazy but I just love them! Still need to read the latest though so hopefully can get through that before this baby arrives.

A few years back I read the Tamar trilogy (Tamar, White Feathers and Blue Smoke) by Deborah Challinor. They are NZ historical fiction and I really enjoyed them. Easy reading and not too big.
I've also just finished the latest Maeve Binchy and although I hated one of the characters it really felt like she was back to her old style which was great.

If you want a fun and easy read - I can recommend anything by Emily Giffin (Lots of her books have baby themes! ) also, Sophie Kinsella books. Very light and entertaining!

"My Sister's Keeper" by Jodi Picoult is a great read - Have a box of tissues ready though!

I highly recommend "The five people you meet in Heaven" by Mitch Albom. It's quite a short book but very thought provoking and feel good.

This is a little embarrassing but after many people trying to convince me, I have read the first two Twilight books! (I am not into Vampires AT ALL!) but they are so well written and you become so immersed in them. (Ok I admit it... since reading them I like the idea of Vampires a whole lot more!)

Gotta say I'm a huge fan of the Wilderness series/Sara Donati (her real name is Rosina Lippi, which she also writes under) and have all of them on my bookshelf as well as a couple of her more contempory fiction titles (Tied to the track & Pajama Girls of Lambert Square). I highly recommend these

Also loved the Cross Stitch series by Diana Gabaldon as well as her Lord John series which is an off-shoot of Cross Stitch.

Someone else mentions Tamar etc, by Deorah Challinor, which I haven't read, but I did really enjoy Kitty and it's sequel Amber by her.

As you can probably tell, I read a lot of historical fiction and another author of that genre I would add to the list is Philippa Gregory - awesome books about the house of Tudor/British monarchy... also wrote a damn good trilogy that starts with Wideacre (though be warned this may not be for everyone as it has a bit of incest in it )

And just to finish this novel of my own - gotta admit I got so hooked on the Twlight books I read all four of them in just under two weeks!

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Stephen Kings "Under the Dome" would have to be the best book I've read by him. It's huge at 875 pages but I found it really difficult to put down & when I was out I wanted to get back home so I could read it.

I've just finished a book called "my name is memory" by Ann Brashares, and found it really good. Its about a man who remembers all his previous lives but the women he loves doesn't so he has to keep trying to get her to fall in love with him again through the different centuries.

millymollymandy wrote: I have just finished Ken Follets "world without end", its about a medievil town in England and all its drama and intrigues. Its about 1000 pages, so it took me a good 10 days to read. It was awesome lots of plot twists and turns too. .

Make sure you read the next one, that's even better and longer!

I'm really struggling with The Passage, it's the book I go too when I've got nothing else to read... I keep hoping it's going to get better

I've just read ALL of Cecelia Ahern books:
PS I love you
Thanks for the memories
Where Rainbows End
The Gift
A Place called here
If you could see me now
Book of Tomorrow.
They are fantastic books, really well written, and quite magical. I think the books that effected me the most out of those was PS I Love You and Where Rainbows End...
If you decide to read these books, keep in mind that the titles were changed for the US book release.. so I'd check her website out.

I am a phillippa gregory fan too, love her tudor court series - wasn't such a big fan of the White/Red Queen books, i felt they were more political than the others.
Any recommendations for similar authors?

kat88 wrote: read the true blood books. by charlaine harris. theres 11 and they are easy to read and addictive. the tv show has changed quite a few things from the books... personally i like the books better...

Yep I agree, didn't enjoy the books nearly as much as the TV series.

The Harper Connelly series that she writes is good too.

.Mel wrote: I've just read ALL of Cecelia Ahern books: PS I love you Thanks for the memories Where Rainbows End The Gift A Place called here If you could see me now Book of Tomorrow. They are fantastic books, really well written, and quite magical. I think the books that effected me the most out of those was PS I Love You and Where Rainbows End... If you decide to read these books, keep in mind that the titles were changed for the US book release.. so I'd check her website out.

Ooo, I was given Book of tomorrow and LOVED it, keep meaning to track down her other titles so glad you've listed a bunch of them

Also, forgot to mention earlier I really enjoyed Edward Rutherford's Sarum - tracks three families who lived in and around Salisbury (where Stonehenge is) through centuries, from neanderthal to modern age... he's got a few more similar books (London, Russia etc) that I want to get my hands on too.