I have always been a lover of words. Big ones, small ones, tasty and smelly alike. I like writing and I adore reading. Books are a huge pleasure, and working in a bookshop was my best job ever despite the appallingly low pay. I lost track of books a bit when Syd was tiny, but I started a challenge to read 50 books this year and am loving getting back into reading properly.
I am always looking for my next good read so was delighted when my friend Kate started a new book review blog, using her experience in the book trade, and her love of a good read, to help your book club, or just yourself, choose the next thing to read. I met Kate through her existing blog, Crafts On Sea, as we started blogging about the same time last year. We bonded further over our previous incarnations as member of girl bands with names of dubious taste. But that is another story!
To celebrate the launch of BOOK CLUB RECOMMENDATIONS Kate has offered a prize of a £10 Amazon voucher so that one of you lovely lot can get them self a new book or two!! To enter complete the rafflecopter form below, make sure you answer the question to validate your entry- What book would you recommend for Kate and I to read next? Answers in the comments of this post please.
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Choke by Chuck Palahniuk
I really want to read The Host be Stephanie Meyer who also wrote the twilight series. The film is due to be released soon so would be nice to read the book first 🙂
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
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Ghost Girl by Torey Hayden
It’s based on a true story about a little girl who believed she wasn’t real. Torey Hayden, also a character in the book, teaches the child and tries to get the child to talk.
The Vintner’s Luck, if you haven’t read it already – just beautiful!
THE SHELL SEEKERS BY ROSAMNDE PILCHER
SORRY-DO’T KNOW HOW TO ADD MY NAME TO COMMENT ABOVE-MARY HEALD
The Constant Heart – D Court
Kathy Dilly
The Constant Heart by Dilly Court
Kathy D
Time travellers wife
On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan
Recently read ‘Chasing Daisy’ by Paige Toon. I couldn’t put it down! Reading ‘The Host’ now.
I’ve just finished ‘The Fry Chronicles’ it was super and very well written
I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith. Read it years ago but made an impression.
There is not enough laughter in the world so I would recommend that anyone who hasn’t read the first book of “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” should do so!
Hazel Rea – @beachrambler
Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons is one of my favourites 🙂
The Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness – love this book and the sequel – would definetley recommend.
Stephen King – Misery brilliant
I’d recommend Double Dexter by Jeff Lindsay. – Judith R.
Captain Corelli’s Mandolin by Louis de Beneriere
Too many good books, it’s hard to pick one! You Came Back by C Coake was one I really enjoyed in 2012.
Bet Me by Jennifer Crusie. So funny.
Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus @lorrainesaeed
Jane Eyre
Walden And Other Writings – Henry David Thoreau
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
I recently really got into dystopian fiction and think I pretty much read this book, almost in one sitting. Loved it to bits.
Any book by Tess Gerritsen
magician by Raymond Feist
Where do I start? To Kill A Mocking Bird by Harper Lee is a long time favourite.
I recommend the Hunger Games 🙂
@xxfluffywhitexx
has to be 50 shades lol
Call the Midwife by Jennifer Worth
Tis by Frank McCourt
interview with the vampire
@sarahrees151286
CLOUD ATLAS by David Mitchell
Haters by David Moody
FabFabFabFab!
Stephen King – IT 🙂 love it
i have no time to read books but The Ouch is quite good book telling how money come from.
Best book I have read this year so far is “Red Dust Road” by Jackie Kay!
A Secret SMile -Nicky French
Meeting Mr Kim by Jennifer Barclay
I have just finished reading Wave by Sonali Deraniyagala (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Wave-Memoir-Life-After-Tsunami/dp/1844089282/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1363384226&sr=8-1). It’s a memoir of an amazing woman who lost he entire family, including her children, in the 2004 tsunami. It’s heart wrenching, inspiring, shocking all in equal measure. I think it will definitely provoke discussion in a book group.
@yyesidolikecake
Complicity by Iain Banks
twilight saga was my fav read.
The Wind-up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami – challenging & odd but great!
Anything by Lee Child
the midwifes here by linda farley
PS I love you far better than the film
Steven King – It
Shophie Kinsealla – Shopaholic series
Marian Keynes – Anything
Twilight Series
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami.
Bryan Clark
Janinacomp@aol.com
the life of pi
the virgin suicides
flowers in the attic amazing book
My favourite book of all time is half hidden by Emma Blair
50 shades of grey trilogy x
zombie games by kristen middleton
Becoming Mrs Walsh By Jessica Gordon
Like all Lee Childs
Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli! :3
White Horse by Alex Adams
The Unlikely Pilgrimage Of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce – fantastic read
The Devil Rides Out – Paul O’Grady
Soul Music by Terry Pratchett
rainbow six by tom clancy
Lord of the Rings JRR Tolkien
anything by torey hayden
michellemarie5555@gmail.com
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Nineteen Eighty-Four
The Host be Stephanie Meyer is brilliant
Any book by Cathy Glass
@ashlallan
Two Brothers – Ben Elton
@philibaldi
Game of Thrones
The Bird Song by Sebastian Faulks
Twilight
martina cole – runaway
Delirium by Lauren Oliver, just finished it. Didn’t realise it was the first book of a trilogy so now I get to look forward to getting hold of the others soon!
The hippo in the garden – James Ryle
Time Travellers Wife
LIFE OF PI
The Book Thief
Call the Midwife.
@rachiegr
I’d recommend the book: No Turning Back By: Tiffany Snow.
Fingersmith by Sarah Waters it’s fab!
i dont get a chance to read much these days but i loved harry potters when i was younger x
The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson 🙂
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne
Just finished reading Praying for Sleep by Jeffery Deaver, which was really good!
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
Mums like us by Laura Kemp
my daughter loves skullduggery pleasant
50 shades of grey!! lol 🙂 Or the ” twilight” books are good too 🙂
Me Before You by JoJo Moyes
Zoo by James Patterson. Very different from his usual but didn’t disappoint. Good luck to everyone x
The Life of Pi by Yann Martel is such an amazing book especially if you are a good dreamer
The Girl with the dragon tattoo
The Highwayman Series by RA Salvatore
A matter of life and sex by oscar moore
Sheelagh Kelly – A Complicated Woman
H – was a really old book I read and a real eyeopener
Twilight =D
just finished 12th of never from the womans murder club series, by James Patterson
Chicken soup for the soul…its very inspiring
Oliver Twist by Dickens. Much darker and funnier than the musical
Anything by Stephen koontz, great writer, really gets you into his stories
taming the beast ;~)
CLOUD ATLAS
Da Vinci Code 🙂 x
I love Jojo Moyes. Just read The Rose Petal Beach which was really good!
Mo Hayder- Birdman
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
“A Woman of Substance” by Barbara Taylor Bradford. I first read this book years ago and I still read it because I love it
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon xx
The Time Travellers Wife
The “belgariad” series by David Eddings. (Pawn of prophesy is the first one)
If you like fantasy anyway.
The Magus by John Fowles
Dark Winter by David Mark
The World According to Garp by John Irving. Love this book, it’s got lots of odd but generally likable characters and it’s very surprising, funny and shocking .
Die for Me Karen Rose…..actually ANY Karen Rose book.
Anything by Marian Keyes x
Anything By James patterson. Maximum Ride series for teens is fab
Oh Deffo the 50 shades of grey series! What fantastic reads!x
The Night’s Dawn Trilogy by Peter F Hamilton
Jane Eyre
The Hippopotomaus – Stephen Fry
Life After Life
I would recommended Terry Pratchett’s disc world books. Quite addictive once you get use to how they are written. I have started from the first one The Colour of Magic and have not put them down since.
the host by meyer
‘Home Front’ by Kristin Hannah
Hopeless by colleen Hoover amazing book
I Rhoda – Biog the late Valerie Harper
After The Fall by Charity Norman, I’ve just finished it, really good book
Sophie Kinsella books ~ love her stuff
The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
Hush Hush …. arrghhhh cant remember the author but the books ace !
i absolutely love the twilight books by stepheny meyr there brilliant 🙂
Alex cross by james patterson
I would definitely recommend the Steig Larson Girl With The Dragon Tattoo trilogy. They’re a fab read!!
I would recommend Why be happy when you could be normal by Jeanette Winterson for the amazing, strange lives of people or Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother by Amy Chua for the same reason but also it is inspirational and very thought provoking.
the house of night series by PC and Kirstin cast
Flowers in the attic.
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
The Magic Cottage by James Herbert for a spooky read. 🙂
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
Gone With the Wind – Margaret Mitchell
Labyrinth by Kate Mosse x
I’d recommend the I heart books from Lindsey Kelk, same characters through all titles and you actually feel like you know them even to the point of ‘seeing’ them… that could be just me 🙂
Little Women – a classic that still makes me laugh and cry every time I pick it up.
I’m currently reading the high heel mysteries – chick lit with a murder mystery twist!
A Cottage by the Sea by Carole Matthews
Les Miserables – the best novel I have ever read
peter kays autobiography
Close to the Bone by Stuart Macbride
Any of the Harry Potter series, but particularly The Goblet of Fire
Blue Monday Nicci French
The Queen and I by Sue Townsend
The Shopaholic series. Proper beach reading for when you just want to switch off…
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
how to kill a mocking bird was my favorite read
song of ice and fire
STREET CAT CALLED BOB @T18Lisaa
Any George R R Martin – best to start with Game of Thrones.
I recommend The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce
Under The Dome by Stephen King
The da vinci code by dan brown
Life Expectancy – Dean Koontz
The Love Verb – Jane Green
1984 by George Orwell. Grim, but everyone should read it – Angela Morgan
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Life Expectancy – Dean Koontz x
Fingersmith by Sarah Waters…nikki cook
Jamaica Inn by Daphne Du Maurier
I love a good biography
I love Guy N Smith books.
The Lady of the Rivers by Philippa Gregory
@x2mum
the last runaway
The Kid it is a true story which touches your heart
My sisters keeper, Jodi Picoult
anything by tess geritsen shes fab!
Sophie Kinsella – Confessions of a Shopaholic! Such a easy, fun read 🙂
The whole of the song of ice and fire series ( game of thrones) is amazing!!
Some Kind of Fairy Tale by Graham Joyce
I’ve just finished Watch Over Me by Daniela Sacerdoti and I loved it, totally recommend!
Labyrinth by Kate Mosse
A street cat named bob – James Bowen
After the fall by Charity Norman, its a different sort of book but enthralling
The White Hotel – D. M. Thomas
Peter Kay autobiography
It started with a kiss by miranda dickinson
Sarah Dessen- the truth about forever
The Twilight Series
To Kill a Mockingbird – my all time favorite have read it over and over!
Captain Corelli’s Mandolin by Louis de Beneriere
I have just read The Hunger Games which was a really good read and can’t wait to get started on the next book
the host
THE COLOR PURPLE
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