What book are you recommending most these days?
Maureen from Middletown
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons by Lorna Landvik
Danielle, Wheaton, IL.
I am recommending to everyone that they read The Mysterious Miss M and The Wagering Widow, both by Diane Gaston. Both of these books are so intriguing. She made a fan out of me for life. I could not put either book down.
firsterie@adelphia.net
I have been recommending The Historian, The Third Secret(right now, I've lent that book to a record 30 people!!!), and I always, always, always recommend The Eight by Katherine Neville --- it's my favorite!
Marcy Burns
I recently re-read Cry the Beloved Country by Alan Paton. This is a book I first read more than 50 years ago when it first appeared. It is beautifully written, and the story is heartrending. It has a profound message, which in my opinion is critical today. Read it. I urge you to read it.
Tigersmama43213@aol.com
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
Anonymous
I am telling all my friends about The Year of Magical Thinkingby Joan DIdion. I have not had a book affect me so much in a long time.
edev@carolina.rr.com
Two books I'm recommending lately are Shadow of the Wind(wonderful!) and Snow Flower and the Secret Fan (not only is the time period fascinating, but it's a great friendship book).
ljm6@columbia.edu
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
Shell688@aol.com
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
ROdierno@aol.com
I recommend Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand, The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis (for all ages), Bad Debts by Peter Temple(great mystery) and Magyk by Angie Sage (quick, light fantasy). There are so many more great reads out there but if I began listing them all, I'd need many more sheets of paper! The History of My Life by Giacomo Casanova is one, Pompeiby Robert Harris, Travels with Charlie by John Steinbeck, Travels byMichael Crichton, and so on and so on!
dlech366@suscom.net
My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult
Misanthrope2911@aol.com
American Gunfight: The Plot to Kill Harry Truman by Stephen Hunter and J. S. Bainbridge.
Sadiebelle238@aol.com
The book that I am currently encouraging my friends to read isSnow Flower and the Secret Fanby Lisa See. A beautiful story about friendship.
Mjnauset@aol.com
I am recommending The Camel Club by David Baldacci.
RDboo@aol.com
The book I'm recommending the most is The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon.
curban@chartermi.net
The Kite Runner. This book has been getting great reviews, but I was leery to pick it up. Once I did, I fell in love with the characters and finished it in two days flat!
maestraw@msn.com
I have just finished Ursula, Under by Ingrid Hill. What an interesting book. Not only does it deal with deadbeat dads, but also some absolutely terrible and mean women. It traces the history of little Ursula Wong, who falls in an abandoned mine shaft while on a picnic with her parents.
Jpruatt@aol.com
The book I'm recommending is The World is Flat by Thomas L. Friedman. This is a book of nonfiction, firmly rooted in the NYT Bestseller List for the past 40 weeks. Friedman discusses the ten ways the world is leveled (flattened) so that anyone can access anything in the world via the Internet and other means. It's a must-read for businesses in particular that want to improve and expand themselves more successfully into the 21st century.
ckkitsy@adelphia.net
I'm recommending S is for Silence by Sue Grafton.
MizMSCYC@aol.com
What Remains by Carole Radziwill
stephejl@stclair.k12.il.us
I am currently recommending Snow Flower and the Secret Fan.
BDORM@aol.com
I am recommending No God But God by Reza Azlan. A must for anyone who has questions about Islam, its history, beliefs, etc.
pg_crossland@yahoo.com
Truth, Torture, and the American Way: The History and Consequences of U.S. Involvement in Torture by Jennifer K. Harbury
This is a book I think most adults in the US should read. I was greatly enlightened as to the activities of the CIA and the treaties that the United States has signed against the use of torture since the Geneva Conventions (yes plural --- something else I didn't know!)
Dgeadgmd@aol.com
The book I am recommending currently is Sky Burial by Xinran. This is a lyrically told mystical little story of a woman's search for the truth of her husband's death in Tibet, a place where she doesn't know the language or customs.
NevaJoLeigh@msn.com
I recommend The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls. It is a wonderful memoir.
dyang@nj.rr.com
There are several books I have recommended lately to friends:Company Man, The Secret Lives of Bees and The Lincoln Lawyer.
Pam Gordon
For a library bookgroup, I finally read A Confederacy of Duncesby John Toole Kennedy and IT IS FABULOUS!! A wonderful story with a loveable, intelligent, eccentric main character. It is also filled with other wonderful characters (like the wife of the factory owner) and it is one of those books you have heard about and should not miss!
JBonnie12@aol.com
Sex Wars by Marge Piercy
GandmaRI@aol.com
I am currently recommending Creepers by John Morrell and Big Russ and Me by Tim Russert.
hstay@direcway.com
Besides always recommending everything Michael Connelly has written, my latest find is Chicago attorney and Edgar Allan Poe winner David Ellis. In the Company of Liars is his latest of four stand-alone suspense/thrillers. What makes this a standout is that it is written chronologically backwards. The "end" begins with the FBI and a scientist, noting he's the last to be captured. Next, Allison Pagone is being tried for murder. Then the reader witnesses her murder. Or do you? Great story, fantastic writing.
Nancy Z. Leck
I'm recommending The Lost Paintingby Jonathan Harr. I found it very engrossing, a little peak into the world of art collecting and restoration.
joswood@msn.com
I was recommending A Million Little Pieces by James Frey. But after the controversy about whether it is fact or fiction, something was spoiled for me about the book. Now I wonder how much of it is really true, and I suspect there is a lot more fiction than fact in the book. I won't recommend it again. I would tell people aboutSnow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See. It is the fictional life of two young girls in the 1800s in China. I'd also recommend a book that I'm halfway finished with: A Sudden Country by Karen Fisher. It is a fictional story of people going to Oregon by wagon in the 1800s. Beautiful writing and a fascinating subject. AndMarley and Meby John Grogan is also a wonderful read. It is a nonfictional story of a Yellow Lab named Marley.
AntoinetteT@shaw.ca
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini is the book I have recommended to everyone this past year. Excellent book!!
Susan Amann
I just read The Tender Bar by JJ Moehringer and loved it. I also have recommended Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight byAlexandra Fuller because we are reading it for a book group. Another good read is Pope Joan.
debbie.winn@verizon.net
The book I am recommending now is book three in the Bartimeus Trilogy, Ptolemy's Gate by Jonathan Stroud. It is a delightful conclusion to the trilogy about a boy wizard (an anti-Harry Potter type), a sardonic djinn whom he has conjured, and magic's role in today's England. The boy, Nathaniel, has matured and is finding a moral center now. The djinn is growing weak from being in the human world too long, and the plots are ever thickening. I found this book more enjoyable than the second in the trilogy, The Golem's Eye. As you've probably concluded, this is a book for young adult readers, but as a definitely NOT young adult, I found it delightful.
JmkWild@aol.com
I am recommending and giving Thomas Friedman's The World is Flat to everyone I can think of! It is a cogent and eminently readable (sprinkled with witty examples and analogies) analysis of our position in today's world and a warning for the futures of our children and grandchildren as the world becomes a more egalitarian place for the underdeveloped nations. A must-read!!!
mtc350@hotmail.com
The book I have recommended the most in the last week or so isMarley and Me by John Grogan. I thoroughly enjoyed his life with dog memoir.
However, I just finished Purple Hibiscus and may well be recommending it to some of my reading friends and relations.
ToniForcino@westat.com
The books that I am recommending are Wicked and Son of a Witch.
mia@jacobsracing.com
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
Tensy from Kansas City
Specimen Days by Michael Cunningham. Like his earlier book,The Hours, he focuses on one author (this time Walt Whitman) and creates three arresting short stories that are loosely linked together. Loved this book!
Yasmin Coleman
I'm recommending Fledgling by Octavia Butler.
donlon@commercialappeal.com
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
AMAF113@aol.com
I am recommending The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls.
NINEFANER@aol.com
Anita Shreve's new one, A Wedding in December. I've read all her books and I can't tell you the one I like best. They're all terrific!
schramie@verizon.net
I am recommending Bayou Farewell by Mike Tidwell. It explains much of the causitive factors behind the massive destruction of Katrina. Easy to read and fascinating in its prophesy of what was to come.
Bjglu@aol.com
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion. Not only is this book not depressing (even though it's about death), but it's magnificent and uplifting. It made me seek out other works by this author.
Booksie2@aol.com
13 Ways of Looking at the Novel by Jane Smiley
MarshaNee@adelphia.net
The Space Between Usby Thrity Umrigar
Rosalie Oliver
The book I am recommending most these days is The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls. It is one of the best books --- if not the best book --- I have read this year.
m nance
I would recommend Turning Angelby Greg Iles. I have read all of his books and this one is the best yet. It is a riveting mystery. It is one of those books you can't put down until you have read the last page.
Clues4Life@aol.com
Mary, Mary by James Patterson
james_sperduto@yahoo.com
I am recommending the following books to people: The Last Templar, The World is Flat and The Fountainhead.
ROSpring@comcast.net
The Book of Salt by Monique Troung. This novel, about Gertrude Stein's and Alice B. Toklas's cook, is extremely insightful and subtle. It flows and captures the reader into another world. I'm looking forward to reading more in the future from this first novelist.
nortomb@webtv.net
I am reading The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd. The further along I get in the book the more I recommend it to others.
AnniejoB@aol.com
I just finished reading Forever Odd by Dean Koontz. It is a sequel to Odd Thomas, another gripping book. Odd Thomas just demanded a sequel. Although he is a fictional character, Odd seems like the nice boy who lives down the street, but weird things keep happening to him. He sees ghosts and Elvis lives with him. The spirits always seem to need something from Odd and he is such a kind soul that he tries to help them. He has an assortment of odd friends who manage to keep his life in an upheaval. I could not put either book down. His tales of the spirit world are gripping.
R. Honey, Haddon Heights, NJ
Ordinary Heroes by Scott Turow
kmehlberg@wi.rr.com
I am reading, loving and recommending Amy Tan's Saving Fish from Drowning and I am listening to Blink.
momx3gx1b@aol.com
The book I am recommending most these days is Wicked.
Beverly Price
I am reading Dance of Death by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child. I bought it as soon as it came out in paperback. I love to read their books as they are so intriguing. I was waiting to find out about Aloysius Pendergast. He is such a mysterious man. Of course, I can not forget about his friend, Lieutenant Vincent D'Agosta. They make a formidable pair together. The book always keeps you on your toes.
Sandy Greathouse
I recently read Memoirs of a Geisha and couldn't put it down. I thought it was a wonderful book...interesting and informative as well as a romantic story that I would definitely read again. Now I want to see the movie, even though few movies are as good as the book!
Judy
The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
Little Earthquakes by Jennifer Weiner
Carol Irvin
I recommend Not Me by Michael Lavigne! Excellent book!
Anonymous
The Last Templar by Raymond Khoury. This is a great book.
dloy@oakmail.peru.edu
I am still recommending Laura Pedersen's Last Call. It's a fantastic read as are her Beginner's Luck and Heart's Desire.
Roxanne, Dubois, WY
Cellby Stephen King
Michelle.Goedert@state.mn.us
I am reading Earthly Pleasures by Philippa Gregory!!
deckerfamilyof3@netzero.com
The Constant Princess by Philippa Gregory
Joan
I just finished reading What Remains by Carole Radziwill. It will stay with me a long time and I have recommended it to all my friends.
Gail
I am highly recommending The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger. This is a debut novel for this writer.
My daughter read this book and passed it on to me because she enjoyed it so much. This is an extraordinary love story of Clare and Henry, who met when Clare was 6 and Henry 36. They married when Clare was 22 and Henry was 30. Henry suffers from a rare genetic condition where his inner clock periodically resets itself pulling at him suddenly and without warning either into his past or into his future. He has no control over this time traveling and it clearly wreaks havoc on their lives and that of their child Alba.
I will not soon forget this book.
Melissa
The Tin Box by Holly Kennedy
Debut novel --- a little predictable, but still I read it in one sitting! I bawled my eyes out and have recommended it to those I think spend too much time feeling sorry for themselves, complaining that their life is not what it should be, when frankly, it is a great life, they are just too close to see it.
arnusch@rtebb.net
Even though it has been out for a while I am still reccommendingThe Historian by Elizabeth Kostova to anyone who has not read it. When an author combines a mystery, history and an infamous character like Vlad the Impailer in a truly believable story, it can't miss!
Kathi
I have an old favorite that I always recommend, My Own Countryby Abraham Verghese and one I just finished reading, Mapping the Edge by Sarah Dunant. Both books are attention grabbers and make you wish you could read more.
