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[cocopops]

having raced thru several great reads over the xmas hols i am now a bit desperate for recommendations for my new Kindle..
this is what i read recently.

Carter beats the Devil.
Miss Garnets Angel..
May 1812
of honest fame.
The Hunger Games
The Help

[Pud1]

'Before I Go to Sleep' is really good. Also 'Locked In' is very good, and it only costs 99p on the Kindle which is a bonus!

[juliantenniscoach]

"riding the storm" autobiog' of albert richter. the most famous pre WW2 cyclist who was killed by the nazis for helping jews (being a non jew).

"jerusalem" biog by simon sebag montefiore

"dead air" ian banks (trying for ages to get through it)

[Gibbergirl]

I can highly recommend 'Night Circus' dont have the author to hand but is a captivating book. The othe good read of late was 'Fearful Symetry' by the author or 'Time travellers wife'

[hjm]

I've just read a few good ones. 'The Invisible Bridge' is excellent. It's a novel about WW2 but based on a true story. Made me cry at the end. I really liked' Zeitoun' too, which is also a true story about the New Orleans huricane - amazingly interesting. Finally, 'Blue Eyed Boy' by Joanne Harris, which has an amazing twist at the end.

Happy reading!

[mww2011]

Anything by nicci French - v gripping I find it hard to put down at bedtime!!! Enjoy

[Pud1]

Yes, Nicci French are brilliant. I've read the whole lot!

[Aliw]

I've just finished the Kashmiri shawl by Rosie Thomas and it was fantastic

[Clare Lupton]

Try almost anything by Michael Piessel - The last Barbarian or Mustang (especially good) - out of print & not on Kindle, absolutely riveting. He's a real life proper explorer.

[Claire M]

My friend Jim McLean, a local stay at home dad, has just written what I thought was a brilliant book called "How to bring your boyfriend back from the dead". It's on amazon kindle and in local book shops.

Claire

[Camille]

Try anything by Dervla Murphy, particularly Ukimwi Road. She is a total inspiration and her travels/experiences and wonderful spirit and sense of humour put our daily worries into proper context.
I just wish I had a fraction of her energy and she must be at least twice my age!

[peasepudding]

Author of the Night Circus is Erin Morgenstern, but she used to be a friend of a friend and was awful to my friend so I am against reading it!

I just did the "they're showing it on TV, must read it before I see it" thing so I just read Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks. It was excellent though! I also loved Charlotte Gray which he wrote.

For kindle I downloaded An Edwardian Murder Mystery series (4 separate books) by MC Beaton. Light-hearted crime novels, very silly but lots of fun.

[mumoftwoboys]

Hi

I was given a book called The Palm Oil Stain by Nadia Maddy for xmas and I could not put it down. It is fab I don't read as much as I used to before I had my two boys (I've started a lot of books but after reading the same page days on end I tend to give up) but not with this book, it is amazing and would recommend it to everyone. You can buy it on Amazon http://www.amazon.co.uk/Palm-Oil-Stain- ... 575&sr=8-1.

Happy reading!

[Joe's Mum]

Rules of Civility by Amor Towles
The Submission by Amy Waldeman
Both very good.

[Dec08May11]

I'm finally reading Stieg Larsson's The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo and the two sequels in the Millenium trilogy, and I'm so hooked!! I'm in the middle of the second book, which is as good as the first.