2006-12-07 04:53:17 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
Anansi Boys, by Neil Gaiman. Absolutely daft and surreal, and about the most fun you can have reading a book.
Stardust, by the same author. It's a fairytale for adults which if you'll let it, will allow you to glimpse the world as you saw it as a child. See if you can get hold of the illustrated version with a watercolour on every page...
2006-12-07 05:06:29 · answer #1 · answered by Batho 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Color Purple by Alice Walker is a good one; it's depressing in the beginning, but by the end I would say that it is very uplifting. Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom is a good one, too.
2006-12-07 13:02:18 · answer #2 · answered by Persephone 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Anything by Earl Hamner. No joke. I love his work.
Have you tried Nicholas Sparks? His are great although some are very sad. There are some very uplifting ones as well.
Oh yes. Me too. Corey Ten Boom was a wonderful lady. I loved
to hear her speak. She was very kind.
Try Ninety Minutes in Heaven too.
2006-12-07 13:01:07 · answer #3 · answered by Catie 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
no. 1 for me is the Bible
As for works of fiction:
The Blue Bottle Club by Stokes
Little Women by Alcott
Pollyanna
Anne of Green Gables
Charlotte's Web by White
Where the Red Fern Grows
Marley and Me
A Dog's Life by Peter Mayle
The Hobbit by Tolkien
Julie by Marshall
Joshua by Joseph Girzone
A Christmas Carol by Dickens
The Christmas Shoes by VanLiere
One Hundred and One fAmous Poems
The Unexpected Mrs. Polifax by Gilman
Big Stone Gap by Trigiani
The Inheritance by Alcott
2006-12-07 20:33:18 · answer #4 · answered by Puff 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
well depends on what you call uplifting, personally the best book (lol, and only book) i have read is "the thief of always" by clive barker, its a fantasy horror but not really scary horror its more fantasy. its about a boy who goes to a holiday house where adults are not aloud. its amazing, check it out.
2006-12-07 13:04:44 · answer #5 · answered by mooka 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
'Braindroppings' - George Carlin
'Puckoon' - Spike Milligan
'The Idler Book of Crap Towns'
'A Christmas Carol' - Charles Dickens
'Alice in Wonderland' - Lewis Carroll
'Between the Woods and the Water' - Patrick Leigh Fermor
2006-12-08 13:14:05 · answer #6 · answered by jabusthexut 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
2006-12-07 13:01:58 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Escalators I have Known by Heidi Stairs
2006-12-07 13:03:25 · answer #8 · answered by limey_not_lime 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Power of One by Bryce Courtney (sad too though)
2006-12-07 19:41:43 · answer #9 · answered by carokokos 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
"The Magus " by John Fowles, "Adam and Eve" by the Romanian writer Liviu Rebreanu, "Moulin Rouge" by Pierre LaMure
2006-12-07 13:15:00 · answer #10 · answered by marina 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋