What's the best book that you have read lately?

Question

Things I liked in the past were Malcolm Gladwell's "Tipping Point", Anthony Bourdain's "Kitchen Confidential", and William Mcdonough & Michael Braungart's "Cradle to Cradle".

Answer 1

Fiction: COLD MOUNTAIN by Frazier
Non-fiction: THE GOD DELUSION by Richard Dawkins
and THE VARIETIES OF SCIENTIFIC EXPERIENCE by Carl Sagan

Answer 2

I really loved _Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norell_. It was a lot like Harry Potter but for grownups. It's set in the early 1800s and has a lot to do with the Napoleonic wars, but so much of the history is invented that it's hard to separate fact from fiction. For example, the British employ the aid of a magician to stymie the French armies and win battles. It's a fantastic story -- so imaginative and broadly imagined.

Answer 3

I just finished 'Villete' by Charlotte Bronte. I have not read Bronte (Jane Eyre) since it was required reading in school so many years ago. A friend read this and recommended it. i loved it. A beautiful work of lonlieness, longing and unrequited love. One of the most touching lines I have read in some time; Lucy Snowe tells the Dr - 'Goodnight Dr John. You are good. You are beautiful but you are not mine. Goodnight and God bless you.'
Oh, my heart. This is a great novel by a great novelist. If you read only one Charlotte Bronte novel make it Villette.

Answer 4

the best books i've read lately are 'The Island' by Victoria Hislop, 'Winter in Madrid' by CJ Sansom and 'Books,Baguettes and Bedbugs' by Jeremy Mercer.

Answer 5

I just finished John Kelly's "The Great Mortality", which was excellent.

Answer 6

I adored "Uncle Tom's Cabin" and "To Kill a Mockingbird". Those books didn't become classics for no reason.