What five books should I read?

Question

Please do not include Dickens, Shakespeare, The Bible, The Qu'ran, The Bhagavad Gita, The Torah etc as I have read them.

Thank you Elizabeth W you have given me food for thought. I would vote you best but it is too soon will do when I am allowed.

Answer 1

My Sisters Keeper by Jody Picoult
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Now she tells the emotionally riveting story of a family torn apart by conflicting needs and a passionate love that triumphs over human weakness.Anna is not sick, but she might as well be. By age thirteen, she has undergone countless surgeries, transfusions, and shots so that her older sister, Kate, can somehow fight the leukemia that has plagued her since childhood. …
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Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides

“I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day in January of 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of 1974.”Middlesex is the story of Cal or Calliope Stephanides, a comic epic of a family’s American life, and the expansive history of a gene travelling down through time, starting …

Me to We by Craig and Mark Kielburger
For everyone who has ever yearned for a better life and a better world, Craig and Marc Kielburger share a blueprint for personal and social change that has the power to transform lives, one act at a time. Through inspirational contributions from people from all walks of life, the Kielburgers reveal that a more fulfilling path is ours for the taking when we find the courage to reach out. Me To We is an approach to life that leads us to recognize what is truly valuable, make new decisions about

Punk Rock Dad by Jim lindberg (nonfiction)

Over the last 15 years, Jim Lindberg’s punk band Pennywise has sold three million albums and headlined America’s longest running music festival, the Vans Warped Tour. He lives in southern California with his wife and daughters.

28: stories of Aids in Africa by Stephanie Nolan ( nonfiction)

From one of our most widely read, award-winning journalists – comes the powerful, unputdownable story of the very human cost of a global pandemic of staggering scope and scale. It is essential reading for our times.In 28, Stephanie Nolen, the Globe and Mail’s Africa Bureau Chief, puts a human face to the crisis created by HIV-AIDS in Africa. She has achieved, in this amazing book, something extraordinary: she writes with a power, understanding and simplicity that makes us listen, makes us …
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From one of our most widely read, award-winning journalists – comes the powerful, unputdownable story of the very human cost of a global pandemic of staggering scope and scale. It is essential reading for our times.

In 28, Stephanie Nolen, the Globe and Mail’s Africa Bureau Chief, puts a human face to the crisis created by HIV-AIDS in Africa. She has achieved, in this amazing book, something extraordinary: she writes with a power, understanding and simplicity that makes us listen, makes us understand and care. Through riveting anecdotal stories – one for each of the million people living with HIV-AIDS in Africa – Nolen explores the effects of an epidemic that well exceeds the Black Plague in magnitude. It is a calamity that is unfolding just a 747-flight away, and one that will take the lives of these 28 million without the help of massive, immediate intervention on an unprecedented scale. 28 is a timely, transformative, thoroughly accessible book that shows us definitively why we continue to ignore the growth of HIV-AIDS in Africa only at our peril and at an intolerable moral cost.

28’s stories are much more than a record of the suffering and loss in 28 emblematic lives. Here we meet women and men fighting vigorously on the frontlines of disease: Tigist Haile Michael, a smart, shy 14-year-old Ethiopian orphan fending for herself and her baby brother on the slum streets of Addis Ababa; Alice Kadzanja, an HIV-positive nurse in Malawi, where one in six adults has the virus, and where the average adult’s life expectancy is 36; and Zackie Achmat, the hero of South Africa’s politically fragmented battle against HIV-AIDS.

28 also tells us how the virus works, spreads and, ultimately, kills. It explains the connection of HIV-AIDS to conflict, famine and the collapse of states; shows us how easily treatment works for those lucky enough to get it and details the struggles of those who fight to stay alive with little support. It makes vivid the strong, desperate people doing all they can, and maintaining courage, dignity and hope against insurmountable odds. It is – in its humanity, beauty and sorrow – a call to action for all who read it.

Perfume by Patrick Suskind

Jean-Baptiste Grenouille is born with one sublime gift-an absolute sense of smell. As a boy, he lives to decipher the odors of Paris, and apprentices himself to a prominent perfumer who teaches him the ancient art of mixing …
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An acclaimed bestseller and international sensation, Patrick Suskind''s classic novel provokes a terrifying examination of what happens when one man''s indulgence in his greatest passion—his sense of smell—leads to murder.

In the slums of eighteenth-century France, the infant Jean-Baptiste Grenouille is born with one sublime gift-an absolute sense of smell. As a boy, he lives to decipher the odors of Paris, and apprentices himself to a prominent perfumer who teaches him the ancient art of mixing precious oils and herbs. But Grenouille''s genius is such that he is not satisfied to stop there, and he becomes obsessed with capturing the smells of objects such as brass doorknobs and frest-cut wood. Then one day he catches a hint of a scent that will drive him on an ever-more-terrifying quest to create the "ultimate perfume"—the scent of a beautiful young virgin. Told with dazzling narrative brillance, Perfume is a hauntingly powerful tale of murder and sensual depravity.



I have read these
there all veerrrrrry good.
Perfume is my favourite

Answer 2

The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
Time and Again by Jack Finney
Welcome to the World Baby Girl by Fannie Flagg
Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein

Answer 3

1). the undomestic goddess - sophie kinsella... we all need a laugh
... its all about a successful career woman sunddenly finding herself as a house maid... only problem is she doesnt know anything about the domestic household!!

2). my sisters keeper - jodi picoult - we all need a cry -
2 sisters 1 brother... 1 sister has leaukemia... ynger sister was specifically created to save her odler sister... the older bro doesnt get any attention... then one day the younger sister suddenly decides she will not give her older sister the kidney she needs to survive.. shes had enough... the family is torn apart... and the twists are totally unpredictable

3). the partner - john grisham - we all need a puzzle -
a man emerges several yrs after he has been declared dead without the $millions stolen money... he is liable to spend the rest of his life in prison for several crimes... inc murder... but somehow he wiggles out of it... what exactly is the truth and how could he leave his wife and daughter with nothing??...

4). the last sky pirate - paul stewart and chris riddell - we all need another world...
someway further in the series but its jam packed with action and once you've read one you'll want to read the res!!1 sounds like an advert LOL but i loved the entire series

5).p.s. i love you - celia ahern - we all need love
the husband dies leaving his widow with a letter for each month... she looks forward to opening them... and she has to do whatever he tells her to... funny at times, sad at others,

happy reading =]

and id be interested to hear your views on the bible, the qu'ran, the bhagavad gita and the torah

=]

Answer 4

Atlas Shrugged (ayn rand, once said in a library of congress survey to be the second most influential book in peoples lives after the bible)

Franny and Zooey (jd salinger, a classic, and a nice short read after the above)

Notes from underground (dostoevsky, considered by some to be the worlds first existentialist novel)

Zen and the art of motorcycle maitnence (Robert pirsig, an exploration into the 'metaphysics of quality' in the context of a motorcycle trip cross country with his son, an interesting read)

Wittgenstein's Mistress (david markson, a novel about a woman who believes she is the last person left alive on earth, exploring everything from pop-culture and geography to philosophy and sex)

Answer 5

The Choirboys - Joseph Wambaugh
Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
The World According to Garp - John Irving
Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier!

Answer 6

20 thousand leagues under the sea. J Verne
Curious wine. KV Forrest
The lovely bones. A Seabold
The picture of Dorian Gray O Wilde
Booker T Washington's autobiography.

Answer 7

The Thief Lord
From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
Rangers Apprentice
Flicka
Trailblazer Series
Nancy Drew
The Polar Express. . .I'm a bookworm.

Answer 8

nicely, i think the final books I actual have examine do no longer inevitably could desire to be my favorites. one million. The Bible - a number of authors; heavily, sturdy reading 2. residing to tell the story (Vivir para contarla) - Gabriel García Márquez's memoirs); very relaxing. 3. Chronicle of a demise Foretold - Gabriel García Márquez; a "detective" novel the place the reader is familiar with all the small print from the 1st financial ruin yet upon attaining the top, turns the website in seek of greater. 4. whilst Me grow to be a Boy - Charles Hyatt; autobiographical short thoughts retelling the boyhood of a Jamaican actor; its as though each Jamaican can relate to his reviews 5. Nineteen 80-4 - George Orwell; certainly no longer on my checklist of faves (i chanced on it long and sophisticated to examine, what with my short interest span and having to examine it for college), yet a very sturdy, insightful e book, in spite of the incontrovertible fact that. it rather is as though Orwell have been given a glimpse into the twenty first century some 60 years in the past whilst the e book grow to be revealed.

Answer 9

If you like action & adventure type stories, I suggest you read some books by the following authors.

Steve Berry
Clive Cussler
Matthew Reilly
James Rollins
Nevada Barr

Oh yes, and you can choose a best answer 4 hours after you posted it.

Answer 10

By excluding Dickens and The Bible, you have taken two that sit on top of my list away. :(

That said, I edit my reccomendations:

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
(possibly) The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

Those are a few classics that I have enjoyed.

Answer 11

*Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow by Peter Hoeg
*the His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman (Northern Lights, The Subtle Knife and The Amber Spyglass in that order)
Because She Thought She Loved Me by *Maxim Jabukowski (Jabukovski?)
*Sugar Rush by Julie Burchill
*Stuart: A Life Backwards by Alexander Masters