Book recommendations

What the last really good book you've read? I'm looking to start a new one.

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It's an oldie but I NEVER read it before believe it or not.
I just finished The Gold Coast by Nelson DeMille yesterday and I loved it.

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I'm currently reading The Silent Sister by Diane Chamberlain and I can't put it down!

Some of my favorites:

Defending Jacob by William Landay
Still Missing by Chevy Stevens
Hopeless by Colleen Hoover
Beautiful Disaster by Jamie McGuire
If I Stay by Gayle Forman
Reconstructing Amelia by Kimberly McCreight
Where'd You Go, Bernadette? by Maria Semple
Thoughtless by S.C. Stephens

Book recommendations

Thanks so much!

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Have you ever read these? My all-time favorites:

Where The Heart Is by Bellie Letts

Night by Elie Wiesel

Message In A Bottle
A Walk To Remember
The Rescue
all by Nicholas Sparks

Tuesdays With Morrie
The Five People You Meet In Heaven
Have A Little Faith
all by Mitch Albom

The Secret Life Of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd

Memoirs Of A Geisha by Arthur Golden

Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

The House At Riverton
The Forgotten Garden
all by Kate Morton (ALL of her books are great, but these two are my favorites)

The Help by Kathryn Stockett

The Kitchen House by Kathleen Grissom


You can also check out Amazon's Top 100 Books To Read In A Lifetime. The link is under the book section at Amazon. I've read over one third of the books on that list, and I've only disliked a handful. Lots of great books to choose from there. Trying to work my way through the other 2/3rds of it.

Book recommendations

I have become interested in reading books that tell me something about the larger world than I live in day to day and that teach me about other countries ways of thinking and approaching life.

I just finished and enjoyed:

The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri,

She won a Pulitzer for a previous book. It's a well written, easy to read story about a newlywed, educated Indian couple from Calcutta that moved to Boston and how they manage to find ways to fit in and adapt to an unfamiliar country, and how their children grow up as Americans influenced by their parents ways. I learned a lot about a culture very different from mine and gained greater empathy for the difficulties faced by those who move to another country to begin new lives. I am not sure I would have had their strength.


An extraordinary book is:

Radiance of Tomorrow by Ishmael Beah

The author is a Dartmouth educated young African from Sierra Leone who has already had a NY Times best seller, A Long Way Gone, before this book. I do not have the guts to read it as it is about the child soldiers there, and I understand is very graphic.

This book, while not always comfortable, is a fascinating read, especially if you begin by reading the author's introduction as he explains how his country's language uses words in very descriptive and poetical ways that are not at all like our own. It takes a while to get into his writing's rhythm as it is different from any I have read before, but it is lyrical in its way even as it describes people trying to put their lives back together from scratch after a scorched earth war.