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  | nicolaann   Senior Member
 
   
   
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 |  Post Options  Thanks(0)  Quote  Reply  Topic: Favourite book list - FOR US!!! Posted: 23 December 2009 at 11:11pm
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   Inspired by the kids book list thread.......
 Thought it might be fun to start a book list for adult books too. I love to read, but find that books are so expensive I will only buy one if it has been recommended to me.
 So here goes....
 This charming Man - Marian Keyes. Just read it and LOVED it. Lots of LOL bits. Great girly read!!    | 
 
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     Nicky, Mum to Alex (5) & Sophie (3)
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  | MissAngel   Senior Member
 
   
   
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 |  Post Options  Thanks(0)  Quote  Reply  Posted: 23 December 2009 at 11:13pm | 
 
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   hmm.. Anything by Terry Pratchett? lol. He's my fav author and I reccomend anything written by him!
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  | myfullhouse   Senior Member
 
   
   
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 |  Post Options  Thanks(0)  Quote  Reply  Posted: 24 December 2009 at 7:51am | 
 
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   I LOVE Julie Garwood's historical novels, they are all romance novels set in England or Scotland
 Also The Wilderness Series by Sara Donati is wonderful, I am currently waiting for the 6th and final book to be published in January
 
 I have bought quite a few books off TM as it is so much cheaper. I like to buy books as I often re-read them
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  | jaycee   Senior Member
 
   
 
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 |  Post Options  Thanks(0)  Quote  Reply  Posted: 24 December 2009 at 10:41am | 
 
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 hmm.. Anything by Terry Pratchett? lol. He's my fav author and I reccomend anything written by him!
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 Miss Angel - did you see that 'The Colour of Magic' and 'The Hogsfather' are on TV over Christmas? 
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  | HuntersMama   Senior Member
 
   
   
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 |  Post Options  Thanks(0)  Quote  Reply  Posted: 24 December 2009 at 7:10pm | 
 
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   My all time favourite is A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry. Once I got into it I absolutely loved it!
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  | kathamill   Senior Member
 
   
   
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 |  Post Options  Thanks(0)  Quote  Reply  Posted: 24 December 2009 at 8:22pm | 
 
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   crosstitch series by diana gabaldon love love love it
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  | mum2paris   Senior Member
 
   
   
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 |  Post Options  Thanks(0)  Quote  Reply  Posted: 24 December 2009 at 9:01pm | 
 
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   I read an awesome book the other week, I was hooked, and now have to go back and read the pre-quel to it. lol.
 They are by an Aussie writer called Melanie La'Brooy. Very witty and funny and kinda crazy (like, so maybe that's why I relate to them)
 
 So the first in the series is:
 
 Lovestruck
 
 and the one i read was called :
 
 The babymoon.
 
 Can't say anything about Lovestruck, as I haven't read it but The babymoon is crackers, I couldn't put it down.
 
 
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  | MrsH   Senior Member
 
   
 
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 |  Post Options  Thanks(0)  Quote  Reply  Posted: 24 December 2009 at 11:30pm | 
 
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   To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee 
An absolute classic and must-read.
 
 And strangely, the other book that I love to read over and over is Diary of a Fat Man by Paul Jeffreys.  An account of how Paul lost over 60kgs in a year.  Even though he got to take a year off work to do his diet and exercise program, it's still quite inspirational.
 
 Quite like Marian Keys but can only read her books every so often because they're so similar, I keep getting confused.
 
 Oooh, and forgot to add The Bronze Horseman / Bridge to Holy Cross / A Summer Garden by Paullina Simons.  LOVE THEM!
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  | _SMS_   Senior Member
 
   
   
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 |  Post Options  Thanks(0)  Quote  Reply  Posted: 25 December 2009 at 4:05pm | 
 
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   I have a few favourites
 The Time Travelers Wife
 
 The Bronze Horseman series
 by Paullina Simons
 
 The Sookie Stackhouse series (True Blood)
 by Charlaine Harris
 
 I read so much so its hard for me to keep track of authors, but those are the books that i LOVE
 
 
 
 
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  | AzzaNZ   Senior Member
 
   
   
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 |  Post Options  Thanks(0)  Quote  Reply  Posted: 25 December 2009 at 8:59pm | 
 
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   The Red Tent - Anita Diamant
Shantaram - Gregory David Roberts
 The Time Travellers Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
 Child 44 - Tom Rob Smith
 Anything by Neil Gaiman and Bryce Courtenay
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  | gypsynita   Senior Member
 
   
   
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 |  Post Options  Thanks(0)  Quote  Reply  Posted: 25 December 2009 at 11:13pm | 
 
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   ooh... so hard to pick!!
 I love so many authors - paullina, simmons, diana gabaldon, marian keyes, nora roberts,  bernard cornwall.... yada yada!
 
 some books i love though are:
 divine secrets of the ya-ya sisterhood
 playing beatie bow
 labyrinth by kate mosse
 
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  | MyLilSquishy   Senior Member
 
   
   
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 |  Post Options  Thanks(0)  Quote  Reply  Posted: 25 December 2009 at 11:54pm | 
 
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   The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold Anything by Dean Koontz (Have alot of his books) Flowers in the Attic series - Virginia Andrews Forbidden Love - Norma Khouri (I think thats how you spell her last name) Sophies Journey - Can't member who wrote it, but about a girl at a kindy/preschool type school in Aus (NSW or VIC i think) and a car drove in through the wall and trapped her under it and it caught on fire and she had burns to a fatal percentage of her body, but lived...  My Sisters Keeper and Nineteen Minutes - Jodi Picoult.   might have to give your ones a try! | 
 
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  | RBsMama   Senior Member
 
   
   
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 |  Post Options  Thanks(0)  Quote  Reply  Posted: 26 December 2009 at 7:06pm | 
 
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   I like most of James Patterson, Lee Child & Nora Roberts books. 
 I liked My Sister's Keeper & Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult  too    I haven't read any new ones of late, so will watch this thread in interest, to get some ideas of what to get from the library next    | 
 
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  | jaz   Senior Member
 
   
 
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 |  Post Options  Thanks(0)  Quote  Reply  Posted: 26 December 2009 at 10:08pm | 
 
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   I'm in a book club so get to read books that I probably wouldn't have chosen for myself. My favourite read this year was Mr Pip. 
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  | Bobbie   Senior Member
 
   
   
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 |  Post Options  Thanks(0)  Quote  Reply  Posted: 26 December 2009 at 10:13pm | 
 
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   My favourite is 'The Diviners' by Margaret Laurence.
I also like most of Margaret Atwood's stuff and I love To Kill a Mockingbird.
 
 Not really into chick lit but I did like The Lovely Bones - except the weird ending and also My Sister's Keeper.
 
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  | caitlynsmygirl   Senior Member
 
   
   
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 |  Post Options  Thanks(0)  Quote  Reply  Posted: 27 December 2009 at 2:06am | 
 
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   Favorite book of all time , To kill a Mockingbird .
And Atticus Finch is my favorite character of all time ,then Dumble dore .
 
 I loved Mr Pip, brilliant book
 this year, books i've read that I enjoyed
 " Brightest star in the sky " Marian Keyes
 " The Forgotten Garden " by an author whos name I forgot
 and some Lesley Pearce ones
 
 over all
 Emily of Newmoon  , LM Montgomery
 Harry Potter series
 Discworld series
 Martina Cole
 Marian Keyes
 My sisters keeper (thats the only Jodi Picoult one i really like,the rest all start becoming similar, all with court cases etc , so ...gloomy )
 The Lovely bones ( and can't wait to see the movie )
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  | .Mel   Senior Member
 
   
   
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 |  Post Options  Thanks(0)  Quote  Reply  Posted: 29 December 2009 at 5:27pm | 
 
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   A book of Tomorrow - Cecelia Ahern...the characters will stay in your head for a long time.  So beautifully written 
 Mercy Thompson Series - Patricia Briggs
 Anita Baker Vampire Series - Laurell K Hamilton
 Succubus Series - Richelle Mead
 Thorn Queen Series - Richelle Mead
 Vampire Academy  Series - Richelle Mead
 Vampire Diaries - LJ Smith
 Anything by Fiona Walker, Lee Childs, Martina Cole, Patricia Cornwall
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