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Posted: March 03 2010 at 9:28pm | IP Logged Quote guitarnan

I am at that dismal point at which I go to the library and can't find anything to read.

Please share some book titles with me!

Here's what I like to read:

History
Biography
Mysteries
Historical fiction
Cultural information/popular history (e.g. Three Cups of Tea, Cod)

Here's what I don't like:

Southern fiction (sorry, Mr. Faulkner!)
Charles Dickens
Political commentary

Please help...I've already re-read my at-home favorites and would love to be inspired by your recent reading experiences!


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Posted: March 03 2010 at 9:30pm | IP Logged Quote JodieLyn

I've been hunting in the youth section lately for books that I may have missed.. like

The Girl of the Limberlost - that was lovely.

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Posted: March 03 2010 at 10:18pm | IP Logged Quote Natalia

Nancy,
You don't like Southern fiction meaning Faulkner, Walker Percy, Eudora Welty,right? but what about books set in the South? I just finished reading a book called The Help. It is set in Jackson, MS in the 1960 at the time where integration was taking place. It is told from the perspective of the maids that work for white families. It is very good!

The Help

I also read Rebecca by Daphne du Murier for the first time recently. It definitely grabbed my attention. I went to read a biography of the author and blech, I wasn't inspired by her life at all.

Have you read anything by Edith Pargeter (another name used by Ellis Peter)? I read her Heaven Tree Trilogy a while back and loved it. It is quite and undertaking because it is long but it is wonderful. The Heaven Tree TrilogyIt takes place in the Middle Ages in England.

What about the Kristin Lavransdater? have you read that?

Mystery, I recently read The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey.

In the YA section I have read recently (you didn't say if you liked Juvenile/Young Adult books but you didn't say you didn't like them ;-))

The Hunger Games and its sequel Catching Fire (Suzanne Collins)

The Goose Girl by Shannon Hale.It is the first on a quartet. I haven't read the other ones but will soon. I also loved her book Princess Academy.

What about the nostalgic series about the Malones Meet the Malones

I am out of ideas for now,

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Posted: March 03 2010 at 10:50pm | IP Logged Quote JodieLyn

Oh yes, the Shannon Hale books are fun to read.. I've read the first 3 of the 4.

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Natalia wrote:
I also read Rebecca by Daphne du Murier for the first time recently.

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Mystery, I recently read The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey.

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The Hunger Games and its sequel Catching Fire (Suzanne Collins)


I second all of these.

Other recent reads that might fit your criteria:
- Mrs. Tim Christie, by D.E. Stevenson (mentioned over in the Book Club area of the forums)
- The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie, by Alan Bradley (middle-grade historical mystery)
- The Quest for Shakespeare, by Joseph Pearce

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Posted: March 04 2010 at 1:06am | IP Logged Quote Chari

Nancy..............have you looked in our book club stickies for our yearly book lists?

some of our members have made yearly reading lists from those lists

The Legend of the Celtic Stone-----the history of Scotland is wonderful!!



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I second Sigrid Undset (Kristin Lavransdatter) if you haven't read her. Just beautiful and perfect for lent!

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anything by Edward Rutherford

The Princes of Ireland
Sarum
Russka
New York
Dublin

and I am sure a couple more I can't think of. I really like these books...historical with some fiction.
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I'm just reading Mrs. Tim Carries On...

It's the author's diary from WWII. I keep going back and rereading her
husband's experiences at Dunkirk. The whole thing gives me goosebumps.
This one is my favorite so far from the author (D E Stevenson)

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A third for Kristen Lavransdatter

Anya Seton also wrote good historical fiction.

You've probably already read Dorothy Sayers' Harriet Vane and Lord Peter Wimsey mysteries, but if not RUN to your library for them - they are that good! (The ones finished by Jill Patton Walsh are fun, too.)

Georgette Heyer wrote both mystery and historical fiction and I enjoy her regency romances when I want something really fluffy.

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Posted: March 05 2010 at 9:19pm | IP Logged Quote JenPre

I just read Cassandra and Jane by Jill Pitkeathley. It's a fiction novel about the lives of Jane and Cassandra Austin.

After reading it I decided to start reading some of Jane Austen's books as I've never read any so am now on a "rabbit trail" of reading Pride and Prejudice with Emma up next!

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