Book recommendations?
What is the best book you have read? I am looking for something engaging, tranformative, and soothing.
I ask because in roughly 4 weeks, I will be in a tropical country on a beach. With nothing but a book and a pina colada for ten days. My goal is to catch up on all the reading I missed out on during law school. A book a day for ten days, a beach, a county full of good portions of beef and beautiful people, and of course good company. Yup, sounds like paradise.
Now give me your recommendations!
Pls 
I think you will love Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert.
Yes!! I read it, and LOVED it. I was just discussing it with someone a few minutes ago, actually. Any more recommendations??
three cups of tea (mortenson), march (geraldine brooks) [sorta sequel to little women], roots!! (haley), joy luck club (tan) . . . let me know if you want more!
Ok umm you are entering very dangerous territory with me.. hhahha I love books. wait no I should say obsessed with books. I have an inshallah pile…which means its books that I will inshallah find time to read. I cant buy just one. I buy three or four at a time.
Ok so here are some recommendations:
Girls of Riyadh – light and fun while allowing you to get a glimpse of saudi society. Very intersting read.
Sweetness in the Belly – Camilla Gate
In the company of Men – Hisham Matar (shortlisted for the booker)
Londonistani – Gautam Malkani
Dancing Girls of Lahore – Louise Brown
Memoirs of a Geisha
ok *sigh* tell me if I am even mentioning books you would remotely be interested in.. and I will continue..or give me some books you have loved and I will work with that..
thought of a few more: minaret (fictional story about a sudanese girl in london), by leila aboulela; white teeth by zadie smith, although i’m guessing you may have already read it!
Wonderful!
Cattail and LB – You both are right on with your recs – I loved Dancing Girls of Lahore, Memoirs of Geisha and Joy Luck Club.
Thanks SO much! I am going on Amazon to do a mass purchase.
Ondaatje – Running in the Family
Jaspreet Singh – Seventeen Tomatoes
Dave Mitchell – Cloud Atlas
Ishiguro – Never Let Me Go
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i have several of these if you’d rather borrow than buy them!
Fathima – Many thanks!
Cattail: I am totally taking you up on this! I am coming over next week to rummage
I suggest the Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood. It’s quite captivating reading, even though its a woman author writing about a woman.
I second Handmaid’s Tale.
Also Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugeneids (sp?) Won the Pulitzer a few years ago.
I’m currently well into The Harafish by Naguib Mehfouz and loving it.
Thanks Haleem – Are women authors writing about women usually not that captivating?
Muse, The Harafish is probably one one of my top 5 of all times. Thanks for adding!
Usually women writers on women dealing with women issues are very … girly…. and talk a lot about feelings (ugh!) and stuff. But this book is a very good read.
got around a little late to the recommendation’s stream, but here are a couple i would say are indispensible to any lover of literature:
-God of Small things, Arundhati Roy (won Booker)
-Life of Pi, Yann Martel (another Booker winner)
-One Hundred Years of Solitude, Marquez.
If you want a good laugh and touching read, “About a boy” by Nick hornsby. “On Beauty” by Zadie Smith is well written and engaging. and “The Curious Incident of a Dog in the Nightime” by Mark Haddon is cute and engaging as well about a boy with autism and his search for the murderer of his neighbor’s dog.