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Follow the River (have read several of Thom's books, but none could compare to this one)
Hunger Games (also read the sequels)
Not without My Daughter
Pope Joan
A Thousand Splendid Suns (yes, I have read Kite Runner and I liked this one more)
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Year of Wonders
Yellow Crocus
Thank you in advance for your suggestions!
I have either read and enjoyed the books you have or I have them on my "to read" list so maybe I can give you a few ideas
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Originally Posted by chicagoliz
Some other novels that I've read recently and loved or liked a whole lot are: The Nix, Homegoing, Underground Railroad, and A Gentleman in Moscow.
Same Kind of Different as Me: A Modern-Day Slave, an International Art Dealer, and the Unlikely Woman Who Bound Them Together by Ron Hall, Denver Moore, Lynn Vincent https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/...ifferent_as_Me
Same Kind of Different as Me: A Modern-Day Slave, an International Art Dealer, and the Unlikely Woman Who Bound Them Together by Ron Hall, Denver Moore, Lynn Vincent https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/...ifferent_as_Me
That one shook me to the core. I wish it had been a novel. That would have been bad enough. But that someone had to actually experience that? Omg.
Wow -- House in the Sky sounds interesting. Adding it to my cart. (My cart has almost 600 items)
I have Christadora sitting on my shelf, but I cannot remember at all what it is about or how it got on my radar. (Obviously at some point I bought it.)
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Originally Posted by ylisa7
I would pass on The Bean Trees and A Spool of Blue Thread Those two books ruined me from trying other books from those two authors.
I know people LOVE Kingsolver, but the only book of hers' I've read is Flight Behavior and I found it just meh.
Wow -- House in the Sky sounds interesting. Adding it to my cart. (My cart has almost 600 items)
I have Christadora sitting on my shelf, but I cannot remember at all what it is about or how it got on my radar. (Obviously at some point I bought it.)
I know people LOVE Kingsolver, but the only book of hers' I've read is Flight Behavior and I found it just meh.
Yes, Flight was not her best....
We can't all agree on every book....
Many of the other recommended ones I've never heard of...don't care for fluff either.
At least the Pulitzer prize team likes these two authors.
I read reviews on these, too, after seeing your recommendations. "Underground Railroad" would probably be my first choice, with "Homegoing" as a close second. I really do appreciate your suggestions!
They are both terrific. I read Homegoing as part of a book club -- actually, I'm in two book clubs, and I think both read Homegoing. Everyone loved it. It's almost like a series of interconnected short stories, although it is a novel. Each chapter is about a different person, and every two chapters moves to a new generation. It starts out with a chapter each for two half-sisters, who do not know each other, in Africa in the late 1600s. One goes on a slave ship to America, and the other marries a white man in Africa. Then the next two chapters are about a child of each of the two sisters, then the subsequent 2 chapters are about a child of those children (i.e, the grandchildren of the two half sisters) and it goes on from there up to the present day.
Underground Railroad is also great -- I ended up reading them back to back, and it was hard to keep some things straight between the two, since they have similar themes and in part, take place in the same time period.
Wow -- House in the Sky sounds interesting. Adding it to my cart. (My cart has almost 600 items)
I have Christadora sitting on my shelf, but I cannot remember at all what it is about or how it got on my radar. (Obviously at some point I bought it.)
I know people LOVE Kingsolver, but the only book of hers' I've read is Flight Behavior and I found it just meh.
Heh Heh -- turns out I have House in the Sky sitting on my shelf!
Guess I'm moving that up in the TBR pile.
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Those two books ruined me from trying other books from those two authors.
