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Topic: Best Books
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Jeaniegirl
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Member # 6370 |  Posted: 6:25 PM, December 24th (Tuesday), 2013 |     |
I was recently having a discussion with a friend and the topic came up about BEST books. We decided to list our all-time favorites.
Here are mine. What are your favorites?
Grapes of Wrath
Roots
The Good Earth
Gone with the Wind
The Innocent Man
"Because I deserve better"
Posts: 1393 | Registered: Feb 2005 |
Jeaniegirl
♀ 6370
Member # 6370 | | Posted: 7:45 PM, December 24th (Tuesday), 2013 | |
Next book on my reading list is
PILGRIM'S WILDERNESS
"Because I deserve better"
Posts: 1393 | Registered: Feb 2005 |
trumanshow
♀ 25624
Member # 25624 | | Posted: 9:41 PM, December 24th (Tuesday), 2013 | |
Gone With The Wind
Roots
Minutes to Burn
remarried 11-15-15
Her prize is a man who ran out on his wife and children. His is a woman who is too stupid to understand that she is not special, she is simply there.
Posts: 1784 | Registered: Sep 2009 | From: Clover, SC |
really trying
♀ 5311
Member # 5311 | | Posted: 11:29 PM, December 24th (Tuesday), 2013 | |
water for elephants
a stone for danny fisher
the memory keepers daughter
not sure if I'm going to read PILGRIM'S WILDERNESS, still pondering that one so I'd love to hear how you like it.
[This message edited by really trying at 11:31 PM, December 24th (Tuesday)]
Me: late 40's
XH: A parasite and that might be a compliment
My S-23, Our D-15
Married 5/93 D-Day: 11/18/03
Divorced 5/19/08
The future's so bright - I got to wear shades
Plant Seeds of Kindness
Posts: 10419 | Registered: Sep 2004 | From: California |
Jeaniegirl
♀ 6370
Member # 6370 | | Posted: 10:02 AM, December 25th (Wednesday), 2013 | |
ReallyTrying -- A Stone for Danny Fisher should have been on my list too! Love Harold Robbins books.
I haven't purchased Pilgrim's Wilderness yet but plan to.
"Because I deserve better"
Posts: 1393 | Registered: Feb 2005 |
kmom2662
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Member # 41494 | | Posted: 9:05 PM, December 29th (Sunday), 2013 | |
Anything by Octavia Butler, especially Fledgling and Kindred.
Me-- WW, 49
Him-- BH, 53 (bobf)
Married 22 years
OEA, chat/email with multiple people over an 8 week period, 8/2013-10/4/2013
D-day 10/4/13
Working on reconciliation
Posts: 69 | Registered: Nov 2013 | From: United states |
solus sto
♀ 30989
Member # 30989 | | Posted: 7:28 PM, December 31st (Tuesday), 2013 | |
East of Eden by John Steinbeck and pretty much anything by Larry McMurtry
And, in nonfiction, Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl.
I have millions more that I love, but these are the books I read and re-read.
BS-me, 55; WX-irrelevant
Divorced after an eternity
"So much for the past and present. The future is called 'perhaps,' which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to let that scare you." Tenn
Posts: 15231 | Registered: Jan 2011 | From: midwest |
frigidfire86
♀ 32324
Member # 32324 | | Posted: 12:55 PM, January 1st (Wednesday), 2014 | |
Everything written by Terry Goodkind. End of list.
Me: 31
Him: 32
Married 11 years
Daughter, 10 yrs old
D-Day: 05/08/2011
Posts: 680 | Registered: May 2011 | From: Louisiana |
looking forward
♀ 25238
Member # 25238 | | Posted: 7:33 PM, January 5th (Sunday), 2014 | |
All books by Agatha Christie (I have a complete collection including original paperbacks from the 1920s and beyond)
Magnificent Obsession by Lloyd C. Douglas
The Robe by Lloyd C. Douglas
Sarum by Edward Rutherfurd
Memory and hope; one looks backward, and the other forward; one is of today, the other of tomorrow. Together more than 49 years.
"Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain." (Joseph Campbell)
Posts: 3216 | Registered: Aug 2009 | From: Where a river runs through it |
itainteasy
♀ 31094
Member # 31094 | | Posted: 12:10 PM, January 7th (Tuesday), 2014 | |
This one isn't high literature or anything...but "Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas" (James Patterson) is an all time favorite of mine. I need to read it with a box of tissues and I have read it over 50 times, easily. [This message edited by itainteasy at 12:11 PM, January 7th (Tuesday)]
Posts: 3446 | Registered: Feb 2011 | From: NWPA |
GabyBaby
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Member # 26928 | | Posted: 3:43 PM, January 7th (Tuesday), 2014 | |
Books that I reach for over and over include:
Kane and Abel
The Prodigal Daughter
Roots
Queen
Gone with the Wind
The Good Earth
Pillars of the Earth
Harry Potter series
Outlander series
To Kill a Mockingbird
Clan of the Cave Bear
Sword of Shannara series
Born in Fire (Nora Roberts)
Born in Ice (Nora Roberts)
Born in Shame (Nora Roberts)
Philippa Gregory's Tudor series
Me - 45
DD(24), DS(21, PDD-NOS)
WH#2 (SorryinSac)- Killed himself (May 2015) in our home 6 days after being served divorce docs.
XWH #1 - legally married 18yrs. 12+ OW (that I know of).
I edit often for clarity/typos.
Posts: 9937 | Registered: Dec 2009 | From: Here and There |
Coachdig10
♂ 41706
Member # 41706 | | Posted: 7:48 PM, January 17th (Friday), 2014 | |
Game of Thrones
Name of the Wind
BS- 42
WS- 36
Married 16
Kids- 3
DDay 1/17/13
Posts: 71 | Registered: Dec 2013 | From: California |
MissMouseMo
♀ 38562
Member # 38562 | | Posted: 1:40 PM, January 19th (Sunday), 2014 | |
The Journeyer, by Gary Jennings
Horrible first chapter and an ending that just sort of dribbled off, and even a pretty horrifying torture scene I had to skip over entirely...
Sounds awful, doesn't it? It still lives in my mind. It came to life...
"I edit, therefore I am." -BionicGal
Posts: 527 | Registered: Feb 2013 |
phmh
♀ 34146
Member # 34146 | | Posted: 4:19 PM, January 19th (Sunday), 2014 | |
My very favorite is "The Historian" by Elizabeth Kostova. I reread it every few years.
Me: BW, divorced, now fabulous and happy!
Married: 11 years, no kids
Character is destiny
Posts: 4369 | Registered: Dec 2011 |
sisoon
♂ 31240
Member # 31240 | | Posted: 3:54 PM, January 21st (Tuesday), 2014 | |
Brainstorming, not in order of preference or quality
John Barry, Rising Tide
Dorothy Sayers - Peter Wimsey series
Paul Scott, Jewel in The Crown set of novels
O'Brian - Aubrey-Maturin series
Rex Stout - Nero Wolfe novels
Will Cuppy, The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody
unknown author The Devil's Data Processing Dictionary
H. P. Lovecraft - most collections (I dislike Dreams and Fancies, which is the only one I own)
C. P. Snow, Strangers and Brothers novels
Mark Twain, Letters From the Earth
Joseph Kanon, esp. The Good German
Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
Reischauer & Fairbank, East Asia: The Great Tradition
Roger Butterfield, The American Past
[This message edited by sisoon at 3:56 PM, January 21st (Tuesday)]
fBH (me) - 70+, fWW, Married 45+, together 45+, same sex ap
DDay - 12/22/2010
Recover'd and R'ed
I share my own experience because it's all I know.
Posts: 15950 | Registered: Feb 2011 | From: Illinois |
really trying
♀ 5311
Member # 5311 | | Posted: 6:10 PM, January 22nd (Wednesday), 2014 | |
I ordered a Fannie Flagg book, A Redbird Christmas, I've heard it's a great book and people seem to like anything by her. ?
I'm asking. 
Looked into reading the Monuments Men vs seeing the movie but on this one, I think I'll see the movie.
Me: late 40's
XH: A parasite and that might be a compliment
My S-23, Our D-15
Married 5/93 D-Day: 11/18/03
Divorced 5/19/08
The future's so bright - I got to wear shades
Plant Seeds of Kindness
Posts: 10419 | Registered: Sep 2004 | From: California |
Alex CR
♀ 27968
Member # 27968 | | Posted: 6:46 PM, January 29th (Wednesday), 2014 | |
So many good books....have been a reader since I was a child under the covers using a flashlight to read my Nancy Drew books, but after Dday I couldn't read at all. I really missed my reading.
After a few years I found I could focus and read again. I've been eating books ever since....these are some of my favorites.
Five Smooth Stones - Ann Fairbairn
Bridge of San Luis Rey Steinbeck
1Q84 - Hiroki Murakami
Unbroken Hillebrand
Atlas Shrugged Ayn Rand
My Name is Asher Lev Chaim Potok
The Goldfinch Donna Tartt
On Writing Stephen King
The Gunslinger Series Stephen King
The Orphan Masters Son Adam Johnson
Game of Thrones George R.R. Martin (the whole series)
BS Me 63
WS Him 64
Married 35
Together 41
DD 11/16/09
I can dwell in the negative or seek the positive...one road is lonely...the other teeming with life.
Posts: 1860 | Registered: Mar 2010 |
silverhopes
♀ 32753
Member # 32753 | | Posted: 11:34 PM, January 29th (Wednesday), 2014 | |
Shabanu, and the sequel Haveli by Suzanne Fisher Staples
His Dark Materials trilogy ( The Golden Compass or The Northern Lights, The Subtle Knife, The Amber Spyglass) by Phillip Pullman
Dragonwings by Lawrence Yep
The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer
The Kin of Ata Are Waiting For You by Dorothy Bryant
Cat & Mouse (sequel to Along Came a Spider) by James Patterson
The Silence of the Lambs, and the sequel Hannibal (the other two are OK too, but I like those the best) by Thomas Harris
Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell
And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
Jacob Have I Loved by Katherine Paterson
Pirates! and Witch Child, both by Celia Rees
The Remember Me trilogy by Christopher Pike
The Animorphs series by K.A. Applegate
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
If You Come Softly by Jacqueline Woodson
probably a lot more...
We're supposed to narrow it down? 
And that's not even counting comics! [This message edited by silverhopes at 11:34 PM, January 29th (Wednesday)]
Find peace. Or sleep on it.
Sometimes my monkeys, sometimes my circus.
Infidelities are like icebergs - they may take many different shapes and sizes, but they all damage your ship.
Posts: 4205 | Registered: Jul 2011 | From: California |
lost_in_toronto
♀ 25395
Member # 25395 | | Posted: 8:15 AM, January 30th (Thursday), 2014 | |
Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell
Loved this book growing up! I reread it recently and it was still a wonderful read.
Me: BS/41
Him: WS/39
DDay: August 23, 2009
Together 16 years.
Reconciled.
Posts: 1800 | Registered: Sep 2009 | From: not toronto anymore |
gardenparty
12050
Member # 12050 | | Posted: 8:44 PM, February 25th (Tuesday), 2014 | |
Just finished "The Demonologist" by Andrew Pyper and absolutely loved his writing.
Huge Stephen King fan....I know it is not really literature but it sure is entertaining.
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Cod, can't remember who wrote this one but it is a great read.
divorced!
Posts: 3115 | Registered: Sep 2006 | From: newfoundland |
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