Contemporary
Her Grace In Disgrace -Claudia Harbaugh
Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro
The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
The Catcher in the Rye - J. Salinger
The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
Classics
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
Persuasion - Jane Austen
Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee
Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
Cranford - Elizabeth Gaskell
Ulysses - James Joyce
Middlemarch - George Elliot
I hope you enjoyed this post and I would love to hear any recommendations or the books you have been enjoying recently.
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Seriously read the kite runner! I wrote my Extended essay on it and I still love to read it, and all of Khaled Hosseini's other books.
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I have SO many books I want to read this year!
ReplyDeleteI'm just about to look up some books i saw recommended at the back of a book i've just finished. one i would recommend is The Secret Keeper - Kate Morton. Might not be what you like to read but i enjoyed it thoroughly and i didn't think i would!
ReplyDeletegreat post...I really need to get into reading the classics! I loved Never Let Me Go, but I still haven't watched the film version yet! xx
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I've been meaning to read Never Let Me Go, Carrie Mulligan was so perf in the film adaptation <3
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