Book rec time!

[penmage]

All right, people, I want book recs. I'm looking for good things to read over the summer.

There are 80-odd people who read this journal, and most of you read a lot. I want at least one rec (though feel free to give me more) from each of you.

I'm looking for something I've never read before. It doesn't have to be SF/F - in fact, I think I'd prefer if it wasn't (not that you can't also recommend SF/F.)

Thanks to y'all in advance.

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[thunderemerald.livejournal.com]

Mmmm, books! Well, first of all, I finished Pterry's 'The Wee Free Men' today, and yeah, it's really great. It's sold as a children's book in most places, apparently. It starts off as a terribly entertaining fairy tale, then slowly becomes this complicate existentialist drama that, of course, ends in the usual ridiculous Pterry fashion. There are lawyers in it.

Let's see... I've no idea if you've read any of these, but here are some of my favourite books:

Phantom (Susan Kay)
Wicked (Gregory Maguire)
Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister (Gregory Maguire)
The Scarlet Pimpernel (Baroness Orczy) -- and then, any of the 15 sequels
Bridget Jones' Diary (Helen Fielding)
A Tale of Two Cities (Charles Dickens)
Dracula (Bram Stoker)
Tailchaser's Song (Tad Williams)
The Cider House Rules (John Irving)
Flowers For Algernon (Daniel Keyes)
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Victor Hugo)
Black Like Me (John Howard Griffin)
Cat House (Michael Peak)
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou)