I'm reading The Unicorn by Iris Murdoch, and just finished The Man With the Golden Gun, Ian Fleming.
Best Book Ever - The Women's Room by Marilyn French, changed my life back in the day.
I, too, love all Sophie Kinsella's books ! Chic lit is underrated, it's great mind candy.
Starting The Idiot by Dostoyevsky - usually I steer clear of 'literature', but it's actually not a hard read.
There's new(er) books in the Bourne series, but written by Eric VanLustbader (another favorite action author), and are AWESOME. Has truly resurrected the Bourne character.
Also, F. Paul Wilson has an amazing series "Repairman Jack" (stephen king is the pres of RJ fan club lol), novels about an alternative universe/good and evil, Jack is a 'fixer' who helps out folks in trouble and, well, I'll say no more (he also wrote The Keep, which was made into a pretty good film)
David Morrell is one of my all-time favs, wrote Brotherhood of the Rose, Fraternity of the Stone, and the original First Blood (ie RAMBO), but I think his best book is Testament, written in 1975 about a journalist who exposes a paramilitary group in US, and they come after his family (that's just an intro, not a spoiler). 1975- before it was public knowledge these groups even existed.
non fiction would be Women Who Run With the Wolves, by Clarissa Pinkola Estes, an examination of female arch-types (good learning for both genders, actually), anything by Gloria Steinem, and a textbook we used in phil. class called "Twenty Questions", and excellent primer for anyone interested in philosophy.
Anything by Terry MacMillan (eg How Stella Got Her Groove Back) and also Toni Morrison (sometimes I have to give them several reads).
Anyone likes 19th century naughty French (?) lit should try Guy de Maupassant, one of the 'fathers of the modern short story'.
Oh yes, for short stories, native son Alistair MacLeod writes the most poignant, beautiful stories of his childhood in Cape Breton.
The Red Badge of Courage, by Stephen Crane, a lifelong favorite.
Tender is The Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
And, of course, Charlotte's Web.
okay,,,, loves books far too much ,,, i'll shut up now!
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