Recommendations

[sicksingermike]

Hey,

I have just finished reading "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini and just about to begin "A Thousand Splendid Suns". However, I was wondering what recommendations people would make for me to read after this?

Please do not mention Twilight books as I find it infuriating.

Many Thanks

[Zee.]

The Collector - Fowles
Light in August - Faulkner
Crimes Against Humanity - Robertson
When You Are Engulfed in Flames - Sedaris
Sense and Sensibility - Austen
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World - Murakami
The Five People You Meet in Heaven - Albom
SUM - Eagleman ( I really really really recommend this )
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer - Suskind


edit - Be more specific!

[McGrain]

Hahahaha, yeah, that Twiligh thing is horrible.

I loved The Kite Runner, but I wasn't into A Thousand Splendid suns.

Absolutely read Half A Yellow Sun by Adichie. It's absolutley awesome and deals with some of the same themes.

[Etienne]

Depends on what you want to read?

[sicksingermike]

I am relatively open minded. I will give anything a go. I don't really have a specific genre that I enjoy most, but I guess I like to be able to connect to the story. I know people who read for readings sake but I really love to get absorbed into the book. I think the thing about the Kite Runner is I could almost relate to the feelings of guilt for example. I wish I could be more specific with you all, but I am afraid that I have been as specific as possible.

[mal4mac]

"The Cossacks" Tolstoy
"Midsummer Nights Dream" Shakespeare
"Oliver Twist" Charles Dickens
"Boyhood" by Coetzee

[Lynne50]

Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen

Set during the depression on a traveling circus train. Very good, IMHO.

[Etienne]

I am relatively open minded. I will give anything a go. I don't really have a specific genre that I enjoy most, but I guess I like to be able to connect to the story. I know people who read for readings sake but I really love to get absorbed into the book. I think the thing about the Kite Runner is I could almost relate to the feelings of guilt for example. I wish I could be more specific with you all, but I am afraid that I have been as specific as possible.

Well ok, here are some of my suggestions:

Men in the Sun by Kanafani
Pedro Paramo by Rulfo
Next Episode by Aquin
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Garcia Marquez
Lolita by Nabokov
The Stranger by Camus

More or less all post WW2, if you wish to go back further just ask.

[Travis_R]

I second Lolita by Nabokov, and would like to add Slaughterhouse-5 by Kurt Vonnegut as well as Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. All three novels are sure to get you thinking, are entertaining and above all else are well written.

[eyemaker]

Randomly, the following books are the ones which lasted in my mind:
1. Crime and Punishment - Dostoevsky (on the top of my fav. list)
2. Brothers Karamazov- Dostoevsky
3. The Catcher in the Rye- Salinger
4. Mdme. Bovary- Flaubert
5. Strange- Camus
6. Lolita- Nabokov

...I'll post more if I'll remember some of my early readings