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Your first and last books of the month are two of my favorites that I've read in the last year.

My recent favorites: The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon Life of Pi by Yann Martel The Memory of Running by Ron McLarty Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell

The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas A Death in China by Carl Hiaasen The Eye of the Needle by Ken Follett The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell The Way the Crow Flies by Ann-Marie MacDonald TWTCF was very good, but The Sparrow was by far the best book I read last month.

Big Pistons fan here. Nothing short of the title will do for us. :)

Mercy Among the Children by David Adams Richards The Modigliani Scandal by Ken Follett Powder Burn by Carl Hiaasen Game of Shadows by Mark Fainaru-Wada Deep Six by Clive Cussler Along Came a Spider by James Patterson The Coma by Alex Garland Trap Line by Carl Hiaasen Cyclops by Clive...

For the most part, this is the method I follow. I'm almost obsessive about it.

I have this copy. I'll take a look at it tonight.

I don't think I'll finish my current book before the end of the month, so this should be my final list. Ghostwritten by David Mitchell Vixen 03 by Clive Cussler Deception Point by Dan Brown Lucky You by Carl Hiaasen Night Probe by Clive Cussler The Tesseract by Alex Garland The Tender...

The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon Followed closely by The Memory of Running by Ron McLarty

Barnes and Noble is closest to my work, so I usually head there if I know what I want and am too impatient to wait for Amazon. But if I want to browse, I head to Ann Arbor, MI to check out a view different places, including the original Borders store. :)

Huge fan of: Pro football College basketball NBA basketball Pro baseball College football Will watch when it's on: NASCAR F-1 racing cycling triathlons volleyball I play/do: basketball volleyball softball flag football running triathlons (coming soon) gold (coming soon)...

Thank you! I'll definitely check out the books.

Since this place has much more of a European flavor to it than the other forums I frequent, I thought it would be a good place for my question. What are the best books available that objectively explain the entire Protestant/Catholic, etc. conflict in Ireland? I would really like to read one...

David Mitchell -- I've read Cloud Atlas and Ghostwritten and both were fantastic.

Did anyone else notice that Luisa Rey was in both Ghostwritten and Cloud Atlas? I was actually pretty surprised that I caught it when I ran across her name in Ghostwritten. If you read Ghostwritten first, her appearance is so short that you probably wouldn't recall the name when you ran...

Just finished Ghostwritten. I really enjoyed the book, but like others have said, the ending kind of fell flat for me. But there is something about his style that really draws me in. Writing a book in the styles he uses for Ghostwritten and Cloud Atlas runs the risk of coming off as...

Very enjoyable book. I wasn't blown away by it like the person who recommended it to me said I would be. (She's usually spot on with her recommendations.) The flow of the narrative really helped me get into it and identify with the main character. I look forward to Haddon's next attempt.

I was going to come into this thread and comment about why I can't figure out why I keep reading Atwood's books, but it looks like I may not be the only one. Last month, I finished my second Atwood novel, The Handmaid's Tale. Last fall, I read Oryx and Crake. I would classify both of the...

I'll admit it, classics usually bore me. Back in 2000-2001 I was on a big classics kick and plowed through book after book. I was more interested in crossing books off of a list than really enjoying them. Since then, I have pretty much sworn off of the classics, sticking instead to books...