HELP please! I need a new book to read this week! Anything clean...

[HappyGrace]

Things I've read and enjoyed-anything by Francine Rivers, Maeve Binchy, John Grisham...

 

I can't find a good new fiction author so I've been reading and enjoying the following: Kisses for Katie, 12 Years a Slave, and a couple Christian biographies.

 

Just ordered the new John Grisham but it's not in yet, also the biography of the guy who created the Muppets (blanking on his name right now). Christian is good and also I am fine with secular if it's clean.

 

HELP please!!! Need something good to read this week because I have a couple days off to just relax and read! Fiction or nonfiction is fine!

 

 

[Orthodox6]

Elizabeth Goudge:  The Scent of Water and The Dean's Watch.  Most of her wonderful books are out-of-print; however, both of these are available through Amazon.com and, I'm pretty sure, Christian Book Distributors. 

 

Happy reading!

[SJ.]

The Cellist of Sarajevo was a beautiful read as was No One is Here Except All of Us.

 

This year I also enjoyed:

Ender's Game

And the Mountain's Echoed

The Daughters of Mars

The Thousand Autumns of Jacob De Zoet

The Shadow of the Wind

 

[HollyDay]

Is Princess Bride a good read?  I've been tempted to read it but haven't.  Dee Henderson has a book that came out in Oct. 

[Debbi in Texas]

I am enjoying The Inheritance by Tamara Alexander.

[Eagle]

The Cardturner, by Louis Sacher

[Ellie]

Yes, the Princess Bride is a good read. :-)

 

You might try to find the Mrs. Pollifax books. Yes, they must be read in order. The first one is The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax.

[ondreeuh]

I really liked The Thirteenth Tale. It's clean and really sucked me in. The Book Thief is clean, but it made me cry. :( Worth it, but I try to stay away from tear-jerkers normally. My own life has enough to be sad about (haha - sorta). I'm actually enjoying YA fiction with my 12 year old. We listened to the audiobook for Peter Nimble and His Fantastic Eyes, and are now listening to the first Young Sherlock Holmes book, Death Cloud. I can knit while I listen, which means I get more "reading" done AND more knitting.

 

[Pippen]

I just reread Mrs. Mike, a book I'd read as a girl in my mom's Reader's Digest Condensed Books. I'd not remembered the book until seeing the description of the free Kindle download.

 

http://www.amazon.com/Mrs-Mike-Ben-Nancy-Freedman-ebook/dp/B00FY5YB4C/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1384174202&sr=8-1&keywords=mrs+mike

[Cindy in FL.]

Miss Julia

No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency

Jeeves & Wooster

Mrs. Pollifax

[Susan in TN]

PD James (murder mysteries, though my favorite is Children of Men) or Wodehouse - any of the Jeeves books (Right Ho, Jeeves, Code of the Woosters, etc.).

[HappyGrace]

THANK YOU for the recommendations! Off to check them all out! :)  :)  :)

[Heather in Neverland]

The Gods and Kings series by Lynn Austin is an Interesting take on the kings of the Old Testament. I loved it!

 

Anything by Charles Martin.

[PrincessMommy]

Miss Julia

No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency

Jeeves & Wooster

Mrs. Pollifax

 

 

 

 

I just reread Mrs. Mike, a book I'd read as a girl in my mom's Reader's Digest Condensed Books. I'd not remembered the book until seeing the description of the free Kindle download.

 

http://www.amazon.com/Mrs-Mike-Ben-Nancy-Freedman-ebook/dp/B00FY5YB4C/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1384174202&sr=8-1&keywords=mrs+mike

 

 

Elizabeth Goudge:  The Scent of Water and The Dean's Watch.  Most of her wonderful books are out-of-print; however, both of these are available through Amazon.com and, I'm pretty sure, Christian Book Distributors. 

 

Happy reading!

 

 

I 2nd all these ones recommended.

[Stacia]

The Flavia de Luce books by Alan Bradley. The first one is The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie.

[TeachingTwins]

I'm enjoying The Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline.

[NorthwestMom]

Another vote for Shadow of the Wind!

[HappyGrace]

I ordered some of these and meanwhile found Mrs. Lincoln's Dressmaker and started it and it's not bad so far! Haven't read far enough to really recommend it though.

[UmMusa]

I just finished Mrs. Mike. Thank you for recommending it!

[pink&bluemommy]

Edenbrooke and Blackmoore both by Julianne Donaldson. Excellent!! Clean romance reminiscent of Jane Austen. Love!

[Negin]

Things I've read and enjoyed-anything by Francine Rivers, Maeve Binchy, John Grisham...

 

 

Our tastes are similar. :)

 

I recommend books by:

 

Fannie Flagg - my favorite is Can't Wait to Get to Heaven - but I've liked them all. 

 

Mitch Albom - Tuesdays with Morrie and The Five People You Meet in Heaven - loved them both. 

 

Ken Follett - Pillars of the Earth, etc. 

 

Anne Tyler - The Beginner's Goodbye and lots of her other books

 

Sarah Addison Allen

 

Alexander McCall Smith - but I much prefer his Isabel Dalhousie series over the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency. 

 

Other Titles:

The Housekeeper and the Professor

 

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

[Swimtaxi234]

John Grisham's "The Last Juror"

 

This is an older book, but I read it last week and I am still thinking about the story line.

[Crimson Wife]

I really liked Ally Condie's "Matched" trilogy.

[TeacherZee]

Dorothy Sayers books are good

[kolamum]

Anything by Lynn Austin. :D

[Negin]

John Grisham's "The Last Juror"

 

This is an older book, but I read it last week and I am still thinking about the story line.

I wonder if I've read this. I probably have. I love his older stuff.