What Should I Read Next?
By Kristen on Feb 15, 2008 in Literary News
In case there a few readers out there who don’t know about this website yet… Check out What Should I Read Next? Just plug in a title and see what other readers recommend… I played around a little, and plugged in two well-known novels: Pride and Prejudice and A Thousand Splendid Suns.
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If you liked Pride and Prejudice, they recommend…
- Mansfield Park by Jane Austen (not much of a stretch…)
- Howard’s End by E. M. Forster (good call…)
- Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray (NOT a romance, but definitely satirical…)
- Rebecca by Daphne DuMaurier (probably a better match with Wuthering Heights…)
- The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (ummm… o.k….)
- Elegance by Kathleen Tessaro (haven’t read it…)
- Middlemarch by George Eliot (YES!)
- A Room with a View by E.M. Forester (loved the movie…)
- Far From the Madding Crowd (haven’t read it, but really liked Tess)
- Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy (so very good…)
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Now for A Thousand Splendid Suns…
- Water for Elephants: A Novel by Sara Gruen
- The Blood of Flowers by Anita Amirrezvani
- Family Pictures by Sue Miller
- Peony in Love by Lisa See
- People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks
- The View From Mount Joy: A Novel by Lorna Landvik
- Lullabies for Little Criminals: A Novel by Heather O’Neill
- The Madonnas of Leningrad: A Novel by Debra Dean
- Waking with Enemies by Eric Jerome Dickey
Well, I have only read the first one, but I have heard of a few of the other selections and my impression is that the site is recommending other “hot” book club titles and authors, but not necessarily similar themes? I would have loved to see The Cairo Trilogy by Naguib Mahfouz on the list.
Any others you can think of?
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