General Fiction Recommendations

[Carolyn]

Please post your general fiction recommendations here.

[JG (Introverted Reader)]

This heading is sort of hidden. I was wondering where the "regular" books belonged.

I have a bookshelf entitled "Strong Women" so this group seems perfect for me!

Under this heading, I would recommend:

Fair and Tender Ladies by Lee Smith
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells
Hannah Coulter by Wendell Berry
Ahab's Wife: or the Star-Gazer by Sena Jeter Naslund
On Agate Hill by Lee Smith
The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver
Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All by Alan Gurganus

I absolutely love most of these books!

[Carolyn]

Wow! Thanks for the recommendations!

[Charity]

Beloved by Toni Morrison
The Bluest Eye also by Toni
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
Here on Earth by Alice Hoffman
The Ice Queen by Alice HOffman
Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman

[Christy]

Greetings From Jamaica, Wish You Were Queer
Doctors and Nurses A Novel

[Katri]

There probably should be more that I ought to list here, but this one occurred to me now and I want to post it before I forget. Pomegranate Soup A Novel by Marsha Mehran is about three Iranian sisters who start a café in a North Irish village, and all three are quite delightful, lovely characters who I think qualify for this group. Plus, there are lots of delicious-seeming (haven't tried them yet) recipes in the book! There's also a sequel but I haven't read that yet.

[Kimathy]

i would suggest in general for books with female leads, Uglies, Hunger Games, The Bar Code Tattoo, To Kill A Mockingbird, The Declaration, and, Peter And The Star Catchers (only because molly is such a strong young girl)