Hello book lovers! Everytime I read books I update my Top 10 list and have been doing this the last few years. Do you have any recommendations based on my top 10 list below?
1. The Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
2. To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
3. Lullabies for Little Criminals – Heather O’neill
4. Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery
5. A Thousand Splendid Suns – Khaled Hosseini
6. Where Crawdads Sing – Delia Owens
7. Life of Pi – Yann Martel
8. Gone Girl – Gillian Flynn
9. Circe – Madeline Miller
10. The Alchemist – Paulo Coelho
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1.The poisonwood bible – kingsolver
2.The kite runner- hosseini
3.A fine balance
Here are a few based on some of the ones you’ve listed.
1. The Three Musketeers, by Dumas, or Les Miserables, by Victor Hugo.
2. Passing, by Nella Larsen.
9. Song of Achilles, by Madeleine Miller.
Phenomenal top ten, by the way. You have two of my all-timers on there.
I’d recommend *Homegoing* by Yaa Gyasi, an epic spanning generations of descendants from two Ghanian half-sisters, one side slave, one side free. It seems you like books set in the past, ones that span long lengths of time, like Circe, A Thousand Splendid Suns, and Anne of Green Gables, and ones that discuss issues of race, class, or gender. I think you’d really connect with and be moved by this. It’s very compelling (I flew through it), but also provokes deep though and has brilliant writing.