Heading to the bookstore tonight for a novel to read on the plane and during our week in wine country. Any great recommendations?

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Could you be more specific as to what type of fiction you enjoy? Or which authors are your favorite?

LOL FairHope, now that's a fiction!!

My favorite is about British girls in Italy "Extra Virgin", forgot the author's name... It will come to me.. Eventually... Anna Something... Anna Howes maybe??

BIG SURPRISE: the Fodor's search worked! The author is Anne Hawes.

Sure, wyatt92. Fav books lately have been Fingersmith (Sarah Waters) and I Know This Much Is True (Wally Lamb). Kind of liked Life of Pi (can't remember author). I'm a sucker for Harry Potter, like everyone else, but read them all. Also enjoyed Secret Life of Bees. Open to just about anything. Thanks!

Inheritance by Lan Samantha Chang was an excellent read. Multidimensional, multigenerational, multicultural, and very rich. It's probably not in paperback, but you could check it out of your library.

Outlander by Diana Gabaldon, 1st in a series of 6 (6th due out soon)...guarantee you will want to read the others. Also, maybe Firefly Summer by Maeve Binchy.

Wow - I am still amazed that she has a cow that can read. Now I have heard of everything.

Sorry, J_Correa -- I don't get it.

If you are a lady, I recommend JANE EYRE. If you are a man, I recommend MASTER AND COMMANDER, the first of the Aubrey-Maturin series.

Daishell Hammett. I reread him recently and he is just brilliant. Maltese Falcon and The Thin Man are a delight. Thirties stuff and a bit dated; but I enjoyed them.

I love John Irving's Widow for One Year and just read his latest, Until I Find you and really liked that one too. Have you read the other book by Wally Lamb? Forget the title but it was excellent as well. There's a million I could recommend but I guess that's good for now.

Good one, Fairhope!

ringerlu, we need more info on what you like.

Sorry, missed the other post.

Love Maeve Binchey and Rosamund Pilcher. Evening Class was a good book.

If you liked Secret Life you may like Lisa Wingate's books. I really enjoyed The Language of Sycamores.

Not a light read, but Me & Emma by Elizabeth Flock was an amazing read. So was Lovely Bones, but again, not a light read.

There's one that was out last year that was really, really funny with "Zippy" in the title. Can't remember the full name.

Happy travels!

Anything by James Lee Burke will evoke an area that will possibly never be the same. His books are also funny, sad, heartfelt, and interesting. Depending on your sex, you might like the latest Janet Evanovich (or any of her numbered series. What do you like?

Read The Lovely Bones last summer and really enjoyed it a lot.

>>If you are a lady, I recommend JANE EYRE. If you are a man, I recommend MASTER AND COMMANDER, the first of the Aubrey-Maturin series.<<

Nonsense! Both books are enjoyable for people of either gender.

Ringerlu, have you read any of Laurie R. King's Mary Russell novels? The first in the series is The Beekeeper's Apprentice.

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It's been around for a while, but I just finished Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden and really enojoyed it.

To the not-a-light-read-but-good-nonetheless category, I'll add The Kite Runner and My Sister's Keeper. I just ordered Lost in the Forest based on a Fodorite's rec; it sounds good. Just finished Irving's Until I Find You -- good, but too heavy to travel with (literally!).