If you had a friend of eclectic tastes who was going to be recuperating at home for a lengthy period and who was a reader, which books would you placing in a Get Well Soon package?
My selections would include:
1. The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Age 13 3/4 by Sue Townsend
2. The Great Railway Bazaar by Paul Theroux
3. Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight by Alexandra Fuller
4. Erasure by Percy Everett
4. Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
5. Any of Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot mysteries
6. Middle Passage by Charles Johnson
7. Directions to Servants by Jonathan Swift
8. Shogun by James Clavell
9. Station Eleven by Emily St. John
9. City Primeval by Elmore Leonard
10. Master and Commander by Patrick O'Brian
11. Unreliable Memoirs by Clive James
12. The Secret History by Donna Tartt
13. The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
'Theo of Golden' Allen Levi.
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Thanks. I have been meaning to read Theo of Golden. Will check out the Cheech Marin book.
ReplyDeletere: Cheech- surprisingly interesting. Plus, he opened an art museum to help support Hispanic artists.
DeleteIt will be good for flashbacks.
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