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Have just been to a summer fete at my mother's church and came back with the following: The Play Room - Olivia Manning Two Days in Aragon - MJ Farrell (Molly Keane) Tomorrow - Graham Swift The People's Act of Love - James Meek Gilead - Marilynne Robinson The Emperor's Children - Claire...

Of suggestions made so far I would second Main Street by Sinclair Lewis and Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev.

Just bought The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid - was on last years Booker shortlist, just out in pb.

One I was really impressed with was Sacred Hunger by Barry Unsworth. It is set on a slave ship. Was a joint winner of the Booker when first published.

I would publish it - if he really hadn't wanted it to appear surely he would have destroyed it himself.

I have a lot of those on my TBR pile. The only one I've read which I'll comment on is Their Eyes Were Watching God - just finished it and I loved it.

Have just returned from a charity shoppig spree. Picked up 5 books in Barnardo's - Any Human Heart by William Boyd (have never read any of his, though this makes no. 4 in the tbr pile), The Waterfall by Margaret Drabble (again have never read and already have 2 more in the tbr pile), The Amateur...

I buy pretty much all my books in charity shops. I like to own what I've read so only use the library for a travel book if I'm going somewhere or reference books. They are great for kids books though, especially picture books for younger kids.

I have only read two - Portnoy's Complaint (very good but possibly more appealing to men) and The Plot Against America (loved it). I buy most of my books in charity shops and have a couple more Roth's on my TBR pile. After The Plot... am saving them for a special treat.