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I agree with Encyclopedia Brown. When I was 8-10-12 yrs old I devoured those books. This may be obvious, but the Lemony Snicket books are a blast. His "Series of Unfortunate Events" is refreshingly subversive, I think--like Mad Magazine used to be, and kids pick up on this. There are also...

Sorry--I should've also mentioned The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffennegger. Great book! Takes a sci-fi premise but does so much more with it than your average nuts 'n' bolts sci-fi story. Really it's about a relationship, and takes an unorthodox approach to it. Emotionally wrenching.

Two must-reads for me were: The Preservationist by David Maine, a retelling of the Noah flood story, really funny sometimes, others times very moving in a surprising way. (I'm not a big Bible lit fan but this was definitely left-of-center and very worhwhile. Way better than The Red Tent if you...

This almost sounds so dumb it's fun. Possible? Too bad "Jorlan" wasn't "Jorlana" -- then SHE could have posed quite a dilemma when Katie felt herself slipping toward that unspoken human/alien same-gender passion... Maybe this isn't quite Harlequin's style, eh? (But then, I never knew aliens...

THANKS Rainbow Gurl! That's exactly what I was talking about. Hey, there's even a rainbow in that book...

I heartily agree with those two Matthew Kneale books. For a long time I thought English Passengers was the best book I ever read (I'm 40) and I still might think so. Also check out: Sarah Dunant, The Birth of Venus (Renaissance-era Florence); Gita Mehta, Raj (late-Raj-era India) and Rose...

If Joyce's Ulysses scares you (it terrifies me), you could try The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger, The Birth of Venus by Sarah Dunant, The Preservationist by David Maine, anything by Rose Tremain or Tracy Chevalier, The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy, or Trespassing by Uzma...

Gimmick cover? Hello. I'm new to this forum, I hope it's okay to reply to this topic even though it's a little old. The best cover I've seen lately is on a book I just read called The Preservationist written by David Maine. Has anyone seen this? it's a retelling of THE Noah's ark story and...