Book recommendations from the Jobbing Doctor's wife

Somewhat unusual choices, and a number of books I haven't read. From a sidebar, found via a Leap'n link:

MRS J D'S RECOMMENDED READS.
Mrs JD is a teacher (and a very good one at that). Here is a list of her recommended reads for her pupils.

I do, of course, agree with her.

To kill a mockingbird by Harper Lee
1984 by George Orwell
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngosi Adichie
The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you - Harold Bloom

A thousand splendid suns by Khaled Hosseini
The reluctant fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid
The Chrysalids by John Wyndham
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
The House of the spirits by Isabel Allende
Paula by Isabel Allende
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own - William Hazlitt

The History of the World in 10 and a half chapters by Julian Barnes
Captain Corelli's Mandolin by Louis de Bernieres
An Ice Cream War by William Boyd
Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
Snow falling on Cedars by David Guterson
The curious incident of the dog in the night-time by Mark Haddon
Notes on a scandal by Zoe Heller
A pale view of hills by Kazuo Ishiguro
The unbearable lightness of being by Milan Kundera
A short history of tractors in the Ukraine by Marina Lewycka

Books can be dangerous. The best ones should be labelled "This could change your life". Helen Exley

Small island by Andrea Levy
Eight months on Ghazzah Street by Hilary Mantel
Beloved by Toni Morrison
The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
The god of small things by Arundhati Roy
Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
A suitable boy by Vikram Seth

We read to know that we are not on our own. C S Lewis


We need to talk about Kevin by Lionel Shriver
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
The bonesetter's daughter by Amy Tan
Things fall apart by Chinua Achebe
The boy in the striped pyjamas by John Boyne
The ragged trousered philanthropists by Robert Tressell