Don K.

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BookBum says

oh, how sad. I haven't read YA, but if you say it's good I would take your word for it. I like satire, so I will watch for Pratchett next time I am book shopping. This time around I'll go for Gaiman. I saw that they are making an HBO series of American Gods. Must be a good story.

I am happy to be pushed to expand my reading horizons and glad we were paired since we have so many books in common.

Wendy

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BookBum says

Hi Don,
I've given each a lot of consideration and I think I'm leaning towards American Gods although I must confess it's through a process of elimination, but thats the point of the challenge. Wee Freeman Men is considered YA, Doomsday Book sounds interesting, but not as SciFi as the others. Dune seems like a book I should read because it is thoroughly SciFi and I've heard it about it forever. I like the idea of gods gathering, social issues are interesting to me, so Gaiman will probably be the one.

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BookBum says

oh, good. I think you'll like it.

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BookBum says

I just looked through your shelves to see if you wrote a review for Swamplandia and found that we have a lot of books in common and that you have read a number of what I call Historical Fiction. I am at a loss now for suggestions for you because you have read everything except romance and I don't read romance either. Maybe we can do our challenge together and both read paranormal romance or historical romance.

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BookBum says

oops, I forgot the last after Beloved.

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BookBum says

To make this a more enjoyable experiment I've suggested several with different themes, all Historial Fiction. All, I think, very good.

English Passengers by Matthew Kneale is a funny sea-faring tale.
Everything is Illuminated, The Dark Room, Fatelessness are WWII stories-Jonathan Safron Foer, Rachel Seiffert, Imre Kertersz.
Arthur & George by Julian Barnes is the true story of a case taken by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to prove George, the son of Indian immigrants to England, innocent of crimes he didn't commit. It's better than I just made it sound, and another that is not completely sad.
Shame by S Rushdie is about Pakistan-very good, and not as long as Midnight's Children.
Regeneration by Pat Barker is the experience of WWI soldiers in a psychiatric hospital. It's the first of a trilogy, she won the Booker for the last book in the series, Ghost Road.
Age of Orphans by Laleh Kadivi is about a Kashmiri boy who lost his entire Kurdish family and was captured and made a soldier by the Iranians along with untold other number of Kurdish boys. Very interesting.
Beloved, A Mercy both by T Morrison. Beloved is set in Ohio at the end of the Civil War and is the story of a freed slave woman and her family. A Mercy is the story of a slave girl in New England in the 1600. We don't usually read about slavery in the northern states.
Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson might not be exactly HistFict but it does take place during WWII in Norway. It is more about a man dealing with loss and his relationship with his father.

All of these are available on Amazon where you can read more reviews than just mine, and www.abebooks.com most likely has them all for very little sometime with free shipping.