<p>I’m not sure I’d call this a great book, but certainly a really good one.
“Tortilla Curtain” by TC Boyle. An interesting juxtaposition of two families lives in California…one immigrant, one well-to-do.</p>
<p>Puts you in the shoes of both as they deal with each side of the immigrants’ challenges.</p>
<p>“Independent People” by Halldor Laxness</p>
<p>Best author you’ve never heard of - from Iceland. 1955 winner of Noble Prize in Literature. Life in 1900ish Iceland - dark, gritty, bleakly comic. One of the best developed character I’ve ever encountered (Bjartur of Summerhouses). Reading outside the box.</p>
<p>I have read:
The Six Sacred Stones
The Seven Deadly Wonders
Contest
Scarecrow
Area 7
Hot Lunch
24 Hours
The Saboteurs
Cross</p>
<p>And the best comic book series:
Calvin And Hobbes</p>
<p>I highly recommend Water for Elephants. I read it last summer after someone recommended it on CC. I read the summary of the book and thought it didn’t sound like something I would like, but I was so wrong!</p>