Need help choosing a book from a long list...?

Question

I have recently joined ReaditSwapit.com - a website where you list books you no longer want, and other people offer to swap with you from their list.

I listed a hardback copy of 'The Almost Moon' by Alice Sebold, and have had loads of people request to swap.

The following is a list of books I like the look of from their lists, but I need help making a choice!

What would you choose, have you read any of these and what do you think of them?

I generally like descriptive, intelligent books; recently I enjoyed The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy, and Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides


The List-


The Memory Keeper's Daughter
by Kim Edwards

The Tenderness of Wolves
by Stef Penney

The Woodlanders
by Thomas Hardy

The Glass Palace
by Amitav Ghosh

Salt and Saffron
by Kamila Shamsie

Resistance
by Anita Shreve

The Little Friend
by Donna Tartt

Darkness Visible
by William Golding

Arthur and George
by Julian Barnes

to be continue

Additional Details

Human Traces
by Sebastian Faulks

Brownstones
by Edwidge Danticat

Vernon God Little
by DBC Pierre

Love in the Days of Rage
by Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Charlotte Gray
by Sebastian Faulks

The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid
by Bill Bryson

Mrs Dalloway
by Virginia Woolf

Sea Glass
by Anita Shreve

By the Sea
by Abdulrazak Gurnah

The Handmaid's Tale
by Margaret Atwood

The Nice and the Good
by Iris Murdoch

Oscar and Lucinda
by Peter Carey

Like Water for Chocolate
by Laura Esquivel

The Interpretation of Murder
by Jed Rubenfeld

Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow
by Peter Hoeg

Answer 1

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker

I would say either "Memory Keeper's Daughter" or "Like Water For Chocolate", my 3rd choice would be "Sea Glass"

Asker's Rating:

Asker's Comment:

Gonna go for Sea Galss as I want to try out Anita Shreve

Answer 2

Three suggestions:

1. Memory keeper;'s daughter. Fantastic, light read.
2. Handmaiden's Tale. Classic, academic, feminist book. Not a light read.
3. Like Water for Chocolate. I loved this book. A lot. It is magical realism which means things weird and magical randomly happen, so you have to like this kind of style.

Overall, if I were you I'd trade for Memory Keeper. (I've read most of the list, btw)