In my book giveaway post I asked what books people are reading and if they would recommend them. These are the books – some I know and love, others are completely new to me.
Recommended books from BooksPlease readers:
- The Welsh Girl by Peter Ho Davies
- Play Dead by Richard Montanari
- My Perfect Silence by Penelope Evans
- The Farwalkers Quest by Joni Sensel
- Beloved by Toni Morrison
- Set In Darkness by Ian Rankin
- Proust and the Squid: the Story and Science of the Reading Brain by Maryanne Wolf
- A Darker Domain by Val McDermid
- Sundays at Tiffany’s by James Patterson
- The Tenth Case by Joseph Teller
- Isolation by Travis Thrasher
- Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner
- Somerset Maugham: A Life by Jeffrey Meyers
- The Looking Glass Wars by Frank Beddor
- Crampton Hodnet by Barbara Pym
- The Triumph of Deborah by Eva Etzioni-Halevy
- Swann’s Way by Marcel Proust
- Water For Elephants by Sarah Gruen
- Season of the Witch by Natasha Mostert
- Have a Nice Day by Justin Webb
- The Maureen McCormick Story
- Twelve Sharp by Janet Evanovich
- A Place of Hiding by Elizabeth George
- Knife by R J Anderson
- Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky
- Wind In The Willows by Kenneth Grahame
- Cast In Secret by Michelle Sagara
- Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
- Truckers by Terry Pratchett
- Crossed Wires by Rosy Thornton
- In the Shadow of King’s by Nora Kelly
- The Ivory and the Horn by Charles de Lint
- Buffalo Lockjaw by Greg Ames
- Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
- Belladonna by Anne Bishop
- I Know This Much Is True by Wally Lamb
BooksPlease 
I recently saw your post about reading Irène Némirovsky’s Suite Française. I wanted to pass along some information on an exciting exhibition about Némirovsky’s life, work, and legacy at the Museum of Jewish Heritage —A Living Memorial to the Holocaust in New York City. Woman of Letters: Irène Némirovsky and Suite Française, which will run through August 2009, includes powerful rare artifacts —including the valise in which the original manuscript for Suite Française was found, as well as many personal papers and family photos. The majority of these documents and artifacts have never been outside of France. For fans of her work, this exhibition is an opportunity to really “get to know” Irene. And for those who can’t visit, there is a special website devoted to her story http://www.mjhnyc.org/irene.
Book clubs and groups are invited to the Museum for tours and discussions in the exhibition’s adjacent Salon (by appointment). It is the Museum’s hope that the exhibit will engage visitors and promote dialogue about this extraordinary writer and the complex time in which she lived and died. To book a group tour, please contact Chris Lopez at 646.437.4304 or clopez@mjhnyc.org. Please visit our website at http://www.mjhnyc.org for up-to-date information about upcoming public programs or to join our e-bulletin list.
Thanks for sharing this info with your readers. If you need any more, please do not hesitate to contact me at hfurst@mjhnyc.org
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