Book Recommendations at the Moment...

I keep running into people that seem to have a similar thirst for reading as I do and share the same taste for authors and novels.
So this entry is to provide some suggestions to those of you who have asked.

Well, if you liked The Kite Runner by Hosseini, I highly recommend reading A Thousand Splendid Suns, by the same author. Just remember, you will probably need a lot of kleenex and many breaks in between your reading, because this book is even more heartwrenching than the Kite Runner.

Another great author is Anosh Irani.
Good books by him: The Song of Kahunsha
The Cripple and the Talisman

I also thoroughly enjoyed the beautiful language and writing in
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy.

If you would like to change it up a bit, and read something a little lighter in its writing, but still deep in its message, I highly recommend:

Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert. I think every woman should read this book!
The Buddha- A Story of Enlightenment by Deepak Chopra
How to Know God- by Deepak Chopra

What am I reading at the moment?
I have a couple of books on the go, but one of them is
Oranges are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson.

I read it many years ago for my Women Writers Literature Course in England. I've decided to go back and reread some of those recommended novels. Oranges is about Jeanette's herself, as a young girl. It's about her struggle to come to terms with the difference between what her mother taught her and her own feelings and experiences.

Her mother, a fundamentalist Christian, teaches Jeanette from early childhood that the world is made of things good and evil, and she instills in Jeanette exactly what these things are. Though Jeanette is brought up with this very black and white view of the world, she runs into many little grey areas in life, and is at first confused about where to place them and what they mean. The novel is not focused so much on the daughter's rebellion against her mother, as much as it is about her finding herself, and having the courage to keep true to that self.

The messages are quite deep, and controversial, but they are written with humor and sensitivity. It's a short read, and definitely a change from the types of books mentioned above.
I know I am enjoying reading this book the second time around. Check it out and let me know what you think!