Book Recommendations

[bychoice]

I'm looking for book recommendations. I'm a little picky. If you aren't comfortable with me not liking a book you suggest, please don't suggest any. I'll read at least the first page or two of anything you suggest. However, there are some things you should know about my tastes

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[klausnick]

Wodehouse.
J. Durrell.

[bychoice]

Спасибо!

[fimmtiu]

Hmm... A few things I've read of late that might fit your criteria:

Fiction: "The Ground Beneath Her Feet", by Salman Rushdie. Kind of a strange alternate-history rock-and-roll love story.

Non-fiction (mostly): "Up in the Old Hotel", by Joseph Mitchell. Stories about early 20th-century New York.

Mystery: "The Janissary Tree", by Jason Goodwin. Hard-boiled murder mystery set in a beautifully described 19th-century Ottoman Empire.

Fantasy: Recently re-read T.E. White's "The Once and Future King", which I hadn't read in many years, and was pleasantly surprised at how well it held up. Books often change if you revisit them when you're older and (hopefully) wiser; this one was just as bittersweet and well-constructed as I remembered. (Pity they had to go assemble and publish an alternate ending to the novel after he died, though; don't ever read that part, it's rubbish.)

[bychoice]

Thanks! I'll definitely check them out!! I've read at least part of "Up in the Old Hotel". I remember liking it, but I don't know if I finished it.