FREE/BARGAIN — Fiction (everything else)

[Dr. Drib]

Originally Posted by ZodWallop

When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka is $1.99 at Amazon US.

I read this a few years ago and recommend it.

You may also wish to check out No-No Boy, by John Okada, about Japanese-American families sent to internment camps during WWII.

I taught this novel to my first-year students in English 111 & 112 classes.

[ZodWallop]

Originally Posted by Dr. Drib

You may also wish to check out No-No Boy, by John Okada, about Japanese-American families sent to internment camps during WWII.

I taught this novel to my first-year students in English 111 & 112 classes.

Thanks for the suggestion.

[ZodWallop]

The Cider House Rules by John Irving is $1.99 at Amazon US. Highly recommended.

An American classic first published in 1985 by William Morrow and adapted into an Academy Award-winning film, The Cider House Rules is among John Irving's most beloved novels. Set in rural Maine in the first half of the twentieth century, it tells the story of Dr. Wilbur Larch—saint and obstetrician, founder and director of the orphanage in the town of St. Cloud's, ether addict and abortionist. It is also the story of Dr. Larch's favorite orphan, Homer Wells, who is never adopted.

[ZodWallop]

The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough is $1.99 at Amazon US. I read this one years ago and really enjoyed it. Selling it as a romance with a priest is unfairly underselling it.

One of the most beloved novels of all time, The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCullough’s sweeping family saga of dreams, titanic struggles, dark passions, and forbidden love in the Australian Outback, returns to enthrall a new generation.

[tch65721]

The Mirror & the Light (Wolf Hall Trilogy Book 3) by Hilary Mantel - $2.99

The brilliant #1 New York Times bestseller
Named a best book of 2020 by The New York Times, The Washington Post, TIME, The Guardian, and many more
With The Mirror & the Light, Hilary Mantel brings to a triumphant close the trilogy she began with her peerless, Booker Prize-winning novels, Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies. She traces the final years of Thomas Cromwell, the boy from nowhere who climbs to the heights of power, offering a defining portrait of predator and prey, of a ferocious contest between present and past, between royal will and a common man’s vision: of a modern nation making itself through conflict, passion and courage.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07RXMRGSJ

[ZodWallop]

1Q84 by Haruki Murakami is $1.99 at Amazon US.

The year is 1984 and the city is Tokyo.

A young woman named Aomame follows a taxi driver's enigmatic suggestion and begins to notice puzzling discrepancies in the world around her. She has entered, she realizes, a parallel existence, which she calls 1Q84 -- "Q is for 'question mark.' A world that bears a question." Meanwhile, an aspiring writer named Tengo takes on a suspect ghostwriting project. He becomes so wrapped up with the work and its unusual author that, soon, his previously placid life begins to come unraveled.

As Aomame's and Tengo's narratives converge over the course of this single year, we learn of the profound and tangled connections that bind them ever closer: a beautiful, dyslexic teenage girl with a unique vision; a mysterious religious cult that instigated a shoot-out with the metropolitan police; a reclusive, wealthy dowager who runs a shelter for abused women; a hideously ugly private investigator; a mild-mannered yet ruthlessly efficient bodyguard; and a peculiarly insistent television-fee collector.

A love story, a mystery, a fantasy, a novel of self-discovery, a dystopia to rival George Orwell's -- 1Q84 is Haruki Murakami's most ambitious undertaking yet: an instant best seller in his native Japan, and a tremendous feat of imagination from one of our most revered contemporary writers.

[GA Russell]

FAIRY TALES Boxed Set: 1500+ - free

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B083BCWL5R

[Critteranne]

White Ivy by Susie Yang is $4.99 today. (This is a higher price than the usual sales, but it's a good price for this book.)

[sufue]

Almost two years later, now £0.99 at Kindle UK, probably as part of the new monthly deals for February. Still, I'd grab it now if you want it...

Originally Posted by sufue

The Fiery Cross is the fifth in the Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon. It has dropped to £2.99 at Kindle UK. Some titles in this series have dropped as low as £0.99 before, but per eReaderIQ, this one hasn't been on sale at a lower price since eRiq started tracking it.

link: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B005H0CC9U

[sufue]

Several years later, again at £0.99...

My favorite Catch-22 quote:

Catch-22 says they have the right to do anything we can't stop them from doing.

Originally Posted by sufue

The wonderful Catch-22 by Joseph Heller, origin of the classic phrase, is £0.99 as a UK Kindle Daily Deal today. The blurb doesn't do it justice...

link: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0050OMJIW/

[sufue]

Again a Daily Deal in the US, again for $3.99....

Originally Posted by issybird

It’s really late to be posting this, but one of today’s Kindle Daily Deals is Robertson Davies’s Cornish trilogy for only $3.99.

https://smile.amazon.com/Cornish-Tri...dp/B088YVY11N/

These are wonderful novels, by my favorite Canadian author, and to get all three books for only four bucks is a fantastic deal. They’re witty, absorbing, and have much to say about the zeitgeist and if you’ve ever thought about trying Davies, they’re a good entry. I couldn’t recommend these more highly.

[ZodWallop]

Avenue of Mysteries by John Irving is $1.99 at Amazon US.

In Avenue of Mysteries, Juan Diego—a fourteen-year-old boy, who was born and grew up in Mexico—has a thirteen-year-old sister. Her name is Lupe, and she thinks she sees what’s coming—specifically, her own future and her brother’s. Lupe is a mind reader; she doesn’t know what everyone is thinking, but she knows what most people are thinking. Regarding what has happened, as opposed to what will, Lupe is usually right about the past; without your telling her, she knows all the worst things that have happened to you.

Lupe doesn’t know the future as accurately. But consider what a terrible burden it is, if you believe you know the future—especially your own future, or, even worse, the future of someone you love. What might a thirteen-year-old girl be driven to do, if she thought she could change the future?

As an older man, Juan Diego will take a trip to the Philippines, but what travels with him are his dreams and memories; he is most alive in his childhood and early adolescence in Mexico. As we grow older—most of all, in what we remember and what we dream—we live in the past. Sometimes, we live more vividly in the past than in the present.

Avenue of Mysteries is the story of what happens to Juan Diego in the Philippines, where what happened to him in the past—in Mexico—collides with his future.

[ZodWallop]

East of Eden by John Steinbeck is $1.99 at Amazon US. Of course, this has been accused of being a book only lying poseurs could like, but this lying poseur recommends the book.

A masterpiece of Biblical scope, and the magnum opus of one of America’s most enduring authors, in a commemorative hardcover edition

In his journal, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck called East of Eden "the first book," and indeed it has the primordial power and simplicity of myth. Set in the rich farmland of California's Salinas Valley, this sprawling and often brutal novel follows the intertwined destinies of two families—the Trasks and the Hamiltons—whose generations helplessly reenact the fall of Adam and Eve and the poisonous rivalry of Cain and Abel.

The masterpiece of Steinbeck’s later years, East of Eden is a work in which Steinbeck created his most mesmerizing characters and explored his most enduring themes: the mystery of identity, the inexplicability of love, and the murderous consequences of love's absence. Adapted for the 1955 film directed by Elia Kazan introducing James Dean, and read by thousands as the book that brought Oprah’s Book Club back, East of Eden has remained vitally present in American culture for over half a century.

[sufue]

Guess I'm poseur +1 then...

Love East of Eden.

Originally Posted by ZodWallop

East of Eden by John Steinbeck is $1.99 at Amazon US. Of course, this has been accused of being a book only lying poseurs could like, but this lying poseur recommends the book.

[sufue]

The latest in the Simon Scarrow's Cato/Macro (aka Eagles of the Empire) series, The Honour of Rome, is $0.99/£0.99 right now…

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08W5151XL
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-honour-of-rome-2
Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B08NPVC7CR

Spoiler:

AD 59. BRITANNIA. DANGER LIES ROUND EVERY CORNER FOR ROME'S BRAVE SOLDIERS

The stunning 20th book in the epic bestselling Eagles of the Empire series

A.D. 59. Fifteen years after he fought Britannia's barbarians during the Roman invasion, Centurion Macro is back. The province is tense. There is restlessness amongst the tribes that have supposedly accepted Roman rule, while the atmosphere in Londinium is menacing. Newly discharged from the army, Macro is missing the camaraderie and drama of battle. But soon he will need all his courage and skills to survive.

Gangs of thugs run the city. When Macro resists, a brutal attack serves as punishment and warning. But the mobsters have made a deadly error. Britannia's veterans stand with their own. And Macro will soon have a powerful ally: Prefect Cato. Friends who have battled across the Empire together, Macro and Cato make a formidable team. They will fight to the death to protect the honour of Rome.