What is the best book you have ever read by a male author and a female author?

[chaptazbru]

Mine is The Pursuit of Happiness by Douglas Kennedy

and

The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton.

[Answerprancer]

Watership Down.
I got obsessed, went there, visited all the (real) locations. Saw a few hrududus, trod in some hraka, enjoyed the light of Frith, then went home in time for evening silflay !

[DTCwordfan]

Look at it from a distant view of what religion is and claims, Wharton.....

It is beautifully written, the descriptives of the "Game" so compelling....but what so they represent - that I leave to you to ponder.

[DTCwordfan]

so = do, sorry

[Eve]

Wuthering Heights with Pride & Prejudice a close second, love Jane Eyre too though we did it at school so reminds me more of studying it :)

LOTR was special though I always thought the ending was disappointing once you get there. Stephen King has blown me away with some of his books, I borrowed a trilogy of his when I was young and the first two I read were The Shining and Misery. The Shining was one of the few books that scared me but I couldn't put down either.

Although not exactly classic or highbrow, I have to say that the Harry Potter books captivated me, especially the earlier ones. I also loved the Twilight books and have read them all a number of times.

[tiggerblue10]

The Hobbit, LOTR trilogy, Silence of the Lambs, Tess of the D'Urbervilles and Pride and Prejudice.

[glenbar]

Les Miserables, Victor Hugo. Wonderful story.

[Flyhalf]

Nothing modern, I'm afraid.
Les Miserables, by Victor Hugo, and after dredging the memory, Precious Bane by Mary Webb

[maggiebee]

So many to choose from. Enid Blyton from primary/early teens. Lord of the Rings, the Millenium Trilogy and of course anything by the great late Nevil Shute, particularly A Town Like Alice.

[DaisyNonna]

Have tried to read The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit and Watership Down. (More than once). Have failed. What is my problem?

[Wharton]

DT - I hope the 'so = do' refers to the 2nd 'so'. I don't know anyone else who has read this. Apart from Hesse and his publisher presumably, as I said, I'll give the game another go!

[naomi24]

Daisy. The Hobbit I found easy and enjoyable, never read Watership Down because it doesn't appeal to me - and Lord of the Rings isn't easy reading, but if you bear with it, it's worth it.

[starone]

The Physician by Noah Gordon.

[owdhamer]

rags to riches jack berry

[ladybirder]

Pride and Prejudice has to be first on my list .
All Passion Spent by Vita Sackville-West
Cider with Rosie by Laurie Lee

And for laughs any of E F Benson's 'Lucia' stories or Tom Sharpe's The Wilt Alternative.

For something more serious - And Quiet Flows the Don by Mikhail Sholokhov.

For unremitting misery - Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith, gripping from start to finish and nominated for 17 International Awards and was the winner of seven.

And I could go on and probably will when I see others put those I've forgotten.

[lady-janine]

oooh this s a really difficult question but two of my favourites are:
To Kill a Mocking bird by Harper Lee (f)
All quiet on the western front by E M Remarque (m) and as a second choice anything by Jan Austen and Thomad Hardy and also The hare with amber eyes Edmund de Waal. is that too many?

[Ann]

Among so many others, I loved the Poldark books.

[shaneystar2]

A really good series of books which I enjoyed were by Susan Howatch .She was well known for family saga type things but then she wrote a series which was wonderful .The Starbridge series .Right up your street naomi :)
Scandal in the Church of England :-)

[Ann]

Poldark series of books by Winston Graham.

[naomi24]

Shaney, I've read some of hers but I can't remember which ones. Going on google. I'll be back. Something beginning with a 'P', I'm sure.....

[shaneystar2]

Gliitering Images ,Glamorous Powers etc naomi .