Jasper Fforde's Thursday Next series. First book, The Eyre Affair. Mystery, fantasy, humor, and general wackiness, with a generous dose of classic literature fun. In The Eyre Affair, Thursday Next chases a villain into Jane Eyre, managing to muck it all up the process. In one of the later books (there's four so far), she has to take Hamlet into Witness Protection. Silly and fun and great for "spot the literary allusion!"
More serious but utterly amazing is Audrey Niffennegger's The Time Traveler's Wife, which I pimp constantly. Other literary options: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime by Mark Haddon, The Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri (short story collection).
Sci-fi: The Icarus Hunt by Timothy Zahn. Like a Raymond Chandler novel in space! Ooh, read some Raymond Chandler, too. I love detective noir fiction.
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Jasper Fforde's Thursday Next series. First book, The Eyre Affair. Mystery, fantasy, humor, and general wackiness, with a generous dose of classic literature fun. In The Eyre Affair, Thursday Next chases a villain into Jane Eyre, managing to muck it all up the process. In one of the later books (there's four so far), she has to take Hamlet into Witness Protection. Silly and fun and great for "spot the literary allusion!"
More serious but utterly amazing is Audrey Niffennegger's The Time Traveler's Wife, which I pimp constantly. Other literary options: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime by Mark Haddon, The Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri (short story collection).
Sci-fi: The Icarus Hunt by Timothy Zahn. Like a Raymond Chandler novel in space! Ooh, read some Raymond Chandler, too. I love detective noir fiction.
Kay. Go! :)