General Recommendations from the Hizzy

First, foremost and on principle, all Hizzies recommend The Gun Seller by Hugh Laurie, and as soon as one of has read it, we will provide helpful and seductive comments.

Below is the first set of recommendations - with completely arbitrary cut-off point -

adharas recommended Zorro by Isabel Allende

bibliosylph recommended Shopgirl and The Pleasure of My Company by Steve Martin plus any Carl Hiaasen, and Jasper Fforde.

megspenchant recommended Last Chance to See by Douglas Adams & Mark Carwardine– & the editor seconds.

WackieJackie recommended Sideways: A Novel by Rex Pickett.

MisaGoddess recommended The Chronicles of Narnia (seconded by Mack the Spoon) by C.S. Lewis, plus Kipling’s Jungle Books , Edgar Rice Burroughs – especially the Tarzan series, Alan Dean Foster and Mercedes Lackey, and books of Simon Templar, The Saint, by - Leslie Charteris.

ersatzreality recommended A Canticle for Liebowitz (seconded by Mack the Spoon), by Walter M. Miller, Jr. , plus Alas, Bablyon by Pat Frank, and Titan by John Varley

JeanPoole recommended The Namesake: A Novel by Jhumpa Lahiri.

MartianIceQueen recommended Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett.

arlykeeno recommended Donald Westlake’s Trust Me on This & Dancing Aztecs, Rita Mae Brown’s High Hearts, and Jennifer Weiner’s In Her Shoes, plus The Princess Bride by William Goldman, a choice the editor is giddy to second.

Examorata recommended Jonathan Coe’s The House of Sleep.

lostdwarf recommended Einstein’s Dream by Alan Lightman (seconded by MartianIceQueen) , and An Instance of the Fingerpost: A Novel, by Iain Pears.

Elen does not recommend Moby-Dick, but the editor does.

At an earlier time someone has recommended The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger.

And finally
Sara Wolfe recommended The Black Jewels Trilogy by Anne Bishop