the book recommendation thread

A book that I loved was "The Shadow of the Wind" by Carlos Ruiz Zafon. It's a fiction book that has a bit of everything: mystery, adventure, a love story. While it's not a horror book per se, some parts have kind of a gothic feel to them. The story is basically about this boy who is taken to a large secret library by his father (a bookseller) as kind of a right of passage, and he is allowed to take one book. He randomly chooses a book, reads it, loves it, and then looks into the author. It turns out, however, that all other books by this particular author are missing, and the boy may have the only remaining book. The rest of the plot deals with him trying to find out what the deal is.

It was given to me by a friend whose opinion I trust, and I have since given it to two other people who have both loved it. It's vaguely literary but still a fun pageturner.

Oh, this is my first post, by the way. Woo ha!

Jam it back in, in the dark.