Love2Read: LRC staff favourite reads

What if you had the chance to live your life again and again, until you finally got it right? An amazing read in which Ursula tries and tries again to get her life right. A novel of what ifs, a great thought provoking read.

You have probably seen the series, lived and died with its characters. Now try the book! This major fantasy series is of epic proportions. The author weaves a story of many lands and many kings driven by greed, treachery, love,betrayal and brutality.

Patrick Bateman is twenty-six and he works on Wall Street, he is handsome, sophisticated, charming and intelligent. He is also a psychopath. Taking us to head-on collision with America's greatest dream—and its worst nightmare—American Psycho is bleak, bitter, black comedy about a world we all recognise but do not wish to confront.

A Thousand Splendid Suns is an unforgettable portrait of a wounded country and a deeply moving story of family and friendship. It is a beautiful, heart-wrenching story of an unforgiving time, an unlikely bond and an indestructible love.

Stephen King's classic bestselling dramatic serial novel. Welcome to Cold Mountain Penitentiary, home to the men of E Block. Convicted killers all, each awaits his turn to walk "the Green Mile," the lime-colored linoleum corridor leading to a final meeting with Old Sparky, Cold Mountain's electric chair. Prison guard Paul Edgecombe has seen his share of oddities over the years working the Mile, but he's never seen anything like John Coffey--a man with the body of a giant and the mind of a child, condemned for a crime terrifying in its violence and shocking in its depravity. And in this place of ultimate retribution, Edgecombe is about to discover the terrible, wondrous truth about John Coffey--a truth that will challenge his most cherished beliefs....

One of my favourite fantasy novels. An epic saga of good vs evil, dragons, elves, magic and monsters.In Alagaesia, a fifteen-year-old boy of unknown lineage called Eragon finds a mysterious stone that weaves his life into an intricate tapestry of destiny.

The original gothic novel. A popular bestseller in Victorian England, Stoker's hypnotic tale of the bloodthirsty Count Dracula, whose nocturnal atrocities are symbolic of an evil age. Try it if you dare!