After a trip to the library yesterday to stock up on holiday reading material, I realised just how difficult it is to sift through books and make a decision on what to read when you're faced with thousands of (mostly mediocre) options. So this thread is a place to make recommendations, reviews, ratings - in short, to make the choice easier. Also, discussion of novels is welcome. In fact not just novels - plays, short stories, comics, manga, web fiction, whatever.
I'll start off:
Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro Sci Fi. I hesitate to call it dystopian because it's set in the 'real' world, with one catch that makes it all very eerie. Told through the eyes of a woman, Kathy who talks about her life and explains things to the reader through flashbacks. The secrets in this novel are let out slowly, like a puzzle being put together bit by bit. There's a feeling that something is not quite right, but like Kathy and her friends, we're "told but not told".