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photoshop_mommy

Wed, Mar 06 2013, 11:35 am

A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket (YA but really funny)
any book by Lois Lowry, and almost all of Margaret Peterson Haddix's books are clean

Personally I like Shakespeare Smile

sequoia

Wed, Mar 06 2013, 11:42 am

Wodehouse.

dee's mommy

Wed, Mar 06 2013, 11:43 am

I forgot:

By Elizabeth Gaskell:

Cranford
Wives and Daughters (this one was never completed, but you can tell what direction the story was going. Still it is really good.)

hmmmm?

Thu, Mar 07 2013, 1:04 am

any recommendations for more modern/contemporary realistic novels that are schmutz free? Either young adult or adult.

Hashem_Yaazor

Thu, Mar 07 2013, 10:56 am

The 100 year old man who disappeared and walked out the window, or something like that.

JAWSCIENCE

Thu, Mar 07 2013, 1:03 pm

In response to popular request: I turned it into list form. Complete with pictures of book jackets.

http://www.squidoo.com/secular.....aders

That's an hour of my life I'll never get back, but hopefully you enjoy it.

sequoia

Thu, Mar 07 2013, 1:45 pm

JAWSCIENCE wrote:

Awesome!

StrongIma

Thu, Mar 07 2013, 1:50 pm

JAWSCIENCE wrote:

try looking at it as an hour of chesed you did to keep fellow imamothers gainfully unemployed. Very Happy

shabbatiscoming

Thu, Mar 07 2013, 1:56 pm

I dont know if it has been said already, but almost anything written by (the late) mauve binchey was clean and you could sink your teeth right into the characters and it was clean (maybe a kiss here or there, but nothing, nothing else)

JAWSCIENCE

Thu, Mar 07 2013, 2:07 pm

I really like making squidoo lenses. I'm just a natural complainer.

syrima

Thu, Mar 07 2013, 3:31 pm

wow, thanks!
Now I have many reasons to not start cleaning.

Study

hmmmm?

Thu, Mar 07 2013, 7:16 pm

Thanks from me too!

Is there a way for people to add to that list if they think of more titles?

Please keep adding, everyone!

Thanks again!

JAWSCIENCE

Thu, Mar 07 2013, 7:28 pm

If you want to add a book leave a comment ont he bottom in the comments area and I will periodically add books from the comments into list.

tissues

Thu, Mar 07 2013, 8:23 pm

I'm so glad I found this thread and subsequently the beautifully-created list. Thank you!

Jewishmofm

Thu, Mar 07 2013, 8:29 pm

sequoia wrote:

Jewishmofm wrote:

on topic: NOT old classics, please! I am an avid secular books reader, and the old classics are just as full of romance and insidous ideas about love and marriage. I don't know if the fact that they are less physically explicit makes them any better. and some of them don't even get that heter.

Wait, so how can you be an avid secular books reader? You read them while thinking it's wrong to do so?

I didn't look at this topic sinceI I last posted - or I would have responded then. I guess you could call me Frummer Than Before in this area - read most of these as a teen (my parents definitely more permissive on these things than I am for my kids!) and screen things much better now.

hmmmm?

Tue, Mar 19 2013, 12:40 pm

Are all Harlan Coben books and Maeve Binchy books completely clean?

KushKush

Wed, May 08 2013, 4:20 pm

Many thanks for the great thread and the list that nclude links to all the recommended books!!

Can anyone point me to a book that its literature is not in a high level?
Rolling Eyes

I'm looking for a good book from the list above that I can read. I'm not an English Speaker, until today I read only graded books but now I'm looking for "real" books for me and for my DD (15).

I think I can start reading good books, but not too complicated...

In addition I want to highly recommend a book by Cornelya Funke: The Thief Lord (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thief_Lord)
this is a great and clean book written for young readers, but adults enjoyed it very much, as well.

BTW, this is my first post at this site and I'm very happy I found this forum today!

Hashem_Yaazor

Wed, May 08 2013, 4:37 pm

Mitch Albom has books. They are not your typical story line books; more of a fable with a lesson type. I just read The Timekeeper (I think it's called?)

PinkFridge

Wed, May 08 2013, 5:39 pm

Hashem_Yaazor wrote:

Mitch Albom has books. They are not your typical story line books; more of a fable with a lesson type. I just read The Timekeeper (I think it's called?)

They are not low cholesterol books for the most part. (IOW, pretty schmaltzy Wink

Though to be fair some are just this side of.) I like him a lot, I hear him on the radio but I've got to say, The Timekeeper was weird. Maybe it's just not my genre.

Hashem_Yaazor

Wed, May 08 2013, 8:22 pm

I didn't really get most of it, though I think I got the general lesson Smile

While not fiction, at least Tuesdays with Morrie was good.

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