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What's the last book you really enjoyed reading?

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Kasterborous · 06/10/2013 18:52

I'm just over halfway through Dominion and loving it. I wasn't sure I'd like it, but am enjoying it so much I almost don't want to read it iyswim as then I will have finished it.

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Alfonso1 · 18/10/2013 19:24

I love Natasha Solomon's writing. Really enjoyed Mr Rosenblom's list and The gallery of vanishing husbands. I fall in love with the characters in her books.

bimblebee · 14/10/2013 14:16

Black is the Colour - Helen Howe. One of those novels that is so readable and easy to get lost in. Can't wait for her next.

Heartbrokenmum73 · 14/10/2013 14:06

Another vote for 'The Night Circus' - just gorgeous.

I have Doctor Sleep and The Light Between Oceans waiting on my Kindle. And Joe Hill's latest, Nos4R2.

Currently re-reading Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series (for the umpteenth time, on book 8 now and will actually get to read the whole lot this time - yay!).

highlandcoo · 14/10/2013 10:12

The Light Between Oceans by ML Stedman. It was recommended on here; I don't think I'd have picked it up otherwise. Absorbing and beautifully written.

Reading The Sunne in Splendour at the moment and really enjoying this detailed account of Richard III's life.

SparkleToffee · 13/10/2013 22:28

Behind the scenes at the museum - Kate Atkinson ...... Beautiful book

MrsDesperado · 13/10/2013 22:20

Apple Tree Yard - consumed every spare minute I had! Mourning the absence of it in my life now...

AvonCallingBarksdale · 13/10/2013 17:55

gazzlaw I was going to say Perfect, too. I loved that even more than Harold Fry - really stayed with me.

Leo35 · 12/10/2013 20:55

I've just finished Life, Death and Vanilla Slices by Jenny Eclair. A melancholy read, but great storytelling. Didn't expect to enjoy it as much as I did (is that damning with faint praise?).

mrswalker13 · 12/10/2013 19:55

Second vote for The Night Circus. Also loved The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Frye.

notnowbernard · 12/10/2013 15:13

To kill a mocking bird

dontwanttobefatandforty · 12/10/2013 15:06

just finished Room, I couldnt put it down!

hackmum · 12/10/2013 15:04

I have just finished Ring of Bright Water by Gavin Maxwell. Incredibly well-written, but also evocative and funny and immensely sad too. Really loved it.

Housesellerihope · 12/10/2013 06:57

Me Before You by JOJo Moyes. I don't usually like sappy heart string-pulling stuff but this was very good and different from the rest.

gazzalw · 11/10/2013 15:17

Perfect - it was gentle, very sad if not tragic and very evocative of the 1970s....for me a 'perfect' combination

CelticPromise · 11/10/2013 15:15

Life After Life by Kate Atkinson is my favourite this year.

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RemusLupinsBiggestGroupie · 07/10/2013 17:10

I really like the Shardlake books. Dominion began well but fizzled off, imho.

I enjoyed King's Doctor Sleep, most recently.

Sallystyle · 07/10/2013 12:42

Eleanor and Park.. beautiful.

JGBMum · 06/10/2013 21:53

The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
A friend loaned me the book, and I loved it. I recommended it to my book group as our next read, and everyone loved it (unheard of for us)

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Amandine29 · 06/10/2013 19:40

I Capture the Castle. I can't believe it's taken me this long to read it. I should have read it as a teenager.

tumbletumble · 06/10/2013 19:32

Recently finished The Help by Kathryn Stockett - really enjoyed it.

SuffolkNWhat · 06/10/2013 19:01

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DuchessofMalfi · 06/10/2013 19:01

Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami. Loved it :)

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Kasterborous · 06/10/2013 19:00

Yes Dominion is C J Sansom. I've read Dissolution by him and am going to read the rest of the Shardlake ones too.

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