I havent read a book in 2 years, please recommend THE one

i enjoyed The Other side of the Bridge by Mary Lawson and am now reading her Crow Lake
well written yarns

Wolf Hall and Bringing Up the Bodies
The Goldfinch (Donna Tartt)

I Capture the Castle is one of my all-time favourites along with Cold Comfort Farm.

Hunger Games is a good trilogy, and the earlier Sookie Stackhouse (True Blood) books are lots of fun.

I was stuck on the train and the only thing I had to read was my sister's copy of Hunger Games. Didn't want to read it as I thought it was too dark with children killing each other, but it was amazing. Nearly missed my station I was so engrossed.

My favourite holiday read is The Island by Victoria Hislop. (Especially good if you happen to be going to Crete!) Not chick lit but not heavy going, interesting, and very readable!

Sorry the q shouldn't have been on the ending of Longbourne .

Longbourneq by Jo Baker. It is historical and ideal for a holiday read. Good storyline and fascinating insight into Georgian life.

jojo moyes got me back in to reading.

Me before you - jojo moyes
The book thief
The fault in our stars
The secret life of bees
Tiny Sunbirds far away

Definitely not Gone Girl or We Need To Talk About Kevin if you want something relaxing and stress-relieving!
I suggest David Sedaris, his best is probably Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim - it is nonfiction, short vignettes about his childhood, and the kind of thng you can read a chapter of and then come back to later if you are distracted.

I second Just One Damned Thing After Another by Jodi Taylor, lighthearted and easy to read but also very interesting.

Sorry I typed L then DC distracted me and I pressed post and then had to go and break up an argument.

I was going to say Longbourn - I haven't actually read it but feedback seems to suggest it is good and not fluffy.

I recently read Meltdown by Ben Elton. I was sure I would hate it but actually was really pleasantly surprised. It is about the recession but not really depressing at all. Unless you are a banker who lost your job then you might not like it.

So so many really.

If you like historical fiction then philippa gregory is a good place to start. I've absolutely loved the women of the cousins war books by philippa gregory. The order I read them in was:
The lady of rivers
The white queen
The red queen
The kingmakers daughter
The white princess.

They then go into the Tudor series:
The constant princess (about Catherine of Aragon and Henry 8th)
The other boleyn girl
The boleyn inheritance
The queens fool
And I'm now on to the virgins lover (about queen Elizabeth 1 and her sister mary Tudor).

Phew!!

If you're not interested in the cousins war (war of the roses) you could just start with the Tudor series which was also fantastic. :-)

There may be something there that you like :-)
Happy reading :-)

Another Mumsnetter recommended 'One Dam thing After Another' to me.

I really wish that my brain was capable of reading anything highbrow but it just isn't.

It's part romance/drama/historical and easy to read. Great book and there are two more if you enjoy the first

The author is Elizabeth Fremantle.

Also second the Rose Tremain novel - Restoration. It's wonderful. Very funny, and quite bawdy in places. Loved it, and the sequel Merivel. Absolutely brilliant.

A very good historical novel I read recently was Queen's Gambit. It's about Katherine Parr, from the death of her second husband, through her marriage to Henry VIII and then to Thomas Seymour.

It's easy to read but well written, thoroughly engrossing. I loved it.

Not a historical novel but I really enjoyed Water for Elephants. I read it before I'd seen the film and the book brought the story to life even more than the film, it was a page turner certainly.

If you fancy something historical and non fiction try The Duchess by Amanda Forman, a biography about Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire, again something I read before the film. It was really interesting, readable and fascinating really!

Have you read Wolf Hall and Bring Up The Bodies already?

Shantaram by David Gregory Robert is an amazing story perfect holiday read. Read it before it becomes a crap film

For non fiction, try Maggie and Me by Damian Barr and A Curious Career by Lyn Barber. Her earlier memoir An Education is good too. All v short, but well written and absorbing.

Shadow of the wind
Middlesex
Room
Gone girl
Kate Atkinson's Brodie series
Philip Pullman his dark materials trilogy
The fault in our stars
My year of meats
The road (v quick read so take a 2nd book)
Any Murakami-the wind up bird chronicle

I liked snow child & night circus too.

I literally HATED the Night Circus.
My non-put-down books in the last few years were
Room
Sarah's Key
We Need to talk about kevin
The husband's secret
To be sung underwater
The hundred yr old man who climbed out the window and disappeared

Sorry, not really into historical novels but my favourites from the last couple of years were
The Thirteenth Tale
The House at Riverton

Also second The Hunger Games.

The Girl You Left Behind by Jojo Moyes. Half set in occupied France (historical), half modern day chick lit but brilliantly written. I couldn't put it down.