If I enjoyed these books, what else might I like?

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@ Sonnet. Hope you enjoy it. I recommended it to my dad too as he wanted something engrossing for a lengthy hospital stay recently. He loved it.

Will be keeping Simon Sebag Montefiore on my list of favourite authors.

I'm currently half way through Heresy by S J Parris. It's the first of her Giordano Bruno series set in Elizabethan England. He is a spy working for Sir Francis Walsingham and has been drawn into investigating murders happening at at Oxford college. Is rather good so far. There are four novels so far, fifth one expected next year.

Duchess just purchased One Night in Winter' based on your recommendation above and previous recommendations I have picked up from you.

Anything by Elizabeth Haynes, she's an amazing author, and really brings the characters to life as well as having exciting crime plots.

I would echo the Kate Atkinson recommendations - everyone I know who has read it has loved all her stuff.

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Sarah Waters (I think that's right!)

Thank you for all the brilliant suggestions!

Thanks to Secret Squirrel, I found a different Sophie Hannah and loved it, so she has joined my charity shop author look out list!

Tumbletumble, good to know our enjoyable books list overlaps

Funnily enough, I did not enjoy Room. It just seemed to go on and on a bit. I didn't feel it had a really good conclusion..

I like Joanne Harris - eg Chocolat or Blackberry Wine. Gripping and beautifully written. You might have seen the film of Chocolat years ago.

I agree with Night Waking by sarah Moss. Particularly if you have ever had small children - she captures that more than any other author I've read recently.

Calling me home by Julie Kibler reminded me strangely of the help and I have not sobbed so loudly at a book for years ( in a good way!). Just finished Sisterland and agree it is not as good as American Wife but both are good. Life after life or anything by Kate Atkinson.

Midnight's Children is one of my favourite modern literature books.

The Book Seller of Kabul
Room
The Island
Me Before You
The Girl You Left Behind

Try using the tool on www.literature-map.com . Just add your fav author to the search box and you will find authors who write in a similar genre to your favourites! Very entertaining pastime I have no life!

OP, I have read and enjoyed nearly all of your list!

I would recommend:
The Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver
A Million Little Pieces - James Frey
Gone Girl - Gillian Flynn
Sweet Tooth - Ian McEwan
Night Waking - Sarah Moss
Love Life - Ray Klunn
Papillon - Henri Charriere (similar to Shantaram)
Call the Midwife - Jennifer Worth
The Photograph - Penelope Lively
The Woman Who Walked into Doors - Roddy Doyle

Also try the thirteenth tale and another one similar will try to remember the title. Finger smith is a good read with lots if plot twists and turns.

Kate Atkinson life after life. The shock of the fall Nathan filer.

If you like the House at Riverton, have you read Kate Morton's other books? Secret squirrel mentioned the Secret Keeper, but there's also the Forgotten Garden and the Distant Hours, all of which I enjoyed, and she's probably written more since then - my copies are all quite old.

I'd also recommend all of Douglas Kennedy's.

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We read that one for book club, it was boring...and pointless

Just read the storyteller by Jodi picult, not a big fan of hers but I thought it was good. Not so much the moderne story although that was interesting but the parts set during the 2nd world war

Recent books I've read that I think are similar in feel to Before I Go To Sleep are Under Your Skin by Sabine Durrant, Precious Things by Collette McBeth and (if you have a Kindle) My Time, Your Time by Mary Torjussen, who is also a MNer.

I've been enjoying the Nicci French series about the psychologist Frieda Klein, which starts with Blue Monday and is now up to Thursday's Children (although I have only read as far as Wednesday myself).

And a couple of others you might like are Benny and Shrimp by Katerina Mazetti and The Summer Book by Tove Jansson.

Have you tried any of the books by Curtis Sittenfeld? I read Sisterland as part of a MN discussion and immediately had to go out and buy Prep and American Wife as well. AW was probably my favourite of the three and is loosely based on the real life of Laura Bush.

Night Film by Marisha Pessl is very good and may suit you as you liked the Dragon Tattoo books. It's about an investigative journalist looking into the apparent suicide of a woman named Ashley Cordova. She was the daughter of a reclusive cult film director who a few years earlier ruined the journalists career. Now he is investigating the Cordovas again and comes to realise that it's not just his career but his own daughter, his sanity and his life that might be at stake.

Also a bit old now as are some of the others but Julian Barnes -George and Arthur wS v v good

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