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SorchaMumsnet · 21/03/2020 15:51

Hi all

If you're self-isolating, or indeed just spending a lot more time at home now, what are you currently/planning on reading and why?

We're creating a page with recommendations so would love your help - whether you're doing any of the following (or something completely different):

-Seeking out time-appropriate dystopian reads (ie Station Eleven mentioned on this topic already)?
-Steering clear of that and plumping for escapism/light reads?
-Deciding it's time to tackle that 600-pager you've been putting off?

All the best, and happy reading Brew

MNHQ

OP posts:
hoochymamgu · 21/03/2020 16:13

Gosh thanks for the thread.
Just enjoyed
Ruth Ware- The death of Mrs Galloway
Jane Casey- Cruel Acts
I love a good page turner Grin

12345kbm · 21/03/2020 16:03

I've just collated a list of fantasy authors for someone else:

Joe Abercrombie
Terry Pratchett
Guy Gavriel Kay
Robin Hobb
Anne McCaffrey - has dragons apparently.
Susanna Clarke
Lynn Flewelling- The Tamir trilogy

Tad Williams - Memory, Sorrow & Thorn series

David Gemmel
Naomi Novik
NK Jemisin
Robin McKinley
Tamsyn Muir
Brandon Sanderson
Raymond E Feist - Start with The Magician which is the first book in the Riftwar Series. Book 2 is Silverthorn and book 3 is A Darkness at Sethanon. The next 3 books, The Empire series, are written from the perspective of the other side of the Riftwar.

RA Salvatore's Drizzt series

dementedma · 21/03/2020 15:57

Both Ken Follet(Pillars of the Earth) and CJ Sansom ( Shardlake series) are great, meaty reads which will draw you back in time.