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If I like Kate Atkinson and Maggie O'Farrell who else will I like?

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fassbender · 20/04/2020 13:07

Just that really, I have also read both Celeste Ng books and loved those, looking for new authors.

TIA

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YinMnBlue · 28/04/2020 08:24

LOL God on the Rocks, not God in the Ricks !

YinMnBlue · 28/04/2020 08:08

Patrick Gale . Really good quality writing, Rough Music, The Cat Sanctuary or Notes From an Exhibition

Jane Gardam. Old Filth, The Man in the Wooden Hat, God in the Ricks, Faith Fox

Mrsbadger77 · 28/04/2020 08:06

I love lots of the authors mentioned. I'm currently reading Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens and loving it.

DonLewis · 28/04/2020 08:03

Yy. Came on to say Ann Patchett, Barbara Kingsolver, Sarah Waters, Margaret Attwood.

And The Signature of All Things, which is divine.
Bel Canto has to be my favourite Ann Patchett, but I'm enjoying some of her earlier stuff too.

Cityzen74 · 28/04/2020 08:01

Have you read any Salley Vickers? Miss Garnett’s Angel is one of my favourite books.

HollowTalk · 27/04/2020 22:28

What about Carol Shields? I love her books. Have you read any Anita Shreve?

inthekitchensink · 27/04/2020 20:37

Actually I love all those recommended by previous posters - you won’t go wrong with any of those

inthekitchensink · 27/04/2020 20:36

Second Elizabeth Gilbert - Signature of All Things is simply beautiful

inthekitchensink · 27/04/2020 20:36

I like the same and I love
Sarah Moss
Grace McCleen
Margaret Atwood
Laura Purcell
Megan Abbott
Gillian Flynn
Jilly Cooper (sorry not sorry)

Ikeameatballs · 27/04/2020 20:24

I like the same authors so this has given me ideas.

I also like Jon McGregor and Patrick Gale.

RoyalCorgi · 23/04/2020 10:12

Lots of good suggestions in here. I'd also suggest Elinor Lipman (an underrated American author who writes light, slightly comic, literary fiction). Also Alison Lurie and Carol Shields - Shields died a few years ago and seems to have been forgotten, but she's brilliant.

Snugglepiggy · 21/04/2020 20:38

Another one for Ann Tyler
Also Helen Dunmore books I have always loved.

Rua13 · 21/04/2020 15:36

Edna O'Brien

Modestandatinybitsexy · 21/04/2020 11:00

Sarah Waters
Kate Morton

highlandcoo · 21/04/2020 10:47

Lots of good recommendations above OP.

You could also try Sue Gee, particularly Earth and Heaven and The Mystery of Glass. She's a writer who deserves to be more widely known.

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fassbender · 21/04/2020 09:48

Thank you! I have read Sally Rooney and some Anne Tyler, so thanks for recommendations - I'll check them out :)

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LemonScentedStickyBat · 21/04/2020 09:02

(No) was meant to say (I think)!

LemonScentedStickyBat · 21/04/2020 09:01

Also just remembered Elizabeth Strout (no) - author of Olive Kitteridge

godhelpusall · 21/04/2020 07:59

I've just read Lucy Atkins and Lucy Foley. Enjoyed them. Also where the crawdads sing by delia Owens

milienhaus · 20/04/2020 22:03

I would second Patrick Gale (Notes on an Exhibition), Curtis Sittenfeld (American Wife) and Barbara Kingsolver (Poisonwood Bible).

rosegoldwatcher · 20/04/2020 21:59

If you like Kate Atkinson's more serious books, I think that you would like Patrick Gale - Notes on an Exhibition and A Perfectly Good Man.

Cismyfatarse1 · 20/04/2020 19:21

Jo Baker(Longbourne)

mymoonmyman2020 · 20/04/2020 19:20

Donna Tartt
Rose Tremain
AM Holmes
Sarah Moss

Westfacing · 20/04/2020 16:25

Anne Tyler
Barbara Kingsolver

TheBitchOfTheVicar · 20/04/2020 16:22

All the writers I came on to mention have already been said! They are all bob on, imho