Active discussions

Please or to access all these features

Talk
What we're reading

Find your new favourite book or recommend one on our Book forum.

Original poster

Please recommend me a wonderful book

66 replies

Nosuchthingastoomuchcheese · 22/12/2020 18:24

I love reading. Always have. Really want something I can get totally lost in. Authors I like are - Maggie O'Farrell, Kate Atkinson, Charity Norman, Louise Candlish, Lisa Jewell (although didn't rate her last book) Erin Kelley, David Nicholls.
However I've been reading quite a few thrillers lately and want something a bit different.
TIA

OP posts:
New posts on this thread. Refresh page
Inmyownlittlecorner · 05/02/2021 23:40

Anything by Sarah Addison Allen. Utterly magical.
Also Jodi Taylor’s St Mary’s Chronicles. Enjoyable & escapist.

IfOnlyOurEyesSawSouls · 05/02/2021 23:33

.

jennymac · 05/02/2021 23:24

OP love most of the authors you mentioned and my recommendations are Donal Ryan and Jess Kidd.

dementedma · 05/02/2021 22:12

Agree The Night Circus
Also enjoyed Appletree Yard

CriticalWoman · 05/02/2021 22:11

Also, anything by Sarah Waters

CriticalWoman · 05/02/2021 17:40

I like similar authors to yours OP and have recently discovered Tracey Chevalier. Her books are historical but not in a crinolines and butlers Downton style.
You might also enjoy The, Siege by Helen Dunmore.

AmandaHugenkiss · 01/02/2021 12:27

The book of lost things by John Connelly is one of my all time favourites. It’s so lovely and bittersweet and joyful and sad all at once.

Covidcorvid · 01/02/2021 12:16

Piransi
by Susannah Clark.

I can't even begin to describe it, but it's amazing.

agirlfromHastings · 01/02/2021 12:14

@Nosuchthingastoomuchcheese

I love reading. Always have. Really want something I can get totally lost in. Authors I like are - Maggie O'Farrell, Kate Atkinson, Charity Norman, Louise Candlish, Lisa Jewell (although didn't rate her last book) Erin Kelley, David Nicholls. However I've been reading quite a few thrillers lately and want something a bit different. TIA
I have just finished The Fear, by Mark Cunnington. It's a brilliant and emotional book, based on his real experiences with scary things happening to different family members. Definitely recommend it and was a great little Amazon discovery.
mcmooberry · 30/01/2021 16:46

I like those authors you mention OP and would recommend all of Ann Patchett's books, have recently read "The Dutch House" and then reread all her other books, and I have a huge pile of unread books so don't have time to do that!

Springfern · 22/01/2021 22:46

Second The Red Tent.

Also, The Poisenwood Bible. Anything by Curtis Sittenfeld

M0rT · 17/01/2021 15:27

I second The Guernsey Potato Peel and Literary Society
Also Britt Marie was Here was very good.

KarensChoppyBob · 17/01/2021 15:13

Yy to previous post : Barbara Kingsolver's Poisonwood Bible had me transported to Africa. It's a planned reread.

Also Donna Tarrt's Secret History. The Little Friend didn't do it for me though.

hollywoodstar · 16/01/2021 17:24

If still an active thread, I would recommend Barbara Kingsolver and Donna Tartt.

Duxika · 16/01/2021 15:37

This reply has been deleted

Message deleted by MNHQ. Here's a link to our Talk Guidelines.

NoProblem123 · 14/01/2021 01:07

Shameless placemark

Standrewsschool · 06/01/2021 16:23

Seven Sisters - LucindaRiley

The Heatwave - Kate Riordan

Clawdy · 06/01/2021 15:06

Orphans Of The Carnival by Carol Birch. Very different, but it will stay with you.

cheeseisthebest · 29/12/2020 15:40

@milienhaus

Liane Moriarty (wrote Big Little Lies, my favourite was What Alice Forgot)
Loved both of those. Think I've read all her books!
redfernsydney · 29/12/2020 15:04

Elisabeth Gifford. .particularly "the lost lights of st kilda" it's a beautiful read set just before the islanders asked to leave (it's an island off the Scottish no longer inhabited )

also the lost man by Jane harper thriller set in the outback

both are very invocative of time and place

PhilODox · 29/12/2020 15:01

All the Light We Cannot See was wonderful

milienhaus · 29/12/2020 14:57

Liane Moriarty (wrote Big Little Lies, my favourite was What Alice Forgot)

rosegoldwatcher · 29/12/2020 14:54

if you like Kate Atkinson, OP, you will probably enjoy Patrick Gale.

My favourite books of his are Notes from an Exhibition and A Perfectly Good Man.

foxywheaton75 · 27/12/2020 19:51

Great thread thank you, place marking for later.

BenoneBeauty · 27/12/2020 18:07

Elinor Oliphant is ace!

Swipe left for the next trending thread