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Please recommend me a wonderful book

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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

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AvonCallingBarksdale · 27/12/2020 17:52

Miss Benson’s Beetle - Rachel Joyce

Nishky · 27/12/2020 17:50

eleanor oliphant is completely fine

Sorry if that has been said already

Kote · 27/12/2020 17:47

Another vote for The Heart's Invisible Furies, it's the best book I've read this year.

FestiveStrop · 27/12/2020 13:31

Of the lane 🙈.

FestiveStrop · 27/12/2020 13:29

Ocean at the end was fantastic too. Even my grumpy teen DS loved it.

FestiveStrop · 27/12/2020 13:28

Another vote for The Silence of the Girls as welll as The Song of Achilles.

Also! In the same vein The Penelopiad - Atwood.

Probably my favourite out of the three.

okcha · 27/12/2020 12:36

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maggiethecat · 26/12/2020 17:15

An American Marriage - Tayari Jones

SJaneS49 · 24/12/2020 08:13

The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan - very very good! Not always an easy read (part of its set in Japanese POW camp) but beautifully written and really stays with you.

Blackcountryexile · 23/12/2020 22:50

I also loved The Sealwoman's Gift and Sally Magnusson's new book The Ninth Child was also very good
Any book by Clare Morrall .
Saving Missy Beth Morrey
Love After Love Ingrid Persaud
The Words in My Hand Guinevere Glasfurd

BeBraveAndBeKind · 23/12/2020 21:57

Life after Life by Kate Atkinson.
The Bear and the Nightengale by Katherine Arden (first in a trilogy if you like it)
The Universe Versus Alex Woods by Gavin Extence.
Anything by Lissa Evans, they're all equally enjoyable.

I really enjoyed The Night Circus. It would make a great film (as long as they didn't give it The Time Traveller's Wife treatment!)

dane8 · 23/12/2020 21:46

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BigWholeBean · 23/12/2020 14:17

The Last Thing You Surrender by Leonard Pitts JR

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Nosuchthingastoomuchcheese · 23/12/2020 14:15

Love sweetpea.

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Nosuchthingastoomuchcheese · 23/12/2020 14:15

Thank you everyone!

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bakingcupcakes · 23/12/2020 01:04

I enjoyed the Night Circus. I'd also recommend Sweetpea by CJ Skuse. There's a 2nd one called In Bloom and the third is out soon. I'm looking forward to it.

partyatthepalace · 23/12/2020 00:50

Wynch Elm - Tana French

Terrific literary thriller

Chlordiazepoxide · 23/12/2020 00:47

I really enjoyed Shuggie Bain non pretentious Booker prize winner

I grew up in Scotland in the 1990's with alcoholism in my family and it made me weep in recognition.

I don't think anyone would regret reading it

IdblowJonSnow · 23/12/2020 00:41

Silence of the Girls was amazing. Reread it shortly after and enjoyed it just as much.

I have similar reading taste to OP, watching with interest.

Barmbraic · 23/12/2020 00:39

Second The Night Circus mentioned above. If you're looking for literary fiction murder mystery, Tana French's Dublin Murder squad is a good series. They can be read stand alone or in sequence.

DelphiniumBlue · 23/12/2020 00:33

@cariadlet

Just remembered - The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker. One of my favourite books of the last few years.
If you liked Silence of the girls, Madeleine Millers Song of Achilles is similar subject, and as good!
cariadlet · 22/12/2020 21:33

Just remembered - The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker. One of my favourite books of the last few years.

StillWeRise · 22/12/2020 21:33

I also enjoyed the Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry- at the beginning I was worried it would be a bit twee, but it isn't.
I'm currently reading The Sealwoman's Gift, nearly finished it and would highly recommend, based on the true story of Icelanders kidnapped and sold as slaves in Algiers- not something I knew about but well told through a sympathetic central character.

cariadlet · 22/12/2020 21:29

I second Year of Wonders. Another really good book by Geraldine Brooks is March; Little Women retold from the point of view of the girls' absent father, filling in details about the Civil War which Little Women skirted over.

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