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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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Oldmotherhubbardlivesinashoe · 22/12/2020 21:05

Hatch, match, dispatch by ginny walker

FestiveStrop · 22/12/2020 21:03

I thought the plague one might be quite a relevant read right now OP :) Helps that it's beautifully written ofc.

Panicmode1 · 22/12/2020 21:00

Definitely second The Heart's Invisible Furies - John Boyne is a genius. I've also just read and enjoyed The Night Circus.

Away with the Penguins is currently a 99p Kindle read - I bought it a couple of days ago because I suffer from chronic insomnia and needed something to read in the small hours - I absolutely loved it and read it in one sitting.

fufulina · 22/12/2020 20:00

Days without end - Sebastian Barry. American wars. Brilliant.

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Nosuchthingastoomuchcheese · 22/12/2020 19:33

I've read birdsong and notes on a scandal. Will have a look at some of the others!

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cloudjumper · 22/12/2020 19:20

The Heart's Invisible Furies by John Borne is amazing, I've gone through every emotion possible reading it so far, love it.

Another fab is The Mercies by Kiran Millwood Hargrave. Just amazing.

BenoneBeauty · 22/12/2020 19:09

Book in! Hate autocorrect

BenoneBeauty · 22/12/2020 19:09

Mine are a few years old as not read a brilliant books an quite a while:

The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry (and the sequel)- both fab books.

Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie society - again brill.

FestiveStrop · 22/12/2020 19:04

The Red Tent - Anita Diamant
Notes on a Scandal - Zoe heller
The Beach - Alex Garland
Year of Wonders -a novel of the plague - Geraldine Brooks
Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks

If you haven't already read them then I'm jel of you reading them for the first time.

SparklingLime · 22/12/2020 18:55

And The Goldfinch - amazing.

Plus JKR’s Robert Galbraith Strike and Robin series.

MacavityTheDentistsCat · 22/12/2020 18:53

Donna Tartt's The Secret History (if you haven't already read it)

Palavah · 22/12/2020 18:28

Any Human Heart

fufulina · 22/12/2020 18:27

Try John Irving. A prayer for Owen meaney.

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Nosuchthingastoomuchcheese · 22/12/2020 18:26

What's that about?

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OmarListening · 22/12/2020 18:25

Untamed by Glennon Doyle.

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