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Isolating and need more books - if I like…..

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Feenie · 28/01/2022 07:58

Have read and given 5 stars in the last year:

Hamnet
Engleby
Shuggie Bain
The Heart of Invisible Furies
Fingersmith
Imperfect Women

To give some idea of the kind of thing I like. TIA!

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NoSquirrels · 28/01/2022 10:17

Didn’t like Life After Life

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Youkilledmyfatherpreparetodie · 28/01/2022 10:12

So many good books listed here! I'm reading A Little Life at the moment which is just brilliant . I really enjoyed The Night Circus too.

TonksInPurple · 28/01/2022 10:05

Sorry and bliss
Paper place
Girl A

I’m currently working through the Sarah cox book group list, which is good for ideas.

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Feenie · 28/01/2022 09:35

From the lists here, have read:

Little Fires Everywhere
All the Light We Cannot See
Where the Crawdads sing
The Little Stranger
Girl A (and a different Girl A which was sooooo bad!)
I Am, I Am, I Am - and the rest of Maggie O’Farrell

Loved Any Human Heart by William Boyd but didn’t like Restless

Didn’t like Life After Life

So loads to go on Smile

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NoSquirrels · 28/01/2022 09:15

The Vanishing Half (Brit Bennett)
Girl A (err, forgotten again!)
The Familiars (Stacey Halls)

MillicentSpinning · 28/01/2022 08:46

Also, after reading Hamnet I searched for the title/Maggie O'Farrell in podcasts and spent a happy time hearing about how she wrote it and her other books.

It led me to read I Am, I Am, I Am which was also enjoyable.

FiveGoMadInDorset · 28/01/2022 08:44

Anything by William Boyd

MillicentSpinning · 28/01/2022 08:43

Great Circle
The Giver of Stars

Enjoyed both enormously!

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Feenie · 28/01/2022 08:41

Doing keep recommending though! Have also read everything there is to read by Deborah Moggach, Wally Lamb and Amy Tan (at least twice each), Nicci French, Nicci Gerrard, Alex Marwood, Bernice Rubens, Isabel Ashdown, Erin Kelly, Irvine Welsh, Khaled Hosseini….:

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NoSquirrels · 28/01/2022 08:37

Ooh, The Testament of Gideon Mack, that takes me back!

How about

Small Pleasures (Clare Chambers)
Life After Life (Kate Atkinson)
Unsettled Ground (Claire Fuller)
The Manningtree Witches (err, forgotten!)

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Feenie · 28/01/2022 08:34

Thanks all so far - you are definitely on my wavelength as I have read and enjoyed a good half of those! DH read Piranesi and loved it, but am not really a fantasy genre person myself. Will go and look some of these up

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claresp · 28/01/2022 08:31

Love the books on your list!
I would recommend:
Where the Crawdads sing
The Dutch House
Affinity
The Little Stranger
Restless
My Beautiful Friend
Frenchman's Creek

Must stop! Could go on!

Unmute · 28/01/2022 08:28

The Essex Serpent
The Testament of Gideon Mack
The Children of Jocasta
H is for hawk

Or for something completely different - I've just read the John Le Carre George Smiley books for the first time and loved them.

BasiliskFace · 28/01/2022 08:26

I loved Piranesi!

Little Fires Everywhere
All the Light We Cannot See
Night Waking
Station 11

hanahsaunt · 28/01/2022 08:22

I hated Piranesi! Was definitely a marmite book amongst friends. Would recommend;

House of Glass (Hadley Freeman)
Circe (Madeline Miller)
Beartown (Frederik Backman)

livingonpurpose · 28/01/2022 08:18

Have you read Piranesi yet? If not, I highly recommend it.

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