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When you realise a good author has many other books you haven't read yet

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Dustyblue · 28/07/2023 16:23

You know that amazing feeling when you read a great book, and you know there are 10+ other books by the same author? It's the best & it's happened to me twice recently.

I love me some good chick lit. Think Marian Keyes, Catherine Alliott, Jane Green, Sophie Kinsella, Jennifer Weiner, Emily Giffin, Penny Vincenzi, Jackie Collins etc.

BUT I only just discovered Jane Fallon & Adele Parks. Bloody wonderful, both of them, and so many of! Yay!

Has this happened to you? Any tips for me? Think I might have to try Jilly Cooper, but I'd want to start at the beginning.

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JaninaDuszejko · 30/07/2023 21:02

@Nuffaluff I've read the following:

The Bottle Factory Outing (my least favourite actually although it's probably sacrilege to say that)
Young Adolf
Watson's Apology
An Awfully Big Adventure
The Birthday Boys
Every Man for Himself
Master Georgie
According to Queenie

Obviously you know what you're getting plotwise with Every Man for Himself (Titanic) and The Birthday Boys (Captain Scott's trip to the South Pole) and they are brilliant descriptions of those building horrors but the others that have really stuck with me are Watson's Apology and An Awfully Big Adventure.

BunnyBettChettwynd · 30/07/2023 18:34

I'm so enjoying this thread, it's reminded me of another author I love - Julie Highmore.

KathrynWheel · 30/07/2023 18:09

I love short stories. Found a book of short stories by Alice Monro. Short stories with incidents that seem quite insignificant but then turn out to be anything but. She has written many books which I've found on EBay and Amazon. I also borrow her audio books on Borrow Box App.

Nuffaluff · 30/07/2023 18:03

@JaninaDuszejko
@Alcemeg
Oh yes, Beryl Bainbridge. Such an amazing writer. I’ve read about half too. Which ones have you read? I’ve done:
The Bottle Factory Outing
Every Man for Himself
Master Georgie
An Awfully Big Adventure
Winter Garden
They are all brilliant (apart from Winter Garden - I hated that).
I was blown away by Master Georgie and The Bottle Factory Outing.

Heartfullofcheese · 30/07/2023 17:59

Yes! Just discovered Grady Hendrix and I have several more to enjoy - really happy!

autienotnaughti · 30/07/2023 17:48

Lucy Dillon
Carole Mathews
J
Lisa Jewel

autienotnaughti · 30/07/2023 17:46

What about Jill Mansell
Milly Johnson
Catherine alliot
Jenny Colgan
Danielle steel

Alcemeg · 30/07/2023 16:06

JaninaDuszejko · 30/07/2023 11:46

Not chicklit but I felt like that when I read my first Beryl Bainbridge. I still have only read half her books so still lots to look forward to.

Thanks for the reminder, I'd forgotten BB and love her.

Harrythehappypig · 30/07/2023 15:40

Anne Tyler. Best author ever.

Peabody25 · 30/07/2023 15:35

Ooh my type of books! I like Veronica Henry, Isabelle Broom, Sinead Moriarty, Lucy Diamond, Cathy Bramley, Melissa Hill, Jenny Colgan, Holly Hepburn, Jill Mansell, Ali McNamara, Ruth Jones, Cathy Kelly, Rebecca Raisin!

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Dustyblue · 30/07/2023 14:41

Love Sheila O'Flanagan! The rest I haven't heard of... looking up my local library catalogue now.

No Kristen Bailey at the library unfortunately. Might try the very 1st Jilly Cooper (think it was Riders?). So many other authors mention her so I must give it a go.

Anyone done Georgette Heyer? I haven't, but don't mind the old stuff, and I've got a copy of 'Faro's Daughter'. Used to read my mother's Catherine Cooksons and they seem similar!

Oooh, has anyone read Julie Ellis? She's a long-dead American author, wrote a vast number of historical novels. I leap on them at op-shops. Her best ones were "The Only Sin" and "The Velvet Jungle" but she had so many.

Thanks for the tips :)

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JamieandRoybromance · 30/07/2023 12:06

We have similar tastes OP! Definitely try Sheila O'Flanagan, Milly Johnson, Rosie Walsh, Paige Toon and Debbie Johnson.

BunnyBettChettwynd · 30/07/2023 11:59

I used to adore Jilly Cooper and tried a revisit but can't bear all the puns, sexism and fox hunting.

Lucy Diamond? Katie Fforde?

dudsville · 30/07/2023 11:49

I've always done this, love getting stuck in the work of one author at a time! I read mostly classics and I try to read an author in the order the books were written to see how the ideas and style developed over time.

JaninaDuszejko · 30/07/2023 11:46

Not chicklit but I felt like that when I read my first Beryl Bainbridge. I still have only read half her books so still lots to look forward to.

Crikeyalmightey · 28/07/2023 16:43

I really like Catherine Ryan Hyde, and have read lots of hers. I wouldn't call them chick-lit, but they are a great read.
If you have seen the movie Pay it Forward, well she wrote that.

BookWorm45 · 28/07/2023 16:35

Love that feeling and it happened to me recently with Daniel Silva (writes novels with espionage / thriller plots). I read one, liked it, then found out there were loads more to enjoy.

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Dustyblue · 28/07/2023 16:32

Never heard of Kristen Bailey, will look up immediately!

I love knowing I have a load of good reads ahead of me, it's my therapy and I need it!

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Futurethinker · 28/07/2023 16:26

Yes!! I recently discovered these 2 too!!
Also Kristen Bailey, hilarious books, only read 2 and have her other 5 waiting for me on my kindle! Definitely worth a go!

Ive not read any Jilly Cooper so can’t help on that front 📖

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