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Recommend some really good books.

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TooYoungToKnowTooOldToCare · 04/09/2023 01:02

An extended, health-related period of bedrest is looming.

Prior warning: I average 150 - 200 books a year some of them are audio books, even so that's thousands of books. If I reply saying thank you, I have read it' I'm not being ungrateful.

Life is too short pile:
I'm sorry, I don't like sci-fi or fantasy.

With all of the above in mind, please can you recommend your desert island books?

In particular I enjoy mystery/thriller/suspense. I like good family dramas, tear-jerkers, occasionally romances, I mean Marian Keyes, not the Mills and Boon type.
Additionally, I like T Jenkins Reid and other women's genre fiction, though I prefer that kind of fiction with some bite. Dawn O'Porter and Nicholas Nicholls (the One Day author) and similar.

Series, single books, any good ideas (and painkillers) appreciated.

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Myhorseishoarse · 05/09/2023 20:00

I have enjoyed

Joio moyes. Me before you. ( part 1 of trilogy) a weepy
Elisabeth gifford. The lost lights of st kilda
Jessie Cave. Sunset. Another weepy!
Elizabeth Buchan. The museum of broken promises

SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius · 05/09/2023 19:56

Nora Roberts/JD Robb (same author, JD Robb writes crime fiction set in 2060).

Elizabeth Elgin - I’ll Bring You Buttercups is the first of, I think, 5 books set over the two World Wars, based on the people of the Rowangarth estate.

Gil McNeil writes lovely books.

Trisha Ashley.

Jenny McColgan - especially the Little Beach Street Bakery series.

Patricia Scanlan.

lillyfleur · 05/09/2023 19:56

TooYoungToKnowTooOldToCare · 04/09/2023 01:02

An extended, health-related period of bedrest is looming.

Prior warning: I average 150 - 200 books a year some of them are audio books, even so that's thousands of books. If I reply saying thank you, I have read it' I'm not being ungrateful.

Life is too short pile:
I'm sorry, I don't like sci-fi or fantasy.

With all of the above in mind, please can you recommend your desert island books?

In particular I enjoy mystery/thriller/suspense. I like good family dramas, tear-jerkers, occasionally romances, I mean Marian Keyes, not the Mills and Boon type.
Additionally, I like T Jenkins Reid and other women's genre fiction, though I prefer that kind of fiction with some bite. Dawn O'Porter and Nicholas Nicholls (the One Day author) and similar.

Series, single books, any good ideas (and painkillers) appreciated.

The bible 🙏🏻

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TooYoungToKnowTooOldToCare · 05/09/2023 19:48

Love 3 Hours by R Lupton.

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TooYoungToKnowTooOldToCare · 05/09/2023 19:46

I'm a wake.

Thank you for the recommends.
I will post more when I feel human.

Daisy Darker is one have nlookimj at for a while. Will try it thank

Read by Who She Was - Tony Parsons and really like.

Slleep well neveryyokne.

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Riverbananacarrot · 05/09/2023 14:19

Anything by Nalini Singh - it is a sci fi romance genre though brilliantly written.

Serena Terry aka mammy banter has 2 fiction books which are brilliantly funny.

JD robb - Nora Roberts her In death series has over 50books.

Riverlee · 05/09/2023 14:16

Oh, forgot to say, wishing all the best for today.

Riverlee · 05/09/2023 14:16

Books I’ve really enjoyed that I think you’ll enjoy are:

Three Hours - Rosemary Lupton

Hostage - Claire Mackintosh

The Cult - Abby Davies

Robert Harris - writes books set in different historical periods, a lot are WWII. Well written and good stories - currently reading Enigma. Worth trying, even if you don’t go for these types of books.

Patricia Fisher series - Steve Higgs - okay, i admit it’s a cozy mystery series, but the characters get under your skin (in a good way), and the stories are actually quite good. Good for something if you want a bit lighter.

The Heatwave - Kate Riodan

Seven Sisters - loved this series

Maeve Binchey for some gentle reading, good stories well written.

WeirdPookah · 05/09/2023 13:53

Daisy Darker by Alice Feeney

Best book I read for a while.

Wallabyone · 05/09/2023 13:46

I'm so sorry to hear that ❤️
I hope today goes well for you xxx

Godofwar · 05/09/2023 08:54

Sorry to hear you are having a hard time 💖

My favourites: The Sunne in Splendour -Sharon Penman

Here be Dragons - Sharon Penman

The Tobacco Lords Trilogy - Margaret Thompson Davies

Katherine - Anya Seton

The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon

All the light we cannot see - Anthony Doerr

Books I have enjoyed fairly recently:

American Dirt - Jeanine Cummins

Nineteen Minutes - Jodi Picoult

We begin at the end - Chris Whitaker

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TooYoungToKnowTooOldToCare · 05/09/2023 06:45

sorry.
I really do appreciate them.

I'm going to take a minute because I'm crying like an idiot.

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TooYoungToKnowTooOldToCare · 05/09/2023 06:44

Firstly, I wrote Nicholas Nicholls in my original post, that should have said David Nicholls.

@Peachyscream thank you, I'll take a look and see what I think.

@Wallabyone I have read The Hand That First Held mine a while ago and I liked it. Trigger warning, baby loss When I was first pregnant in 1997 I read A Child In Time it upset me a lot. Not long after that at 35 weeks, my baby was born asleep. Understandably, I was devastated, somehow Ian McEwan is eternally associated in my mind with that awful time.

Thank you for your suggestions, I really do

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TooYoungToKnowTooOldToCare · 05/09/2023 06:25

Thank you for your well wishes and suggestions.
Tomorrow is the big day, if you pray please pray, if you cross your fingers or believe in luck, please do whatever you do.

Thank you for all of the suggestions. I'm going to go through them, please don't be offended if I comment negatively on your suggestions, my head is wibbly today. When I am nervous or worried I can inadvertently lack tact.

Next week post coming up.

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MaudGone · 04/09/2023 22:22

Ghosted by Jenn Ashworth. Literary novel, but with mystery elements - plot revolves around a missing person.

RhubarbAndMustard · 04/09/2023 21:44

I've just read the Seven Sisters series by Lucinda Riley. Hugely recommend if you haven't discovered them already.

rollerblind · 04/09/2023 21:40

Verity- Colleen hoover
Behind closed doors - ba paris
The family upstairs - Lisa jewell

NooNakedJacuzziness · 04/09/2023 21:39

For family drama you can't beat East of Eden.

I really enjoyed The Whisper Man by Alex North recently (thriller) - good plot and a bit different from the usual detective type plot

wizzler · 04/09/2023 21:38

I'll recommend my favourites
Gallows Pole by Benjamin myers
Precious Bane by Mary Webb
Anything by Louise penny

TheGoodEnoughWife · 04/09/2023 21:32

Tom Lake - audible book read absolutely fabulously by Meryl Streep.

In A Thousand Different Ways - Cecelia Ahern - my favourite recent read.

SiouxsieSiouxStiletto · 04/09/2023 21:27

Have you read Love Marriage by Monica Ali and I think that might fit into your family saga criteria, just Wink

Autieangel · 04/09/2023 06:16

Ruth ware
Mark edwards
Alice Feeney
Catherine Cooper
Lucy Foley
Sophie Hannah
Jane fallon
Lucy diamond
Jenny Colgan
Kia Abdullah
Shari Lapena
Alex Dahl
Claire Douglas
Lisa Jewel
Adele parks

AcornRoots · 04/09/2023 05:23

I'll give you the Sun by Jandy Nelson was one of the best recommendations I ever had, if you haven't read that one.

CrispsnDips · 04/09/2023 05:22

As Fifireee has said: Jane Harper - The Dry (brilliant)

just started a book by Sheila O’Flanagan - Anyone But Him (good so far)

Fifireee · 04/09/2023 05:05

Jane Harper - The Dry ( a trilogy about an outback Policeman)

The Wolf Den - Elodie Harper (Aboit a Pompeii brothel)

Rivers of London series - Ben Aaronovitch (A police, ghosts, river goddesses series - not my usual thing but brilliant)

Robert Galbraith series