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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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highlandcoo · 04/09/2023 01:31

For thrillers, Christopher Brookmyre. Dark dry Scottish humour and gripping plots. Entertaining rather than believable. And he also writes Victorian murder mysteries with his wife, as Ambrose Parry - worth a read.

I'm guessing you've read American Dirt already?

For mysteries, The Observations and Gillespie and I by Jane Harris. And Fingersmith by Sarah Waters. Also Snow Falling on Cedars

Crime - Ann Cleeves' Shetland novels and Peter May's Black House trilogy. Jane Harper's Australian crime books are good too. Kate Atkinson's Jackson Brodie series.

For family dramas, The Cazalet Chronicles are classic.
Or Ann Patchett The Dutch House.
Crow Lake by Mary Lawson.
Hundred Years trilogy Jane Smiley.

Romance - My Dear I Wanted To Tell You by Louisa Young is a poignant love story but much more than that.

So, so many more but it's late. I'll get back to you .. and all the best for your time recuperating 🙂

Wallabyone · 04/09/2023 01:27

I recently read Lessons by Ian McEwan and really enjoyed it.

The Hand that First held mine by Maggie O'Farrell.

Peachyscream · 04/09/2023 01:12

I've been reading lots of Freida Mcfadden lately, have a look at her books, they're on kindle unlimited if you have it