Kate Atkinson

Interesting, because I enjoyed all her books except Life After Life. Pretentious crap, absolutely loathed it.

The Jackson Brodie books are good, I would try those first.

Completely agree with everything @AliasGrape says. Behind the Scenes, Life After Life and A God in Ruins are by far her best closely followed by the Jackson Brodie series. I really didn’t enjoy Emotionally Weird, Human Croquet or her first book of short stories.

She’s one of my favourite authors.

Personally I’d start with Behind the Scenes at the Museum - the first one I read and definitely made me want to read more.

I also love the Jackson Brodie books and they start with Case Histories.

I adored Life After Life and A God in Ruins and strongly recommend them, but I’d be tempted to start with the others mentioned above first.

I disliked Emotionally Weird, wasn’t mad on Human Croquet and enjoyed Transcription but didn’t think it was up there with her best. I’m listening to Shrines of Gaiety on audible* *at the moment, haven’t finished yet but already feel it’s not up there with her best, there’s lots to enjoy but tightly plotted it is not - I’m finding it hard to sustain interest at times, although that might be the audiobook format making it worse so I’m going to switch to actually reading for the remainder I think.

I love Kate Atkinson. My favourite of hers is Life After Life, it's a bit of a sliding doors type story, although rather than just one different choice there are multiple. I still think about the main character Ursula Todd!
Also the Jackson Brodie series which start with Case Histories are a good detective type read.
I read Shrines of Gaiety last year, was put off by the title at first but loved it. A mystery / romance set in London in the 1920s.
I think as an author she dips into multiple genres but is always good at transporting you back to a particular time and creating a world.
Hope you find one you like.

She writes two very different types of book. Her literary fiction is a mixed bag - it includes some of my all time favourite novels (Life After Life; Behind the Scenes at the Museum) and some odd stuff I couldn’t get on with (Emotionally Weird). She also writes detective fiction.

If you want to try the detective stuff, start with the first Jackson Brodie novel Case Histories. It’s pretty representative of the rest of the series and will give you a good idea if they’re for you.

If you want to try the literary fiction, are you up for a slightly unusual/experimental narrative structure? If so start with Life After Life. If not try Transcription.

Either Behind the Scenes at the Museum or Life After Life.