If I like these books, what should I read next?

Dystopian -
The Wall - John Lancaster
Margarets Ark - Daniel Keohane
On the beach - Neville Shute

John Marr - writes books set in the ‘near future’. I’m not keen on science fiction either but love this author’s books.

Three Hours -Rosemary Lupton - someone mentioned this above. Superb book. (Not dystopian)

How about some Sebastian Faulks? George Elliot? Ian McEwan?

My favourite author (who no one else seems to have read) - and you could say it is a bit dystopian - is Russell h Greenan. Can only really get them on kindle. His most famous work is It Happened in Boston?

very popular in France

Dystopian
Trilogy by Hugh Howey
1.Wool
2.Shift
3.Dust

Wilkie Collins - The Moonstone, The Woman in White.

It certainly would!😀

Staying with Persephone, The Hopkins Manuscript by R.C. Sheriff is one that might tick your Dystopian box.

The prelude tells us that the manuscript, named after the writer, has found thousands of years into the future and describes a catastrophic event that ended the world for some time.

It's told in the first person by a very self satisfied, bumptious and foolish man-a much more unpleasant version of Mr Pooter. Set in 1930s England, I couldn't put it down.

Horses for courses - I've felt like that every time I've tried reading anything by Ann Cleeves. Wouldn't the world be boring if we all liked the same things!

Wonderful! These books are tremendous. I think she is Persephone's best selling writer and I'm not surprised!

I absolutely hated this.

I think it was one of the worst books I have ever read. At one point, I thought of trying to get a refund as I thought it was an absolute pup and had been mis-sold.

@MildLifeCrisis Have you tried the Anne Cleeves series?
I can also recommend, The Painted Veil by Somerset Maughan-there is also a lovely film starring Toby Jones or Other Women by Emma Cline-told in two first person voices-the victim and the murderer's wife.

It is based on a real 1920s murder case-the victim was a "surplus" woman who just wanted to be loved. The period detail and the writing are wonderful.

I've just finished both these and they were excellent.

Tokyo by Mo Hayder

I’m wondering if you’d like Dorothy Whipple…they’re all reissued by Persephone so easy to get hold of.

If you like dystopian novels, Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World would the obvious choice. I suppose Burgess’ Clockwork Orange could be considered dystopian as well. Both books are great.

If you liked Jurassic Park, how about Conan Doyle’s The Lost World?

As for Jane Austen and Jane Eyre, clearly you enjoy 19th-century fiction, which means you are spoilt for choice. The novel arguably peaked in the 19th-century. How about George Eliot’s shorter stuff? (Many consider Middlemarch the greatest novel in English, but it’s hard going.) Thomas Hardy? Wuthering Heights? Dickens, of course, is a world of his own.

Austen has a very distinctive voice - sharp and urbane and very knowing. Have you tried Virginia Woolf? Maybe give Mrs Dalloway a try. Iris Murdoch reminds of Austen in some ways - the same sharp, knowing eye. I love Murdoch’s stuff. She was my big discovery of 2025, and I’m now an obsessive who won’t shut up about her.

I’m not a crime fiction fan, but if you like Christie, Sherlock Holmes is the obvious choice. I do love listening to Stephen Fry read Holmes on audio. A lot of people rave about Sansom’s Shardlake novels, though they are set in the Tudor period. Maigret perhaps?

Delderfield - especially the Swann books and Horseman Riding By

I much prefer To Serve Them All My Days, about a boys' school between the wars, following the life and career of a young officer who joined the school as a master in 1918.

I second the recommendation of ECR Lorac. Georgette Heyer also wrote a few contemporary detective novels. And for something very undemanding, Patricia Wentworth's Miss Silver novels. Miss Silver is a former governess who in later life is a successful private detective.

If you like Dystopian also look at The Girl With All the Gifts.

Agree with PP, Severance by Ling Ma and also Swan song by Robert Rick McCammon,

Miss Read...the Thrush Green/Fairacre series' particularly.
Charles Dickens...Martin Chuzzlewit.
Andrea Mara...Hide and Seek.
Dorothy L Sayers...Gaudy Night.
Ngaio Marsh...Overture to Death, Scales of Justice.
Josephine Tey...the Franchise Affair, Miss Pym Disposes.
Rosamund Lupton...Three Hours.
Frederik Bach...Anxious People.

For Christie like crime I’ve really enjoyed Japanese crime fiction - but grizzlier

i started with seisho yokomizo

Young adult novels can be helpful in getting back into the habit — try How I Live Now and the Sally Lockhardt mysteries.

Otherwise, try Sherlock Holmes if you haven’t read it
PG Wodehouse
Perfume
The Eyre Affair or Shades of Grey
Anne Tyler
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
They Both Die at the End
Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow
The Correspondent

Bit of a random collection but perhaps there’s something that grabs you

Nevil Shute
Delderfield - especially the Swann books and Horseman Riding By
Tenant of Wildfell Hall
The Cone Gatherers
Somerset Maughan
Graham Greene - try Travels with my Aunt

Another vote for Never Let Me Go, gorgeous book.

Also, if you like Jane Austen you may enjoy Georgette Heyer’s Regency novels - they’re light but extremely well written and very funny.

Agree with a lot of the suggestions above

PD James (try her books of short stories first)
Ann Granger (cosy mysteries)
Joanna Trollope
Kazuo Ishiguro (have a box of tissues ready though and I don’t recommend him if you’re in a depressive state of mind!)

But as I love all the books you’ve mentioned too OP (I’ve never read Jurassic park though) I’m going to recommend my absolute favourite author of all time to you, Barbara Comyns.

Start with Sisters by a River or Our Spoons Came From Woolworths and see what you think.

Try something by Alice Feeney (author of the novel His&Hers which Netflix have just adapted). I loved “Daisy Darker” which is based on ‘And then there were none’ by Agatha Christie, or Beautiful Ugly.

Also, how about Three Hours, by Rosamund Lupton. It’s about a school shooting and how it all unfolds.

Pat Barker is a great writer - the silence of the girls trilogy about the siege of Troy is good.

Fair Rosalind by Natasha Solomon is a retelling of Romeo and Juliet and is a great read (but it will forever change how you view the play!).

I’ve always said I don’t like fantasy novels, but the ‘Godkiller’ series by Hannah Kaner changed my mind - they’re great books.

Oh yes, I loved On the Calculation of Volume, and there are three books in English so far (annoyingly I think there are 5 or 6 altogether but the rest aren’t translated yet).