Elinor Oliphant is my favourite book ever. What next?

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Just finished it and loved Elinor. Don't what to read next but missing a good book. Recommendations please!

@BlancheM I love you

Mary's the Name by Ross Sayers is a very readable wee gem of a book.

I thought it was pretty clear or at least heavily implied that Eleanor had ASD or Aspergers. She wasn’t an idiot. I work with children with aspergers who I could absolutley imagine speaking like that when they’re older.

Anyway, place marking for ideas as I loved it.

It was a nice easy read. I bought it to see what all the hype was, read it quickly, enjoyed it for what it was.
I then passed it on as I will never read it again and didn't particularly want to keep it.

The Heart's Invisible Furries was my best book of 2018.

The wisdom of Sally Red Shoes has more of a Elinor vibe to it, so if you are looking for a similar type of book I think you would like it OP.

To the PP who loved 'How to Stop Time'...apparently Benedict Cumberbatch has bought the movie rights. I loved most of it too- just hated the way they killed off one of the main characters (no spoilers). It would be a great film.

Loved Eleanor Oliphant, despite some dubious character 'quirks'.

Also place marking for reading inspiration.

Not fiction but you might like How to be a Heroine by Samantha Ellis

Me before you.

A Man Called Ove - wonderful book

The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry is another quirky, warm-hearted type of book

The Queen of Bloody Everything, similar but different iyswim. Really enjoying it and neglecting studies in favour of reading it

"My grandmother sends her regards and apologises" by Frederik Backman. I haven't read A man called Ove by the same author but the film was fab.

If you like Elinor Oliphant you might like:
A Man Called Ove
Elizabeth is Missing
The 100 Year Old Man who Climbed Out of The Window
The Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
Me Before You
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves (marmite book but I loved it and Elinor Oliphant)

I'm also reading The Cactus, it's similar to Eleanor Oliphant but I'm halfway through and struggling. Not much going on.

Patchworksack - the film was great, but there are some great descriptions in the book, especially to do with the cat.

I'm autistic and it was immediately obvious to me that Eleanor was autistic. She's not inconsistent she is just not neurolotypical. The only thing I didn't like was the ending. It felt a bit trite. But I loved the rest of the book.

And do you understand Mcdonalds Zintox? Do you carry around a shopper?!

I really enjoyed Eleanor, it was charming and silly and a bit daft but I enjoyed it. It's never going to win literary awards but I read for pleasure and it gave me pleasure.

I ploughed through the first half and past 10% of The Goldfinch. It was boring. I don't mind Kate Atkinson, but dont love her stuff. Have tried several times to read A Little Life but just can't get into it.

Books are a very personal thing, I have read books that have had rave recommendations on here and thought 'what a load of shite', and read books like Eleanor or however you spell it, and thoroughly enjoyed them.

If you loved it OP I would read Marion Keyes if you haven't already starting with the early stuff. Celia Ahern writes similar sort of stuff to Eleanor, PS I Love You is a good one to start with. Lisa Jewel is pretty good, again start with the early stuff. Jemima J and Mr Maybe, also Babyville by Jane Green are good. Avoid some of her more recent stuff though, it's not as good imo. And Adele Parks writes chic lit quite well.

Chic lit is sneered at a bit but if you read for pleasure and escapism and just to enjoy a book you won't go far with any of the above. I will be very jealous if you have all those to go at, I loved some of those.

Three things about Elsie by Joanna Cannon (The trouble with sheep and goats author) is good.

The lost letters of William Woolf - beautiful writing! I only bought it because the author happened to be signing in the local bookshop and the blurb doesn’t really describe how lovely it is

I wondered when Sally Rooney would make an appearance.

Whisky2014

And do you think every autistic person is exactly the same?

Nothisispatrick. Hardly. But everyone saying "oh she has aspergers so it makes sense"...no it doesn't. So Zintox came on saying she is autistic and sees it in Eleanor so I thought I'd ask just how realistic she thinks eleanors character is. Because personally, I don't believe she is a realistic character. I feel like the author put it all down to her horrific events of when she was young and doesn't have autism or aspergers. People are labelling her because if she isn't autistic, it doesnt make sense.

Sally Vickers The Cleaner of Chartres was a book I really enjoyed recently - I've got her new one 'The Librarian' on my to read pile.

Currently reading London Rain by Nicola Upson (old fashioned detectove story - main character is the writer Josephine Tey who is fictionalised as helping solve whoddunnits) it's fun and easy reading.

I have 'Three Things about Elsie' on my kindle to read, I also enjoyed 'The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart' by Holly Ringland recently.

This is one of my first reads of 2019 so following for more ideas