What can i read?

[mytieisascarf]

Need book suggestions. I'm open to anything and everything.

Got a million for you.... what do you like?

I like...fiction written by women, historical fiction, fantasy, scandi noir, magical realism, time travel. Also autobiography but not reality stars or sports people (because i wont know them). I like non-fiction too but not war stuff.

fiction written by women - Kate Atkinson. everything.
historical fiction - I'll come back to you, but Wolf Hall is fabulous, if you've got biceps like a navy and everyone will recommend (but Beyond Black is one of the best books I've ever read. Not historical fiction)
Fantasy - Terry Pratchett/Neil Gaiman. And the book that Game of Thrones is based on (which I haven't read, but it's a gazillion pages and everyone I know who's read it loves it)
Magical realism - Angela Carter
Time Travel - the Time Traveller's Wife.

Will that do you?

Read
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine
The Earth Hums In B Flat
The Night Circus (this one is magical realism too)
The Ten O'Clock Horses

Sherlock Holmes

Ian Rankin

Enjoy....

and everything Margaret Atwood ever wrote!

A long way to a small angry planet - Becky Chambers
The watchmaker of Filigree Street - Natasha Pulley
The Corset. & The silent companions - Laura Purcell
The Bear & the nightingale - Katherine Arden

I Cladius and Mary Renaults Theseus books.

I'm currently reading The Old Patagonian Express by Paul Theroux. I love his travel books.

Fiction by women- The Enchanted April.

Marian Keyes is very readable.

Ken Follet's historical fiction books (he writes thrillers too).

The Other Boleyn Girl etc.

I've just read, and loved, Michelle Obama's memoirs.

The All Souls Trilogy by Deborah Harkness seems to tick several of your boxes. The first book, A Discovery of Witches, was made into a TV series last year. Was OK but the books are better!

Educated by Tara Westover-a memoir. Not my usual reading style but I couldn't put it down.

Ann Patchett is my other go to author. Bel Canto (my favourite so far) is being made into a film, so read that so that you can see the film?

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Righto...

CJ Samson's Shardlake series, start with Dissolution. Set in Tudor times, all crime novels but set on the fringes of Henry VIII court.

Robert Galbraith's Cormoran Strike novels. Start with Cuckoo's Calling. More crime, modern this time - actually written by JK Rowling but surprisingly good.

Bill Bryson. His travel writing is marvellous but my favourite book of his is At Home, all about history, quite a lot around the mid 1800s but in a wonderful, personal way.

Anything by Sarah Dessen for a light, 'romantic but makes you cry' read. Her characters are teenagers but don't dismiss them as teenage fiction.

I'm in the grip of CJ Samson's Shardlake, darker than I'm usually comfortable with, but there's something about it...

Thank you so much for your suggestions.

I'm a huge Kate Atkinson fan and have read some Margaret Atwood. Also most Isabelle Allende.

Also read the Cormorant Strike novels and was pleasantly surprised.

I will check out all of the rest today. It's a rainy reading Sunday.

The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns.

Brilliant books.

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Beyond Black sounds right up my street. Why have I not heard of it?

Have spent this afternoon googling and there is not a book that has been suggested that does not appeal in some way. Thank you lovely vipers.

22/11/63 by Stephen King.
The best book EVER. Time travel

The house on vesper sands by Paraic O'Connell is good, Victorian paranormal story.

I think this is one of my favourite books ever:

www.amazon.co.uk/Mr-Rosenblums-List-Friendly-Englishman/dp/0340995661?tag=mumsnetforum-21

Hilarious and touching and set about 3 miles from where I live.

I have read the Stephen King. I normally find his writing a bit self-conscious but i liked this one.

Will look at the O'Connell one.

Just finished ‘the hearts invisible furies’ after seeing it recommended on another thread, it was fantastic