What is everyone reading? In a rut.

[Mokepon]

I'm in a bit of a reading rut.
I read a lot as I don't sleep well but it's also my time to destress before bed. I love reading, usually have a couple of books on the go, one an easy read and the other catching up on things I think I should read iyswim.

I've just started Vanity Fair but not massively into it. Halfway through Lolita but stalled as I'm finding it extremely uncomfortable reading.

What are you reading just now and would you recommend it?

@Aquamarine1029, can't find that one. Do you mean The Devil in the White City?

Currently reading The Heart's Invisible Furies, John Boyne. Wonderful book!

I've enjoyed really enjoyed in the last year - Sarah Perry's Essex Serpent: Jessie Burton, The Miniaturist and The Muse: Natasha Pulley, The Watchmaker of Filigree Street and The Bedlam Stacks.

They are all on the kind of literary end of historical fiction and with a little magic or magic realism in some.

Start reading Terry pratchett. I found him by accident and loved the subtleties, the humour and the stories. Also, Tom Sharpe. Used to make me laugh out loud, often on public transport!

I have recently finished The Cut Out Girl by Bart van Es. Non fiction about a Jewish girl in war-time Holland who was sent into hiding by her parents, and follows her being hidden by several families over those years (one of these families were relatives of the author).

@CarpeVitam

Omg, I am so daft. YES, It's The Devil in The White City! I think my brain fell out when I originally posted. I'm sorry!

Neon Prey, the new John Sandford book.
There's a couple in the series for 99p on kindle today, including the first book. He writes crime thrillers.

I like Sarah Moss and I've rediscovered Ann Patchett after sort of forgetting about her. Commonwealth is fantastic.

Tana French is really good –police procedural/thriller/mystery but they're very rooted in character and family. Very well written and good dialogue as well as genuine nail-biting and puzzling thriller tropes.

A Woman of War by Mandy Robotham. It sets up the theory that Eva Braun had Hitler's baby. Suspend your belief and dig in.

Also I've been reading the "Rosie" series by Graeme Simsion but I'd read so many of these types of books now with ASD as a theme I'm getting a tad weary of it. (Eleanor Oliphant is completely fine is better, imo).

I'm up to date on JK Rowling's Robert Galbraith Strike series though the latest one was so badly edited I almost threw it out of the window.

I mean to read The Piwer by Naomi Alderman and The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock by Imogen Hermes Gowar next.

I am reading the Robert gailbraith strike books: am on the third one (I think) and enjoying them so far.

Thank you aquamarine, added to my wish list

I'm reading Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman. I'm enjoying it, but feel in a bit of a rut myself, so good to see suggestions. I think I need to join a book club to get more ideas and enthusiasm.

I'm reading the cousins war series by Phillapa Gregory. Love a bit of historical fiction from the female perspective.

The two best of my last holiday reads:

Circe by Madeline Miller- the Odyssey from the sorceress Circe’s perspective- so different from anything else I’ve read. Proper legend and fantasy for grownups, as in written properly, not semi-literate rubbish. Wonderful.

Daisy Jones and The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid- rockumentary-style about a band based on Fleetwood Mac. Really grabbed me, with an ace feminist hero in the character Karen Karen.

Oh, Circe is brilliant! Really gripping, funny, scary, thrilling. Better than Song of Achilles IMO.

I've just read Cutting For Stone by Abraham Verghese. Absolutely loved it - couldn't put it down.

Thanks for sharing, I've already read quite a few of these but lots of new ones too. Ace.

I'm currently re-reading Excellent Women by Barbara Pym. I normally like 'UK crime fiction but BP is my favourite author in times of stress,

I came across Anita Shreve a while back, and have found all of her novels very absorbing. They are not long, but are usually quite complex.

I really enjoyed the Heart's Invisible Furies. The best book that I've read recently was My Lovely Wife by Samantha Downing. She appears to be a new author and very talented.

Try Nalini Singh’s books. She’s got three main series Guild Hunter, Psy/Changeling which are both fantasy (Guild Hunter is angels/vampires, Psy/Changeling is psychic powers/shape shifters) and Rock/Cherish Hard. Rock/Cherish Hard is a romance series, the books all link in together but can stand alone. Strong characters with good arcs, no damsels in distress here!

The Switch by Patricia Welles.

It’s an old one and I’ve read it before.

www.amazon.co.uk/Switch-Patricia-Welles/dp/0718109376?tag=mumsnetforu03-21

All the light we cannot see. Can’t recommend it enough.

Don’t read that one in public ended up sobbing in a cross channel ferry

The chain of curiosity by Sandi toksvig, it's hilarious.