What should I read?

[ReallyFuckingBored]

Recommend me something, anything.

Really need to step away from my phone.

Fiction, non-fiction, history, politics, science, feminism, whatever, just anything that’s a great read.

Last thing I tried reading was about the suffragettes, but it was terribly dull. Last time I asked the Internet what I should read, the Internet suggested 50 Shades...

Hello.

Well I'm re reading Cider With Rosie and its beautiful.

Try some of the classics? Dickens? Tom Sawyer?

I have just finished The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet by Becky Chambers and I thoroughly enjoyed it. I have also recently binged on the Dublin Murder Squad series by Tana French. Completely different but really enjoyable and absorbing

I have just started silent scream. It's the first of a series about a female detective in the black Country, it's really good but not for the faint hearted

Thank you for these. Am looking at them all on Amazon.

Not mad keen on police stuff but I hadn’t thought of reading sci fi... I usually just watch it with DH.

The nightingale by Kristin Hannah.... absolutely loved it.

Eleanor Oliphant is completely fine is quite good too.

Blood orange, apple tree yard, anything by Claire Macintosh.

I have just finished Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ge, really enjoyed it.

I invited her in - Adele parks
Tell me a secret - Jane fallon
An unusual match - Joanna Trollope
The mister - E L James

Personally I would suggest Stephen King but know it's no to everyone's taste.
How about Sophie Hannah?. I also really loved the Paula Daley books.

A gentleman in Moscow. Loved it

Daphne du Maurier is pretty undemanding but she tells a good story - Rebecca, My Cousin Rachel, Jamaica Inn.
Some of the later Victorians are definitely worth a look - Woman in White, The Moonstone, the Clayhanger trilogy. Dickens - Great Expectations, Little Dorritt, Bleak House (don't be put off by the size of it - it's a crackiing read!)
Stephen King is a great story-teller is you steer clear of the creepy stuff - 11/22/63 is excellent and Duma Key also good though gets a bit weird in places.
I would wholeheartedly recommend The Killing even if you don't normally like crime drama.
The Shipping News. The CJ Sansom Shardlake series is pretty decent. The Secret History.

I just read Educated by Tara Westover.

Are you looking at paper books, or do you have a kindle?

Many people talk of using the kindle app on their phone or tablet, but it's not a great reading experience, still a screen and also there's the temptation of all the other apps.

I'm really trying to get back to reading more. I've read 14 books this year, which is behind on the 50 books a year challenge, but better than the 19(!) I read last year. I use Goodreads to track them.

I read all sorts of random books, and pick up many on 99p offers on Amazon. Mostly slightly silly travel books or crime fiction.

I've enjoyed the Father, son books by Mark Richards about the Pennine Way.

One of my all time favourite books was Nothing to Envy by Barbara Demick about life in North Korea.

I've read all the Shetland and Vera books by Ann Cleeves, Ditto the Roy Grace books.

to professional interest, I really liked the [[https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B014PVGLMK/ref=x_gr_w_bb?linkCode=as2&tag=mumsnetforu03-21&ie=UTF8&creative=6738&camp=1634 Radium Girls and it's only 99 p at the moment.

Maybe have a look at the deals section if you're looking for Kindle books and pick up a few.

Celeste any writers really gripping books, relatively easy reading. I’ve just finished All the Light We Cannot See; it’s amazing!

Someone upthread mentions Cider with Rosie by Laurie Lee, which I agree is beautiful. I also liked As I walked out one midsummer morning, which is his book about walking/hitching to Spain in the 1930s and getting involved in the Spanish Civil war.

In a similar vein there's Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell.

I second The Nightingale. It's one of my favourite books.

The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns are excellent.

If you're after something that will fill your heart with joy - anything by Rosamunde Pilcher.

Get yourself to the charity shop, loads of selection and so cheap so you can’t go wrong!

The threads on reading 50 books are well worth looking at. Loads of great recommendations and some advice on what to avoid too.

Thank you for these - am Amazoning in between doing spellings with the DC. 😀

I need to read on paper or I’ll end up playing bloody candy crush.

I’m deliberately not going into a shop (charity or otherwise) because I always get suckered by something or other and then don’t read it. My ‘to be read’ pile could just about open a shop.

Ooh, this looks interesting in the deals section.

The Mother in Law - She has never approved of you. But it's when her body is found the secrets really start to come out ...

I really enjoyed My sister the serial killer. Wasn’t very long so not too intimidating but was v enjoyable

The Crimson Petal and the White - by Michel Faber- I'm just finishing it and it has been gripping and absorbing. It's a slightly dark Victorian story with a melodramatic edge- easy to read but long and juicy. Like Dickens written by a modern author- fantastic!
I'll be sad to say goodbye to the characters when I finish!

Crimson Petal is already in my to be read pile. I think it’s been there pretty much since it was published.

May I ask which was your Suffragette book? I like a good book about The Cause (though I'm a suffragist rather than a suffragette ) so it's useful to know what to avoid.

I've just been reading Lissa Evans' Old Baggage, featuring two excellent suffragette characters. Real page-turner - neither too heavy nor too light, and I've been messing about with too much web stuff, too

I'm currently into a non fiction book called "Prisoners of Geography" - which is a complete departure for me! It's so interesting - all about how the geography of places influences politics & world events. I'd definitely recommend you give it a go.

Ooh any of the Ladies Detective Agency books by Alexander McCall Smith.