What is the best book you have read this year?

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Got a book voucher for my birthday so I am going to pop up to Waterstones and treat myself, but am lacking inspiration.

Have you read Rachel's Holiday? Rachel Again is the follow up. I absolutely love the audio version with Marian Keyes narrating.

Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus

Florence Adler Swims Forever was good.

The Overstory by Richard Powers

Lessons in Chemistry definitely, I felt so bereft when I finished it. I wanted the story to go on forever.

Three Hours by Rosamund Lupton.

The Quickening by Talulah Riley

Oh following for inspiration too!

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Where the Crawdads Sing. Also I second Again Rachel, read that when it came out.

I have Lessons in Chemistry saved for my next holiday, looking forward to it.

The Women Of Troy by Pat Barker.

Iris Murdoch's The Sea, The Sea - although I listened to the audiobook narrated by Richard E Grant, it is sublime

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Is there a particular type of book or an author you enjoy OP?

If I were going to Waterstones today I would happily pick up anything by Elizabeth Strout (Lucy Barton, Olive Kitteridge etc) or Anne Tyler.

I'm currently reading the Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles. So far so good. If you haven't read his other books (A Gentlemen in Moscow, Rules of Civility) I would very strongly recommend!

I also enjoy Taylor Jenkins Reid. I loved Daisy Jones and the Six and The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo and planning to read Malibu Rising next.

That seems like an excessively American list of Authors! I also love Jessie Burton and looking forward to her follow up to The Miniaturist.

Kate Atkinson just seems to get better and better. Anything by her but especially Life After Life.

Always know I will enjoy an Alexander McCall Smith for a gentle feel-good read.

Happy Hour - Marlowe Granados
Nightbitch - Rachel Yoder
Sorrow and Bliss - Meg Mason
All the Lovers in the Night - Mieko Kawakami

Another vote for Sorrow and Bliss by Meg Mason.

I also could not put down The Palace Papers by Tina Brown (very rare for me these days), but get that that's not necessarily everyone's cup of tea..

I just read Hostage by Clare Mackintosh, it was absolutely incredible. Agree with one of the reviews on the book cover that it reads like a movie. Twists up until the very end!

A Ghost In The Throat - Doireann Ní Ghríofa. Can’t even begin to describe this - unlike anything I’ve read before. Let’s say historical research as visceral, female auto fiction.

Rosewater - Tade Thompson. The most original dystopian fiction you’ll read this year.

American Dirt - Jeanine Cummins

The White Album by Joan Didion

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@MuddlerInLaw that ghost book sounds right up my street. Thanks for the tip!

Small Pleasures by Claire Chapman.

However I'm rereading an old book from the 80s called A Woman of Substance by Barbara Taylor Bradford and loving it!

I agree with The Women of Troy. Another book I found really good was The Beekeeper of Aleppo by Christi Lefteri.

Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo!