A good book you have read lately?

[AngryBird6122]

I like something that makes you think

don't like anything too cheesy if it's fiction

TIA

@WonderfulSmith - I’ve got a terrible cold and intend to spend the weekend under a blanket with tea and a good book, your suggestion is perfect, just got it on my kindle! Thank you!!!

The Eights by Joanna Miller

I loved last one at the party by Bethany Clift

Inside Alcatraz by Jim Quillen

“Cloud cuckoo land” by Anthony Doerr. A complex story, not my usual genre but he also wrote “All the light we cannot see” which I enjoyed so thought it was worth a read. It was excellent

Immaculate Conception and/or Natural Beauty by Ling Ling Huang are two of the best books I’ve read this year

Both have Black Mirror vibes

Natural Beauty is about a girl desperate for money who starts working at a high end beauty spa where nothing is what it seems

Immaculate Conception is about two artists who meet in college and the ways their paths diverge with shocking consequences

Black Butterflies - Priscilla Morris , very thought provoking. I’ve followed it up with Goodbye Sarajevo Akta Reid & Hannah Schofield.
Also The Women - Kristin Hannah

Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 (Korean)

Convenience Store Woman (Japanese)

"Entitled" the biography about the Yorks. Eye opening to say the least.

I usually read a lot of crime fiction but I read The midnight library by Matt Haig on someone's recommendation and really liked it.

Anything by Elif Shafak. Just finished There are rivers in the sky.

Zero Risk by Simon Hayes
Artificial Wisdom by Thomas Weaver

@AngryBird6122 whenever I want a new book I check out the threads on the Mumsnet "What we're reading" forum - there are usually some good suggestions.

However, my most recent favourite is this: https://www.waterstones.com/book/here-one-moment/liane-moriarty/9781405942287

I also liked Tara Westover's Educated! Around about the same time, I read Lilia Tarawa's Daughter of Gloriavale, which was interesting, too! Oh, and Catherine Colstream's Cloistered, during which I decided that I could never be a nun as it seemed so claustrophobic!

On a completely different and non-religious topic, I loved Ken Smith's The Way of the Hermit and Amanda Owen's The Yorkshire Shepherdess.

The only fiction books that I remember reading of late were Alex Dahl's Playdate, J.P Pomare's In the Clearing, and The Names, by Florence Knapp. I don't usually read popular books, because they tend to disappoint me, but the last one made me think.

Ruth Jones Love Untold. Didn't know what to expect but it was a fabulous book. She's written 4 I think, I'm now reading Us Three by her.

Still Life is incredible. I also recommend A Year of Marvellous Ways by the same author. She is a wonderful writer.

I read Foster yesterday on my train journey to/from work. It's only 15-20 minutes each way, so shows how short it is 😂

Edit: realise I didn't answer the OP.

Best books I've read this year are:
The Elements, John Boyne (4 interlinked novellas)
All The Colors of the Dark, Chris Whittaker
The Glass Castle, Jeanette Walls
Pachinko, Min Jin Lee

Practical Magic
The Reformatory

My favourite book this year is The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O'Farrell

Yay! I hope you like it. It’s not high art but it’s the first book in a long time that I’ve stayed awake to read. I will warn you that there are some very difficult scenes in it. I did cry more than once.

Agree with others "A list of suspicious things" was brill.
I just finished "Miss Bensen's Bettle" by Rachel Joyce. It was really good, same author as the unlikely pilgrimage of Harold Fry which I read years ago and loved.

The heart is a lonely hunter by Carson McCullers. So beautiful.

I really liked The Glass Maker by Tracey Chevalier.

Set in 100's of years ago Italy/Venice touching on the bubonic plague and other big historical events. Based around a family of glass makers.

An eye for an eye. M.J Arlidge.

Edit- Eye for an eye

There are two books I have read recently that stand out. The first was The Book of Guilt by Catherine Chidgey, which I borrowed on impulse from the library. It is set in a slightly alternative 1979 in the New Forest and is about identical triplet boys, who live in isolation with three "mothers" - Morning, Afternoon and Night. The second book was The Half Life of Valery K, which is set in Soviet Russia in 1963. I can thoroughly recommend both books.

I e just finished her new one The Killer Question .