To ask you to recommend me a book?

[cheesenpickles]

I've always been a prolific, and very fast, reader but since having kids I never get the chance.

I have an opportunity coming up for some serious book reading time and I'm at a loss what to read.

Open to all recommendations and will even go for non-fiction (love a bit of Desmond Morris, personally).

Michelle Paver Dark Matter

I am reading the six queens series by Alison Weir. Really entertaining if you enjoy history.

Oooh these both look good!

I make a little list of favourite books I read every year; these are some from my 2018 list if you fancy them:

Misogynation, The True Scale of Sexism
This is Going to Hurt
Only Ever Yours
Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race
The Virgin Suicides
The Beginning of the World in the Middle of the Night
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine
The Virgin Suicides
On Chesil Beach

As you can, bit of a mix! All great books.

*as you can see

If you like crime try the Angela Marsons series absolutely gripping even better than Line of Duty (!). If you like easy reading try Mike Gayle.

We are all completely beside ourselves
A place called winter
A gentleman in Moscow
Charlie Savage

All great x

@SachaStark The Virgin Suicides is one of my favourite books.

I LOVE crime and mystery as well, so will definitely take a look at those too.

Tanya French - the Wych Elm. Any thing by her actually.

Non fiction - the immortal life of Henrietta Lacks

Sally Rooney - conversations with friends

Anna Burns - no Bones and also Milkman

Lisa McInerney Glorious Heresies - amazing

H is for Hawk

All Maya Angelou

Kitchen - by Banana yoshimoto

The Minotaur takes a cigarette break

Finger smith - Sarah waters was

Room
The Kite Runner
A Thousand Splendid Suns
The Book Thief
Behind Closed Doors
Between You and Me
The Tattooist of Auschwitz

@cheesenpickles I would really recommend NOT bothering with Eugenides latest book, The Marriage Plot, total letdown compared to The Virgin Suicides.

However, if that is one of your favourites, you may well enjoy some Helen Oyeyemi, who has a similar style of writing.

The truth about melody brown. It's not the best book ever but I've enjoyed it.

Dorian gray

Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine

Ooo good thread!

Northanger Abbey not by Jane Austen but by Val McDermid. It's set in the present at the Edinburgh Festival.

Lucy Parker: The Austen Playbook

Plus if you like it there are three more loosely connected books in the series.

These are coming from my current book shelf - the ones I would read again!

Cement Garden - Ian mcewan when he was still good
Ponti - Teo, brill nice to read a non white non western book
The outrun - found it incredibly moving, non fix
wide Sargasso Sea - just beautiful

The goldfinch - epic

The bone clocks

A Man Called Ove - I love this book

The nightingale is the best book I've read and all my book club loved it too.

Where the Crawdads Sing

Barbara Kingsolver’s ‘The Poisonwood Bible’, one of the best books I’ve ever read.

Josephine Try:
The Franchise Affair
The Daughter of Time
The Singing Sands

Dorothy L Sayers:
Lord Peter Wimsey stories

Lindsey Davis:
The Falco stories (read them in order for best effect!). There are 20 of them!
The Flavia Albia stories follow on

Vox by Christina Dalcher
The Simon Serrailer series by Susan Hill is also good if you like crime

I’ve just finished The Heart’s Invisible Furies by John Boyne after seeing numerous recommendations on here. I absolutely loved it, best book I’ve read in years, if not one of the best ever. Utterly wonderful.