To ask for book recommendations

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Hello Team Mumsnet, I'm looking fir recommendations and I am posting for traffic before anyone spontaneously defecates themself in outrage.

Newly pregnant with DC2 and looking for a good book to make up for a whole 9 months without a glass of wine in the bath.

I've recently enjoyed The Book Thief, CJ Sansom's Shardlake series, Ken Follett's Pillars of the Earth series, Donna Tartt's Secret History.

Ideally something gripping from the start in case I get half a page in and have to stop because DD aged 11 months has a huge poo or a meltdown because she can't yet catch the cat.

Thank you in advance!

Outlander is a good shout if you liked Pillars of the Earth.

I am rereading Christie now. I started off with some of the big ones and now alternating Poirot and Miss Marple. Love them. Recommend Death on the Nile, Murder on the Orient Express, the Roger Ackroyd one as some of the ones that have been adapted most often for good reason.

Memories of a geisha
Time travellers wife
I captured the castle
For thriller type murder books try Mo Hayder
Tattooist of Auschwitz

Star of the sea by Joseph O Conner

There’s a really old book I thoroughly enjoyed by Pearl S Buckman ? The good earth ?

A few of my most 'readable' books of the last few years - as in couldn't put them down - are:-
Three hours by Rosamund lupton
Life after life by Kate Atkinson
Elinor oliphant
Old baggage by Lisa Evans
The girls by Emma Cline (based on the Manson murders but not as ghoulish as it sounds)
Normal people sally rooney
The interestings by Meg wolitzer
The new Mrs Clifton by Elizabeth Buchan
The hearts invisible furies John Boyne
One day David Nichols

The Queens Gambit

Last year I really enjoyed Circe, The Bees, Eleanor Oliphant, The Other Bennett Sister, Educated and The Doll Factory.

I am pilgrim

The reacher books
Jeffery weaver

Dorothy Dunnett - start with The Game Of Kings. 16th Century historical fiction.

Another vote to say if you loved the Shardkake novels you should try SJ Paris’ Giordano Bruno series.

I also loved Circe

Ugh Shardlake and Parris’

Sorry

The thread by Victoria hislop.

I love Anne Tyler, they aren't gripping but she is brilliant at family dynamics.

I recently read Alex Marwood: The Darkest Secret, The Wicked Girls, The Killer Next Door. Inspired by some well known crimes. Gripping and sombre subject matter but easy to read if that makes sense. Also Circe.

Try the package..when the crawbirds sing or the tattooist of Austwick

Bernard Cornwells. The last Kingdom. Theres 13, will keep you going. Imabout to finish book 3. I love them.

Anything by Stella Gibbons (writer of 'Cold Comfort Farm').

The Other Passenger

I love all the books you have mentioned.
I recommend The Midnight Library by Matt Haig. Thoughtfully written and wonderfully life affirming.

I've just read 2 Stephen King books I couldn't put down, 11/22/63 and The Institute. I've also just finished The Binding by Bridget Collins, which was pretty intriguing from the start and very hard to put down from about a third of the way through.

The Goldfinch and Life After Life. Amazing.
Oh and The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker.

I second @FourEyesGood's suggestion of Three Hours by Rosamund Lupton, I read it straight through one day, couldn't put it down!

I've just finished Dear Child by Romy Hausman and have Girl A by Abigail Dean, Those People by Louise Candlish and Haven't They Grown by Sophie Hannah to choose from for my next book, all sound really engaging, with great reviews. I've read several by both Sophie Hannah and Louise Candlish, I'd happily recommend both authors.

Oooh, another one I enjoyed recently was The Chain by Adrian KcKinty. It's about a child being kidnapped and in order to get their child back, the parents have to kidnap another child and demand a ransom from their parents and so on, hence; 'The Chain' - gripping!

The butterfly garden. Trust me

@IdblowJonSnow

The Goldfinch and Life After Life. Amazing. Oh and The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker.

I know The Goldfinch is really popular but I found it so depressing from the halfway point onwards!

That's interesting! I found it bleak in parts but to me the first bit was depressing (museum/mum) but not from halfway. Such a clever, engaging book and with more likeable characters than The Secret History.