To ask for book recommendations?

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Desperately trying to get back into reading. I used to read all the time but since having kids and the lure of my phone in the evenings, I've not read book all the way through for about 6 years!

I must have started about 10-12 books but I just can't get into them.

Anyone got a recommendation for an UNPUTDOWNABLE (that's a word right??) Fiction book?

I like science fantasy with a good love story - but open to most things except crime/horror - don't want to scare myself to sleep!

Thanks

Have you read Station 11 by Emily St John Mandel? It is INCREDIBLE

following this - in a very similar place

Lullaby by Leila Slimani

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Sci-fi I would recommend The Sparrow by Maria Doria Russell.
Fantasy The Farseer Trilogy by Robin Hobb.
Both are unputdownable imo.

Something quite light might ease you back in. I quite liked Daisy Jones and the Six recently.

I really enjoyed Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro - finished it in one sitting.

I was also going to recommend Station Eleven. Amazing book.

I second Station Eleven.

I loved Hamnet.

Third Station 11.
The MaddAddam Trilogy by Margaret Atwood
The Heart Goes Last by Margaret Atwood

Station 11 best one Ive read in years

Flawed by Cecelia Ahern is really good and engrossing. It's young adult fiction but really engrossing for a 50+
If you like it, there's a sequel called Perfect.

I have just finished The Midnight Library by Matt Haig, unputdownable and quite a quick read. Definitely recommended

Thank you everyone! Think I might give a station 11 a go, will head to my local library tomorrow

This will be a great thread to come back to for more recommendations, thanks again!

The Chronicles of St Mary's series by Jodi Taylor.

Just come on to say the St Mary's books @DameAlyson, I'm sold on them
They were recommended to me on here

I’ve found it very difficult to concentrate on novels since I had children…my attention span has just dropped!
One that gripped me was The Other Half Of Augusta Hope - beautifully written and heart warming.

Maybe not your genre OP but I recommend Eleanor Oliphant is completely fine and Shuggie Bain. Eleanor O is being made into a movie by Reese Wotherspoon’s company. Shuggie Bain is based in Glasgow and has a lot of Scots dialect in it but if you can get to grips with that, it’s a wonderful but heartbreaking read.

Circe by Madeline Miller, I just loved it
Also, Grown Ups by Marian Keyes brilliant and hilarious

Hi! There's tons of reading suggestions on the reading board on mumsnet. I wouldn't ask on aibu. I picked up some great recommendations there I have completed the one of the mumsnet reading challenges on the reading board for 2021. Book clubs are also great for reading different books and it makes you read. 1 book a month is definitely doable.

@cornflakegirl

I loved Hamnet.

Same! I read it in two days, couldn’t put it down.

Also to add The Hearts Invisible Furies by John Boyne is beautiful and funny and touching and sad and one of the best books I’ve read in a long long time.

I’ve just finished The Girl With the Louding Voice by Abi Dare. It’s set in Nigeria and is a remarkable book that every woman should read.

Another vote for the first book in the Chronicles of St Mary's. Then, when you're addicted, there are lots more books in the series to keep you happy.