To ask you to recommend a really good read

[CryHavok]

Just that really, going away next week and want to take some really good books with me

YABU for not giving some clues as to what sort of books you like!

Two recent reads that I've found enjoyable.

Fair enough. I’m open to anything really except Romance or biographies of beloved sporting/TV personalities

I loved the nurse by clare allen

The midnight library

Behind Closed Doors by BA Paris.

Wrong Place Wrong Time by Gillian McAllister. A time-twisting book that’s about parenting and relationships as well as unravelling a mystery.

Unfollow by Megan Phelps Roper, about growing up in and leaving the Westboro Baptist Church. Fascinating about an extreme cult, family love and someone who learned tolerance and questioning through Twitter (really!)

Recently enjoyed Lessons in Chemistry

Strange Sally Diamond by Liz Nugent

My best recent author discoveries have been Joel Dicker and Chris Hammer. Complicated and quite long novels that are detective/thriller/political, but page turners too.

Unnatural Causes. It's by a pathologist, it's incredible.

The Paper Palace by Miranda Cowley Heller.
I didn’t want it to end.

I've just read The Reading List ...not my usual genre but I loved it

The Chronicles of St Marys by Jodi Taylor - you can thank me later

I'm reading Wrong Place Wrong Time ...good isn't it !

This was one of the worst books, I have ever read!

The Slough House series by Mick Herron are excellent if you like a grubby spy thriller with hopeless spies. It's also an Apple TV series.
Have recently enjoyed Hamnet byMaggie O'Farrell and A Terrible Kindness by Jo Browning Wroe. Neither are light and both feature child death though.
An incredible book but perhaps not exactly holiday reading is All That Remains by Dame Sue Black who is a forensic anthropologist. Her career is absolutely fascinating.
For a lighter read I enjoy most of Claire Chambers' novels. If you like beautifully crafted books about families then The Cazalet Chronicles by Elizabeth Jane Howard are wonderful. I've just reread them all.
And for a rollicking, can't put it down, adventure of a book I always recommend Carter Beats the Devil by Glen David Gold. A corker.

The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah and The first fifteen lives of Harry August by Claire North.

I love both of them.

Anything by Stuart McBride....but if you have never read him, start with Cold Granite which is the first one. For something lighter, Carola Dunn is lovely - think Agatha Christie style.

I loved The Nightingale and The Four Winds. Both by Kristin Hannah.

The seven husbands of Evelyn Hugo

American Dirt

City of Girls

Pachinko

Having read this (and I agree!), I thought Wrong Place Wrong Time was a new St Mary’s or Time Police title!

I have this to read but not started it yet. Good to know it's recommended!

I really enjoyed The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides

S.A Chakraborty: City of Brass it's a trilogy!

Maggie O'Farrell's latest book The Marriage Portrait is brilliant. Historical fiction set in Italy, based on Robert Browning's poem My Last Duchess.