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To ask you to recommend a really good read

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CryHavok · 24/03/2023 14:17

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

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SwordToFlamethrower · 24/03/2023 15:53

Anything by JK Rowling/Robert Galbraith

henchhen · 24/03/2023 15:53

Historical fiction - The Price of Freedom by CF Fairthorne

mrstea301 · 24/03/2023 15:54

Seconding the Slough House series! I've just finished Wahala and have really enjoyed it!

L3ThirtySeven · 24/03/2023 15:55

A gothic tale is The Silent Companions by Laura Purcell

L3ThirtySeven · 24/03/2023 15:56

A biography is
Wedlock: How Georgian Britain's Worst Husband Met His Match
by Wendy Moore

W0tnow · 24/03/2023 15:58

If you fancy a bit if non fiction, Stolen Focus by Johann Hari is brilliant.

Beachbreak2411 · 24/03/2023 16:00

Away with penguins
on the island

Lovetotravel123 · 24/03/2023 16:02

The Nothing Man

W0tnow · 24/03/2023 16:06

I listened to a podcast with her. Amazing story.

KVick · 24/03/2023 16:07

Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese and

Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie

NellyNoName · 24/03/2023 16:08

Lessons in Chemistry
Educated
The Secret History
The Night Circus
Apple Tree Yard
Shadow of the Wind
Rebecca

whatkatydid2013 · 24/03/2023 16:16

Have you read anything by Terry Pratchett or Neil Gaiman? I’d recommend both. Recently finished Longbourn, which is a retelling of pride and prejudice from pov of the servants and thought that was decent.

If you wanted to change your mind and give romance a go Emma V Leech has loads of stuff on Kindle Unlimited. It’s all set in Regency - Victorian period. I’m not typically a huge fan of romance but I really enjoyed a lot of her books

whatkatydid2013 · 24/03/2023 16:17

Non fiction wise the secret barrister was pretty interesting

almay8830 · 24/03/2023 16:18

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Rosieposy89 · 24/03/2023 16:20

Thursday Murder Club Series

adomizo · 24/03/2023 16:33

American Dirt

LegoLady95 · 24/03/2023 17:02

I am really enjoying Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver. A modern day David Copperfield.

MrsTopaz · 24/03/2023 17:04

City of girls by Elizabeth Gilbert, it’s brilliant and being made into a film I think.

Hesma · 24/03/2023 17:09

I love The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah and really anything by Lucinda Riley

Markasread · 24/03/2023 17:10

Educated

Greenstar9 · 24/03/2023 17:17

Wrong Place Wrong Time by Gillian McAllister is really good!
All her fault - Andrea Mara
How to disappear- Gillian McAllister

hairymclarey152 · 24/03/2023 17:20

I highly recommend this one x kept me gripped all the way through fantastic writing couldn't fault it x

To ask you to recommend a really good read
Burgess67A · 24/03/2023 17:22

Lie With Me by Sabine Durrant.

OnaBegonia · 24/03/2023 17:23

The Reading List; Sara Nisha Adams

JasperHale · 24/03/2023 17:26

I will find you H Coben
Women's Murder Club (all 23 of them) by J Patterson