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

I highly recommend the paper palace too. I'm sad I've almost finished it.

Kim, Rudyard Kipling.
The Kite Runner.
Michelle O'Bama's autobiography.
I am pilgrim.
Brooklyn (book is so much better than the film)
A town like Alice.
The beekeeper of Aleppo.

The Dry by Jane Harper
The Thursday Murder Club series by Richard Osman
Violet by S J I Holliday
How to Kill Your Family by Bella Mackie

American Dirt. Absolutely brilliant, the writing is incredible.

Anything by Lisa Jewell. Her books are compulsive reading. I also like Gillian McAllister.

I second (or third) the Thursday Murder Club series by Richard Osman.

Also, a thousand splendid suns and the kite runner, both by Kahaled Hosseini, I’m not a cryer but both of these got me right in the feels.

a prayer for Owen meanest by John Irving us also good, one of those books you don’t know where it’s going to take you.

one I’m enjoying at the moment is Hambet, my Maggie o Farrell.

A Little Life
Half of a Yellow Sun
Disobedience
Jamaica Inn
Small Pleasures
The Goldfinch
God of Small Things
The Girl With the Louding Voice
Girl Woman Other
Nina is Not OK

I really enjoyed ‘Outback’ by Patricia Wolf. Two German tourists go missing in the Outback. The sister of one of the missing tourists is a detective in Berlin so she flies out and joins forces with an Australian cop who is home on compassionate leave as his grandmother is dying. She’s a fish out of water and he’s sensitive and in tune with the bush.
It’s painfully gripping as the hours tick by! Brilliantly atmospheric too, I felt as if I was there in the baking heat with the landscape stretching for miles…

A little life @Coldilox ?? I tried really hard with it and normally I love misery porn books! I mean, grapes of wrath is my favourite. A little life though - sheesh 😂

Anything by B A Paris. I second, Lessins in Chemistry too.

My favourites!

She's Come Undone - Wally Lamb
Prep - Curtis Sittenfeld
The Virgin Suicides - Jeffrey Eugenides

@CryHavok - DM me and I'll send you my goodreads lists for the last 3 years x

The Haunting of Hill House, Shirley Jackson
Strangers on a Train, Patricia Highsmith
The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon, Stephen King (for people who dont like his usual stuff)
The Monkey Wrench Gang, Edward Abbey

The kind worth killing by Peter Swanson

There’s some cracking stuff on here guys, thank you so much 🤓

The Paper Palace
The Anthony Horowitz books beginning with The Word is Murder - read them twice which is rare for me
A Prayer for Owen Meany and other John Irvine books
All the Agatha Christy books

The Nightingale is a brilliant book

Just finished this. Surprisingly engrossing. Great book

Wrong Place, Wrong Time is brilliant, all her books are excellent. I’m currently reading The Versions of Us which I highly recommend.

I’m reading this too and really enjoying it! I also read The Midnight Library not too long ago, bit long imo but enjoyable enough.

Other recent reads I really liked were The Silent Patient and The Night Circus x

Still Life by Sarah Winman. Just stunning!

This is one of my favourite books ever - think there's a sequel but I've not read it

I will fourth the Thursday Murder Club novels

Lessons In Chemistry was absolutely brilliant, I binged on it and have bought it four friends who have also loved it. I think it would make a great film.