To ask you to name a book you couldn't put down?

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I've started getting into reading again and now looking for book recommendations. I don't know if it's just me not enjoying reading as much as I used to, but some of the titles I've read/attempted to recently just don't seem to grab my attention and I struggle to get through them.

I'm currently reading People Like Her by Ellery Lloyd. It's ok, but a bit slow.

I prefer mysteries and thrillers.

Please give me some ideas!

Anything by Tim Weaver, he is a brilliant storyteller

I've just finished the last book in the Peter James/Roy Grace series (the one about Roy Grace's wife) enjoyed them all.

This years holiday reading list was:
Rob Rinder - The trial (just about to start his next book - The Suspect)
Harlan Coben - I will find you
Nita Prose - The Maid
2 x Sara Cox - Till the cows come home and Way back

I have the Lucinda Riley seven sisters series of books ready to go once I've finished the Rob Rinder book. Have heard they are good.

And not long finished How to Say Babylon by Safiya Sinclair (non-fiction). Excellent and really enlightening about the Rastafari faith (which I thought I knew a bit about before but really didn't!)

"Girl Woman Other" by Bernadine Evaristo
"Possession" by A.S. Byatt
"We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves" by Karen Joy Fowler
"Hamnet" and "The Marriage Portrait" by Maggie O'Farrell
"The Friend" by Sigrid Nunez

If you just want a couple of absolutely lovely books to read, i recommend The unlikely pilgrimage of Harold Fry followed by The love song of miss Queenie Hennessy (Rachel Joyce) ....gorgeous books and very hard to put down.

I've just read A thousand ships by Natalie Haynes. It's about the women in the Trojan War. It was wonderful.

I also enjoyed Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow as above. I can't remember who wrote it.

Eleanor Oliphant
Nina is Not Ok
Most of Dani Atkins' books
Good Girl Bad Girl

It's the first one I've read, definitely going to get the others. What I meant was some books I've really struggled with recently, I love the Shetland books but really struggled with the one I've just finished (took me 6 months). The first Morse one has been the complete opposite.

Sorry for any repetition OP but have a look at:

Luck Foley, Helene Flood, Lisa Jewell for a few really unputdownable thrillers. The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides is excellent and very twisty to the end. Apple Tree Yard is a very good story but quite a difficult read ( content), although a great mystery.

I love Kate Atkinson ( start with Case Histories) as features a detective across five books.

I also second The Richard Osman Series. A really great place to start.

Enjoy!

I completely agree, I am Pilgrim is amazing. A thriller.
Everyone I have recommended it too said the same.

I also can't concentrate on reading a book the way I used to...I'm blaming social media and short attention span/dopamine addiction!

The Thorn Birds was also brilliant.

I have just read 'The Bandit Queens' really enjoyed it

Anything by John Grisham or Jodi Picoult

All of the Poldark books and the three Girl with a Dragon Tatoo books

Have you read any Freida McFadden? They’re thrillers, but only short and fairly pacy.

11.22.63 by Stephen King.

Not thrillers but I really enjoyed the Seven Sisters series by Lucinda Riley. I’m just about to start the Missing Sister. They are very long though.

@belle40 was just going to say Kate Atkinson - Behind The Scenes At The Museum was my absolute favourite but Case Histories is just brilliant as is When Will There Be Good News? I love her female protagonists, and she is such a compelling storyteller.

Also agree with Lisa Jewell-another compelling writer who keeps you guessing.

For a ‘feel good’ read you can’t beat Maeve Binchy. One year on holiday my DM,DF,DSis and I all fought over one paperback copy of Evening Class (this was in the pre kindle/iPhone days!) - if someone put it down for a moment someone else would scoop it up. Not in any way a thriller, just a well written and lovely story.

Yes, I definitely agree with Where the Crawdads Sing. It was excellent

The Corrections Jonathon Frantzen and The Goldfinch Donna Tarrt.

Strangers On a Train
Rebecca
The Handmaid's Tale

☝️☝️

For non fiction I would recommend the following

No Matter What (Sally Donovan) - about journey to and experiences of adoption - beautifully written and heart warming and sad all at once.

Late Fragments (Kate Gross) - again she writes beautifully, but be warned, it is about cancer death and leaving young children motherless and whatever you do DO NOT read it on public transport as it’ll make you sob.

@DanceMumTaxi I've read The Housemaid!

Lynda La Plante- widows.