Looking for a really good read

[Alexa51]

As the title suggests - just want something I can really get stuck into. Nothing too heavy, but something well written. I quite like mystery/ crime but not the stuff that's churned out. Can like autobiographical type stuff if it's interesting. Can anyone recommend something they'd say is absolutely brilliant that they think most people would like. Tall order I know. Also, doesn't need to be a latest bestseller - something from years ago that is really good I'm quite open to. Thanks in advance

Have you read the Cormoran Strike series?

The nightingale by Kristin Hannah is an oldie but a great book. I also really enjoyed the Pat Barker series: the women of Troy, the silence of the girls, and the voyage home but I know that style of book isn’t for everyone.

Ben Aaronovitch Rivers of London series - urban fantasy (apparently) set in London (obviously). Lots of myths and history, with a murder to solve.

I've just finished The Reading List by Sara Nisha Adams and really enjoyed it.

Have you read any books by Laura Shepherd-Robinson? Crime thrillers set in 1700/1800s - brilliant story writing mixing a fictional story with historical events of the time - this is just one of her cracking books
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Blood-Sugar-Laura-Shepherd-Robinson/dp/1509880798

Totally different but I find any of Adele Parks are easy reads but not immediately obvious what the ending is

I've really enjoyed
The Sealwoman's Gift Sally Magnusson
American Dirt Jeannine Cummins
When the Dust Settles Lucy Easthope
Paper Cup Karen Campbell

Books that have stood out to me in recent years-
Weyward emila hart
the seven husband of Evelyn Hugo Taylor Jenkins Reid
the nightingale Kristen Hannah
little fires everywhere Celeste Ng
follow you home mark edwards
the death of Mrs westerway Ruth ware

Another for Kristin Hannah

I've just read Mongrel by Hanako Footman, it's one of the best books I've read in a long time and I'm sad that it's finished now. Would definitely recommend.

A couple of new ones that I've enjoyed are The Book of Guilt and The Names, both quite twisty and good page turners.

The Last Thing To Burn by Will Dean. Absolutely awesome!

The seven husbands of Evelyn Hugo has been and will be one of the best books I've read. Very easy to read, brilliantly written and not what you expect at all - really good plot twists and just great all around

It’s so good isn’t it? I’m looking forward to the film although concerned they won’t do it justice

The marriage portrait- Maggie o Farrell
this must be the place- as above

anything by that author. But those are her best imo.

the secret history- Donna tartt

Agree on Pat Barker, but I've also recently discovered Elly Griffiths' Ruth Galloway series and really really like them. Also Robert Harris' Second Sleep is excellent

Yes, it's amazing, so glad someone else appreciates it as much as me I recommend it to so many people and so many people never read it. What I'd do to read it again!

I've seen it advertised, I'm truly hoping like you say it lives up to the book but majority of films these days never do!

I've recently read Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir. It's a book that I didn't want to end.

A gentleman in Moscow, Amos Toles, best book ever

I love the DCI Matilda Drake book set written by Michael Wood, few good play twists. 10 or 11 books in the set. Highly highly recomend

Saltblood. Is absolutely fantastic

Body Language by AK Turner, I really enjoyed that one. There's a few books in the series which are on my 'to read' pile.

Unnatural Causes by Richard Shepherd, autobiography about his work as a pathologist. He talks about some well-known cases.

Olivia Joules and the Overactive Imagination by Helen Fielding. A comedy about a journalist trying to uncover terrorist plots.

I really enjoyed Lesley Pearse books too. They can be quite heavy but they are really enjoyable.

I agree with a lot that have already been mentioned but would also add:

Strange Sally Diamond by Liz Nugent
The Correspondent by Virginia Evans
Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams (true story about her career at Facebook)
Blue Sisters - Coco Mellors
The Handmaids Tale - Margaret Atwood
The Testaments - Margaret Atwood (sequel to the above)
The People on Platform 5 - Clare Pooley
When Breath Becomes Air - Paul Kalanithi (memoir of a doctor - very moving)

I've just stared When the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi