Need a great book to read right now

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I have a Kindle, so it will be possible. DH is sick in bed and I want to spend the evening alone with a great book I can really get stuck into. But I'm totally uninspired. Can anyone drag me out of my lethargy and help me choose something please?

Examples of things I like:
Lots of classics, especially Dickens and Dumas and Wilkie Collins
Some historical fiction, eg Philippa Gregory (waiting for The Red Queen at a lower price) and CJ Sansom (have new book on pre-order)
John Steinbeck, Philip Roth
Dorothy L Sayers, Conan Doyle
Terry Pratchett
Margaret Atwood
Salman Rushdie
Have just read the new Ken Follett and the first Wheel of Time book on the Kindle. Not sure about WOT really.
I have many shelves full of books. But want something I haven't read before.

So, any suggestions? Thank you

I loved the Stig Larsson Trilogy. Just read The Help and Sister and loved them both.

I just started reading Treasure Island again (free on Kindle) - I am really enjoying it.

Thanks. Have tried Steig Larsson but couldn't get very far. Will download Treasure Island now. Haven't read it before, so that's good.

Agent Zigzag - Ben Macintyre

Perfume. Patrick Suskind. It's amazing.

have you tried Charlaine Harris? she does the Sookie Stackhouse books (true blood) they are definitely for adults because of their content.
or if you prefer the more classic novels have you tried "pride and prejudice with zombies"
it is the original story as we know it with a twist.
I loved this book and so did my dd(13). she hated the classic version but loved this. she has since read the original.

I am currently loving Kathryn Stockett's 'The Help'. Set in 1960's Missippi at the time of Martin Luther King and the Civil rights movement, it is a compelling story concentrating on the experiences of black women working as domestic helps to privileged white women. It obviously has a political premise but reads as a moving and emotionally engaging tale rather than thrusting morality down your throat... It's a 10 out of 10

Would also recommend the Help it was great.

However, the book I've just finished which I can't recommend highly enough is 'The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet' by David Mitchell.

It's set in Japan in 1799-1800 and follows the fortunes of a young Dutch trader and his encounters with the closed Japanese world of the time. The writing is fantastic, the detail is amazing and it's jolly exciting too with any number of unexpected twists and reversals. I honestly had no idea what would happen next. And I cried at the end.

I read this after reading Mitchell's award-winning 'Cloud Atlas' which just blew me away and which I can also highly recommend.

Have just finished The Hunting Season by Elizabeth Rigbey, loved it to bits, sorry to finish it!

Revolutionary Road, Richard Yates - the most gorgeous writing and very evocative

That sounds great Grendel - will read that next!

If you like historical fiction Tracey Chevalier is good - better than Phillipa Gregory. She wrote Girl with a pearl earing, among others. painstakingly resaearched, and very evocative.