Recommend me contemporary fiction based on my likes please.

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So i loved

The long song, Andrea Levy
Small Island, Andrea Levy
The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver
Brick Lane, Monica Ali
The kite runner, Khaled Hosseini

I was thinking about 'a suitable boy' by vikram seth.

What do you recommend?

TIA.

I also love Anne Tyler, not sure I can be more specific as I started reading her 20 years ago, I think Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant and The Accidental Tourist were both quite good but so were all the 14 others I've read (2 yet to read and should probably reread all the others with the possible exception of The Accidental Marriage and the most recent Noah's Compass).

I've loved all of Trapido and Adichie's 3 books - Purple Hibiscus more than One Half.

Have you tried anything by Roma Tearne? It sounds as if she might fit in with what you say you like.

Roma Tearne sounds like a great suggestion to OP

roma tearne does look good.
i'll add it to my list.

i've just started the reluctant fundamentalist, should be good.

excellent thread, have lots of new ideas now.

Room (can't remember the author) is a book that has stayed in my head a long time after reading it.

I like Maggie O'Farrell too, particularly the Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox and The Hand That First Held Mine.

You might like Hisham Matar's books - his first is about a boy growing up in Libya, and later Cairo. In the Country of Men.

A Suitable Boy is one of my favourite books - it's long though! It is a real saga, with lots of interesting characters. I read it just after my Dad died and it really helped to distract me from the grief, so perhaps that's one of the reasons I love it so much.

Have you read any patrick gale? I have just finished rough music and really enjoyed it. How about Sarah Walters earlier stuff? I thought fingersmith was a real page turning saga.