Thank you to adult fiction contributors

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Just wanted to say thank you to everyone who contributes to this topic. since I started following it I have read:

Uttermost Part of the Earth from the less well known books thread - thank you so much for this book - recommended it to a friend too and he loved it and my stock as an interesting reader has soared

Period Piece from same thread. loved it

Gentlemen and Players from the "what is this book about a boarding school" thread - listening to it on cd in my car and I don't mind driving any teen anywhere as a result. Spent an hour in traffic today and was happy as a clam whereas normally I'd be spitting.

Louise Penny from some other thread-listening to inspector gamache in the car for past few months and it has saved my sanity

numerous novels from the scary novel thread that I had never heard of before now

Lots of other books - can't remember them all.

I got all of these books/cds from my local library - one of the best social inventions ever, the free library.

Anyway, thanks. I am always looking for new books/new authors, especially new old authors if you know what i mean.

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This is the best part of MN, as far as I'm concerned.

Your thanks echoed, tenfold, to all who post here!

No problem! And thank you, OP, and everyone else.

My TBR pile is getting higher and higher mainly because of this part of MN but there's worse problems to be had

Between recommendations on here and on Goodreads, my tbr list is going to take the rest of my life to clear, assuming I live to 200

My favourite discovery has been Robert Macfarlane but there have been so many more too.

Thank you for starting this thread.

I hadn't heard of any of the books you mention, and now I am intrigued!

Totally agree with Remus that this is the best part of MN. Somehow I feel heartened to know that there are plenty of people still reading - that it is not a "dying" past-time, that books are still important and that we enjoy the freedom to read what we choose.

Oh gentleman and players was amazing, had forgotten about that book!

I should really post more on here. I lurk every day and have fab recommendations. The standout one for me was The best of our spies by Alex Gerlis. I think it was Remus who recommended it. Truly brilliant book and one I would never have found without this topic. It's 99p on Amazon at the moment and on kindle unlimited.
This is the only topic I really bother with on mumsnet now. Occasionally I will read The Doghouse but too long in the tooth for Aibu etc
For those of you who haven't done so I urge you to join the mumsnet book club. Again great recommendations and proper post read discussions.
Also I like the fact that you can disagree with another poster on here without it turning into a row. There is a healthy level of respect on here for other points of view.

Not me, Dexter. I haven't read it. Googling it immediately!

Remus, you have form for excellent recommendations, I only read The Dark Tower series because of you. Those books haunt me.

Me too - am due a re-read pretty soon, I think!

Sorry Remus, it was BOF, who recommended this one and there is an old thread, I can't do links. It is true though that you are good for recommendations.

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I am in need of recommendations myself right now tbh.

Me too! I've 'done' other topics over the years on MN but the Books section always brings something new.

Gutted I didn't think of MargoReadBetter as a name!

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I am so very grateful for some cracking recommendations too.
Great thread OP

Thank you for the recommendations.
I was lurking on here as it is my turn to choose the book for our book club, the book reviews and best seller lists seem to consist of the same few best selling authors.

It is difficult to find older books. Thank you all of the above look interesting.

OP, are you on the 50-book challenge thread? My favourite MN thread ever

Well thanks to you OP for starting this thread. I have just finished Gentlemen and Players- fab. And read the Alex Gerlis book last week and loved it. Feeling a bit bereft. Any more ?

I loved Gentlemen and Players too.

Have you read Susan Hill's Simon Serrailler series? If not, then I would recommend them. There's eight novels in the series now and I love them

Thanks Duchess, I'll give them a go.

Just wanted to say thanks as well, just finished The best of our spies , really liked it.

I'm emerging from a fog of sleep deprivation and getting back into proper reading again.

Uttermost Part of the Earth sounds really interesting, I'm off to search Abe Books

Just finished Academy Street (recommended on here) sad but lovely

just read Proper Bostonians by Charles Amory which is probably ungettable outside of Boston but it was fascinating.

About to start Until You're Mine and The Old Ways - both from MN although The Old Ways is not from a fiction thread.

Will try the Susan Hill series. And the best of our spies by Alex Gerlis

In addition to loving this forum, I love libraries.