Which one of these books shall I read next??

[AnneEtAramis]

Straw poll - I have gone through my shelf and Kindle and these are my options. I have just finished Eva Luna by Isabel Allende which I loved but don't really want something similar as I have another of her books to come back to once I have digested this one.

So,

A Golden Age, by Tahmina Anam
The Hungry Tide, by Amitav Ghosh
The Rose of Sebastopol, Katharine McMahon
Home of the Gentry, Ivan Turgenev
Dark continent, Mark Mazower
The Architect's Apprentice, Elif Shafak
Romola, George Eliot
The Fat of Fed Beasts, Guy Ware

The Turgenev or the Shafak. I adore George Eliot but Romola is a bit indigestible, and the only one of hers I've never re read...

I had never heard of Romola before but recently it has come up in three different conversations. I did love Adam Bede which is the only Eliot I have read.

The Rose of Sebastopol . Really enjoyable light read,very well written.

If you liked Adam Bede, I'd read GE's The Mill on the Floss next. Romola is a historical novel set in 15th century Florence and in some ways completely unlike anything else GE wrote. And Middlemarch, of course, which is wonderful...