My turn to choose a book for my book club - recommendations please

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I had totally forgotten that it's my turn to choose. It's tomorrow night and I've gone blank. In no particular order, we've already read:

The Secret Life of Bees
Station Eleven
The Dinner
The Well
The Miniaturist
Child44
Elizabeth is Missing
We are all completely beside ourselves
The Night Circus
The Paying Guests

Could you let me have some recommendations please?

The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt?

Depending on what type you're i nthe momd for, my suggestions are -

Whimsical -
A Man Called Ove - Frederik Backman

War and sexuality -
The Absolutist - John Boyne

Memoir -
Once in a House on Fire - Andrea Ashworth

sorry for bizarre typos!

Should say 'what type you are in the mood for'

I wouldn't recommend The Girl on the Train, I thought it was really over-rated.

Ive just started reading After The Crash. About a plane crash and the only survivor is a very small baby and two families come forward to see its their relation. So far, so good and it was a Waterstones recommendation.

TheGoldfinch is a great book but maybe quite long for a book club book?

Ive also just downloaded A Place Called Winter by Patrick Gayle which looks promising.

My book club loved the Golfinch and we are currently reading Jonathan strange and Mr Norrell

Once in a house on fire is fantastic (and not as long as the Goldfinch!).

Aren't We Sisters? By Patricia Ferguson. Clever, well written and so intriguing.

"Cutting for stone" by Abraham Verghese. Our book club really enjoyed that.

How about the latest CJ Samson, 'Lamentation'? Not a huge fan of the genre but that doesn't seem to matter with this one, I think it's just great storytelling. You might say the author has finally got into his groove.
(I also thought The Girl on the Train overrated because the writing did not make me care enough about the characters).

Some good ideas. Keep them coming because we generally have to suggest 3 possible titles and then come to a consensus choice .

We do meet every 3-4 weeks though so suspect that doorstop size books might be less than popular.

Our book club read 'Us' by David Nicholl last month and most people enjoyed it; we've also had good feedback for

The Kite Runner
Broken Harbour (Tana French)
The Accident
A Walk in the Woods - Bill Bryson
Winter Ghosts (Kate Mosse)

Have you read Longbourn by Jo Baker? It's the story of the servants behind the scenes in Pride and Prejudice.

Other books I've enjoyed recently have been Summertime by Vanessa Lafaye. If you enjoyed The Help, then this would appeal also. Set in 1930s Florida, in the run up to and during the biggest Hurricane to hit mainland America. Wake by Anna Hope is set in England, early 1920s and covers the days prior to the arrival of the unknown soldier.

Mr Mac and Me by Esther Freud is a lovely shortish novel set in Suffolk around the time of WW 1. A Song For Issy Bradley by Carys Bray might lead to some lively discussions. It wasn't my cup of tea but has had some good reviews on Goodreads.

Do you read non fiction? If so then I recommend Meadowland: the private life of an English Meadow by John Lewis Stempel, and H is for Hawk by Helen MacDonald.

After the Crash is really good.

I've just finished The Ice Twins which I really enjoyed and found a wee bit creepy. It's about identical twins, one of which dies but the mother isn't sure which one.

If you are in the market for something more middlebrow and fun, there's a cracking thriller being compared in tone to Gone Girl, called The Kind Worth Killing. I zipped through it in an afternoon and really enjoyed it. Interesting, if not especially likeable characters, and some great twists.

A Spot of Bother, By Mark Haddon.

Go set a watchman by Harper Lee could spark a good discussion.....

We have just read "Gillespe and I" lots of discussion.

We loved "the hand that first held mine"

Our bookclub have read similar books to yours OP. Our current book is A Place Called Winter. Also would recommend A Man Called Ove - quite a quick read and really lovely book. I've just finished Burnt Paper Sky which I really enjoyed. I read it in a day.

The Hand That First Held Mine (Maggie O'Farrell) is fabulous and I think would make a good book club discussion.

Also agree with A Man Called Ove - I liked it much more than I was expecting.

Let us know what you choose!

I offered up:
After the Crash
A Man Called Ove
A Song for Issy Bradley
Do No Harm
The Lifeboat (read about on another thread)

My preference was for A Man Called Ove, but the overall choice was... The Lifeboat.

Thanks for all the suggestions - I've added a few titles to my TBR list