What have you read recently that was AMAZING?

[JemimaMuddledUp]

Looking for recommendations to add to my list for 2017.

My favourite recent reads are:
Shylock is my Name - Howard Jacobson
A Week in December - Sebastian Faulks
The Muse - Jessie Burton

What have you loved and why?

I've just read everything I never told you by Celeste ng. Was really good.

Oh, I read that Celeste Ng last year and loved it too blueberry. Also loved loved loved "A Little Life".

Just finished "The Blazing World" by Siri Husvedt which was very good, but not sure I loved it.

I read Elena Ferrante's "A Brilliant Friend" recently, but definitely didn't love it and won't be continuing with the rest of them.

All the Light I Cannot See
The Dovekeepers
A God in Ruins

I second The goldfinch, room and americanah.

The last two books I read that were amazing were A Constellation of Vital Phenomena by Anthony Marra and Flight Behaviour by Barbara Kingsolver.

Agree Americanah and The Power were both excellent, thought provoking reads.

My friend gave me a copy Peripheral Vision by Patricia Ferguson for my birthday in October and I have read it over Christmas/New Year. Not a new book, was published in 2007 i think. Can't recommend it enough, it follows a cast of characters in the 1950s and 1990s and how their lives intertwine. It's about coincidences and families and love. It's brilliant.

Solar Bones by Mike McCormack - won the Goldsmiths Prize last year and I thought it might be too hard going, but it sucked me in and I couldn't get it out of my head for days.

I have just finished The Unseen World by Liz Moore and really enjoyed it.

A little life - it will stay with you.

The bricks that built the houses.

I agree with a little life - quite long but was a good read.

Just started goldfinch! Anyone read the new Margaret Atwood? It doesn't get great reviews on amazon but I really enjoyed her classics...

My three favourite books last year were A little life, The light between the oceans and The truth about the Harry Quebert affair, very different books but absolutely loved them all.

I found The goldfinch difficult to read, but felt bereft when I finished it and couldn't stop thinking about it.

The Book of Night Women by Marlon James. It's a difficult read because of the subject matter but I could not put it down. I finished it in a day and it's not a small book.

Reading the reviews of A Little Life on Amazon, it seems a very marmite book, pp either love it or hate it!

Charles dubow indiscretion is one of the best books I've ever read

The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway.

A revelation.

A Dictionary of mutual understanding - gorgeous and brilliant!

I loved A Little Life too. It does stay with you. The character of Jude is so beautifully drawn and the story of friendships and how they change through life is one that holds you. Read The Goldfinch while I was ill so read for hours at a stretch. Gripped by it.
A God in Ruins - superb. Again - such strong character and an insight into a world.

One that I haven't seen mentioned yet - William Boyd Sweet Caress - a strong sense of place and time, modern history, strong character. Brilliant

All the light we cannot see
Conclave
Cartel

The last two were shared from my husband's kindle. Not something I'd normally choose (one is about electing a new pope, the other about Mexican Drug wars) but really gripping .

Ooh some great suggestions here. The book I've been recommending to anyone this year is A Man Called Ove (can't remember the author). It's quirky, funny, sad and uplifting, a real gem of a story.

Poppytime - I read the latest Margaret Attwood (The Heart Goes Last?) and loved it. Back to the dystopian stuff she does so brilliantly.

The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern.

Was just about to say A Man called Ove too. Loved it.

The Return by Hisham Mattar, beautifully written, thoughtful, moving about his life and his father's. His father was a Libyan dissident captured by Gaddafi and when the Arab Spring started, Mattar went back to Libya to see if he could find out what had happened to him.

Others mentioned on here. I loved Americanah and I Capture the Castle and thought My Brilliant Friend was very forgettable. Seemed like I had read a different book to everyone else.