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1wokeuplikethis · 18/01/2018 17:13

Automatically I click on kindle bestsellers, look for what has the most reviews, try a sample, read, buy, sigh, feel dissatisfied, repeat.

I am really sick of reading "thrillers" you know; the "most unputdownable (worst descriptive word ever invented and utterly overused) thriller that will keep you guessing with a TWIST AT THE END YOULL NEVER SEE COMING!!!! Richard & Judy book club best seller hot new debut fab fab fucking head exploding incredible thrilly mind bending twisty twerker edge of your seat MUST READ that you'll have to finish in one go!" Etc etc and they are all pretty...meh.

In my dissatisfied rut I've returned to some old favourites and read some Stephen Kings I've not read before. Read Marian Keyes new one and then one of her old ones I've read before. And I'm thinking I'll just buy penny vincenzis new one and maybe when I come back to bestsellers there will be something decent.

I do like thrillers when they are good, but there is a lot of bumpf about right now as it seems the hot topic. I like real-life fiction and I like horror and I like a bit of humour like the 100 year old man or Danny Wallace. I'm rather eclectic, most of all I just like a GOOD BOOK. That I want to get to bed early for to read. Probably not felt like that since I read the hunger games.

Help a bookworm out, please!

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HappydaysArehere · 25/05/2018 09:34

Also recommend Eleanor Oliphont is Completely Fine. Really liked it and it was a complete change from the run of the mill.

CharltonLido73 · 29/05/2018 15:14

I second Sarah Waters: Fingersmith and The Little Stranger, in particular. I also really enjoyed The Paying Guests but couldn't get on with The Night Watch.

I'd also recommend Rose Tremain: Music and Silence and Trespass.

I love anything by Anita Shreve. I was so sorry to read of her recent death.

Chickoletta · 30/05/2018 20:02

I'm a Kate Atkinson fan too. The best nook I've read recently was The Light Behind the Window by Lucinda Riley. I've read a few of her other novels and have always seen them as quite frothy holiday reading but this is excellent. Young woman working as a secret agent in Paris during the war right under the nose of the SS.

gryffen · 30/05/2018 20:04

Wilbur Smith Egyptian Series
Diana Gabaldon
Michelle Moran
Christine Feehan

BlackAmericanoNoSugar · 30/05/2018 20:05

Have you tried Literature Map? You put in the name of an author that you like and it gives you other authors that are similar.

Frouby · 30/05/2018 20:14

OP your reading tastes sound like mine. I like Kate Atkinson but don't love her. I don't have particular genres I prefer but just want good books. Finding thrillers all very meh atm too.

I probably replied up thread but recent favourites have been the Shetland series and Vera by Anne Cleeves. The Tana French Dublin Murder Squad series. The Peter May Lewis triology. I did enjoy Kate Atkinson Life After Life. I enjoy Lisa Jewells stuff.

Am currently reading Anatomy of a Scandal and enjoying that.

AClearShotOfTheStreet · 30/05/2018 21:37

Curtis Sittenfeld is just sublime.... loved American Wife, Prep and Sisterland.

Also Maria McCann who writes really intelligent but fabulously plotted hist fic.... As Meat Loves Salt is my fave but they are all great.

efeslight · 30/05/2018 22:25

I also returned to reading Stephen King recently, after being quite scathing about him since i was a teenager. But what a writer...
What about
Susan Hill, detective series
Daphne du Maurier
Patricia highsmith
Also all the detective writers that frouby recommended.
Have you tried p d james ot Barbara vine/ruth rendell?
I also like the scandi noir writers.

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