Please recommend me a book.

[DirtyDennis]

I'm heading to town on Thursday and I want to buy myself a new fiction book. If I give you a list of books and authors I've loved/liked over the last few years, can you give me a push in the direction of my next book, please...

• A Little Life (best book I've ever read, kind of ruined reading for me!)
• The People in the Trees
• Elanor Oliphant
• The Namesake
• Handmaid's Tale (not so much any other Attwood books though)
• Anything by Andrea Levy
• Most things by Isabelle Allende
• Most things by Karen Maitland
• Anything by Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche (apart from short stories)
• Anything by Donna Tartt
• Most of the Cemetery of Forgotten Books (until the last one which was shit)
• Most things by CJ Sansom
• Most things by Du Maurier (that one about the guy on LSD tripping back to the C13 was a bit odd though)
• Watchmaker of Filigree Street (got Pulley's next book but DP has nicked it for now)

I would really appreciate a few recommendations to be getting on with, please!

Forgot to say I love most of Sarah Waters' work as well

I've really enjoyed a lot of the books on your list and recently liked:

Home Fires - Kamila Shamsie (has become eerily relevant with recent news)

The Patrick Melrose novels - Edward St. Aubyn - beautifully written

Quite enjoying the Kite Runner at the moment too

Ooooh, I haven't heard of those top two, thanks.

I read The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns years ago, both really good books

I have just finished Relentless by Simon Kernick, it was gripping from start to finish, well worth a read.

Thanks Betty, I'll have a look.

More suggestions, please send them along!!

I think we may have similar tastes

I am reading Sorry To Disrupt The Peace by Patty Cottrell which is fantastic

I like a lot of those on your list and have just really enjoyed:

Normal People by Sally Rooney
The Hunting Party by Lucy Foley
Unravelling Oliver by Liz Nugent

Just started Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens

Just finished The Rumour, really enjoyed it

I've just started reading Vox by Christina Dalcher and really enjoying it! Its relatively similar to the handmaids tale -dystopian America where women are oppressed etc

Ooooh, these are wonderful, thank you so much

If you haven't read it, The Power by Naomi Alderman

Also from the other authors and books you list, you might like Life after Life and A God in Ruins by Kate Atkinson.

Oh, and if you like Donna Tartt, try any of Tana French's Dublin Murder Squad series, or her recent stand-alone, The Wych Elm.