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Please recommend me a book.

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DirtyDennis · 13/05/2019 13:20

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!

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DirtyDennis · 13/05/2019 13:22

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

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thirdlittlepig · 13/05/2019 13:59

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

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DirtyDennis · 13/05/2019 14:00

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 Grin

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BettySwollocksandaCrustyRack · 13/05/2019 16:40

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

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DirtyDennis · 13/05/2019 16:49

Thanks Betty, I'll have a look.

More suggestions, please send them along!!

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lastqueenofscotland · 13/05/2019 21:52

I think we may have similar tastes

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

TheEagle · 13/05/2019 21:54

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

Nyctophilia · 13/05/2019 22:35

Just finished The Rumour, really enjoyed it

Mojitomogul · 13/05/2019 22:41

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

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DirtyDennis · 14/05/2019 12:14

Ooooh, these are wonderful, thank you so much Smile

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Welshwabbit · 14/05/2019 17:04

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.

Welshwabbit · 14/05/2019 17:05

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.

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