Give me some books you loved...

[golddustwomen]

With Christmas coming up my oh is starting to ask what books I would like.
Can you please recommend some books you loved..
Thrillers are my favourite.
Last Christmas he bought me 'a thousand splendid suns' which he had read rave reviews about. I put it to back of the list to read, however once I started I could not stop. I LOVED it.
Tia

Loved ‘The truth about the Harry Quebert affair’ very good

Have you got the BBC good reads app? If you put in what you’ve read it’ll make suggestions on what to read next!

The Circle - Dave Eggers
The Goldfinch - Donna Tartt
Commonwealth - Anne Patchett

The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell
Fatherland by Robert Harris
I've enjoyed both of these.

All the Susan Hill Simon Serrailier ones
All the Nicci French ones including Frieda Klein series
We need to Talk about Kevin by Lionel Schriver..not a thriller but disturbingly compelling.

State of Wonder by Ann Patchett

Currently reading The Art Of Dying by Ambrose Parry, it’s quite good.
Just finished The Secret Commonwealth by Phillip Pullman and absolutely loved it!

I have put my top ten list on other threads but can't resist putting it here too, because A Thousand Splendid Suns is on it!

A Thousand Splendid Suns – Khaled Hosseini
Ferney – James Long
Wolf Hall – Hilary Mantel
Precious Bane – Mary Webb
The Other Mrs Walker – Mary Paulson-Ellis
A Perfectly Good Man – Patrick Gale
The Blasphemer – Nigel Farndale
The Uninvited – Liz Jensen
The Secret Keeper – Kate Morton
Lambs of God – Marele Day

Ghost Children by Sue Townsend, Saint and Warrior by Valerie Windsor and House of Sleep by Johnathan Coe are constant favourites.

Oooh Ghost Children - yes! Read this years ago - very different. Amazon says it is on my Kindle. Will be re-reading soon.

My sister the serial killer
Power - Naomi alderman
I'm not scared by niccoli Amati
The immortalisers Chloe Benjamin
Outside Sarah Ann jukes
Thousan ships Natalie Haynes
My life as a rat Joyce oats
Home going yaa gyasi

There are lots of books I think are really GOOD - well written, important, whatever. But books I really LOVE are far fewer, where the world sticks with me for ages, and I really care about the characters for a long time afterwards.

I LOVE (and reread regularly):
The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy
Fortunes Rocks - Anita Shreve
the His Dark Materials books - Philip Pullman
The Dog Stars - Peter Heller
Pompeii - Robert Harris
The Daughter of Time - Josephine Tey

@Rosegoldwatcher Have you read Liz Jensen's The Rapture? Really good, and stays with you.
I would add, anything by Paula Daley.

@SpongeBobJudgeyPants - yes I have read The Rapture - really good and as disturbing as The Uninvited. I would love to see a film made of it. The only other one of hers I have read is The 9th Life of Louis Drax - didn't like that one so much.

Interesting Rose, will make a note to read The Univited. Thanks.

@Nutkin123 I tried to search BBC good reads app and nothing came up??

Ooh sorry! @tobee it’s just Goodreads if you search in apps!

Two recent reads you might like:
My Sister the Serial Killer
Home Fire

Thanks @Nutkin123 !

Fine Balance
Station Eleven
Wolf Hall
The Quincunx
The Miniaturist
The Nightingale
Educated
Pure
The Dog Stars
The Signature of all Things

That's all for now!

The Muse- Jessie Burton- follow up to the Miniaturist.
The Witchfinder's sister Beth Underdown
Birdcage Walk and The Greatcoat by Helen Dunmore -both more psychological thrillers
If you liked 1000 splendid suns, you might like the Reluctant Fundementalist and The Kiterunner

Fingersmith - Sarah Waters
Posession - AS Byatt
The signature of all things - Elizabeth Gilbert
The Goldfinch - Donna Tart
The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
Crime and Punishment - Dostoevsky
Bodies of Light - Sarah Moss
Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
I capture the castle - Dodie Smith
The Thirteenth Tale - Diane Setterfield
American Wife - Curtis Sittenfeld
Flowers for Algernon - Daniel Keyes
The Crimson Petal and the White - Michael Faber

The Ms Graves mysteries by Aubyn, although I'm not sure how you'd find them? My husband enjoyed these even though (because?) they're about a crazy old lady who drinks too much and goes to the deep South. I think he liked the music references...