Please recommend me a wonderful book

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I love reading. Always have. Really want something I can get totally lost in. Authors I like are - Maggie O'Farrell, Kate Atkinson, Charity Norman, Louise Candlish, Lisa Jewell (although didn't rate her last book) Erin Kelley, David Nicholls.
However I've been reading quite a few thrillers lately and want something a bit different.
TIA

Untamed by Glennon Doyle.

What's that about?

Try John Irving. A prayer for Owen meaney.

Any Human Heart

This one
www.theguardian.com/books/2015/aug/28/the-loney-andrew-michael-hurley-review-gothic-novel

Donna Tartt's The Secret History (if you haven't already read it)

And The Goldfinch - amazing.

Plus JKR’s Robert Galbraith Strike and Robin series.

The Red Tent - Anita Diamant
Notes on a Scandal - Zoe heller
The Beach - Alex Garland
Year of Wonders -a novel of the plague - Geraldine Brooks
Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks

If you haven't already read them then I'm jel of you reading them for the first time.

Mine are a few years old as not read a brilliant books an quite a while:

The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry (and the sequel)- both fab books.

Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie society - again brill.

Book in! Hate autocorrect

The Heart's Invisible Furies by John Borne is amazing, I've gone through every emotion possible reading it so far, love it.

Another fab is The Mercies by Kiran Millwood Hargrave. Just amazing.

I've read birdsong and notes on a scandal. Will have a look at some of the others!

Days without end - Sebastian Barry. American wars. Brilliant.

Definitely second The Heart's Invisible Furies - John Boyne is a genius. I've also just read and enjoyed The Night Circus.

Away with the Penguins is currently a 99p Kindle read - I bought it a couple of days ago because I suffer from chronic insomnia and needed something to read in the small hours - I absolutely loved it and read it in one sitting.

I thought the plague one might be quite a relevant read right now OP :) Helps that it's beautifully written ofc.

Hatch, match, dispatch by ginny walker

And this
www.theguardian.com/culture/2015/jun/07/i-saw-a-man-owen-sheers-review-profound-meditation

I second Year of Wonders. Another really good book by Geraldine Brooks is March; Little Women retold from the point of view of the girls' absent father, filling in details about the Civil War which Little Women skirted over.

I also enjoyed the Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry- at the beginning I was worried it would be a bit twee, but it isn't.
I'm currently reading The Sealwoman's Gift, nearly finished it and would highly recommend, based on the true story of Icelanders kidnapped and sold as slaves in Algiers- not something I knew about but well told through a sympathetic central character.

Just remembered - The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker. One of my favourite books of the last few years.

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Just remembered - The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker. One of my favourite books of the last few years.

If you liked Silence of the girls, Madeleine Millers Song of Achilles is similar subject, and as good!

Second The Night Circus mentioned above. If you're looking for literary fiction murder mystery, Tana French's Dublin Murder squad is a good series. They can be read stand alone or in sequence.

Silence of the Girls was amazing. Reread it shortly after and enjoyed it just as much.

I have similar reading taste to OP, watching with interest.

I really enjoyed Shuggie Bain non pretentious Booker prize winner

I grew up in Scotland in the 1990's with alcoholism in my family and it made me weep in recognition.

I don't think anyone would regret reading it

Wynch Elm - Tana French

Terrific literary thriller