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

I enjoyed the Night Circus. I'd also recommend Sweetpea by CJ Skuse. There's a 2nd one called In Bloom and the third is out soon. I'm looking forward to it.

Thank you everyone!

Love sweetpea.

The Last Thing You Surrender by Leonard Pitts JR

Life after Life by Kate Atkinson.
The Bear and the Nightengale by Katherine Arden (first in a trilogy if you like it)
The Universe Versus Alex Woods by Gavin Extence.
Anything by Lissa Evans, they're all equally enjoyable.

I really enjoyed The Night Circus. It would make a great film (as long as they didn't give it The Time Traveller's Wife treatment!)

I also loved The Sealwoman's Gift and Sally Magnusson's new book The Ninth Child was also very good
Any book by Clare Morrall .
Saving Missy Beth Morrey
Love After Love Ingrid Persaud
The Words in My Hand Guinevere Glasfurd

The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan - very very good! Not always an easy read (part of its set in Japanese POW camp) but beautifully written and really stays with you.

An American Marriage - Tayari Jones

Another vote for The Silence of the Girls as welll as The Song of Achilles.

Also! In the same vein The Penelopiad - Atwood.

Probably my favourite out of the three.

Ocean at the end was fantastic too. Even my grumpy teen DS loved it.

Of the lane 🙈.

Another vote for The Heart's Invisible Furies, it's the best book I've read this year.

eleanor oliphant is completely fine

Sorry if that has been said already

Miss Benson’s Beetle - Rachel Joyce

Elinor Oliphant is ace!

Great thread thank you, place marking for later.

if you like Kate Atkinson, OP, you will probably enjoy Patrick Gale.

My favourite books of his are Notes from an Exhibition and A Perfectly Good Man.

Liane Moriarty (wrote Big Little Lies, my favourite was What Alice Forgot)

All the Light We Cannot See was wonderful

Elisabeth Gifford. .particularly "the lost lights of st kilda" it's a beautiful read set just before the islanders asked to leave (it's an island off the Scottish no longer inhabited )

also the lost man by Jane harper thriller set in the outback

both are very invocative of time and place

@milienhaus

Liane Moriarty (wrote Big Little Lies, my favourite was What Alice Forgot)

Loved both of those. Think I've read all her books!

Orphans Of The Carnival by Carol Birch. Very different, but it will stay with you.

Seven Sisters - LucindaRiley

The Heatwave - Kate Riordan