Recommendations for new year of reading

[Curlyshabtree]

Looking to expand my book collection this year and would welcome any suggestions. I read a wide variety of fiction and non fiction but i’m not keen on chick lit, historical fiction or sci-fi/fantasy.
Thanks in advance.

Would you like to tell us some books that you've enjoyed so we have some idea what to suggest?

Some of my favourite authors include John Irving, Margaret Atwood, Donna Tartt, Kate Atkinson and Anne Tyler. But I really do like a bit of everything save the genres already mentioned. I love interesting travelogues too.

I'm going to work my way through this

www.theguardian.com/books/2020/nov/21/elena-ferrante-names-her-40-favourite-books-by-female-authors

I've just finished The Thursday Murder Club which I enjoyed a lot.

Based on your favourite authors, have a look at:

Ann Patchett (start with Bel Canto, State of Wonder or The Dutch House )

Rose Tremain (Restoration or The Road Home )

Jane Harris ( The Observations and Gillespie and I )

Also, William Boyd, Sarah Waters ( Fingersmith is good) and Amor Towles ( A Gentleman in Moscow )

Loads more suggestions to be found on the 50 Book Challenge thread

I’ve just finished The Thursday Murder Club too. It was OK, quite funny.
Ann Patchett’s come up a few times so I think that’s a definite. I saw that list in the paper a few weeks back, I’ve read a few on there.

As you like Anne Tyler you might also enjoy The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin and The Most Fun We Ever Had by Claire Lombardo .
You might also want to try Love after Love by Ingrid Persaud, set in Trinidad and New York,

I’ve just read ‘Three Hours’ by Rosamund Lupton and it was brilliant. I normally read for about 20 minutes at bedtime, but have been reading this one for the past couple of afternoons just because I needed to find out what happens. It has heartbreaking twists and is really well written.