Need a Quality read please

[BaconAndAvocado]

Just finished a Val McDermid and a Sophie Hannah.

Both a bit meh and very formulaic.

Really need something with a bit more substance and depth.

My favourite authors are Kate Atkinson, Rose Tremain.
I've recently enjoyed:
A Gentleman in Moscow
The Heart's Invisible Furies
The Goldfinch
The Midnight Library

Any suggestions anyone?
Tia

Apeirogon by Collum McCann, long listed for the Booker. inspirational

Have you read Klara and the Sun by Kazoo Ishiguro? I recently enjoyed it.

I've recently read American Dirt and it was great one of the best books I've read in a while

Auto correct - Kazuo, obviously.

I enjoyed all the books you mentioned. Recently I read The Dutch House by Ann Patchett which might fit the bill.

rc22 I think we're reading doppelgängers!
I read The Dutch House in the summer and adored it.

I also loved American Dirt.

Thank you.
Will look up Apeirigon and Klara and the Sun.

Any more please?

The Memory Watcher by Minka Kent.

A few years old, but The Memory of Love by Aminatta Forna might fit the bill.

Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell i absolutely loved.

All the Light I cannot see
The four winds
The light between oceans

LOVED All the Light They Cannot See.

Just finished The Country of Others by Leïla Slimani, it was incredible (and the first of a planned trilogy so more to come). Highly recommend.

You seem to like all my favourite recent reads. Others I have loved are Pachinko, City of Girls and Daisy Jones and the Six.

Anything by Helen Dunmore or Carol Shields. Ditto Rose Tremain.
I'm currently reading Natalie Haynes, A Thousand Ships, a retelling of the Trojan war and Greek mythology from the women's perspective.

I adored I never said I loved you (autobiography by rhik samaddar), will this house last forever (essays on grief by xanthi barker, will depend where you are in your life if you can read this), sunset by Jessie cave (novel) and sorrow and bliss by Meg mason (novel). Older, but trick mirror (collection of essays by jia tolentino) also v good

Sarah Waters

I'm reading Once Upon A River at moment - the storytelling is beautiful. Reminds me of The Goldfinch in the way it is written.
Would recommend. Got it 1.99 on kindle recently.

And Tracey Chevalier

I’ve just finished Rules of Civility by Amore Towles which I really enjoyed. Recent favourites have been All the Light we Cannot See (probably one of my all time faves actually) & Burial Rites based on a true story of the last woman to be executed in Iceland. Very well written and obviously heartbreaking, but not gory. Both multi award winning and deservedly so.

Oh and TY to Once Upon a Tover - absolutely beautiful.

YY and River!

The Silence Of The Girls by Pat Barker - the sequel Women Of Troy is out in hardback.

Agree with PP who suggested Hamnet, it’s absolutely wonderful.

I’m revisiting an old favourite at the moment, The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields.

I've read and loved Hamnet and the Stone Diaries.

Liked the look of Daisy and the Six.
Thanks everyone, got loads to look into 🙏🏻

@BaconAndAvocado You have similar reading tastes to me. One of the stand-out books that I have read this year is Homegoing, by Yaa Gyasi.

I have also read, and fell in love with, Monsieur Linh and His Child, by Philippe Claudel. Just wonderful.