Isolating and need more books - if I like…..

[Feenie]

Have read and given 5 stars in the last year:

Hamnet
Engleby
Shuggie Bain
The Heart of Invisible Furies
Fingersmith
Imperfect Women

To give some idea of the kind of thing I like. TIA!

Have you read Piranesi yet? If not, I highly recommend it.

I hated Piranesi! Was definitely a marmite book amongst friends. Would recommend;

House of Glass (Hadley Freeman)
Circe (Madeline Miller)
Beartown (Frederik Backman)

I loved Piranesi!

Little Fires Everywhere
All the Light We Cannot See
Night Waking
Station 11

The Essex Serpent
The Testament of Gideon Mack
The Children of Jocasta
H is for hawk

Or for something completely different - I've just read the John Le Carre George Smiley books for the first time and loved them.

Love the books on your list!
I would recommend:
Where the Crawdads sing
The Dutch House
Affinity
The Little Stranger
Restless
My Beautiful Friend
Frenchman's Creek

Must stop! Could go on!

Thanks all so far - you are definitely on my wavelength as I have read and enjoyed a good half of those! DH read Piranesi and loved it, but am not really a fantasy genre person myself. Will go and look some of these up

Ooh, The Testament of Gideon Mack, that takes me back!

How about

Small Pleasures (Clare Chambers)
Life After Life (Kate Atkinson)
Unsettled Ground (Claire Fuller)
The Manningtree Witches (err, forgotten!)

Doing keep recommending though! Have also read everything there is to read by Deborah Moggach, Wally Lamb and Amy Tan (at least twice each), Nicci French, Nicci Gerrard, Alex Marwood, Bernice Rubens, Isabel Ashdown, Erin Kelly, Irvine Welsh, Khaled Hosseini….:

Great Circle
The Giver of Stars

Enjoyed both enormously!

Anything by William Boyd

Also, after reading Hamnet I searched for the title/Maggie O'Farrell in podcasts and spent a happy time hearing about how she wrote it and her other books.

It led me to read I Am, I Am, I Am which was also enjoyable.

The Vanishing Half (Brit Bennett)
Girl A (err, forgotten again!)
The Familiars (Stacey Halls)

From the lists here, have read:

Little Fires Everywhere
All the Light We Cannot See
Where the Crawdads sing
The Little Stranger
Girl A (and a different Girl A which was sooooo bad!)
I Am, I Am, I Am - and the rest of Maggie O’Farrell

Loved Any Human Heart by William Boyd but didn’t like Restless

Didn’t like Life After Life

So loads to go on

Sorry and bliss
Paper place
Girl A

I’m currently working through the Sarah cox book group list, which is good for ideas.

So many good books listed here! I'm reading A Little Life at the moment which is just brilliant . I really enjoyed The Night Circus too.

Didn’t like Life After Life

@Feenie, I like the same authors as you, although i wasn't mad about Engleby and have preferred SF's other books.

I think you would love Ann Patchett and would recommend especially Bel Canto, The Dutch House and State of Wonder.

Also, Rose Tremain - Restoration, Music and Silence and The Road Home are all very good.

Sue Gee - Earth and Heaven and The Mystery of Glass.

Amor Towles - A Gentleman in Moscow.

Secret River - Kate Grenville.

And my two all-time favourites are The Shipping News by E Annie Proulx, and The Observations by Jane Harris.

Oh, and a bit different from the above list, but because you mentioned Shuggie Bain and Irvine Welsh, try Christopher Brookmyre for a mix of black humour and crime. Really entertaining. Quite Ugly One Morning is his first novel, and One Fine Day in the Middle of the Night is my favourite of his.

I liked all the books on your list. I've just read The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry and really enjoyed it.
Also How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps her House by Cherie Jones was a good read.

Have you read other Maggie O'Farrell books? They're all pretty good.
Also Esther Freud, and to add to the Sarah Moss suggestion, Bodies of Light and its sort-of sequel Signs for Lost Children.
Great Circle? It's a bit of a tome, but if you've got time on your hands...

Vikram Seth ~ A Suitable Boy

Anything by Robert Harris, especially An Officer and a Spy

Niall Williams ~ This is Happiness

Anything by Jane Gardam especially Old Filth

The Cormoran Strike series by “Robert Galbraith”

John Preston ~ The Dig

You might like to try
The Girl With the Louding Voice Abi Dare
We Must be Brave Frances Liardet
Mother,Mother Annie McMannus
Her Last Flight Beatriz Williams

Only read 2 on your list but both brilliant, especially Engleby, what a brilliant book.

I loved Piranesi
Also A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley
Just read A Town Called Solace by Mary Lawson- v good.
American Wife by Curtis Sittenfield
Life After Life by Kate Atkinson , plus most of her other books, especially the Jackson Brodies.
A Perfect Spy by John le Carre, a bit tough going at first but v good once you get going.

Run by Ann Patchett, also v good

I've just read Pachinko,which I loved.
The Dutch House is very good.