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!

Just downloaded The Giver of Stars 😁

This thread is fab and will keep me going for months! (Please don’t stop though 😊)

The goldfinch Donna Tart
We, the drawned
A song for Achille M Miller
Girl, woman, other B Evaristo
Midnight library
The miniaturist

Loved The Goldfinch, not so keen on The Minutarist. Will look up the others, thanks.

Another vote for Beartown and it's a great time to read it as it's set in Sweden and with some great insights into how the winter is there.

I enjoyed several of the others on your list so you might like We Begin at the End by Chris Whitaker it's a great book that stayed with me

If you liked Fingersmith, try Sarah Waters’ next novel, Affinity — also a Victorian setting, centred on a relationship between an imprisoned occult medium and a lady prison visitor, twisty narrative?

If you like Maggie O’Farrell, try Helen Dunmore — Zennor in Darkness? With Your Crooked Heart or A Spell of Winter, also by HD.

Anne Enright? — maybe start withThe Forgotten Waltz?

Colm Tóibín — The Master or Nora Webster? (Not The Magician.)

Waterland by Graham Swift
Arcadia by Iain Pears
The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber
Possession by AS Byatt, anything by her in fact
The Fruit of the Lemon by Andrea Levy

@MillicentSpinning Just finished The Giver of Stars and really enjoyed it, thank you! 🙏

Have downloaded Affinity and We Begin at the End (which, handily, is just 99p today).

Having looked up most of this page, I have decided Amazon reviewers are weird, I don’t know why I pay any attention to them. They either all raving about something or hate it.

Do you have the Libby app?

Glad you enjoyed it @Feenie !

I've been coming back to this list for recommendations too!

No, what is it, @hopeso?

Ooh, I really enjoyed We Begin At The End. Good choice!

Oh Feenie, I'm hoping a whole extra world is going to open up for you! It's the library app where you can borrow books from your library straight onto your device. You need to have a library card and also make sure your council participates in the scheme.

www.overdrive.com/apps/libby/

For anyone who hasn't come across it yet, can I recommend literature map ? I can't do a link but just Google it.

You enter the name of an author you like, wait a few seconds and it will guide you to other writers you might like. Quite accurately in my experience!

@NoSquirrels

Didn’t like Life After Life

Same, couldn't finish I kept thinking WTF is happening

Just thought of Patrick Gale too. Most of his novels are great, but Rough Music and Notes From an Exhibition I particularly like. He writes fairly quietly but very astutely about people and their lives. They're more interesting than that sounds