Brilliant books?

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I'm looking for inspiration.

Please can you name a book you loved?
Especially if you read it in the past few years.

As the result of a disability, all of the books that I 'read' I don't read, I listen to them.
That aside, I'm still after good books, it doesn't matter how you accessed it.

Genre doesn't matter to me.

Just a brilliant book(s) please.

Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is the best book I read last year. I also loved Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga.

Behind Closed Doors - BA Paris ( I'm always recommending this ! Scary !!)
Second The Hearts Invisible furies - brilliant.
I enjoyed Home Stretch - Graham Norton.
My dsis told me about Patrick Gayle, so thanks to a pp for the reminder.
I'm reading Savages, Shirley Conran. I've read it a few times, love it.

My favourites
The perfume collector
Mrs Sinclair suitcase
A woman of no,importance
A necessary evil
Vanity fair
My cousin Rachel
Hotel on the corner of Bitter and sweet
Buddenbrooks
Miss Buncles Book
The other typist
Any by Edith Wharton

@everybodystalking I absolutely love An Equal Music. I'm going to go back and read it again I think. Thanks for reminding me of it.

Recently I've read and loved:

Hamnet - Maggie O Farrell
Cloud Cuckoo Land - new one from Anthony Doerr
Station Eleven - Emily St John Mandel
Between the Stops - Sandi Toksvig's memoir
Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self - Claire Tomalin

Currently reading and thoroughly enjoying:
Great Circle - about a girl in the 30s determined to become a pilot

The Humans - Matt haig

Whoever recommended 'the last house on needless street' I've just finished it in 2 nights! Such a Brilliant thriller!! Thanks for the recommendation!

Anything by Kazuo Ishiguro.

@indecisivewoman81 it was you! Off to check out the other authors you've recommended!

It's not new but I recently read 'the fifth child' - I really loved it. Not one to read if you're pregnant though!
Agree that Ben Aaronovitch's rivers of London books are really excellent. Like Harry potter joined the police.
Also read Jane Ayre for the first time a few years ago & enjoyed it.

@ouch12345 thank you, that books was excellent wasn't it? Like nothing I've read before!

Lemonweightloss I was really interested in your choices. The Heart's Invisible Furies was one of the best books I've read in years. Behind Closed Doors was one of the worst - I hated it! Interesting how we all see things differently.

If you’re not averse to a bit of nature writing, I recommend the Hidden Life of Trees. You’ll never look at a tree in the same way again.

Another recommendation for The Hearts Invisible Furies, one of my favourite books ever! I also loved We Begin at The End by Chris Whittaker, my favourite read last year

A Little Life is a brilliant book. A coming of age tale of 4 men in new York. It's amazing.

We Were The Lucky Ones by Georgia Hunter. It's an extremely sad but uplifting book based on the true story of a Polish Jewish family during WW2.

So sorry, wrong thread!

Educated, the other half of Augusta Hope, the giver of stars, after the end, the storyteller, the light between oceans

Maybe completely off the map of the known world here but the Patrick O'Brian Jack Aubrey series audiobooks are excellent (there are audiobooks and the brilliant BBC adaptations of the first I think 7 of the series). The Russell Crowe film Master and Commander was based on the series.