Holiday reads 2022

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I'm going on holiday on Saturday and have just realised I have no books! Hit me with your holiday reading recommendations please. Books I've enjoyed recently are:

The Paper Palace
Where The Crawdads Sing
The Exhibitionist
Sorrow & Bliss

Other favourites are:

The Heart's Incredible Furies - John Boyne
Any Human Heart - William Boyd (and all of his others)
Eleanor Oliphant

Margaret Atwood
Anne Tyler

If I like the above, what else might I enjoy?

Barbara Kingsolver? A bit more 'heavyweight' perhaps than Anne Tyler, but her novels are gripping and absorbing about their characters' lives.
Another Barbara, Trapido. Funny and 'frothy' books in a way, but they're also very satisfying as they're so sophisticated in terms of the writing and references.
Patrick Gale is also good on people's lives. 'easy' to read, but deals with serious and difficult situations and issues.
The Offing, Benjamin Myers. Read it recently and was blown away. It's a real one-off.
If you like Jessie Burton, she has a new one out.

I’m reading Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead. It’s a fabulous saga that ties together a fictional female aviator, the second world war, contemporary Hollywood, twinship, a feral childhood, plus some strong romance storylines, feminism and friendship.
I’m going to be bereft when I finish it.

I've just finished Betty and it is so fabulous. In the vein of The Heart's Invisible Furies - beautifully told and heartbreaking. I cannot recommend it enough. Also Pachenko and Circe... although I don't share your love of Sorrow And Bliss which I thought was massively overhyped and thin!

Pachinko was also one of my favourite reads.

Anything by Patrick Gale. Also Colm Toibin if you like John Boyne.
The Light Perpetual by Francis Spufford.
A Town Called Solace by Mary Lawson.

Station 11 by Emily St John Mandel, is brilliant if you haven't read it already.

Thanks for these ideas, I have a similar taste and have put a few on my list.

Loved any human heart, hearts incredible furies, the goldfinch.

I recently read Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver and it was pleasant but never really sucked me in.

I also love Philip Pullman books for their immersive quality so you could consider those even though a different style.

Oh Elizabeth Strout is good too.

Which Anne Tyler would you recommend?