Best book you've read recently

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Sorry...lame I know!

I'm trying to get back into reading in the evenings after I get the little ones to bed...

Something I can lost in...i don't mind a creepy tale but nothing too scary !!

Audiobooks to be fair. The Unheard by Nicci French
Beneath the skin and Land of the Living also by her. First time in years that I've listened to so many books in just a couple of weeks. Absolutely unputdownable !

The Midnight Library- Matt Haig.

Another vote for Still Life, my favourite book of the year so far. I also enjoyed The Change by Kirsten Miller about mad, angry menopausal women.. resonated somewhat.

I've just finished The Lamplighters and loved it - inspired by a true story and about 3 lighthouse keepers who vanish, leaving stopped clocks, a set table and a locked door but it's about so much more than that - who we choose to be with, who we are stuck with, what we are capable of. It manages to be claustrophobic whilst at the same time conjuring images of how expansive the earth can be. I found it perfect winter evening reading :)

For those recommending How to Kill Your Family, I read A Certain Hunger by Chelsea G Summers soon after reading HTKYF - some of you might enjoy that! A similar premise.

Young Mungo by Douglas Stuart. Best book I've read this year.
His first book Shuggie Bain was the best book I read last year!

Best book I've read all year, found it so moving.

Sorry, that related to Lessons in Chemistry!

The family game
The Paris apartment

I loved the Hail Mary Project.

The Twyford Code by I've completely forgotten. I'm really enjoying it but I'm only halfway through so it could yet go completely sideways. The story is told 1st person through transcripts of audio recorded on a mobile. Which is a bit idiosyncratic but it works. Narrator is an ex-con, Lahndahn gangster who's going straight...?

I've just read Lessons in Chemistry thanks to this thread and loved it. Thanks!