Easy going book reccs

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Brain feels fried at the moment, interviewing for jobs and on top of work I'm struggling to concentrate on reading. I feel like I have a shelf full of literary classics but need a few easy going books to get me back into the swing of things.

Recommendations please and I'll order a few from the library!

I found the Glass House by Eve Chase a fairly easy read but you might want something lighter like Sweet Sweet Revenge Ltd by Jonas Jonasson or how about a Lianne Moriarty?

Something by Taylor Jenkins Read?

I go to page turner crime books when I’m in that mood and have enjoyed Steve Cavannagh’s Eddie Flynn novels.

Agatha Christie, Wodehouse, Georges Simenon, Nancy Mitford, Barbara Pym, E M Delafield.

Very good recommendations. Did you mean you want something good but light? Or something trashy?

If you mean good but light, Agatha Christie and P G Wodehouse are great. Wodehouse writes prose poetry. In fact, he's so damn good (at his best) that he makes virtually every other writer seem clunky and heavy. I've been re-reading the Jeeves and Wooster books with my jaw on the floor. The man was a sublime artist.

I'd also suggest Sherlock Holmes. Or how about some children's classics? Some of them are beautifully written and can be enjoyed by adults. The Wind in the Willows, for example, or Lewis's Narnia books. Or how about The Hobbit? Or Kipling's Just So stories?

If you don't feel up to reading, you could listen to Stephen Fry read Wodehouse and Sherlock Holmes on audiobook.

Thanks for the suggestions so far. And sorry for expecting you to be a mind reader! I'm thinking good but not trashy, no chick lit or romance!

I picked up Miss Bensons Beetle from the library yesterday pm and having started that, definitely more like this. Just easy to read and get into, not too taxing!