A book where you really get involved with the characters

[tobee]

I feel like reading this kind of book.

However, I'm more interested in hearing about the books you have read where you felt really involved with the characters; where you even missed them when the book (or series maybe) was over.

I'm imagining (and hoping) that there will be a variety.

When God was a rabbit and the housewife down ones, I used to daydream about who I wold cast in a film to pay each person.

Patricia Fisher series - Steve Higg, really pleased he has written several books as I love Patricia, Jermaine, Barbie et al (cozy mystery series but well written)

My Brilliant Friend quartet - this book is marmite but I'm in the loved it camp. Totally invested in the two main characters and felt bereft when the last book was over.

I've just really enjoyed "The People on Platform 5" by Clare Pooley. My mum is reading it now and also loves it. Her previous book "The Authenticity Project" was also very good, but I preferred the latter one.

S.A Chakraborty: The Daevabad Trilogy (City of Brass, The Kingdom of Copper & The Empire of Gol)

It's fantasy/ Arabic mythology well reaserched and lovely writing where you learn about the world of Daevabad with the main character.
I'd say it's easy and enjoyable reading.

@Mintyt - who would you cast in the 'When. god was a rabbit' roles? Read it years ago and loved it!

Flowers in the Attic series.

One hundred fucking percent this! How she isn't the richest woman in the world is beyond me. And look at the guff that people buy, I could weep.

The Future Homemakers of America will make you hoot and it will break your heart. And At Sea! When she shags the gentleman host in his tiny cabin 🤣🤣🤣👌

My sisters keeper

I thought about the characters for days after reading that book, they really stayed with me.

The characters in The Death of the Heart. I really wanted to know what happened at the end in the hotel.
Also The Real Charlotte by Somerville & Ross. I wish they’d written a sequel as I would love to have known what happened after Norrey had given the news….

Clifton chronicles

Funnily enough, although it's quite caricature in style, Mapp and Lucia and their neighbours stuck with me for a while.

I got lost in The Stone Virgin by Barry Unsworth. My head lived in Venice with the characters.

Any of Elizabeth Chadwick's books, especially the Ravenstow Trilogy and The Conquest.

Same with Matthew Harffy's The Bernicia Chronicles and Bernard Cornwall's Saxon Stories (The Last Kingdom)

Thanks @tobee and @prampushingdownthehighst , intrigued by the Laurie Graham books so have ordered the Kennedy one to try.

Marian Keyes has several books following one family. Very entertaining and well written

I'm reading the Masters of Rome series by Colleen McCulloch - 7 book saga that starts with Marius and ends with Octavian. I'm halfway through book 6 so Caesar is going to get killed shortly and I'm going to miss him as she makes him quite likeable.

Yes to the Cazalet Chronicles where the dialogue between the children is hilarious. I'm half way through the final book though and it feels rushed and the leap forward by a decade means it loses some of its old romance.

Felt utterly desolate at the end of the Harry Potter series.😂

A Prayer for Owen Meany and Owen's youthful zeal and eccentric ways won my heart.

Why Be Happy When You Could be Normal and The Salt Path...would have ended up knocking on the authors' doors here in the UK if I hadn't exerted some sensibility.

The Neopolitan Quartet by Elena Ferrante. About the lives of two women growing up in Naples in the 1950s and their friendship, loves and lives as they go through childhood, adolescence and adulthood.

Robin Hobb all the Fitz book series (Assassins Apprentice is the first of the 10 books)
Diana Gabaldon Outlander series 9 books

"Why Be Happy When You Could be Normal and The Salt Path...would have ended up knocking on the authors' doors here in the UK if I hadn't exerted some sensibility."

Lol 😬

Robin Hobbs series of books, starting with The Farseer Trilogy, love them

Haruki Murakami: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

It's different, it's about stepping out of the mundane everyday... the book stayed with me a long time, I can't quite describe the why but it's on my list to read again.

The Poldark books are good. There are about 13 I think.
I even got to looking where I thought Ross and Demelza would have stayed in Marlborough on their way to London when I last visited. I had to remind myself it wasn't real!

For an easy read and lovely characters to get to know, try The No1 Ladies Detective Agency series of books by Alexander McCall Smith.