Recommend some really good books.

[TooYoungToKnowTooOldToCare]

An extended, health-related period of bedrest is looming.

Prior warning: I average 150 - 200 books a year some of them are audio books, even so that's thousands of books. If I reply saying thank you, I have read it' I'm not being ungrateful.

Life is too short pile:
I'm sorry, I don't like sci-fi or fantasy.

With all of the above in mind, please can you recommend your desert island books?

In particular I enjoy mystery/thriller/suspense. I like good family dramas, tear-jerkers, occasionally romances, I mean Marian Keyes, not the Mills and Boon type.
Additionally, I like T Jenkins Reid and other women's genre fiction, though I prefer that kind of fiction with some bite. Dawn O'Porter and Nicholas Nicholls (the One Day author) and similar.

Series, single books, any good ideas (and painkillers) appreciated.

I've been reading lots of Freida Mcfadden lately, have a look at her books, they're on kindle unlimited if you have it

I recently read Lessons by Ian McEwan and really enjoyed it.

The Hand that First held mine by Maggie O'Farrell.

For thrillers, Christopher Brookmyre. Dark dry Scottish humour and gripping plots. Entertaining rather than believable. And he also writes Victorian murder mysteries with his wife, as Ambrose Parry - worth a read.

I'm guessing you've read American Dirt already?

For mysteries, The Observations and Gillespie and I by Jane Harris. And Fingersmith by Sarah Waters. Also Snow Falling on Cedars

Crime - Ann Cleeves' Shetland novels and Peter May's Black House trilogy. Jane Harper's Australian crime books are good too. Kate Atkinson's Jackson Brodie series.

For family dramas, The Cazalet Chronicles are classic.
Or Ann Patchett The Dutch House.
Crow Lake by Mary Lawson.
Hundred Years trilogy Jane Smiley.

Romance - My Dear I Wanted To Tell You by Louisa Young is a poignant love story but much more than that.

So, so many more but it's late. I'll get back to you .. and all the best for your time recuperating 🙂

Jane Harper - The Dry ( a trilogy about an outback Policeman)

The Wolf Den - Elodie Harper (Aboit a Pompeii brothel)

Rivers of London series - Ben Aaronovitch (A police, ghosts, river goddesses series - not my usual thing but brilliant)

Robert Galbraith series

As Fifireee has said: Jane Harper - The Dry (brilliant)

just started a book by Sheila O’Flanagan - Anyone But Him (good so far)

I'll give you the Sun by Jandy Nelson was one of the best recommendations I ever had, if you haven't read that one.

Ruth ware
Mark edwards
Alice Feeney
Catherine Cooper
Lucy Foley
Sophie Hannah
Jane fallon
Lucy diamond
Jenny Colgan
Kia Abdullah
Shari Lapena
Alex Dahl
Claire Douglas
Lisa Jewel
Adele parks

Have you read Love Marriage by Monica Ali and I think that might fit into your family saga criteria, just

Tom Lake - audible book read absolutely fabulously by Meryl Streep.

In A Thousand Different Ways - Cecelia Ahern - my favourite recent read.

I'll recommend my favourites
Gallows Pole by Benjamin myers
Precious Bane by Mary Webb
Anything by Louise penny

For family drama you can't beat East of Eden.

I really enjoyed The Whisper Man by Alex North recently (thriller) - good plot and a bit different from the usual detective type plot

Verity- Colleen hoover
Behind closed doors - ba paris
The family upstairs - Lisa jewell

I've just read the Seven Sisters series by Lucinda Riley. Hugely recommend if you haven't discovered them already.

Ghosted by Jenn Ashworth. Literary novel, but with mystery elements - plot revolves around a missing person.

Thank you for your well wishes and suggestions.
Tomorrow is the big day, if you pray please pray, if you cross your fingers or believe in luck, please do whatever you do.

Thank you for all of the suggestions. I'm going to go through them, please don't be offended if I comment negatively on your suggestions, my head is wibbly today. When I am nervous or worried I can inadvertently lack tact.

Next week post coming up.

Firstly, I wrote Nicholas Nicholls in my original post, that should have said David Nicholls.

@Peachyscream thank you, I'll take a look and see what I think.

@Wallabyone I have read The Hand That First Held mine a while ago and I liked it. Trigger warning, baby loss When I was first pregnant in 1997 I read A Child In Time it upset me a lot. Not long after that at 35 weeks, my baby was born asleep. Understandably, I was devastated, somehow Ian McEwan is eternally associated in my mind with that awful time.

Thank you for your suggestions, I really do

sorry.
I really do appreciate them.

I'm going to take a minute because I'm crying like an idiot.

Sorry to hear you are having a hard time 💖

My favourites: The Sunne in Splendour -Sharon Penman

Here be Dragons - Sharon Penman

The Tobacco Lords Trilogy - Margaret Thompson Davies

Katherine - Anya Seton

The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon

All the light we cannot see - Anthony Doerr

Books I have enjoyed fairly recently:

American Dirt - Jeanine Cummins

Nineteen Minutes - Jodi Picoult

We begin at the end - Chris Whitaker

I'm so sorry to hear that ❤️
I hope today goes well for you xxx

Daisy Darker by Alice Feeney

Best book I read for a while.

Books I’ve really enjoyed that I think you’ll enjoy are:

Three Hours - Rosemary Lupton

Hostage - Claire Mackintosh

The Cult - Abby Davies

Robert Harris - writes books set in different historical periods, a lot are WWII. Well written and good stories - currently reading Enigma. Worth trying, even if you don’t go for these types of books.

Patricia Fisher series - Steve Higgs - okay, i admit it’s a cozy mystery series, but the characters get under your skin (in a good way), and the stories are actually quite good. Good for something if you want a bit lighter.

The Heatwave - Kate Riodan

Seven Sisters - loved this series

Maeve Binchey for some gentle reading, good stories well written.

Oh, forgot to say, wishing all the best for today.

Anything by Nalini Singh - it is a sci fi romance genre though brilliantly written.

Serena Terry aka mammy banter has 2 fiction books which are brilliantly funny.

JD robb - Nora Roberts her In death series has over 50books.

I'm a wake.

Thank you for the recommends.
I will post more when I feel human.

Daisy Darker is one have nlookimj at for a while. Will try it thank

Read by Who She Was - Tony Parsons and really like.

Slleep well neveryyokne.

Love 3 Hours by R Lupton.