Authors you've discovered and then worked your way through their back catalogues

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I may be late to the party with these two but: Taylor Jenkins Reid and Colleen Hoover. Love them both. I like easy reading but well written. Looking for inspiration for 2024 reading - share your favourite authors please?

Robin Hobb
Georgette Heyer
Naomi Novik

Ian Rankin
E.M. Forster

another mention for Patrick Gale - came across Notes from an Exhibition in a holiday home & sought out his other books.

Joan Aiken is another one for me - I read her as a child then stumbled across an adult novel in the library and adore her. Lots of her gothic ones are on Kindle for cheap.

Patrick Gale is also a favourite of mine.
Catherine Ryan Hyde is one I keep tabs on for new titles, love her writing.

Penny Vincenzi took me into another world for years with her doorstop books!

Barbara Kingsolver. I’m about to start The Lacuna.

Clare Chambers: read Small Pleasures then read the rest of hers. Also as PP said Daphne du Maurier. Currently reading The House on the Strand

Amanda Prowse. Have tissues available.

Michael Connolly Bosch series and also blood work which wasn’t a Bosch story but an excellent book

Georgette Heyer

jesse kellerman, intelligent crime novels

I did exactly the same with Clare Chambers. Small Pkeasures and then everything else.

Douglas Kennedy

Ignore the covers of pastel clad women looking wistful on beaches.

Really good thrillers, strong female protagonists, mostly set against an interesting political background.

This a great thread

Kate Atkinson - readable yet thought provoking and so immersive (you might have seen Life After Life on tv recently) - both her more literary novels and her Jackson Brodie crime fiction

Years ago I read everything I could find by Isabel Allende - strong female characters, a twist of magical realism, set in particular periods of American / South American history.

Thanks for the recommendation of Loretta Chase. These look great, and I love the titles! I've downloaded some samples. Do you have any favourites?

Naomi Novik
Alix Harrow
Kristin Hannah
Kate Quinn

Denise Mina and Peter May.

Jodi Taylor. Never have I been so pleased to find a new writer. She writes really well and prolifically. As I read her books, I laugh out loud, cry, sit on the edge of my seat, gasp out loud and laugh again ☺️☺️. Hard to pin down her genre as there are elements of thrill, comedy, sci fi, romance etc., but so worth reading. Her books got my husband reading again after years of him not!

Just One Damn Thing After Another is a great first one to try.

And the wonderful Richard Osman.

Ruth ware

Barbara Trapido
Jane Gardam

Miss Wonderful is highly entertaining, as are the books that follow on. Thoroughly recommended!

Penelope Fitzgerald (still working on them, some absolute gems but little-known and often mixed up with various other Penelopes).
Owen Sheers - both poetry and fiction - look forward to both.

Paul Torday