Book recommendations

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i was wondering what everyone is reading right now? i'm in a bit of a reading slump that i want to get out of, i love historical books and just old classics really!

The Sinner by Shantel Tessier

It's a dark romance, although quite honestly it ventures into just pure filth if I'm honest. Would have the pearl clutchers on here speechless.

Downloaded about 50 books last week, all similar themes, i figured it's almost Halloween so I want to read things that give me both chills and hot flushes.

I'm reading The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford. I think you might like it.

Currently reading The Life Impossible by Matt Haig in physical form, The Friend by Dorothy Koomsom on kindle and listening to The Third Gilmore Girl by Kelly Bishop

Just finished the giver of stars by jo jo Moyes..... absolutely love it. Currently bookless so following your post....

I've got a massive backlog of ebooks. I've decided the only was forward is to read them in alphabetical order by author. Just finished struggling through some grimdark, now on the forth volume of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy trilogy.

Just started Here One Moment by Liane Moriarty and I’m hooked.

The Other Bennet Sister might be a good place to start as it's just been commissioned by the BBC for adaptation. Or Longborn. I'm reading The Burial Plot at the moment. Enjoyed Act of Oblivion Charles II setting. Like Stacey Halls books for an easy read. Shardlake books are great. More modern but if you are interested in historical fiction is The Siege set in Leningrad WWII.
Fiction set at the time of War of the Roses is Kingmaker series or Sharon Penman books. Comforting family sagas The Black Mountains or Cazalet Chronicles.
Depends on what time period you like and plot lines. You may well have already read all the above!
I just enjoyed re-reading North and South.

I'm reading the Orphan X books by Gregg Hurwitz. If you watched The Equalizer - it's just like that.

And Love in a Cold Climate too!

Just finished reading Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver, it's excellent, but my favorite of her books is probably The Poisonwood Bible, she's fabulous and if you like her writing, there's plenty to read.

Just started on Different Seasons by Stephen King. It's a collection, the first is Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption, and I've never seen the film.

I finished A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini this week. It was a good read.

Currently reading The Secret Keeper by Kate Morton.
It's giving me The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo vibes (which I really enjoyed) but the story jumps all over the place and 200 pages in, I've still not gotten into it. I'm not sure if I'll finish or not :( I've got a right old collection now from the library), so my next choices are:
Go As A River, Shelley Read
The Five People You Meet in Heaven, Mitch Albom
The Wishing Game, Meg Shaffer
The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde
Bloody Valentine, James Patterson
Travelling in a Strange Land, David Park
The Year of the Locust, Terry Heyes
The Secret of the Old Clock (Nancy Drew), Carolyn Keene

Not been much help I'm afraid :( Have you tried Georgette Heyer, they always help me get out of a reading slump?

I have just started getting into Douglas Adams, and am kicking myself for not discovering him sooner. I love sci fi, love books packed with ideas, and love P. G. Wodehouse – that is Adams in a nutshell. It's like reading P. G. Wodehouse in space. So flippin sad that he died in his 40s.

For what it's worth, I'll tell you some of the books I plan to read next year:

Henry James: Portrait of a Lady
Thackery: Vanity Fair
Bronte: Jane Eyre
Ford Madox Ford: Parade's End
Nabokov: Pale Fire
Oscar Wilde: short fiction (I read and loved Dorian Gray, but have never read his other fiction, like The Portrait of W H etc)
Kurt Vonnegut: Cat's Cradle

I also want to read some Iris Mudoch and Anita Brookner. And I must give Mantel's Cromwell trilogy a go.

What about some Steinbeck? Cannery Row or The Grapes of Wrath?

The Asylum by Karen Coles