If I loved Demon Copperhead...

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... looking for recommendations for something to put on my Kindle before I go away this afternoon! The brief is very well written, but engrossing (think Demon Copperhead!). I was thinking of either Miranda July's All Fours (but it's expensive on Kindle) or Hello, Beautiful (but have read really mixed reviews). Any other ideas? Thanks!

Some books and authors I like:
Demon Copperhead
The Bee Sting
The Cazalet Chronicles
Sorrow and Bliss
Restless Dolly Maunder
All My Mothers
Dictionary of Lost Words
Lessons in Chemistry
The Whalebone Theatre
Hamnet
Shuggie Bain
Deborah Levy
Maggie O'Farrell
Colm Toibin
Rachel Cusk (although have to be in the right mood!)

Ones that I've found a bit meh or actively dislike
Still Life (it just hasn't grabbed me!)
Yellowface
Wolf Hall (have tried several times and I can't stick at it)
Neopolitan Novels (sorry!)
Island of Missing trees
Sally Rooney
Jessie Burton

All the colours of the dark Chris Whitaker? Reminded me of Demon.

I assume you read the poisonwood bible? I loved that.

i like Similar books to you and love Ann Patchett and Anne Tyler. Start with the Dutch House for Ann Patchett

The Goldfinch, Donna Tartt

Educated - Tara Westover.

The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen or Freedom by the same author. Comparable to Paul Murray imo.

A fine balance - Rohinton Mistry

I enjoyed the Corrections if thatsbtue right word, I'm not sure it is, but I'm not sure it applies to Kingsolver either! A great read though.

Think we’ve got similar taste in books. ☺️All Fours is one of the best books I’ve read all year, so if you can splurge I think it’s well worth it!
I loved the Bee sting too, and I’ve just finished and enjoyed Long Island compromise by Taffy Brodesser-Akner and really enjoyed it - it has a similar family biopic (if that’s the right word!) feel. I’m now reading another of her books - Fleishman is in trouble, which is also engaging.

read Her other books

the Goldfinch by Donna Tartt

Signature of All things

I've enjoyed some on your list, and have several of the others in my TBR pile!
So I suggest The Hearts Invisible Furies by John Boyne.

Was also going to recommend The hearts invisible furies.

Also John Boyne’s new series starting with Water.

Read Barbara Kingsolver’s previous novels — I’m not personally keen on The Poisonwood Bible, but I love her Prodigal Summer, and her two first novels The Bean Trees and its sequel, Pigs in Heaven.

i have very similar tastes to you and also just finished DC and loved it

one of my all time favourite books ever is The Mercies - Kiran Millwood Hargrave

Seconded. Don’t touch Hillbilly Elegy though

I loved Demon Copperhead so much too and had not read any of her other books so am getting onto that

Donna Tartt I prefer The Secret History to the Gold Finch

How about Jeffrey Eugenides The Virgin Suicides or Middlesex?

Just placemarking really as this list has most of my favourite books in so the rest are now on my to read list. Hugely agree that poison wood bible is another fab Kingsolver. How about Don Delillo (White Noise/underworld) or more left field Alice Munro excellent short stories?

The Seven Moons of Marley Almeida.

Absolutely loved the Rohinton Mistry book- A fine Balance. Superb.

Likewise any book by Donna Tartt.

Read The Corrections too - I found that to be very sad; not sure if it's a good one for a holiday!

The Crimson Petal and the White by Michael Faber is a different genre; but very readable.

Have you read and of the non-fiction books on the Opioid Crisis? Empire of Pain and Dopesick are both very good

how about the Cormoran Strike series by Robert Galbraith (JK Rowling)?
well written but easy reading
I have very similar taste to you and have now got a large list to go through - thanks

Another vote for All the Colours of the Dark

Last House on Needless Street Catriona Ward and Looking Glass Sound
The Hunter and if you enjoy it the sequel The Searcher Tana French
We Begin at the End Chris Whitaker
Kala Colin Walsh
Our Wives Under the Sea and Private Rites Julia Arnfield
Wild Houses Colin Barrett
Bitter Orange and Our Endless Numbered Days Claire Fuller (and her others)
Strange Sally Diamond Liz Nugent
Cahokia Jazz, Light Perpetual and On Golden Hill Francis Spufford
The Shock of the Fall Nathan Filer

The Good Daughter Karin Slaughter and her other books

I second the recommendation for Empire of Pain. I read it straight after Demon Cooperhead and I loved it as a sort of non fiction companion to the Kingsolver book. It's so compelling it's like you are reading a novel rather than NF.

We also have similar taste except I really liked Still Life

Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
Where the Crawdads Sing
The Children's Book by A S Byatt

I agree with pp that you should try Ann Patchett. Commonwealth is so good with a Demon Copperhead vibe. Do you listen to A Good Read on BBC Sounds? That's where I get a lot of ideas and I'm sure nearly everything in your OP has been featured.