What shall I spend my book voucher on?

[branflake81]

I got some book tokens for christmas but have nothing in mind to buy as I also got all the books I wanted!

Any recommendations?

I don't really like anything too chick litty/science fiction. Favourite authors are Anne Tyler, Julian Barnes or Ian McEwan.

Patrick Suskind... Perfume

Stef Penney...The Tenderness of Wolves

If you like crime you could try a Nicci French (easy read), or Minette Walters.

If you like Anne Tyler, you might like Elizabeth Berg or Sue Miller. They're not that similar but I like them all and they sort of have similarities.

John Irving? I really loved A Widow For One Year, and A Prayer For Owen Meany, though that's a massive book.

I love Nicci French - mostly the earlier books but also loved the last couple. I think there were one or two I weren't so keen on but can't remember which ones!

Raeffela Barker - hens dancing. A lovely not too chic-litty book. Written in diary format about a single mother struggling living in the country with her three children and falling in love.

John Irving is a good suggestion too - World According to Garp is legend so that's what I'd recommend.

Iain Banks too perhaps? He's a bit like Ian McEwan.

Other ideas: Roddy Doyle, Toby Litt, Tim Lott, Scarlett Thomas, Donna Tart 'The Secret History'.

I envy you: I love getting book tokens to spend!!!

Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides, brilliant and gripping

To read in one(ish) sitting: On Chesil Beach(Ian McEwan)

A lovely cosy read: lost art of keeping secrets

Weird stuff: anything by Kazuo Ishiguro

Classic: A room with a view

Middlesex was brilliant. I second that recommendation.