What book are you reading now because it is doing my head in that I can't find something I want to read so am going to steal your ideas instead..!

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I finished Ordinary Thunderstorms by William Boyd (which I enjoyed but it wasn't a can't put down book - I stopped it and came back to it but did finish it and ultimately enjoyed it).

I am half way through Little Stranger but cannot make myself finish it. I've got to the stage where I half hope the whole of Hundreds Hall goes up in flames with Dr Faraday in the middle of it.

I've also started 2 other books - A Week in December (Sebastian Faulks) and Fifty Grand (McGKinty) and they are grabbing me but not in the way I was hoping they would. I imagine I'll finish both but I'm really hoping for a great book next iykwim.

So what are you reading and would you recommend it?

Pluto, the Alan Clark ones are absolutely fabulous. Can really recommend them.

thanks everyone for sharing what you are reading. It's a very interesting thread and has brought loads of books to my attention that I hadn't heard of! I do hours of commuting a week so hate not having a book to read!

Angel's Game by Zafon. Excellent.

was really into books about islands for a while last year Pitcairn and that oen isn scotland

i woudl reccy

one day
the new douglas kennedy ( crap but good)
19th wife
american wife
english womanhood rachel heath
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imust have read more..

oh the lion one about zimbabwe peter godwin

The History of Modern Britain by Andrew Marr. Its brilliant

I'm reading the People series by Kathleen O'Neal Gear and w. Michael Gear - stories of each of the Native American Indian tribes from 13000 BC onwards - I'm on the ninth of ten since New Year as I can only read them on the bus - great plots and all archeologically correct.

Agree with Su re.One Day David Nicholls-v enjoyable

Wolf Hall-wanted to give up after a few pages but persevered and it was a great read.

Juliet, Naked-Nick Hornby- another enjoyable light read but preferred One Day tbh.

couldn't get into one day. Felt like saying 'who really cares' lol.

now i like history but often not hist bks ( liek novles)
is wolfie good?>
haevjust been out and bought some more

NB finest kind of englishwomanhood NOW in waterstones in paperback

Wolf Hall
not a quick read, but good

just read finest kind eng womanhood- excellent read.

Secret River mentioned upthread is great , as is Thing of Darkness- I couldn't put it down despite it's length it was over too quickly. How sad he'll not write anything else.

Ooh, you lot are my people. Am almost to the end of American Wife right now, finished Little Stranger recently, read all of Kate Atkinson, etc.

And definitely second The Secret River recommendation. Kate Grenville is brilliant.

Have you come across AL Kennedy? Most recent one is Day, but I love Everything You Need and Paradise best.

Anything by Anita Shreve, but try Fortune's Rcks or The Pilot's Wife especially. Anne Tyler also brilliant.

Oh, and Patrick Gale definitely. And I love Christopher Brookmyre.

Su-re Wolf Hall- usually avoid historical fiction too but would deffo recommend-(love Glee too!)

Yeah I'm reading Wolf Hall as well. Very good.

Just debating whether to start The Duchess or Cloud Atlas.

Read The Island by Victoria Hislop which I couldnt put down, her 2nd one wasnt as good though.

I wouldnt bother with the girl with trilogy, 1st 1 is OK, 2nd is beyond belief, cant be bothered with the third.

I'm currently reading My Enemy's Cradle and am quite enjoying it.

Have started Cloud Atlas 3 times now and not got into it, has anyone read it and should I persevere?

I am currently ploughing through Neil Gaimen's 'American Gods'and, along with anything else he has written (especially 'Anansi Boys'), I do indeed recommend it.

What is this 'English Womanhood' thing of which you speak? Why haven't I heard of it and do I want to?

Wildwood by Roger Deakin, having just finished his Notes From Walnut Tree Farm.

I've got most of the way through William Hague's biography of William Wilberforce but I got as far as the bit where he manages to finally get the Atlantic slave trade banned and it all feels a bit anticlimactic after that.

Voila! Janeite. They have changed to cover for the paperback, but that is on amazon too.

it is VERY EVRY GOOD.

i got he berlin thing in waterstones

Im reading 'Today im Alice' at the moment, not a book I would choose (bookclub) but I can't put it down.

Try anything by Susan Lewis, I have burnt many a dinner whilst having one of her books on the go, you just can't put them down.

The House on the Strand = Dapne Du Maurier

tell me something either good and funny or good and tragic