If I tell you which books I've enjoyed recently, can you recommend some more to add to my amazon order, please?

[Olihan]

Over the last couple of months I've read:

I Capture the Castle - Dodie Smith
The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets - Eva Rice
The Virgin Suicides - Geoffrey Eugenides
The Children's Book - AS Byatt
Wolf Hall - Hilary Mantel
The Wilderness - Samantha Harvey
Brooklyn - Colm Toibin
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society - Mary Ann Schaffer
Digging to America &
The Clock Winder - Anne Tyler
Resistance - Anita Shreve (have read almost all of hers though)
Three Cups of Tea - Greg Mortensen
American Wife - Curtis Sittenfeld
The White Queen - Philippa Gregory (read all of hers too)

Still to go are:

Love in a Cold Climate (Penguin Modern Classics) - Nancy Mitford
A Place of Greater Safety - Hilary Mantel

I've also read but didn't really enjoy

A Case of Exploding Mangoes - Mohammed Hanif
Purple Hibiscus - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The Cellist of Sarajevo - Steven Galloway

So what do I order next?

I have just started and am loving the new Margaret Forster book . Isa and May . About Isamay's grandmothers relationship with her.

Olihan
Maybe you've already put in your order, but I've read (&enjoyed) quite a few of the ones in your read list.

Some other recent faves of mine are:
Jonathan Coe: The Rain before it falls
Joyce Carol Oates: We were the Mulvaneys
Anything by Alice Munro

I also loved the Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox - not as chick-litty as her previous novels.

The Historian is v good. I absolutely hated Fingersmith and thought The Memory Keeper's Daughter was utter, utter tosh, sorry.

Liz Jensen's Rapture is okay. Her Ninth Life Of Louis Drax and the one about time travel are even better.

Have you read The Handmaid's Tale or Oryx And Crake by M Atwood? The former is brilliant, the latter much less so imho.

Love In The Time Of Cholera?

Paula by Isabel Allende?

Brideshead Revisited?

I'm half way through The Glass Room. I started reading it a couple of months ago but it's resting for a bit. Since then I've read Her Fearful Symmetry, which was OK until the dire ending.

All of Ann Tyler is fantastic imo. Can I also suggest The Secret River. I loved The Little Stranger and the Millenium Trilogy. I love Carol Shields - Larry's Party is a good start.

Agree totally re: her Fearful Symmetry. It was preposterous at the end.

I always forget to mention my favourite easy reads on these threads - I LOVE LOVE LOVE the Armistead Maupin Tales of the City series. I read them about 20 years ago when they were first published and they are still fantastic today.

Ooh, thank you. Lots of great sounding books here. I've added them all to my basket, now I've got to decide which ones to order straight away and which ones to save for later!

And I totally agree re. the end of Her Fearful Symmetry. It completely ruined the whole book for me.