I need light or dark humored but also very touching novels recommendation. I LOVED A Man Called Ove and A Paris Wife
Hi all! I need a recommendation. I LOVED A Man Called Ove and A Paris Wife. I love light or dark humored but also very touching novels. I need a good read, something that fills the heart, maybe makes me laugh a little but most of all is captivating and well-written. THANK YOU!
I think you would really enjoy Love, Rosie by Cecelia Ahern. Made me laugh and cry.
Britt Marie was Here.
i just started britt marie this morning and love it already.
Me too…just started!
Loved Britt Marie and My Grandmother was my favorite of Backman’s
Hemingway’s Girl.
Rosie Project
The Coming of Rain by Richard Marius. It’s an old one, but memorable.
The Little Paris Bookshop
https://www.amazon.com/Little-Paris-Bookshop-Novel/dp/0553418793
And Nina George’s more recent book: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32283424-the-little-french-bistro
The Chilbury Ladies’ Choir, The Summer Before the War, and of course my all time favorite, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. All great selections for audiobooks if you like listening.
Oooh, I will add them now, thanks!
If you haven’t read Guernsey yet, do it!
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry and the sequel, The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy. Loved them both.
The Storied Life of AJ Fikry
Can everybody please give title and author for each recommendation. Thank you so much.
Phaedra Patrick’s The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper and Rise and Shine Benedict Stone. Fredrik Backman’s other books, my favorite was My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry.
The art of racing in the rain.
Iris and Lily, best book I’ve read this year
A confederacy of dunces.
My One Square Inch of Alaska – Sharon Short
Elegance of the hedgehog, set in Paris.
The Bookshop on the Corner.
Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand by Helen Simonson
Excellent book!!
Naokov’s Pnin.
I also absolutely loved A Man Called Ove. One of my new favorites.
@Vanessa‘s The Language of Flowers and We Never Asked For Wings. Not light or humorous, but very touching stories of young women in difficult situations. I don’t want to spoil them… but… they resolve well.
I loved The Language of Flowers
The Seven Husband’s of Evelyn Hugo
Looked it up and it sounds good. Reserved it.
I have read close to 150 books this year and this was probably the best one I have read
Can’t wait to read it!
Try A Gentleman in Moscow.
This, and Orphan Train, are the best books I have read this year.
JoJo Mayes “One Plus One”
Oh yes, anything by @Jojo
The queen takes the train, the Rosie project, major pettigrew’s last stand.
I haven’t read the 1st one but the other 2 I loved. Based on that I will have to check out The Queen Takes the Train.
sweet little book about the queen deciding to go awol
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18635113-elizabeth-is-missing
Loved this book!
@Diane I did too! She was so cute and sweet.
The Clay Girl by Heather Tucker. It is absolutely amazing book – you will laugh, cry, and get very angry. I can’t recommend it enough!
DEFINITELY the Clay Girl by Heather Tucker. It has all of that and much more! And I echo Cindy’s comment – I can’t recommend it enough. We read it for book club and it’s the first book we’ve read that EVERYONE loved!
Loving Frank by Nancy Horan.
The Dry is a new debut Australian mystery novel that I found remarkable. Not a lot of laughing but it does captivate and is well- written.
The Engagements
Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
The Canterbury Sisters
Saving CeeCee Honeycutt
Owen Meany
It Started With Dracula: The Count, My Mother and Me, by Jane Congdon
Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue
A short little gem is The End of the Alphabet. I forget the author.