No psychological thrillers, no over the top romance, no sci-fi, just a really great read. Recommendations?
No psychological thrillers, no over the top romance, no sci-fi, just a really great read. Recommendations?
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Just bought a Pat Conroy yesterday. He is amazing.
So are you saying a really great read that’s not in any one of those genres or a really great read in general including those genres but not simply because they fall into that genre?
@January not in those genres
One Month In My Mind by Anna Keenan Hill or The Supremacy Games by Denver Murphy
The Monsters of Templeton, The Immortalists, The Interestings, Where’d You Go Bernadette, The High Season, Force of Nature
Bernadette was hilariously funny
Somerset by Leila Meacham. Historical fiction, sweeping family saga set in Texas, with characters that I really liked and cared about.
A Gentleman in Moscow
The Incorrigible Optimists Club
I really enjoyed A Gentleman in Moscow
Those Who Save Us by Jenna Blum
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Before I Let You Go
The secret lives of bees
I loved that book too
These is my words
“Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine” and “The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society”
I read both of these books recently. They were good, kind of quirky. But there are so many others that I would classify as really good reads.
@Mary such as?
You may like Little Fires Everywhere.
Wow! So many fantastic suggestions. I’m hooked on, Goose Island by Lucinda Davis. Easy read. Capturing! If you want something not in those genres.
Lonesome Dove, The Great Alone
Do yourself a favour and read the one in a million boy… I loved it so much.
The Strangler Vine ( about The East India Company/ thugs ) If you like the Sharpe series you’ll like this.
A Gentleman in Moscow, Commonwealth, Hearts Invisible Furies. Any book or collection of short stories by Jhumpa Lahiri.
Pillars of the Earth and The Century Trilogy by Ken Follett are both really really great reads as are I am Pilgrim and Child 44
Elizabeth Is Missing
Painted Girl by RA Winter
Maloki
Goodbye Paris, Little Fires Everywhere, Crazy Rich Asians, The Immortalists.
Cutting for stone
Heard that’s good. Is it a bit depressing though?
@Stacey I still have 10 percent of the book but haven’t found it depressing. Some parts are sad when people die but overall I haven’t found it depressing. Because I loved some of the characters so much I found a bunch of it uplifting. My favorite book that I have read in a long time
Great. Thanks so much. Really wanna read a good book but can’t deal with anything too heavy at the moment. Thanks!
Our Souls at Night,Plainsong,Eventide and The Ties that Bind all by Kent Haruf.The High Tide Club.Major Pettigrews Last Stand.Secrets of a Charmed Life.The Last Bus to Wisdom.The Book of Polly.The Sound of Glass.The night the lights went out.
Anything by Pat @Mary&
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@Mary
OK, Pat Conroy ! Yes
The Great Alone
The Hearts Invisible Furies
Gentleman in Moscow
Goldfinch
The English Wife by Lauren Wilig…
As Bright as Heaven. A good historical fiction.
Something Like Happy by Eva Woods
I Let You Go
The Storyteller’s Secret
I loved it!So beautifully written and touching!Enjoy!
I love the No1 Ladies Detective Agency books by Alexander McCall-Smith. So easy to read & very enjoyable. 🙂
A Dangerous Fortune, Ken Follett
Cutting for Stone.
All the Ugly and Wonderful Things, Hearts Invisible Furies, Everybody’s Son, Educated, Once We Were Brothers
The One in a Million Boy by Monica Wood.
Little Fires Everywhere
Any Jodi Picoult book, she’s an amazing author
A Prayer for Owen Meany.
The Extraordinary Life Of Sam He’ll by Robert Dugoni
Great Read…highly recommended.
The Stortytellers Secret. So good!!!
Also The Hearts Invisible Furies, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo,
Alice Hoffman, Amy Tan, Adrianna Trigiana, Vreeland and many more good authors
Maggie O’Farrell, Penelope lively, Janet frame, Vera Brittany, Winifred holtby
Try an Amanda Prowse book
A Gentleman in Moscow. One of my favourites
Circe by Madeline Miller
The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris
The Book of Essie by Meghan MacLean Weir
Educated by Tara Westover
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
The Forgetting Time by Sharon Guskin
I have recently enjoyed Kristin Hannah and have read The Nightingale, The Great Alone, Night Road & True Colors, they are all great reads. Beneath a Scarlet Sky was awesome! And really enjoyed The Secret Wife and Pachinko. So many great books …. so little time!! ?
Kristin Hannah’s “Winter Garden” is is great, too. There’s a fairytale within the book that is just beautiful.
The last crossing !!
The wife before me …
Try one of Barbara Erskine’s books. She writes a great book!
Anything by Terry McMillan
I liked my life Abby Fabiaschi
Forty Rules of Life Love
Three Daughters of Eve
People of the Book
The poisonwood bible
In the middle of reading this right now. Loving it!
This is going to hurt by Adam Kay. The diary of a junior doctor in the NHS. It is a very funny book but drove to work one morning very thoughtful and sad and knew that this book had touched me at so many levels and didn’t realise it. You might want to give it a try, I hope you love it like I did.
@Deborah EVERYONE should read this book ❤️ xxx
@Llainy I am so on your page!
The kite runner. Anything by Amy tan. Angela’s ashes, tis.
https://books.google.com/books/about/A_Gentleman_in_Moscow.html?id=lHDNDAAAQBAJ
God’s Favorite Color is Blue http://aprylmarshall.com/
A few that I’ve read recently that were very good: Peace Like a River by Leif Enger, Spill Simmer Falter Wither, or A Line Made by Walking both by Sara Baume, The Overstory by Richard Powers, LaRose by Louise Erdrich, To the Bright Edge of the World by Eowyn Ivey (also The Snow Child, also by Ivey), An American Marriage by Tayari Jones. Happy reading!
Try Belinda Alexandra’s books?