Book Recommendations

[RenF]

Off on holiday next week, and hoping (possibly slightly wishfully) that I will get a few moments to read a book!

No time to do my usual and browse in a book shop for inspiration, so I'd love any recommendations of recently read and enjoyed books from anyone who'd like to offer one...

Thanks

[lulu1]

Just finished reading Two Brothers by Ben Elton. Great read!

[Pickle]

I've read a few good ones recently...

Gold by Chris Cleave (about Olympic cyclists)

Room by Emma Donoghue

After the Fall by Charity Norman

The Unlikely Pilgramage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce

Enjoy!

[Belle]

Kate Atkinson's Life after Life - I loved it.

Where'd you go Bernadette by Maria Semple is really good too.

When I was on holiday I tried some of Nora Ephron's writing fo r the first time and loved it - essays work quite well for holiday, and don't be misled by 'essay' as they're all v easy reads! I read 'Things I hate about my neck', and then got her novel 'Heartburn' on my kindle and really liked it too (it's pretty obviously autobiographical).

[uptime]

I've just got back from holiday and I read Capital by John Lanchester. It's not really 'getting away from it' as it is set on a street in south London but it was very funny.

Have a lovely time.

[Bishberro]

Life After Life. Best thing I've read in a long, long time. Gone Girl - starts well but fizzles out a bit in my opinion but an easy read. Tigers in Red Weather supposed to be good. The Book Thief - an oldie but a goodie.

[JBoylen]

These are the last few I read:

The Paris Wife: A Novel ** loved this

Paula McLain

Dissolution (Shardlake Series)

C. J. Sansom

The Graves are Walking

John Kelly

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

Ransom Riggs

The Partridge and the Pelican

Rachel Crowther

Inferno: (Robert Langdon Book 4)

Dan Brown

Wool (Wool Trilogy 1) ** loved this!

Hugh Howey

Winter in Madrid

C. J. Sansom

Mr Penumbra's 24-hour Bookstore

Robin Sloan

[RenF]

Thank you all so much- have downloaded Life after life and Capital into my kindle and may yet squeeze another one on!

[Ole]

The last two books I read have been 'Gone Girl' by Glillian Flynn, and 'Alys, Always' By Harriet Lane. Out of these I preferred the Harriet Lane one, but both are the type of books you can't wait to find out what happens next.

[Belle]

Agree Gone Girl is a good read but like the poster above I felt it fizzled out a bit and got ridiculous. I thought 'before i go to sleep' a much better thriller, if you are after one.

Also the new Maggie O Farrell - think is instructions for a heatwave? - not her best but still v readable and great holiday book.

[crystal7]

Gone Girl v gripping but I was disappointed at the ending. Another vote for the latest Kate Atkinson. Just read The Small Hand by Susan Hill which is creepy plus very easy to read. Enjoy your holiday!