A Good Book

[evadora]

I am looking for my next book to read but after looking at Amazon and visiting my local bookshop I still have not found anything that looks interesting!! I have read thousands of books in the past but don't want to re-read something unless desperate! Any advice on a good read (not romantic slush or chick lit). Thanks.

[ToraToraTora]

Red Notice by Bill Browder, a real page turner.

[ToraToraTora]

I am currently reading "The Churchill Factor" - Boris, A great read so far.

[naomi24]

What kind of thing do you like? Mysteries, detectives, thrillers, horror, historical, factual ….. ?

[ToraToraTora]

If you like Sci Fi, I recommend anything by Robert Heinlein.

[ToraToraTora]

I also quite enjoyed the Thursday Murder club books by Osman though that seems to get a panning by some.

[zebo]

I don't know the genre you're interested in but a good, in my opinion, police series is by L J Ross, the first is called Holy Island. They're all set in and around the North East, if you do read Holy Island it really is the first though it feels like it's not, the back story isn't clarified until later in the series.

[evadora]

Naomi24 @ 14,.52
I read most types of books (novels) except for the romantic/chick lit stuff. I have been known to read the odd auto biography and factual history book.

[evadora]

Thanks for the recommendations so far. I am making a list and will check all mentioned this evening.

[evadora]

Zebo @ 14.56
Looks interesting, Not heard of L J Ross. Will investigate this evening. Thanks.

[naomi24]

TTT, I thought ‘The Thursday Murder Club’ utterly dire. It could have been written by a twelve year old. Why his second book was a best seller remains a mystery to me. More for his celebrity than his talent as a writer I’d say.

I would recommend ‘A Thousand Splendid Suns’ by the author of ‘The Kite Runner’, Khaled Hosseini.

[ToraToraTora]

Your view Naomi, not mine or the millions of others.

[evadora]

Have read Khaled Hosseini books mentioned, also And the Mountains Echoed by him as well.

[Buenchico]

If you like mysteries, but with a lightness of touch, try Simon Brett's Fethering Mystery series. The stories have got more red herrings than a Soviet trawler fleet!:
https://www.goodreads.com/series/41365-fethering-mystery

A book I've yet to read (but which is alongside me on my desk as I type) is this one. It certainly seems a bit 'different' and it's got outstanding reviews:
Amazon.co.uk User Recommendation

[naomi24]

Of course, TTT, but I don’t understand it.

[evadora]

Thanks Buenchico - I had a look but the way it is set out (a novel in emails) is a bit off putting for me.

[evadora]

Forgot to say I have read all Simon Bretts Books - even years ago the Mrs Pargeters Books!

[naomi24]

How about ‘classics’, evadora. To Kill a Mockingbird, The Catcher in the Rye, Gone with the Wind - or perhaps The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon - one, when asked, I recommended to a book club. I loved it. They hated it. I think they must have been into Barbara Cartland.

[Buenchico]

I wasn't attracted to epistolary novels either, Evadora, until I read '84, Charing Cross Road':
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/368916.84_Charing_Cross_Road

It's a fantastic read and I'm hoping that the book I linked to in my post above will be just as captivating.

[Fitzer]

Still Life by Sarah Winman, we just read this in our book club and it averaged 8 out of 10. BTW we are more a social group who reads rather than ‘intense’.

[evadora]

Naomi - I have read all the classic novels. Did 1984 and Of Mice andMmen for O Level then Jane Austen for A Levels. Then I just read everything I could get my hands on before trying more modern stuff. I have read Gone with the Wind twice. The book I have read most is the complete and unabridged version of Stephen Kings The Stand, 5 times now!!