Good Books Anybody?

MATH

I'm an avid reader and plough through 60 - 80 novels a year and would be bankrupt if I didn't use my local library. The benefit of paying council tax in two different counties is that I have double the libraries to pick from LOL. Rather than not have a read I will read any old trash if I can't find anything decent but having exhausted the back catalogues of !!!!!! Francis, John Francome & Agatha Christie my current crime recomendations are:

AMERICAN PI
Sue Grafton (The absolute best! IMO)
Robert B. Parker (3 series: Spenser, Sunny Randell & Jesse Stone all equally good)

BRITISH PI
Veronica Stallwood (Romantic novelist/crime solver in Oxford)
MC Beaton (Agatha Raisin, village who-dun-its with much humour)
Ann Granger (Mitchel & Markby village who-dun-its)
Simon Brett (The Fethering mysteries are brill)
Janie Bolitho

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john.xs wrote: »

the wrong boy by willy russell

I second that, amazing book, had forgotten all about it

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Scubaleopard

I am on a self-imposed ban of no new books (unless I get book tokens as presents - guess what I ask everyone for).

My local library has a book club that meets once a month and we read a new book. We also recommend books to read (benefit of this is that we can borroow books for nearly 5 weeks rather than the standard 3 but at the rate I read them, this isn't a benefit as I'm wanting fresh books after a week or so).

I checked out the BBC's big read, Richard and Judy's book club and countless others and compiled a list of books to read. If I read a great book by an author I'll try other's they've written (recommend perfect match by jodi picoult). I'll also read by genre (after reading Memoirs of a Geisha I became hooked on 'oriental' themed books: joy luck book club - amy tan
wild swans - Jung chang; falling leaves - Adeline yen Mah; Geisha of Gion - Mineko Iwasaki to name but a few).

My best adivce, start a list and keep adding to it. Swap books with friends and enjoy the read!

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Some other authors I always look out for are

Christina Jones
Gervase Phinn-lovely warm series
Ladies of letters series on audio books-very funny
Annie Sanders
Bernadette Strachan
Isabel Wolff
Catherine Alliott
Melissa Nathan
Karen Quinn
Sarah Mason

Last books I read Gil McNeil-divas don't knit and enjoyed

just started Lisa Jewell 31 dream street...will try more of hers

waiting to be read I have-and god created the au pair by Pascale Smets and Benedicte Newland...excellent reviews on amazon

happy reading x