Book recommendations

[Jackfath]

We've done this before, I'm sure. However can you recommend a decent book to read?

Something that keeps you reading and has you gripped from the start, perhaps.

 

[Darran]

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Soul-Divining-Intuitional-Jocelyn-Prosser/dp/1528905091

 

[Professor]

We've done this before, I'm sure. However can you recommend a decent book to read?

Something that keeps you reading and has you gripped from the start, perhaps.

Fiction or non-Fiction?

 

[Pentyrchjack]

The Blix and Ramm series are good murder thrillers and well translated from Norwegian to English. Good Scandinavia noir.

 

[Costello]

 

[Pegojack]

The Wolf Hall trilogy of Hilary Mantell. Superior writing.
All the Harry Hole novels of Jo Nesbo.
All the Harry Bosch and associated novels of Michael Connelly. My favourite is actually one called 'Blood Work' which features central character Terry McCaleb, not Bosch. Clint Eastwood did a film of it years ago but fecked with the plot.
Just read a Grisham called 'The Litigators' which was lightweight but enjoyable, about a firm of three semi shyster lawyers taking on a pharmaceutical giant.
Non fiction second world war: 'Stalingrad' by Anthony Beevor and 'Ghost Soldiers' by Hampton Sides. The latter is the fantastic true story of a mass rescue from a Japanese prison camp behind enemy lines in the Phillipines by a company of US Rangers.
And back to Booker Prize winners, 'Possession' by AS Byatt. A hard read initially but rewarding as it unfolds.

 

[exiledclaseboy]

Can’t go wrong with a Stephen King or a John Grisham for some good, old fashioned escapism and a tale well told.

I tried those Mantel Wolf Hall things. Terrible stuff I thought. Each to their own.

 

[Jackfath]

We've done this before, I'm sure. However can you recommend a decent book to read?

Something that keeps you reading and has you gripped from the start, perhaps.

Fiction or non-Fiction?

I'm open to either.

 

[dickythorpe]

https://www.waterstones.com/book/the-boy-on-the-shed/paul-ferris/9781473666740

I thought this was excellent.

 

[Muteswan]

Michael Connelly’s Bosch, John Grisham’s legal books and James Clavell’s Asia Saga including Shogun. I’ve read all Grisham, Clavell and working my way through Bosch, and thoroughly enjoyed.

 

[Longlostjack]

Agree with Pego - The Harry Hole series by Nesbo is brilliant. Start with “ The Bat “. Mankell’s “The Man from Beijing” is a good read too. Nice mix of politics and crime.

 

[Pacemaker]

I was recently bought The Midnight Library by Matt Haig which I read over two nights, a good story and quite an emotional read and did make me think about my own attitudes to life and what we should be grateful for. Not a book I would have chosen myself but i did enjoy.

Other books i have enjoyed are The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns both by Khaled Hosseni, The Wrong Boy by Willy Russel, A Kestrel for a Knave by Barry Hines I also enjoyed the Wolf Hall Trilogy by Hilary Mantel despite what ECB says.

Regeneration; The Eye in the Door; The Ghost Road by Pat Barker & Birdsong and Charlotte Gray by Sebastian Faulks.

Anything by Robert Harris is very very good, i really enjoyed the Cicero Trilogy series, Ben Macintyre books about the world of UK Espionage are all excellent.

The Sisters Brothers by Patrick Dewitt violent but excellent.

I do read a fair bit in my spare time and i think sometimes taking a chance on a book is often a tremendous experience rather than sticking to a genre you normally read.

 

[Pentyrchjack]

If you are interested in political intrigue another good read, but you need to work at it and stick with it, is Leif GW Persson’s fictional trilogy about the assassination of Olaf Palme. It’s got everything and is a mammoth but rewarding read.

If you are interested, it’s worth watching the 4 part Swedish TV adaptation on You Tube:

https://youtu.be/6ejCRWXcTCs

 

[J_B]

https://www.waterstones.com/book/the-boy-on-the-shed/paul-ferris/9781473666740

I thought this was excellent.

Seconded.