Books to read during self-isolation

Thank you Maggiemaybe

The first in the trilogy is free on Kindle and sounds right up my street!

That should read ‘both’ brilliant.

Anything by Kate Atkinson, recently read Transcription and also A God In Ruins, with brilliant.
Am also re -reading Billy Liar and Lucky Jim, bound to cheer you up.By Keith Waterhouse and Kingsley Amis respectively.

How about the latest Hilary Mantel to while away a few hours? I haven’t read it yet, but if it’s as good as Wolf Hall and Bring Up The Bodies it’ll be a corker.

I’m going to download it as an audiobook from my local library service. Apparently it’s free and I’ll have a fortnight to “read” it. That way I can enjoy it while getting a few cupboards sorted at the same time. Win win.

I reread 1984. That didn’t help ! So now I’m reading Susan Hill’s Serailler series.

Salt Path by Raynor Wynn.
Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks if you want plague literature.
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owen.

If you want a soothing bookish podcast then Slightly Foxed might be just your thing.

foxedquarterly.com/podcast-episode-1-kindred-spirits/

I've just finished Murder at the Vicarage by Agatha Christie. I intend to work my way through all the Miss Marple books in order.
At some point I must buy The Rosie Result, it's the third in the trilogy about Don Tilman the socially inept professor. I really enjoyed the first two.

I’m reading a gripping and fascinating book but Ben Elton “Time and Time again”. A thriller, what if book about changing one event in history. Well written and worth it.

Any of Charles Dickens books

I’ve just read Jonathan Coe’s trilogy following the lives of a small group of people who start off in Birmingham in 1976 and end up all over the place in 2018. Well-written state of the nation tragi-comedies covering the Thatcher years, the Blair years and the Brexit years respectively.

The Rotters’ Club, The Closed Circle and Middle England.

Have started Vanity Fair

I've read that Calendargirl and agree, it's a wonderful book.
I'm sorry to say I'm not a big reader these days, I must change my habits.
I once had a phase of reading Russian short stories - in english of course. Mostly Chekov, also Gorky, Gogol and Dostoevsky. And Tolstoy. Never got round to Pushkin who wrote earlier. I got most of them out of the library, but these days the choice there is limited.

Gone With The Wind by Margaret Mitchell. Never tire of it, a huge book, but have read it many times.

If you’ve only seen the film, please read the book, it surpasses it.

Yes another vote for Mantel. I’ve got the trilogy to read through. I’ve already read the first two, but it was 10 years ago so can happily re-read before I get to the one I really want to read

‘Circe’ by Madeline Miller. Wondefully written and a complete distraction.
I currently have my head buried in Hilary Mantel’s latest book. Masterful and completely unputdownable.

Education, Tara Westover. It's an amazing triumph over adversity book. True, too!