A book you really enjoyed over the last two years.

Have you read Remarkable Creatures by Tracy Chevalier? It’s fiction, but based on the life of Mary Anning the fossil hunter in Lyme Regis? That sticks in my mind as the best book I’ve read lately.

Where the Crawdads Sing is definitely my favourite book of the last two years.

Just finished 'Lessons in Chemistry' very funny and thought provoking.

Love Marriage by Monica Ali, I really enjoyed it.

Monique Roffey’s Mermaid of Black Conch (actually 3 years old)

Anthony Doerr’s Cloud Cuckoo Land

Where The Crawdads Sing for me too.

The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams. It brought back some amusing memories of a project I worked on in Oxford too.

Another vote for Where the Crawdads Sing and the Slow Horses (and series) by Mick Herron.

A Man Called Ove
Lessons In Chemistry
A Terrible Kindness
Mack The Life -Lee Mack
Hungry - Grace Dent

Just finished A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles.
A witty, thought -provoking book about a Russian aristocrat under house arrest from 1922, but in Moscow's Metropol Hotel.

The Louise Penny detective series with the detective M Gamache. Wonderful insights and good yarns, not found anything so good in ages.

PS Casdon that is a wonderful book too.

How to Kill Your Family and
The Stopped Heart

My best two books from last year.

Although I have just started a book right now called Demon Copperhead, a reworking of David Copperfield set against a backdrop of the poverty stricken backwoods of The Appalachian Mountains, so far, really, really good, but 400 pages or so to go.

Hard to know what would appeal to you LovetoPaint but lots of suggestions on another thread, "what is your best novel and why"

I really loved the Wolf Hall trilogy by Hilary Mantel, and have read all 3 twice. Her writing is superb and I enjoy history and particularly the Tudors so these books really were my cup of tea.

TerriBull Demon Copperhead sounds an unusual and interesting book. I think I'll take a look at that.

I have just downloaded 4 books on my Kindle for my holiday. They were recommended by a friend who runs a book club and said these were really liked.
The Salt Path
Lessons in Chemistry
The Book of Lost Names
The Vanishing of Margaret Small

Sparklefizz I'll update on it on the 50 book thread in due course.

Island Magic by Elizabeth Goudge. I love her style of writing.

We will always have Paris by Sue Watson

An Officer and a Spy by Robert Harris.

Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell I really enjoyed this story from the perspective of Shakespeares family.

The Marriage Portrait (same author) was also very good, but Hamnet stayed with me after reading .

I loved The Marriage Portrait and Hamnet too, Fairislecable and I'm rereading Hamnet at the moment.

This novel for me.

Harriet Rycroft - Container Gardening. Great suggestions for my pots this coming summer.

The Vintner's Luck by Elizabeth Knox.

The language is silky soft, the turns of phrase so lush.
Moving.
Just an all-round beauty.
😍

Not for those who don't appreciate the "magical" in life.

I came upon this book accidentally.
I understand it's a film now.
I'd never heard of it/the author so came with no expectations.