What are you reading now?

I really enjoy most thrillers and psychological ones at that (though not too gory !). I've just finished The Night Book by Richard Madeley... really good . And also The Missing by C.L. Taylor .. really good read.

I've just started a book called The Couple Next Door, a psychological thriller.

Just finished the third of Jane Smiley's One Hundred Years trilogy. It's a great combination of sprawling family saga and 'state of the nation' novel, set in the US, over 100 years and finishing in the very near future. On the whole it's a great read, good characters and engaging plot strands, though a wee bit too much about horses and (separate strand!) the US congress for me. And then enjoyed the latest DCI Banks thriller (Peter Robinson) which was one of the best ones in the series, despite a grim story and some rather iffy motivations. Robinson is very good on conveying a sense of the Yorkshire Dales where we're staying just now.

Mostly I enjoy psychological thrillers but recently I've branched out a bit. Goldfinch by Donna Tart is beautifully written and a great yarn. I also read Joanna Harris ANother Class, one of three thrillers she's written set in a village with a boys school at its centre. I enjoyed it.

I have just finished reading 'spill simmer falter' and am writing this through my tears. Especially if you like dogs, but even if you don't it's an amazing book, Costa first novel award 2015

Has anybody else read it?

dogsmother I loved Cutting for Stone a bit different, outstanding book. I want to try other books by him.

Iam64 I read the Goldfinch because I felt it was one of the books you ought to read and I loved it - it was so wide ranging, a brilliant read, but others I know weren't as impressed.

I'm now touting 'spill summer falter* as a must read book.

I've just discovered Jenny Eclair and am currently reading 'Moving'. It's about a 78 year old woman who is considering selling the big London house she has lived in for yonks and downsizing to Cornwall. It's excellent.

I am struggling through "The Water Babies". I tried to read it when I was young as it was supposed to be a classic. Then I put it onto my 'must read' list and am determined to battle on to the end. It is now so politically incorrect that I am finding it slightly more interesting. It is still hard going though!!

Mourning Ruby by Helen Dunmore - now there's a book!

Have four books on the go ( like to dip in and out and don't have as much time for reading as I would like ususally) All The Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr, A Man Called Ove by Frederik Bakman, Great Britains Great War by Jeremy Paxman( non F) and September by Rosamund Pilcher.
the Doerr book is brilliant, set in WW2 in France, the Bakman book is both very funny and also moving, as Ove is a sort of Victor Meldrew character.The Paxman book is well written and informative and not too heavy, given the subject.The Pilcher book is, like all her books beautifully written, and absorbing, though nothing lives up to The Shell Seekers, her best book ever.

Just finished " Silver Bay" by JoJo Moyes, and loved it. I do like her books.

Just finished Yesterday`s Shadows, by Rosie Goodwin, very good, it has romance, murder, family tragedy. Am now reading Lifeless, by Mark Billingham, it`s one of the Tom Thorne books that I missed out somewhere.

Yes I'm another who loved The Goldfinch, very, very good. I read Secret History many years ago and liked that but didn't finish Donna Tart's middle book. However, The Goldfinch well worth the wait

Re-reading The Third Man by Grahame Green in readiness for trip to Vienna. Still haven't worked out who the third man actually was.

The She Wolves by Helen Castor, a Christmas present from my daughter.

I have just finished The Postcard by Fern Britten, recommended at our local library, very easy to read and with a family story of trials and tribulations running through it. Now have started The Tinker's Girl by Catherine Cookson. I read many of her books several years ago then moved on to other types of books. Just thought i would refresh my memory with this one.

Number please slow down . You are demoralising me. I can't keep track of your goodreads. Perhaps we should have a 52 book challenge like the other place.

I mentioned Jojo Moyes to DD and she pulled a face. Her books are rather sentimental but I enjoyed Me before You which I got off this thread.

On Kindle I've downoaded Mansfield Park by Jane Austen . Classics cost nothing. I felt like a change from thrillers which are what I seem to read a lot of.

Stansgran, sorry, I get very irritable if I don`t have a book to pick up every time I have some spare time! But I only read 3, occasionally 4 a week. It would be a lot more expensive if I bought them all, but I exchange a lot of books with someone on another forum, even with the postage it`s cheaper than buying them all.

I've just finished Sanctuary by Robert Edric, a first person account of the last years of Branwell Bronte's life. Really enjoyed it, informative and touching. He seems to have written a lot of books but this is the first one I have ever read. Anyone else read this author?

No Trisher, he`s an author I haven`t come across. I do read some non fiction, but not a lot.

I finished Lifeless, it was OK, but other Tom Thorne tales were better. I`m now reading Saturday`s Child, by Ruth Hamilton, it promises to be good, set in Bolton in 1950.

numberplease it isn't non-fiction, but an imagined account. He has written a lot of historic novels. I really enjoyed this, but I do know Haworth and adore the Brontes so I'm not sure if his other books would appeal to me.

Trisher, I`l keep a lookout and try one of Robert Edric`s books, maybe not the Bronte one though. Wonder if they`re in the same vein as C.J.Sansom`s books?
I`m coming towards the end of Saturday`s Child, it`s been very good. I`m a big fan of thrillers, but I like the occasional heartwarming human interest story.

Used to chainread Ellis Peters' Brother Cadfael series when I had a long journey each day. Found this medieval monk who left his heb garden and Shrewsbury Abbey to solve mysteries very absorbing. Recently realised I hadn't read #19 and 20. Having now read them I shall get out The Cadfael Companion from the bookcase and may reread some.
Have just begun Kate Atkinson's A God in Ruins.