List of good fiction books that are a few years old (or more)

Mrs. Polifax series by Dorothy Gilman - grandmother decides to be a spy during the Cold War

I’ve Got Your Number by Sophie Kinsella - humorous romance

Can You Keep a Secret? by Sophie Kinsella - humorous romance

First Lady by Susan Elizabeth Phillips - humorous romance

Fools Rush In by Janice Thompson - humorous (Christian) romance

Maiden Lane series by Elizabeth Hoyt - historical romance

Elizabeth Peters - historical mystery

Phyllis Whitney - mystery romance

Elemental series by Elizabeth Hunter - vampire romance

Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes

Advise and Consent - political fiction - won the Pulitzer - has strong conservative viewpoint, but that’s 1959 Cold War, not MAGA

Below the Salt - Thomas B. Costain - historical fiction around Magna Carta and Eleanor of Brittany

Last of the Breed - Louis L’amour - wilderness survival fiction

The Stand by Stephen King - apocalyptic fiction

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05/15/2024 10:59

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Drop City or When the Killing's Done, TC Boyle
The Corrections or Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
Crossing to Safety or Spectator Bird by Wallace Stegner
Oryx and Crake, Margaret Atwood
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay or Yiddish Policeman's Union, Michael Chabon
The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead
The Accursed, Joyce Carol Oates

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05/15/2024 11:56

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Look at Sharon Kay Penman for historical fiction.

Look at Elizabeth George’s Inspector Linley series for mystery.

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05/27/2024 21:11

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Anonymous wrote:I really thought Gone Girl was fantastic. But if you saw the movie, it's spoiled.

Yes, I have to agree.

The movie’s script was basically verbatim of the actual book 📖 which is not usually the case when books ->> films.

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05/27/2024 21:47

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Before we were yours by Lisa Wingate.
It is fiction but based on a true story of a woman who would kidnap poor white good looking children around Memphis. She claimed she ran an orphanage. She would sell the children to rich people.

Small great things by Jodi Picoult.
It is fiction, about a black labor and delivery nurse who encounters a couple who are white supremacists. She is told by the couple, and her supervisors, not to handle their newborn baby. But then the baby has a medical episode and no one else is around to help the baby. She ends up getting sued.

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05/27/2024 21:52

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Ask Again, Yes
Verity
The Silent Patient
The Last Mrs. Parrish
The Paper Palace
Baby Teeth

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05/27/2024 21:53

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I also google Best fiction of 2020 or 2021 or Best memoir of... or Best mysteries of...or whatever to find books that are still within the discourse but definitely easier at the library.

That said, i was at a bookstore today and a sales person pointed out remarkably bright creatures in hardback and asked if I had read it yet. I have (gotten from the library) and I said it was amazing it was still doing so well, and she said two years on the bestseller lists. So maybe not so available, but it is really good.

Also, the DC library system doesn't really do it (they have it as a a small program only at a few libraries) but Montgomery County MD has a category called "lucky day." you can't reserve those books online, and you can't renew them past the initial three week loan, so basically you go in the library and go through the lucky day shelves and you find the most recent bestsellers and most popular books.