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

[Anonymous]

A couple of authors that I like and can usually find at the library are Curtis Sittenfeld and J. Courtney Sullivan.

[Anonymous]

A man called Ove.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hamnet

I have a 7 week wait to get Hamnet from MCPL.

[Anonymous]

Anything by Elizabeth Strout. Anything by Marilynne Robinson.

[Anonymous]

I loved The Historian (by Totova); the Golum and the Jinni, Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell and the Daevabad trilogy (Chakraborty)

I listen to many audiobooks and when I’m waiting for books in my cue I often listen to classics. Last year I listened to The Count of Monte Cristo and really liked it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hamnet

I have a 7 week wait to get Hamnet from MCPL.

It was available when I checked at the time of the this topic started. People must be getting ready for vacations.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

I couldn't get through 50 pages of that book because the writing was so terrible.

[Anonymous]

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

I enjoyed the author's earlier works even more - Sharp Objects & Dark Places

[Anonymous]

This Tender Land is a wonderful historical fiction.

[Anonymous]

Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt
House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune

I've also read a ton by Taylor Jenkins Reid lately

[Anonymous]

If you use Libby for ebooks (or audiobooks), you can filter by “what’s available” and sort by popularity. Lots of popular books from the last few years available from DCPL and MCPL.

[Anonymous]

Going further back:

Possession
Atonement
The Handmaid's Tale
Snow Falling on Cedars
A Walk in the Woods
The Color Purple
The Joy Luck Club
Cold Mountain
Lonesome Dove
The Shipping News
All the Pretty Horses
The Pillars of the Earth
Cat's Eye
Corelli's Mandolin
Smilla's Sense of Snow
The Remains of the Day
A Thousand Acres
The Kitchen God's Wife
The Mists of Avalon
Regeneration
A Prayer for Owen Meany
Seabiscuit
White Teeth
Presumed Innocent
Midwives
The Children of Men
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
Wonder Boys
Crossing to Safety
Devil in a Blue Dress

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Going further back:

Possession
Atonement
The Handmaid's Tale
Snow Falling on Cedars
A Walk in the Woods
The Color Purple
The Joy Luck Club
Cold Mountain
Lonesome Dove
The Shipping News
All the Pretty Horses
The Pillars of the Earth
Cat's Eye
Corelli's Mandolin
Smilla's Sense of Snow
The Remains of the Day
A Thousand Acres
The Kitchen God's Wife
The Mists of Avalon
Regeneration
A Prayer for Owen Meany
Seabiscuit
White Teeth
Presumed Innocent
Midwives
The Children of Men
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
Wonder Boys
Crossing to Safety
Devil in a Blue Dress

What a fantastic list. So many of my favorites are on this list... I'm going to check out the ones I haven't read yet

[Anonymous]

Life After Life
A God in Ruins