Recommend a Book You've Read Recently and Enjoyed

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The Guest List by Lucy Foley was a good little thriller. It’s about a murder at a weekend wedding reception. Set in Ireland.

I didn't think it was very good.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The Guest List by Lucy Foley was a good little thriller. It’s about a murder at a weekend wedding reception. Set in Ireland.

I didn't think it was very good.

+1 Also not a fan.

[Anonymous]

Anxious People.

[Anonymous]

Enjoyed Amor Towles, The Lincoln Highway. Also having fun reading Silvia Moreno-Garcia, who writes Mexican versions of various genres. Velvet Was the Night is kind of noir, Mexican Gothic is, well, gothic, Gods of Jade and Stone is fantasy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP, can you recommend any of those light weight thrillers you read recently?

Sure! Some of these were lighter than others, but I enjoyed them all (again, to differing degrees):

Domestic/Family/Suburban thrillers:

The Last Flight (Julie Clark)
The Power Couple (Alex Berenson)
Imperfect Women (Araminta Hall)
Three Perfect Liars (Heidi Perks)
Not a Happy Family (Shari Lapena)
The Marriage Pact (Michelle Richmond)
The Gifted School (Bruce Holsinger)

Contemporary Spy Thrillers:

Damascus Station (David McCloskey)
The Cover Wife (Dan Fesperman)
The Paris Diversion (Chris Pavone)
Never (Ken Follett)
Pretty Things (Janelle Brown) (crime, not spy)

I absolutely loved The Gifted School and the Last Flight. I just put Three Perfect Liars in my care - looks good!

If you liked Last Flight, you might like The Golden Couple. Also, the author of the Flight Attendant has a new one coming out June 21 called The Lies I Tell which looks good.

[Anonymous]

I loved The Alice Network by Kate Quinn. She has another book, The Huntress, that is in my queue but haven’t read yet.

[Anonymous]

Some of my recent reads include

The Lost Apothecary
Hamnet
The Other Black Girl
The Great Circle
Project Hail Mary

[Anonymous]

Nothing to See Here (hilarious, light, but touching)
Circe (woman centered story, beautifully written)
Pachinko (generations of mostly women in Korea)
Homegoing (this one is very heavy, but thought provoking)

[Anonymous]

Definitely The Other Black Girl

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The Guest List by Lucy Foley was a good little thriller. It’s about a murder at a weekend wedding reception. Set in Ireland.

I didn't think it was very good.

+1 Also not a fan.

I really liked it and all of Lucy Foley’s books.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Anxious People.

I didn’t like this book. I disliked it so much I considered quitting after I stared but read to the end thinking it must get better since everyone seems to love it. Nope, it didn’t get any better.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Definitely The Other Black Girl

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Anxious People.

I didn’t like this book. I disliked it so much I considered quitting after I stared but read to the end thinking it must get better since everyone seems to love it. Nope, it didn’t get any better.

Also HATED it. And I usually like that author!

I love the types of books on this thread. One that I'll throw out to you all is "The Heart's Invisible Furies." It's modern Irish history through the eyes of a quirky kid growing up gay.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP, can you recommend any of those light weight thrillers you read recently?

Sure! Some of these were lighter than others, but I enjoyed them all (again, to differing degrees):

Domestic/Family/Suburban thrillers:

The Last Flight (Julie Clark)
The Power Couple (Alex Berenson)
Imperfect Women (Araminta Hall)
Three Perfect Liars (Heidi Perks)
Not a Happy Family (Shari Lapena)
The Marriage Pact (Michelle Richmond)
The Gifted School (Bruce Holsinger)

Contemporary Spy Thrillers:

Damascus Station (David McCloskey)
The Cover Wife (Dan Fesperman)
The Paris Diversion (Chris Pavone)
Never (Ken Follett)
Pretty Things (Janelle Brown) (crime, not spy)

I absolutely loved The Gifted School and the Last Flight. I just put Three Perfect Liars in my care - looks good!

If you liked Last Flight, you might like The Golden Couple. Also, the author of the Flight Attendant has a new one coming out June 21 called The Lies I Tell which looks good.

Thank you! NP, I loved the last flight.

[Anonymous]

Has anyone read Two Nights in Lisbon? Would you recommend?