Ironweed by William Kennedy

Anonymous wrote:NP Please identify any of these in the “better written echelon chick-lit” category. Thanks!

OP here. In my mind the better written chick-lit is stuff like Bridget Jones' Diary, in comparison to the type of chick-lit that is more of a romance novel like Danielle Steel or something. Maybe Liane Moriarty as well?

Anonymous wrote:Dip into classics? Dickens, Tolstoy? Thomas Hardy?

OP here, I've sort of done that but I've read a lot of the classics so trying to branch out! I loooooove Thomas Hardy, I got the idea for my daughter's name from one of his books.

I know there was controversy around it, but I tore through American Dirt. It was incredibly captivating and I could not put it down.

You like Jennifer Weiner but not Where the Crawdads Sing?! Weiner is the absolute bottom drivel of chick-lit and she writes women like they are petty, self absorbed monsters.

What about The Nightengale?

NP Please identify any of these in the “better written echelon chick-lit” category. Thanks!

Dip into classics? Dickens, Tolstoy? Thomas Hardy?

Nothing to see here, Kevin Wilson
Magpie murders, Anthony Horowitz

OP here - thank you SO much! I am going to check these all out!!

Gentleman in Moscow

The Crossing Places (Ruth Galloway mystery series) - or her latest, The Stranger Diaries

Have you ever read Simone St James? Try Sun Down Motel.

Home after Dark

Anonymous wrote:The Huntress by Kate Quinn (better than The Alice Network IMO though that is still good)

I'm the PP who posted that, I haven't read The Huntress but I'm going to check it out now!

The Huntress by Kate Quinn (better than The Alice Network IMO though that is still good)

The Alice Network by Kate Quinn

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

Check out the inspector allyn mysteries (by Ngaio marsh) and Melrose Plant mysteries (by Martha grimes.)

Forgive me, litterateurs of DCUM, for I have sinned.

It's been awhile since I read a book I was really into. I am normally pretty picky about what I read, but I've been feeling desperate for something to do after work. Last weekend, I took some old books to a Little Free Library in the neighborhood, and as I was about to close the door something caught my eye. A paperback copy of Angels and Demons by Dan Brown. I read The DaVinci Code years ago and rolled by eyes while speed reading as quickly as I could to find out what happened at the end. So, I knew what I was getting into. I have no excuse. Yes, I took the Dan Brown novel and am now actually reading it.

Help!

I like classic literature, mysteries, the better-written echelon of chick-lit. Nabokov, Hardy, Vonnegut, Christie, the first couple Shopaholic books, some Jennifer Weiner.

I do not like biographies or any fiction that's meant to be heart-warming. I did not like Where the Crawdads Sing and I thought Little Fires Everywhere was just OK.

Any suggestions?? Thanks!!!