My faves recently -

Surprised by Crazy Rich Asians - fun, fast read and the details were wonderful. (If you enjoy Jane Austen even just a little bit, you will most likely love this).
Happiness by Aminatta Forna - very different from above, but absorbing, meditative novel on love and loss
All Our Wrong Todays - Elan Mastai - Great time travel book, funny, twisty, and absorbing
Lincoln in the Bardo - yes, it really is as good as everyone says

Queen of the South by Arturo Perez-Reverte Teresa Mendoza's boyfriend is a drug smuggler who the narcos of Sinaloa, Mexico, call "the king of the short runway," because he can get a plane full of coke off the ground in three hundred yards. But in a ruthless business, life can be short, and Teresa even has a special cell phone that Guero gave her along with a dark warning. If that phone rings, it means he's dead, and she'd better run, because they're coming for her next. Then the call comes.

In order to survive, she will have to say goodbye to the old Teresa, an innocent girl who once entrusted her life to a pinche narco smuggler. She will have to find inside herself a woman who is tough enough to inhabit a world as ugly and dangerous as that of the narcos-a woman she never before knew existed. Indeed, the woman who emerges will surprise even those who know her legend, that of the Queen of the South

Another one set in Brazil. The Seven Sisters by Lucinda Riley https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23256764-the-seven-sisters

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you enjoy fairy tales and historical fiction, which are some of my favorite genres, here are some recommendations

-Bitter Greens (based on Rapunzel)
-The Bear and the Nightingale (based on Russian folklore)
-The Wrath and the Dawn (based on 1001 Nights)
-A Court of Thorns & Roses series (loosely based on Tamlin and Beauty & the Beast)
The Golem & the Jinni (based on Yiddish & Middle Eastern folklore)
Anything by Robin McKinley

I don’t seek out fairy tales but these books look especially good to read on a snow day.

The audiobook of The Golden and the Jinni is fantastic. The narrator has this luscious deep raspy voice. It really helps set the tone. It was available for instant checkout from the library through the hoopla app.

Another audiobook with a wonderful narrator is City of Thieves written by David Benioff (of Game ok Thrones) narrated by Ron Perlman.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hard to say what my favorite books are.

One Hundred years of solitude and anything by Marquez is my favorite book. But I also enjoyed/loved:

Their eyes were watching God - anything by Zora Neale Hurston
Something borrowed/Something Blue
The idiot
David Sedaris anything
Mary Roach- love her
Curtis Sittenfeld- LOVE her
How to murder your life- cat Marnell
Liane Moriarty anything
My name is Lucy Barton - Elizabeth strout
The emperor of maladies - amazing read and
Sophie Kinsella books

+1 Sophie Kinsella. Some of hers are better than others. My very favorite of hers is "I've Got Your Number". "Can You Keep a Secret?" And "The Undomestic Goddess" are also good.

+2. I just read one of her newer ones "Surprise Me." It has a vitality that some of her others lack. But I would start with her biggest book "Confessions of a Shopaholic."