My favorite genre is literary fiction, so I have a lot of recommendations. The Snow Child, Where’d You Go Bernadette?, City of Thieves, I Capture the Castle, Elegance of the Hedgehog, A Man Called Ove, The Poisonwood Bible. And anything by Khaled Hosseini (books with heavy topics) or Kristin Hannah. There are so many more, but I’ll stop there. 😁
I love I Capture the Castle, I talked about it my favourite classics, and The Poisonwood Bible I mentioned in my historical fiction recommendations so it seems we have similar tastes and I should check out the others
Sorry, I watch a lot of booktubers and I forget who has mentioned what book.😁 A new release I really enjoyed was Where the Crawdads Sing; it was a great audio book.
I love so many of these too! Do Not Say We Have Nothing, The Secret History, Americanah and Never Let Me Go are some of my absolute favourites. I guess this means that I have to read all the others now
This is helpful. I’ve been stuck in Jane Austen and Middlemarch way too long. I appreciate your brief summaries. You get to the essence without any spoilers. Thanks!
I need to check out White Teeth ASAP, don’t I? 🤗 My favorite literary fiction novel (this year) is Girl, Woman, Other, by Bernadine Evaristo. It’s got an unusual prose format, if you haven’t read it yet, I highly recommend. It’s contemporary and made me feel so proud of my fellow humans!
Those are some great sounding recommendations. Ali Smith is an author I'm so happy to have discovered this year. Winter has been my favourite so far. I'll have to push How To Be Both up my TBR.
No doubt a personal selection, but also a sadly unbalanced selection with not one single male author and a large selection of foreign writers in keeping with the current woke trend.
@@RoisinsReading lol - fair enough, but I assume you get my drift. Personally I read an equal number of male and female authors, along with the occasional novel by a foreign writer.
@@RoisinsReading fair enough. I'm much the same in that I don't feel many women can speak to the male condition. But if you have any suggestions, I'm open to it.
@@RBDawg I think that viewing the "male condition" as fundamentally different and incomprehensible by women as if women were not also the same species with much overlap is part of the reason I find it hard to read many lauded male writers. Maybe look at this article if you're willing to have your mind changed www.theguardian.com/books/2021/jul/09/why-do-so-few-men-read-books-by-women
@@RoisinsReading thanks for the article. To be more concise, I don't differentiate authors on non fiction topics. I do tend to favor male fiction writers. I don't read horror or murder or crime novels often, but prefer stories with intense interpersonal relationships. Love stories. I read one story by a female author "Little fires everywhere." Very popular book and mini series. I really didn't like it. I didn't like the way the young black girl and the older brother treated the younger brother. I didn't like either of the adult women. I didn't like the way it ended and thought it was totally unbelievable. Compared to "Perks of being a Wall Flower" written by a male author, which I found completely compelling and I heavily identified with the main protagonist Charlie. I like all of John Green's novels with "Fault on our Stars" probably my favorite.
@@RBDawg interesting, I'm not a YA reader but it sounds like that's what you like, seeing as Perks and John Green are all YA. There's a lot of YA written by women but as I don't read it I can't really recommend. I'm also not someone who needs to like or identify with characters to like a book.
You can also try reading grave the hidden truth by priyanka khetawat, if you want to go for fictional book with thriller, suspense and mystery Firstly, I was amazed by the attention to details in every chapter and I am sure you would notice it as well. One thing I enjoyed throughout the story is that each scene is happening in multiple locations and I loved the way the author painted the picture in front of me. It was almost like I was there, and I could vividly see what is going on. My favourite part is when all of them get stuck in a cave with another civilisation, who don't even speak the language. I can keep on going, but I am going to stop here as I don't want to spoil too much for the future the readers. Secondly, I was shocked when the author came up with a new script altogether for the ancient civilisation, and I completely enjoyed the riddles Firstly, I was amazed by the attention to details in every chapter and I am sure you would notice it as well. One thing I enjoyed throughout the story is that each scene is happening in multiple locations and I loved the way the author painted the picture in front of me. It was almost like I was there, and I could vividly see what is going on. My favourite part is when all of them get stuck in a cave with another civilisation, who don't even speak the language. I can keep on going, but I am going to stop here as I don't want to spoil too much for the future the readers. Secondly, I was shocked when the author came up with a new script altogether for the ancient civilisation, and I completely enjoyed the riddles sprinkled in the second half of the books led in the second half of the book
