Book Recommendations

Here's a list of books suggested to Annie by family and friends ...

1. A Confederacy of Dunces. (It’s bloody hilarious)
2. A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles. (I really, really loved that book ; Really good escapist stuff)/
3. Canal Walks by Julia Bradbury.
4. Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman (2 votes).
5. Galbraith mystery books
6. How to be a woman - Caitlin Moran (belly laugh funny)
7. How to Pray for Normal People (Pete Grieg) What it says on the tin
8. Innocent wife' by Amy Lloyd (woman falls in love for murderer on death row, he's released, they marry...)
9. Jigs and Reels by Joanne Harris (the first one is hilarious and reminds me of me and Stephen’s mum. We escape from a nursing home!!)
10. Ken Follet Century Trilogy (Really long but un-put-down-able.).
11. Mallory Towers, Enid Blyton (Easy escapism read. Reminder of stuff she read as a youngster).
12. Mythos Stephen Fry
13. Neverwhere Neil Gaiman
14. Persian Fire and Rubicon, by Tom Holland
15. Philip Kerr Bernie Gunthie books (murder mysteries set in Berlin in ww2 / cold war,)
16. Philippa Gregory series-
17. re-read Adrian mole books (easy to read and very funny).
18. Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts
19. The Bookshop by Penelope Fitzgerald ( a short book wonderfully observed)
20. The Cockroach by Ian McEwan. Great political satire!
21. The Hundred-Year-Old Man who climbed out of the windo and Disappeared – Jonas Jonasson (Fab book, Funny and clever; v good).
22. The Loud Halo by Lillian Beckwith (life on a Scottish Island)
23. The Music Shop by Rachel Joyce (a novel )
24. The Neapolitan novels x4 by Elena Ferrante starting with My brilliant friend – (excellent; fantastic; really enjoyed them)
25. The Number 1 Ladies Detective Agency books by Alexander McCall Smith
26. The Once and Future King. TH White -
27. The Postcard - by Leah Fleming!
28. the Potkin & Stubbs series – (“yes the target audience may be 10-12yr olds but the author is my sister in law”)
29. The queen and I Sue Townsend
30. the Rivers of London series by Ben Aaronovitch. (light fun reading).
31. The Street Lawyer by John Grisham (like every other Grisham)
32. The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry – uplifting.
33. the Witcher series by Andrezj Sapowski
34. Things I don’t want to know’ by Deborah Levy
35. Three men in a boat Jerome k Jerome (good for a laugh)
36. Three Women by Lisa Taddeo. (Totally up her street and a page turner to boot!)
37. Trash by Andy Mulligan
38. What Would Boudicca Do.
39. Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel