I just started Lilac Girls but have not read enough to recommend it.

Not reading it now but enjoyed Me Before You.

For a lovely book, try Art of Hearing Heartbeats...

I was having a hard time finding a good book. Sent three books from the library to my Kindle back. I didn't want to waste my time reading them. Then I remembered a book I bought cheap from Amazon named Whistling Past the Graveyard by Susan Crandall. Finally a good book. I think I gave about .99 for it and it's now 11.99. That makes it double good. Good reviews too.

If you like mysteries: Marcia Clark's Samantha Brinkman series. Excellent.

( Yes, THAT Marcia Clark )

I just finished Defending Jacob by William Landay, a truly great book, I thought. I just could not put it down!

"Award-winning author William Landay has written the consummate novel of an embattled family in crisis - a suspenseful, character-driven mystery that is also a spellbinding tale of guilt, betrayal, and the terrifying speed at which our lives can spin out of control."

Charles Martin's "The Mountain Between us", or "Where the River Ends", also by Charles Martin. Wonderful books!

Kris, I read "The Lilac Girls' not too long ago, loved it! And would definitely recommend it. Kristin Hannah's "The Nightingale" is very good, as is her "True Colors".

Rusty

I'm currently on the third book of the six-book "Clifton Chronicles" series by Jeffrey Archer. Outstanding!! If you haven't read Archer, I highly recommend that you try at least one of his books. My favorites were "Kane and Abel" (not Biblical) and "A Prisoner of Birth".

I just finished "My Absolute Darling " and "The Girl With No Name ". Both very disturbing but very good.

Another vote for Defending Jacob.

It is so difficult to recommend books to others not knowing what type of books they have read or enjoyed in the past.

I will frequently go online to a retailer and read reviews, or go to the Garden Web Reader's Paradise forum. I've gotten great suggestions there

I have been enjoying Louise Penny and Linda Fairstein books. Mysteries with great characters.

Middlemarch by George Elliott- an oldie but goodie as they say. In all seriousness if you like a book that is completely engrossing filled with characters and stories and sub stories, this is the book for you. Plus, unless you are a speed reader it lasts a long time.

Pachinko. About a Korean family in Japan. Especially if you are interested in Korean or Japanese culture, it's pretty good. I'm almost done.

Kristin Hannah The Nightingale.

Thanks, Phyllis and Maxmom. I just bought a used hardcover Defending Jacob on eBay. Lots of excellent Amazon reviews. Sounds good!

I recommend Pachinko, Lilac Girls, The Fall of Marigolds.

Thanks for all the recommendations! I'm going to print this out and see if my library has any of them. I have to look up Pachinko in particular, one of my cousins actually works for a Pachinko company in Japan. ( :

For a delightful light novel try Fannie Flagg's The Whole Town's Talking. World War II books seem to be popular now---two of the best I've read are The One Man by Andrew Gross and The Baker's Secret by Stephen P. Kiernan

Jewish Worship, by Abraham Millgram.

Possessed: A Life of Joan Crawford, by Donald Spoto.

Falling upwards. So far, I really like it. Well, I feel heard.

I can agree with The Whole Town's Talking. I really enjoyed it and thought it was just delightful. (I should add though that on another forum about books, quite a few did not like it).

Countrycottageklutz-- your writing is delightful. I will look for Postmistress ( I think I might have read it or looked for it anyway it's familiar).

I just finished The Art Forger - it was excellent.

Modern Girls by Jennifer Brown.

I love books by Mary Alice Monroe.

Thanks for all the book recommendations! I finally got a minute to write them all down so I could go look them up. I was going to print them but my printer is out of ink. Grrr!

Try "To the End of the Land" by David Grossman. It won the Booker this year and for good reason.

I've already read it twice in the original Hebrew - my mother tongue and the language in which the book was written. I'm planning to read it again in a couple of years. Good books keep improving with every reading.

I love Middlemarch. I'm currently reading The Warden by Anthony Trollope and enjoying it. Barchester Towers is next on my list.

Just listened to the audiobook "The Good Daughter" by Karin Slaughter while driving my daughter to college. It was great!

Cacocobird, thank you for reminding to read some Trollope again!

Cleo, my son's new student orientation starts today :-) We listened one of the Discworld books in the car.

Went to the library and book 3 of Game of Thrones in currently out, which I thought it might be. So, I got The Postmistress on cd to listen in the car to and from work. They didn't have another recommended book, I just looked around and picked up a Michael Crighton book: Dragon Teeth. Next time I will make the list I take with me longer...or just bring the entire list I wrote down lol.

I'm currently reading Britt-Marie Was Here by Fredrik Backman (originally recommended by Stacy)............he also wrote A Man called Ove. Really enjoying it! I, too liked Defending Jacob although I must admit I found the ending depressing.

I just read "The Marriage Lie" by Kimberly Belle. Really enjoyed it.

I have a couple of books going: The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas, and I'm wrapping up Jeffrey Archer's Clifton Chronicles with This Was A Man.

"Try "To the End of the Land" by David Grossman. It won the Booker this year and for good reason."

This didn't ring true for me so I looked it up. The cited book came out in English in 2010 and didn't win any major awards. Grossman did win a Booker award this year but I believe it was for a different book.

Just finished The Protestant Ethic and The Spirit of Capitalism. I think I need some lighter fare.

Right, Grossman won the Booker this year for "A Horse Walks into a Bar". I got mixed up. Still, I'd recommend "To the End of the Land" for OP. "A Horse" is superb and I've already read it twice, but from OP's posts I happened to read recently I think "To the End of the Land" would spead to her more.

Well, I just killed another author. (Back in the 80's my husband would give me a couple of books, I'd love them, and a month or so later he'd announce "Guess who just died." Happened three times in a row! he stopped giving me books.)

So this time, the author isn't dead (thank goodness), but she ended her series just as I caught up to present day. Darn! The author is Margaret Coel, and her Wind River mystery series. All are set on the Wind River Reservation in Wyoming, featuring a recovering alcoholic priest. First book, The Eagle Catcher, came out in 1995. The 20th, Winter's Child, was published in 2014. I read them all over the course of this summer. When you binge-read a 20-book series, you do notice similarities. How many times do the main characters get run off the road? But, in this case, the rich details contained in each book made them all worth while. Margaret Coel weaves accurate historical detail, Arapaho tradition, and human nature into her stories. I'm no Plains Indian expert, but she made me feel like I understand a different way of life. And I definitely got a dose of history in a most enjoyable format. She recently published two books featuring a new character, also enjoyable. So I hope for more!

I just finished a great book. I couldn't put it down! It's "The Naturalist" by Andrew Mayne. I received it for free as one of the Amazon prime first look benefits. I was all set to buy the next one but it's not out till March 2018 :(

I'm halfway through a 99p Kindle book called "The Girl who came back" Its a mystery , full of twists and turns and so far very good!