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[Deleted member 63]

Nine Princes in Amber (1970) - Roger Zelazny

It's the first book in a rather old fantasy series (Chronicles of Amber) that I never got around to reading back in the day when I was reading a lot of SF/F. 10 novels total plus a short story collection but you could probably pack about 3 Amber novels into a single A Song of Ice & Fire novel.

 

[Soffie]

The Lost Man by Jane Harper. Brilliant stuff.

I was worried it was going to be a retread of her earlier book The Dry but despite sharing many of the same elements (outback, dead body, family secrets) but it's a unique, character-driven book. Well worth a read.

 

[indigo]

Started "Girl, Woman, Other" yesterday and I haven't had a book make my stop and think so much in such a short space of time. Loving it so far.

 

[Ray Gin]

Just started Four Winds by Kristin Hannah. Life in 1930's dustbowl Texas. Enjoying it!

 

[Jess]

I Am Pilgrim.

Quite a shocking opening chapter but am loving it so far.

 

[Donna]

The Bone Code by Kathy Reichs

This is the most recent book in the Temperance Brennan series and it is a good read. However, as with A Conspiracy of Bones, I feel that the fast pace that Reichs was renowned for is not there anymore to the same extent as was in the first 20 novels in this series.

 

[Snoops]

I've just started Tim Marshall's The Power of Geography, a follow up to his excellent geopolitical book Prisoners of Geography. I'm only four or five chapters in and so far it's just as good and interesting as the first book.

 

[Gemma]

Boys Don't Cry by Fiona Scarlett.

Just read it in one sitting, couldn't put it down.

It will break your heart, a beautifully written book.

 

[Gromit]

The Crusades: The War for the Holy Land by Thomas Asbridge

This book chronicles all of the crusades launched by popes throughout the eleventh, twelfth and thirteenth centuries. The book takes a look at the crusades and jihad from both a Christian and Muslim perspective. The author also looks at how Islamic fundamentalists such as Bin Laden has twisted the history of the crusades to justify terrorist attacks in the West.

 

[Franco Pinion]

Just read The Nothing Man, Catherine Ryan Howard. Not my normal type of read but my wife recommended it and I absolutely loved it.

A serial killer-type story set mainly in Cork, the plotting and the structure were great (multiple time periods and POVs, story-within-a-story, potentially unreliable narrator), but it was the attention to and correctness of detail that nailed it for me.