Recently read The Women by Kristin Hannah. Not great literary value, but an easy and interesting read. The story follows one Vietnam nurse. It captures a lot of the era, how the war was perceived, and how veterans and women in particular were treated. It held my attention (which isn’t always easy!)
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I’ve just started Amor Towles Table for Two. He’s an amazing writer. Highly recommend this latest book.
Not literary fiction but another excellent book, which I just finished, is Michael Connelly’s Resurrection Walk. It’s part of his Lincoln lawyer series, but Harry Bosch (from Connelly’s other series is also in this book. It’s a great story.
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I loved Table for Two. But then, I love anything Amor Towles writes.
Enjoyed the story in Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow. I have never been able to get into video games (nor have either of my kids) so that part did not connect with me.
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I recently saw Amor Towles interviewed at a literary festival. He is as smart, charming, and warm as Count Rostov!
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ITA—I heard him speak at a book festival when Gentleman from Moscow first came out.
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Same here. I did feel the second half of the book really brought out the storyline about relationships which I enjoyed. Either that or since I did audio for the second half, maybe having the voices made the characters more personal to me!
This is a novel I did as audiobook. Liked it a lot, but not sure if I would have been an interesting as a book or ebook.
https://www.amazon.com/Seven-Husbands-Evelyn-Hugo-Novel/dp/1501139231
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I was so excited to read Table For Two after watching the Gentleman In Moscow series on Showtime. I don’t usually like to watch movies based on books I have read, but GIM was excellent!! (My kids and I have also really loved the Percy Jackson series on Disney+, for those of you that raised your kids on Rick Riordan books. The movies were terrible, but this series is made very, very well.)
Back to Table For Two, I didn’t realize it was short stories until I came to the end of the first one and was so sad the story was over, I was really invested in Pitkin!
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I enjoyed this as well. I got the book and found it to be a quick and easy read.
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Agree with @happy1! It was a good book.
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I also loved Tomorrow… I was disappointed that my Book Group generally only thought it was OK. However, so many other friends my age also raved about it. I thought the characters were richly drawn and the relationships very real.
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I also really liked The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo and have recommended it to friends that also liked it.
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I am another one that loved Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow even though I have no one in my life that is into video games. I was so happy that someone on this forum recommended the book otherwise I probably would not have found it myself. I definitely thought it was the best book that I read last year.
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I’ve really enjoyed all of Zevin’s books that I’ve read. I really should make a point to find the ones I haven’t read yet. I think they are in the YA section of my library.
I really liked Tomorrow -I have also read and enjoyed
The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
Young Jane Young
Margarettown
all by Zevin
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I really liked James by Percival Everett. Creative and thought provoking.
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I recently read and loved Firekeeper’s Daughter by Angeline Boulley. I appreciated the character development and found the story so compelling. I think it’s technically a YA book, but don’t hold that against it. 
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I loved The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry. I saw her at a book festival when the book was first published. She was a bit awkward, but smart and funny.
I did read Tomorrow. I didn’t think I’d like it, but I actually did. I knew nothing about gaming.
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I liked Tomorrow. But I truly loved A.J. Fikry.
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So did anyone read Solito by Javier Zamora?? I recommended it many posts ago.
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