You guys are awesome! Thank you for all of these suggestions!!
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I was coming on to suggest her other book - How to Age Disgracefully - both are excellent
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I will throw my hat in the ring with two of my favorites from the last year. The Bird Hotel and Frozen River. Both interesting reads centered around well written female characters.
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You might enjoy Murderbot - All Systems Red. It won both Hugo and Nebula awards for best sci-fi novella. Funny but also surprisingly thoughtful. Other stories follow but only available as e-books. I also very much enjoy Lois McMasters Bujold. Iām not sure what is available in paperback.
Eta "won both"gets turned into āwonāt botherā? And Murderbot is moderate?!
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Itās an awesome idea on terms of light to carry and light to read! 
(I love Murderbot).
Since itās based on commuters- Iona Iversonās Rules for Commuting by Clare Pooley.
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Hmm. Thatās on my hold list at the library.
I read How to Age Disgracefully a few months ago and loved it. I wasnāt award of the other title, so have added Iona Iversonās Rules for Commuting to my Want to Read list. Thanks for the tip!
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Hmm ā¦ the CC Book Club just finished discussing The Frozen River and chose The Bird Hotel as its next book. Discussion to start August 1, so plenty of time for anyone who wants to read it and join in.
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Well, obviously the book club has excellent taste. I will have to find the thread and see if they have read anything I might be interested in!
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Hereās The Frozen River thread: The Frozen River - June CC Book Club Selection
To see all CC Book Club discussions, search for threads started by @Mary13.
113 books chosen for discussion so far. Here are the titles chosen the first four years:
2009
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Dreamers of the Day
Sarahās Key
American Wife
The Thirteenth Tale
2010
The Help
The Shadow of the Wind
The Elegance of the Hedgehog
Let the Great World Spin
Cutting for Stone
The Moonstone
2011
Major Pettigrewās Last Stand
Water for Elephants
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
The Secret Garden + The Forgotten Garden
State of Wonder
Before I Go to Sleep
2012
11/22/63
Bridge Over San Luis Rey
The Catās Table
Jane Eyre + Wide Sargasso Sea
Cloud Atlas
The Glass Room
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I just finished The Sequel by Jean Hanff Korelitz. It picks up where The Plot left off. If you enjoyed that one, this is (pleasantly) more of the same. Well-written, thriller-ishā¦
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I saw an advert for a movie for this yesterday. Not sure where itās streaming. I donāt remember the plot details but I remember I absolutely loved this book, and the writingā¦one of those I would re-read paragraphs just for how beautifully they were written. I may re-read this over summer actually - read it long ago enough that I have the actual book and not just a kindle version 
Edit: on that list I also enjoyed Cloud Atlas, much more than I expected to.
Let the Great World Spin was also one I absolutely loved.
Wide Sargasso Sea is a perennial favorite. I first read it in my late teens.
There are a number I havenāt read on that list too. Will go look!
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Iām no longer a fan of Harlan Coben. Heās just mailing it in at this point. I hated all of the Netflix adaptions of his books. The Netflix series are set in England, Poland, or Spain, but the originals werenāt. I read that Coben is getting big $$$ from Netflix so I guess I canāt blame him for making the changes.
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I agree that his more recent books arenāt as good as the older ones.
I actually discovered him through the UK-based netflix specials - I then went and read one of his book and thought it was less of a pager turner than the netflix series..! I was surprised when it took place in the US, though;) I assumed he was British! I am not sure I ever liked an adaptation better than the āmovieā but in this case I did.
That said, I didnāt read the exact books to match the specials, so maybe that would change my opinion.
Ijust finished Maggie OāFarrellās 2022 novel The Marriage Portrait. WOW. Itās set in 1550 Florence , tells the story of the Duchess of Ferrara. She was 15 when married by her dāMedici father to a 24 yr old nobleman. All that is true; the rest is stellar storytelling. And I say that as someone who rarely likes celebrity book picks (Reese Witherspoon) but it deserves its spot on everyoneās ābest of the yearā list.
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It is next on my TBR pile. I can hardly wait!!!
That was a good one. Read for my bookclub
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