Best reads - Club Together Book Club?

Just reading an interesting book called "The Reader on the 6.27" by Jean-Paul Didierlaurent. Although French (how did you guess?) its written in English about a young man who works in a paper pulping factory and he saves bits of books that he reads out to his fellow travellers on the train to work every day. It develops into a love story, a la Amelie, Very well written and not normally my thing but recommended.

Took the latest Michael Connelly, Harry Bosch, away to Bath last week and enjoyed it as usual and was pleased to find a Sam Eastland book about his Inspector Pekkala (set in Stalins Russia) that was missing from my collection. A good series of books if anyone doesn't already know of him.

I read that Harry Bosch book over Christmas, W. An excellent series of books, I reckon Michael Donnelly is the best of the American detective writers, consistently good storytelling. I also like Harlan Cohen's Myron Bolitar series which is a bit more humorous and John Connolly's Charlie Parker series, a bit darker than most. 

Just about to start the latest Rebus which finally arrived at the library for me last week!

Ought to mention separately the latest of my random picks - "The Shock of the Fall" by Nathan Filer. It's been on the kindle best seller list for ages so I thought I'd see what all the fuss was about when I spotted it on the library shelves. A story about mental illness which sounds a bit grim but is, in fact, entertaining and thought provoking and very, very readable. Highly recommended!

I agree Mousey, about Michael Connelly. Consistently good.

Did you ever try any of Lawrence Block's books with Matt Scudder as his main character or his books about Keller, a hired killer? Sounds grim but there's a lot of humour in his Keller books, usually found with the word "Hit" in the title. His books when he first started out are a bit on the "tough guy/vunerable woman" style prevalent in the 50's so I would skip them.

I'll keep an eye open for them, W. New author to me!

Don't know whether anyone has read books by Fred Vargas but a find this Frenchwoman has a way of keeping you engrossed in them. They are murder mysteries with an interesting array of detectives and the characters are very well fleshed out with a good dollop of humour.

Anyone wishing to try them should start with the first one, naturally, called The Chalk Circle Man. Just re-reading it and it is still good second time around.

I am coming to the end of reading a series of recent political autobiographies. Everything from Dennis Skinner to Ken Clarke, apart from political indigestion (and indignation but not much inspiration) I shall not be reading anything similar for a long time. I have had to stop reading them late at night due to the occasional nightmare and won't be recommending these as relaxing holiday reads!

Has anyone got some better suggestions?! 

Two brilliant books (well, I thought so, brue!) which I suggested on the previous page.

All The Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr and To The Bright Edge Of The World by Eowyn Ivey - not sure if you were looking for novels but they're both a very good read.

Historical fiction/fantasy is my kettle of fish, wasn't really a book worm till we started going abroad regularly on holiday.

Just finished the Assassins creed series, brilliant!! 

Although not in the same criteria, I also enjoyed the Jack Reacher books by Lee Child.

Sorry but no intellectual matter as previously posted.