Is there anything better than losing yourself in an amazing book?! In this three-part series I’m counting down my all-time favourite books. This was SO hard to narrow down!
Here we go – in no particular order – my favourite page-turning novels to lose yourself in …
- Still Life – Sarah Winman*
- Pachinko – Min Jin Lee
- Where the Crawdads Sing – Delia Owens
- Someone Knows My Name – Lawrence Hill
- The Nightingale – Kristin Hannah*
- Girl, Woman, Other – Bernardine Evaristo
- All the Light We Cannot See – Anthony Doer*
- The Book Thief – Markus Zusak*
- The Alchemist – Paulo Coelho
- Horse – Geraldine Brooks
- The Beekeeper of Aleppo – Christy Lefteri
- Bear Town – Fredrik Backman*
- Call Me by your Name – André Aciman
- Lilac Girls – Martha Hall Kelly
- American Dirt – Jeanine Cummins
- The Women in the Castle – Jessica Shattuck
- A Thousand Splendid Suns – Khaled Hosseini*
- Beneath a Scarlet Sky – Mark Sullivan*
- A Place Called Winter – Patrick Gale
- Wonder – RJ Palacio
- The Art of Racing in the Rain – Garth Stein
- The Fault in our Stars – John Green
- The Heart’s Invisible Furies – John Boyne
- Before We Were Yours – Lisa Wingate
- Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society – Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
- We are Called to Rise – Laura McBride
- Orphan Train – Christina Baker Kline
- The Art of Hearing Heartbeats – Jan-Philipp Sendker
- The Little Coffee Shop of Kabul – Deborah Rodriguez
- Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet – Jamie Ford
- The Overstory – Richard Powers
- Lessons in Chemistry – Bonnie Garmus
NB: To narrow it down, I’ve limited it to one book per author, but have asterisked those authors who have multiple other books that I also love.