I have just started another Harlan Coben called Six Years. I don’t think he is a particularly good writer but his plots are terrific.
My reading so far…
Still got a few to go.
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Bridgerton books by Julia Quinn
This forum conceived as a book.
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Another Bridgerton book, only one to go now. I love the TV series.
This thread took a bit of digging out …
At the moment I’ve really got stuck into boxed sets of British detective and crime on my kindle. It’s never really been my favourite genre before.
They’re a good price, a couple of quid, and are keeping me good for hours.
Some of them are not very PC in places, there’s also quite a bit of bad language but I’m really enjoying reading through them.
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I subscribe to kindle unlimited and have ploughed my way through shed loads of freebie books. The Maxwell series by MJ Trow are fun.
Currently got three books under way, as they’re all a bit too heavy going to read each one in a single sitting.
Ayoade on Ayoade
The War on the West by Douglas Murray
Unruly by David Mitchell
Gavin Menzies.625 Page
“1421 The Year China Discovered The World”
When first published highly criticised by Historians.
His knowledge of Subterranean Navigation.
ie Currents and Tidal.
Opposed to . Surface Satellites and GPS. Accessed without parity.
As subsequently published by Archaeologists.
Skeletal remains and artefacts discovered and proven as being Chines of that vintage.
His Naval reputation in the 60/70’s Being somewhat reckless Not Helping with Authenticity. But fascinating reading.
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terrifically bad…
I read my first and last HC novel - boy from the woods this year, which made me wonder why oh why is he so successful.
I’m enjoying the Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte. A different style of writing from the other Brontes and altogether a more cheerful tone. I see from its history that it was a tad shocking for its times.
I’m not sure whether I have Agnes Grey anywhere in my book collection but I must read that next.
I am sorry to say that I had to give up on the Magician after a couple of chapters. I found it a real drudge trying to persevere. Perhaps it will be one that I pick up again years later and am delighted to read to the end.
I’m reading ‘The Last Tudor’ by Philippa Gregory - the fictional story of Lady Jane Grey and her two sisters, although based on fact. Reading about Bradgate Park where Jane Grey grew up brings to mind my Dad telling us about the headless ghost of Lady Jane Grey which supposedly walks there at dusk. Not sure whether it’s true or just a ruse by my Dad to encourage us to go home!
@Daffy I used to be a real hostorical novel fan … and the Tudors was, and still is, one of my favourite periods.
@AnnieS …I’ve not read the Tenant of Wildfell … I’ll give that one a go. It’s while since I read anything of that ilk but they are enjoyable.
ETA: Oh, it’s free on Amazon. I’ll get and download a copy.
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Just Finished. William Ainsworth 492 Page.
The Witches of Lancashire.
A romance of Pendle Forest. Originally Published 1884.
A remarkable accurate and historical incite to. 1660’s Trial’s and Tribulations of Witch Hunting
PS. Knowledge acquired, consistently applied. When Profiling. 
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Uh oh…are you insinuating I won’t be able to apply my spells on you?!?
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A Special Concession.
4 The St. Law Rence. Chapter.
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Just finished “The Man Who Died Twice” by Richard Osman and have started on Harlan Coben’s “Nobody’s Fool”
Still waiting delivery of the Myron Bolitar series 
The Reformatory
Horror fiction.
It’s one of those books where the real horror is the history it’s explaining.
It explores racism in 1950s Florida, a place where race relations weren’t much better than they’d been in 1860s.
This book saddened me immensely.
Young children sent to a “Reform School” for trivialities.
A sadistic warden who would lash children held down on a bench by goons.
A truly horrific “fictitious” novel based on historical realities.
Currently I’m re-reading Philip K Dicks “The Man in the High Castle”. I’d forgotten how good it is. Its probably called science fiction but has a similar premise to a few other books of imagining a world where Japan & Germany won the war. But brilliantly, in the book one main part of it is describing a subversive book that many of the characters are reading. This book within a book switches it around and imagines a world in which the allies actually won. So get the reaction of the characters to this fictional idea of a world where the US and UK defeated Germany and Japan, and what happened afterwards …
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Anne McCaffrey— All The Weyr’s Of Pern.
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Now on Maskerade by Terry Pratchett