I loved The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett. But hated Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel – couldn’t go beyond fifty pages.
Other books that I have read and liked:
Angels and Demons by Dan Brown (three others by the same author)
The Book Thief by M Zusak
The Kite Runner, A Thousand Splendid Suns by K Hosseini
Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie
I don’t want classics like War and Peace. Something easier to get into.
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The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen,
Harlem Shuffle,
Take My Hand by Perkins Valdez,
All Quiet on the Western Front,
I Claudius,
The Long Ships by Bengtsson,
The Physician by Noah Gordon,
The King Must Die and Bull From the Sea,
Master and Commander and sequels, by OBrian
The Hornblower series by CS Forrester
The Girl with the Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
Shadow Country by Peter Matthiessen
You might like Elizabeth Wein’s books – they’re suitable for young adults but are very readable for older people as well. Various settings, but mostly centring around female pilots/spies/resistance operatives in the early 20th century.
Since you read and liked the Book Thief, i’m thinking about Orphan Monster Spy, it’s a young adult book about a jewish girl becoming a spy in a school for Nazi’s daughters