People who have followed me for sometime will know I am completely crazy about murder mysteries or crime thrillers. That’s one genre I liked since I was a kid, but back I read the classics as well ( or made to read, I should say). It takes a lot of effort for me to get into a book other than mystery books. Since one of my goal this year is to read books that pull me out of my comfort zone. I chose a few books which have little bit of mystery, and yet they are from different genres which gives me insight what’s getting published other than the crime fiction.

  1. Midnight Library- Matt Haig (Sci- Fi)

Goodreads summary: “Between life and death there is a library, and within that library, the shelves go on forever. Every book provides a chance to try another life you could have lived. To see how things would be if you had made other choices . . . Would you have done anything different, if you had the chance to undo your regrets? A novel about all the choices that go into a life well lived.“

2. The Last List of Mabel Beaumont- Laura Pearson (Contemporary Fiction)

Goodreads Summary: “The list he left had just one item on it. Or, at least, it did at first… But now Arthur is gone. He died: softly, gently, not making a fuss. But he’s still left her a list. This one has just one item on it though: ‘Find D’. What she doesn’t know is that her list isn’t just about finding her old friend. And that if she can admit the secrets of the past, maybe she could even find happiness again…”

3. The Lost Bookshop- Evie Woods (Fanstasy)

Goodreads Summary:” For too long, Opaline, Martha and Henry have been the side characters in their own lives.
But when a vanishing bookshop casts its spell, these three unsuspecting strangers will discover that their own stories are every bit as extraordinary as the ones found in the pages of their beloved books. And by unlocking the secrets of the shelves, they find themselves transported to a world of wonder… where nothing is as it seems.”

4. Honour- Elif Shafak (Historical Fiction)

Goodreads Summary: ” An honour killing shatters and transforms the lives of Turkish immigrants in 1970s London“

5. Wolf Hall- Hilary Mantel ( Historical Fiction)

Goodreads Summary: “England in the 1520s is a heartbeat from disaster. If the king dies without a male heir, the country could be destroyed by civil war. Henry VIII wants to annul his marriage of twenty years and marry Anne Boleyn. The pope and most of Europe opposes him. Into this impasse steps Thomas Cromwell: a wholly original man, a charmer and a bully, both idealist and opportunist, astute in reading people, and implacable in his ambition. But Henry is volatile: one day tender, one day murderous. Cromwell helps him break the opposition, but what will be the price of his triumph?”