The Foremost Good Fortune

8 best books like The Foremost Good Fortune (Susan Conley): Tidelands, The Hotel Under the Sand, The Elephant in the Room: One Fat Man's Quest to Get Smaller in a Growing America, Swallows and Amazons, The Guest Book, Drungi, You're Not That Great: (but neither is anyone else), A Maiden's Grave

Tidelands

Author

Philippa Gregory

THE BRAND NEW SERIES FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLING AUTHOR

England 1648. A dangerous time for a woman to be different . . .

Midsummer’s Eve, 1648, and England is in the grip of civil war between renegade King and rebellious Parliament. The struggle reaches every corner...

The Hotel Under the Sand

Author	Kage Baker
ISBN	1892391899

Emma loses everything she has in a fearsome storm and washes ashore in the sandy Dunes. Winston, a Bell Captain ghost, befriends her. A motley crew staffs the newly risen Wenlocke Hotel, newly arisen after a century: one-eyed cook and peg-leg pirate, and the imperious boy heir to the Wenlocke fortune....

The Elephant in the Room: One Fat Man's Quest to Get Smaller in a Growing America

Author	Tommy Tomlinson
ISBN	1501111612

The government definition of obesity is a body mass index of 30 or more. My BMI is 60.7. My shirts are size XXXXXXL, which the big-and-tall stores shorten to 6X. I’m 6-foot-1, or 73 inches tall. My waist is 60 inches around. I’m nearly a sphere.

Those are the numbers. This is how it feels…

So...

Swallows and Amazons

Author

Arthur Ransome

Read as part of The Infinite Variety Reading Challenge, based on the BBC's Big Read Poll of 2003.

Swallows and Amazons, despite it being a popular old-fashioned children's book that almost every adult in England would have read, has never been on my radar and I don't think I'd ever even heard...

The Guest Book

Author

Sarah Blake

An unforgettable love story, a novel about past mistakes and betrayals that ripple throughout generations, The Guest Book examines not just a privileged American family, but a privileged America. It is a literary triumph.

The Guest Book follows three generations of a powerful American...

Drungi

Author	Ragnar Jónasson
ISBN	9935475417

Elliðaey is an isolated island off the coast of Iceland. It is has a beautiful, unforgiving terrain and is an easy place to vanish.

The Island is the second thrilling book in Ragnar Jonasson's Hidden Iceland trilogy. This time Hulda is at the peak of her career and is sent to investigate what...

You're Not That Great: (but neither is anyone else)

Author	Elan Gale
ISBN	1478918292

I am addicted to positivity. I am addicted to positivity. I am addicted to positivity.

I care more about feeling great than being great.

I am NOT THAT GREAT.

The self-help industry tells you that if you're positive, if you put your best foot forward and if you just believe...

A Maiden's Grave

Author	Jeffery Deaver
ISBN	0451204298

A school bus carrying eight deaf school-girls and their teachers brakes suddenly on a flat Kansas highway. They should never have stopped. Waiting for them are three heartless men just escaped from prison — each with nothing to lose. And now, with the girls as their hostages, they have everything...