[Closed] Holiday book reads - any recommendations?

Joe Abercrombie's First Law Trilogy, highly enjoyable!

Red Rising trilogy by Pierce Brown.
Really enjoyed it. The audible narrator is brilliant too if you like an audio book.

RED NOTICE (How I became Putin’s No1 Enemy) by Bill Browder, a stunning read.

If you like Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman, then try Douglas Adams, Jasper Fforde, Tom Holt and Robert Rankin (probably in that order).

As YoKaiser say Joe Abercrombie books are worth a look and id recomend the broken empire trilogy by Mark Lawrence as well worth reading. For something slightly different how about The Dresden files they are also books i can vanish into for hours on end.

Hit Man Anderson
The Hundred year old man who climbed out the window
The girl who saved the king of Sweden
The accidental further adventures of the hundred year old man

If you like gaiman, maybe try some Neal Stephenson?

Snow Crash, Anathem and Seveneves are his most sci-fi.

Also William (Bill) Gibson. spook country being my personal favourite.

I enjoyed the Mortal Engines series by Phillip Reeve.
In a similar vein, the Fall of the Gas-Lit Empire series by Rod Duncan.
Teen fiction but don’t let that put you off.

Neal Stephenson is a bit heavier than some of the others you've mentioned - well, I guess more "longer" than heavier for the examples mentioned by Metalheart. Excellent books though.

Rivers of London series?

For Sci fi I’d suggest Iain M Banks culture books. Consider Phlebas bring the starting point.

Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell is a good holiday read.

Not quite what you're looking for but Tibor Fischer, the thought gang is very good.

Rivers of London +1

The Expanse series for space sci-fi

I enjoyed Mythos & Heroes - Stephen Fry's retelling of the Greek Myths. Neil Gaiman has done a version of the Norse Myths (I have it but haven't read it yet).

Any of John Scalzi books or his old man series, not too heavy but amusing and thought provoking.

Another vote for Jasper Fforde

Have you had a look at Lynch's books 2 and 3? Book 2 (Red seas) is very good IMHO and worth a read - shows there's a real writer there and it's just as well as Book 3 is inexplicably bad. I believe he was going through a tough time personally when he wrote that, so hopefully his new stuff will get back on track, but it's not finished AFAIK.
Definitely get on Abercormbie, but again we're all waiting on his new stuff and it's not out yet.
If you like the elegiac quality of Lynch's work (e.g. the glass structures from a forgotten, but more advanced, civilisation) then why not go to the source and get on Gene Wolfe's Book of the New Sun? The Greatest of all Time SF writer (and Neil Gaiman's favourite writer), who passed away earlier this year - along with Jack Vance the pioneer of this style. No one did it like Wolfe, although it ain't easy, it's heavy shit.

Away from fantasy J Franzen is pretty much The Boss right now - know of no other writer who can square the circle of writing serious, challenging literature with page-turning respect for the reader. His last one 'Purity' was exceptional and his most light-hearted yet, so make a good summer read.

Why not go for something at random. I'm in a book group and it means I read stuff I might not pick up myself. And I've always said to people when it comes to presents buy me a book, not what you think I might like but what you like or think looks interesting. Books are the very best way into other worlds, other peoples lives. Go into a charity shop or two and just take a punt.

Rivers of a London by Ben Aaronovitch.

The Man From U.N.D.E.A.D. By Darren Humphries.

Alex Verus Series by Benedict Jakka.

All “Magical London” or there abouts. All fairly easy going and very enjoyable.

All “Magical London” or there abouts. All fairly easy going and very enjoyable.

To which should be added Kate Griffin’s Matthew Swift series, starting with ‘A Madness Of Angels’, pretty sure she started them before the likes of Aaronovitch got into the Urban Magic genre, which was really started by Neil Gaiman’s ‘Neverwhere’.
Then, after the Kate Griffin books, there are a series of books by Claire North, each of which is a stand-alone novel. Claire North and Kate Griffin are actually Catherine Webb, who wrote a bunch of YA books, (the first of which was published when she was fifteen, she wrote it in her school holiday when she was fourteen), all equally worth checking out.
Edit - yeah, just checked, ‘A Madness Of Angels’ came out in 2009, the first Aaronovitch book ‘Rivers Of London’ two years later, 2011.