Hi! Myself and my boyfriend are doing our own little book club. We’re not the biggest readers, but we want to read more!
We’re open to any fiction books…but those on the shorter side, probably around the 200-300 page mark, something that’s more of an easier read that we can discuss after we’ve finished a few chapters/finished the book.
Any suggestions would be brilliant, and thank you so much again in advance 🙂
by VogueUnlikely
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Red Rising got me back into reading after a 10 year hiatus.
The first book is basically “Hunger Games in space” and it was a wild ride that I enjoyed very much
{{A Short Stay in Hell by Steven Peck}} will give you plenty to discuss. A friend of mine originally thought it was “just ok” but can’t stop thinking about it and is re-evaluating their rating. It was so good, I read it by myself first, then immediately read it aloud to my partner. ~100 pages.
{{This Is How You Lose the Time War}}. I always recommend this one when couples want to read. It’s written mostly in epistolary format (letters back and forth) between 2 agents on opposing sides of a time war: red vs blue. So you could easily each pick a side and read those parts aloud. It’s the 2 agents falling in love and is filled with poetic prose of expressing love. The plot is secondary, fair warning, and it’s confusing af for a large part of it.
The Silent Patient is very good to buddy read and discuss. So readable and definitely a page turner!
*1984* is short and great for conversation.
I’m not sure how short they are, but my GF and I book clubbed “The Night Circus” by Erin Morgenstern, “Hogfather” by Terry Pratchett, the Tiffany Aching series by Terry Pratchett and “Spinning Silver” and “Uprooted” by Naomi Novik. And Piranesi by Susanna Clarke. I’d recommend any of those, especially the Tiffany ones starting with “The Wee Free Men”. Dunno how short they are. I know I’ve read longer books than all of them
The Murderbot series by Martha Wells is short and fun! Try the first book! The general premise is that it’s set in a scifi world (dw the scifi setting is not intense at all), and the protagonist is a robot assassin, except it’s super lazy and just wants to watch tv.
I recommend Project Hail Mary to everyone all the time. The premise is a guy awakes in what he realizes is a spaceship and slowly begins to remember why he is there and what he has to do…. it’s scary, funny and moving.
The Island by Aldous Huxley
I used to get my non-reader friends in high school to read by handing them a copy of *Choke* by Chuck Palahniuk. Worked every time, without fail.
I don’t know how much of that is due to the shock of reading a book about a sex addict in school, though.