I prefer books that you can’t put down because the main character has such a messed up life that crazy stuff keeps happening so you can’t wait til the next day to find out what happened.
I just got back into reading. I’m basic in the sense that I loved A million Little Pieces, A Child Called It (a loooong time ago) and just recently Kathleen Glasgow’s You’d Be Home Now and Girl in Pieces. Also, I liked High Achiever by TiffanyJenkins. Any suggests are very much appreciated!
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Demon Copperhead
She’s Come Undone
Child of God
Margo’s Got Money Troubles. Read it in one night, super fun read.
Watchers by Dean Koontz is definitely a book you cannot set down! The main character has one of those lives that everything goes wrong for him, until he meets a beautiful golden retriever that changes it all.
Project Hail Mary. I read it straight through. Went to sleep. Got up and reread it a second time.
The Butterfly and the Diving Bell
Pretty much any of the Stieg Larsson books in the Millenium series.
Also, I recently read Beartown by Fredrick Backman in a day. I love his writing style.
Into Thin Air
Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. It is an incredible page-turner and is < 100 pages, so you can literally read it without putting it down once
Flowers for Algernon.
Blood Meridian
Perfume
1984
Frankenstein
Dune
The Tiger’s Daughter by K. Arsenault Rivera. It’s basically classical Greek tragedy, where the two protagonists are consistently brought down by their own character flaws.
If you are open to portal fantasy (aka Isekai) web novels with mild litRPG elements (levels, classes, skills), The Wandering Inn. Because the protagonist(s) are all complete train wrecks in different ways. Wouldn’t call it great literature, but certainly engrossing.
A Short Stay in Hell
Psalm for the Wild Built
To Be Taught, If Fortunate
Gideon the Ninth and its sequels
I hated it but it sounds like you would enjoy A Little Life.
Never Let Me Go
A Thousand Splendid Suns
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine