Suggest me a book that I will not be able to put down. Bring me back to reading addiction. The US meltdown has taken me to the deep dark doom scroll for too long and I must get out. Nothing has really grabbed my attention recently. Authors I love: James Baldwin, Tony Morrison, Tokarczuk, Brit Bennet…
A book I really disliked but that I see recommended a lot was “A Little Life”—felt too disturbing, trauma-porn :/ in case that’s helpful for recommendations.
Thanks 🙂
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*The Sirens of Titan* by Kurt Vonnegut
Ring Shout by P. Djeli Clark
I read this recently. It’s short, but super addictive. Great writing, unique plot, and well-written characters. It’s also set in a historical horror, set in the world where the KKK attracts demons who feed off hate.
Book of doors!!
I’m currently reading The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese. I’ve been in a massive reading slump but this has me hooked – I read 200 pages this evening, and I’m sad that it’s bedtime and I can’t read again until after work tomorrow.
Loving Day by Mat Johnson
The Reformatory by T. Due, I couldn’t stop reading. “A gripping, page-turning novel set in Jim Crow Florida that follows Robert Stephens Jr. as he’s sent to a segregated reform school that is a chamber of terrors where he sees the horrors of racism and injustice, for the living, and the dead.”
Or anything by Stephen Graham Jones – Native American horror 🤘
The bible
Chain Gang All Stars
James by Percival Everett is very good
Also The Book that wouldn’t burn is what I’m reading now and is very good so far
I recently read *A Moveable Feast* and felt like reading someone’s personal memoirs kinda replaced the companionship that makes phone addiction so impossible to break out of. Sometimes reading fiction just feels like such a chore, especially when I can’t imagine the faces or places. If you don’t like Hemingway, I’m sure Baldwin or some of your other favs have memoirs that would do the trick. Also, unless you prefer silence, I really recommend reading in a public space where you can enjoy the ambience of other people’s voices/moving cars/etc.