I’m 21M
I haven’t properly read a book in years and it’s quite disappointing as when I was younger I loved to read.
I want something to really bring me back in I’m a fan of fantasy or stuff where people have abilities stuff like that.
I love big deaths and plot twists a lot something that’ll have me going no way.
Books I liked when I was younger were stuff like Percy Jackson, end game, cherub
In recent years I’ve read manga like attack on Titan and blue lock
I want something a bit more mature and action packed really
If there’s something a bit more suspense and mystery driven that you love don’t hold back on that either as I liked books like survivor when I was younger also.
I also like books with sequels so I can really get to know the characters. A good cast is crucial
But yeah a bit of a ramble but that’s kind of what I’m after
by Freddie040
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The power by Naomi Alderman
The Poppy Wars had quite a few moments where my jaw literally dropped. I nearly threw the book across the room at the end! Check out triggers though, it’s a really heavy series
I looove Grady Hendrix, specially The southern bookclub.
Red Rising Series by Pierce Brown
You could start with *Less Than Zero* by Bret Easton Ellis. Many of his novels share characters. After *Less Than Zero* you can go *The Rules of Attraction* and *American Psycho*
Project Lyra by Vincent Kane
Race of the Anandulin
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0F3XS2ZSK
Wayward Pines series by Blake Crouch. I’ve only finished the first one and I loved it, I hear the rest of the series is just as good too. Honestly most of the Crouch books I’ve read/listened to, I loved
The warlord chronicles by Bernard cornwell. An old monk named derfel chronicles Arthur’s life and his part In it, set during dark age britian during the saxon invasions.
“These are the tales of the land we call Lloegyr, which means the Lost Lands, the country that was once ours but which our enemies now call England. These are the tales of Arthur, the Warlord, the King that Never Was, the Enemy of God and, may the living Christ and Bishop Sansum forgive me, the best man I ever knew. How I have wept for Arthur”
“But fate, as Merlin always taught us, is inexorable. Life is a jest of the Gods, Merlin liked to claim, and there is no justice. You must learn to laugh, he once told me, or else you’ll just weep yourself to death.”
the saxon stories by Bernard cornwell. The books take you through the events of Viking age England.
“I am Uhtred, son of Uhtred, and this is the tale of a blood feud. It is a tale of how I will take from my enemy what the law says is mine. And it is the tale of a woman and of her father, a king. He was my king and all that I have I owe to him. The food that I eat, the hall where I live, and the swords of my men, all came from Alfred, my king, who hated me.“
“And next morning, as my stepmother wept on the ramparts of the High Gate, and under a blue, clean sky, we rode to war. Two hundred and fifty men went south, following our banner of the wolf’s head.
That was in the year 867, and it was the first time I ever went to war.
And I have never ceased.”
you want high-stakes chaos, betrayals, powers, and a cast that *sticks*—here’s your gateway back in:
* *Red Rising* by Pierce Brown hunger games meets roman bloodlust in space—fast, brutal, and full of betrayal
* *The Poppy War* by R.F. Kuang military school to god-tier warfare, with a protagonist who gets *dark*
* *Mistborn* by Brandon Sanderson elite magic system, twisty plot, crew dynamic—heist energy meets prophecy
* *The First Law* trilogy by Joe Abercrombie gritty, funny, deeply human—nobody is safe, and everyone’s got baggage
* *Vicious* by V.E. Schwab two ex-friends with superpowers playing god—tight, smart, and morally messy
these all have sequels or trilogies, and they go *hard*
you won’t be bored
Not fiction, but Endurance about Shackleton is riveting. The fact it’s true makes it more so. Highly recommended