Been in a reading slump for a few months now, just cant seem to finish a book, so i need a book to take me out of this reading slump. Genre does not mater to me, preferably fiction, no smut or sexually explict content, something easy to read and a quick read
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The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V. E. Schwab. I found this impossible to put down.
I’m not sure if you read the original Hunger Games trilogy, but the new prequel that came out last month felt like reading them all over again for the first time. I was in a big reading slump and absolutely devoured it.
Yellowface by Kuang for audiobook, Book of Doors by Brown, Project Hail Mary by Weir
Have you read any of Terry Patchett’s Discworld series? If not it could be just the thing. It’s all stand alone books, fantasy, comedy, satire. If that sounds like the thing just say and let us tell us a little about your preferences and I/we can suggest a specific one to try.
Leviathan Wakes and the rest of the Expanse got me back into reading as an adult.
…now the problem has just been not liking anything else nearly as much.
For a very dark book that will shock you maybe try ‘Last One At The Party’- it’s about a woman alone in a world ending pandemic in London. I read it in a day because I couldn’t stop
Florida Woman by Deb Rogers and What you are looking for is in the library by Michiko Aoyama
The Twisted Dead by Darcy Coates jusr got me out of one. But it is a third book in a series – could probably be read as a stand alone though, according to some reviews I read.
Bird Box is really good even if you’ve seen the movie. The writing was very easy to follow and the suspense kept me on the edge of my seat. I couldn’t put it down because I needed to know what happened next.
This Tender Land – William Kent Krueger. Fabulous book.
Laws of the skies. Can’t miss
Been recommending this one a lot lately, but ‘The Road’ by Cormac McCarthy is almost impossible to put down. It’s as if the characters won’t survive unless you keep reading. Beautiful, tragic and practically poetic in its prose, highly recommend.
• The Girl Who Fell Beneath The Sea
• Nettle and Bone
• Sweet Bean Paste
Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn is a very
unique and fun book!
*Dark Matter* by Blake Crouch is a great page-turner.
*Red Rising* by Pierce Brown is also a good page-turner and it’s a series if you like book 1.
Piranesi by Susanna Clarke. I was hooked the entire time.
‘The Expanse’ series, starting with *Leviathan Wakes*, by James S. A. Corey
The book that got me out of my reading slump was “Six of Crows,” by Leigh Bardugo
Dungeon Crawler Carl is unlike anything you’ve ever read before. The premise sounds ridiculous, and it is. But it’s top tier entertainment.
try the house in the cerulean sea by tj klune. it’s light, wholesome, super readable, and just weird enough to keep you turning pages. short chapters, charming characters, and it moves quick without feeling shallow. perfect book to pull you out of a slump without feeling like a chore to finish
The Square of Seven by Laura Shepherd Robinson.
I could not put this down. Twists and turns to the very end
A rattling good yarn
The book thief <~ recently got me out of my reading slump.. Now I’m back :). Also like to suggest Shantaram if u haven’t read it. Easy to read good story
no idea what you like, but books that hooked me include
Snowcrash by Neil Stephenson
Jitterbug Perfume by Tom Robbins
Cradle series by Will Wight
100 years of solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Ishi, last of his tribe by Theodora Kroeber
Senlin Ascends by Josiah Bancroft
Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
The new neighbours
The memory library
Someone is lying
I died on a Tuesday
And my all time fav series rn The Thursday Murder Club!
Who’s your comfort read author ? Maybe not your favourite, but the one whose books you can’t not enjoy ? And which of those books are your favourite ? I’d start there.
Whenever I hit a slump, Stephen King always pulls me back in and tee’s me up for more.
Stop Stepping on Rakes on Amazon
Hysterical!!!
Anything written by –
Rose George
Caitlin Doughty
Mary Roach
West with Giraffes by Lynda Rutledge