Hey, I’m 21 and I’ve just gotten back into reading after being a complete bookworm when I was younger. I got back into it through rereading the hunger games then rereading books I adored as a child. Now I’m itching for something new but nothing is calling to me.
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Anything by Rose George, Judy Melinek, Caitlin Doughty, or Mary Roach.
Terry Pratchett
His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman could be a good start.
You’re the perfect age to read The Catcher in the Rye (Salinger) and The Dharma Bums (Kerouac).
The Pleasure of My Company by Steve Martin
City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
The Death of Mrs. Westaway by Ruth Ware
The Summer of Broken Rules by K. L. Walther
This reads fast and feels like a rollercoaster:
The Bogs of Surrendered Names, author Sergei Itzam Coiot (It’s on Amazon, sorry about that :/)
Here’s the blurb:
“You can get lost in your own dreams, but what if you got lost in someone else’s?
“In *The Bogs of Surrendered Names*, Ronnie Vseslav is a 38-year old Russian-American musician. The early death of his mother left him with a secret desire for family, consisting now only of an estranged brother. He wakes in a desert hotel, where, through a distortion of time and doors that open to lush imaginary worlds, he is caught in a triangle between the mysterious undead hotel owner the Captain and his beautiful equally mysterious maid Linda.
“Old grudges and grief manifest their world into a nightmarish painting, challenging the nature of reality and the malleability of memory and the mind. As the line between dreams and reality is broken, the secrets that lie behind this prison of paradise takes the novel to a soaring shattering climax that none in the hotel can escape.
*’The Bogs of Surrendered Names* is a surreal character and plot-driven novel that takes place in both the past and in the future, and examines loneliness, love and human perception of belonging.”
It’s like a little over 300 pgs, and keeps you interested throughout the whole thing– I’d def recommend it just for a little nice treat. It’s very weird and has elements of a lot of different types of books within it. 🙂
The Lockwood and Co series by Jonathan Stroud, and either Project Hail Mary or The Martian, both by Andy Weir. They were the books that got me back to reading at the same age.
Red rising. I was in the same boat and it completely reinvigorated my love for reading after not reading anything for 7 plus years
The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss.
If you liked the hunger games, I would suggest trying something in a similar, YA compelling writing type space. May I suggest:
– The Raven Cycle by Maggie Stiefvater (4 books long, first one is called The Raven Boys)
– Girls With Sharp Sticks by Suzanne Young (trilogy, 1st book is of the same name)
or
– His Fair Assassin by Robin LaFevers (another trilogy, the 1st book is called Grave Mercy)
These are easy, quick, exciting reads — as you get back into reading, remember to take it easy and feel free to follow your interests! There’s no right or wrong way to be a reader. Good luck!!
The Martian or Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
Dark Matter by Blake Crouch
Dungeon Crawler Carl
The Housemaid by Freida McFadden
Anything Vonnegut
Dungeon Crawler Carl just trust me!
The life of Jesse B Simple by Langston Hughes