Thank you in advance for reading and for your help!
TL/DR: general recommendation as well as fiction and/or comedy to read before bed?
I’ve built up a rather large collection of books in my 20s, but haven’t added much now that I’m in my 30s (I’m 33 now). I’m getting back into reading after my first child was born almost two years ago, and I’d like to start getting my library together and figure out what to read next.
I’ve focused a lot on non-fiction in the past, but would like to add some fiction and specifically some comedies that might be good to read before bed. I feel like I might enjoy adding books by Simon Rich and Anthony Bourdain to my library, for example. Curious what those of you in this subreddit might recommend.
Genres I typically enjoy: Comedy, Food, Mystery, Science Fiction/Horror Fantasy, Non-Fiction, Music/Arts
Examples already in my library:
Non-fiction Comedy: I Must Say: My Life as a Comedy Legend (Short) / The Upright Citizens Brigade Comedy Improv Manuel (UCB) / All About Me (Brooks) / Based on a True Story (Macdonald)
Food: Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat (Nosrat) / Gastro Obscura (Wong) / Smuggler’s Cove (Cate)
Mystery: various by Agatha Christie (And Then There Were None is my favorite)
Science Fiction/Horror Fantasy: Something Wicked This Way Comes (Bradbury) / Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (Stevenson)
Non-Fiction: Forever Fluent (Wyner) / You Win in the Locker Room First (Gordon) / The Tao of Pooh (Hoff)
Music and Arts: The Producers: How We Did It (Brooks) / How Musicals Work (Woolford) / The Anatomy of Story (Truby) / The Infinite Variety of Music (Bernstein) / Creativity, Inc (Catmull) / The Music Lesson (Wooten)
So what would you recommend in general for me, and what would you recommend for a fiction and/or comedy that might be good before bed?
by Leo-Bloom