I’ve done this sort of post before, and I really enjoyed it. I’ve been going through some family emergencies recently but a good book is always a nice distraction.
Basically, list three reads that you would like similar suggestions for and (hopefully) other readers will comment on your post with others they think you might enjoy. If you list some for yourself, please do comment on someone else’s post.
Also, you never know, maybe you’ll find a book buddy that you can bounce recommendations off of.
My three that I’d like suggestions for:
Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner – if you haven’t tried Stegner, you definitely should
How the Penguins Saved Veronica by Hazel Prior
There’s No Such Thing as an Easy Job by Kikuko Tsumura
And bonus book: If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things by Jon McGregor
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*Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town* by Cory Doctorow
*The Secret of Lost Things* by Sheridan Hay
*All Systems Red* by Martha Wells
Lonesome Dove, East of Eden, Ready Player One
*The AJ Bailey Adventure Series* by Nicolas Harvey
*The UIU / Sloan McPherson Series* by Andrew Mayne
*The Mer Cavallo Series* by Micky Browning
I’ve already read the Hayden Kent series and the Hannah Sampson series so I’m good there.
EDIT: I’ve also read the Emily Durant/Boone Fischer series.
– Divinity by CaitSarai
– Heart of the Wolf Prince trilogy by JMiaDavies
– Plutonian by SoniaJohn
Sometimes a Great Notion – Ken Kesey
To The Lighthouse – Virginia Woolf
The Scarlet Letter – Hawthorne
To Kill a Mockingbird, the Secret History, The Book Thief
1. First Lie Wins
2. The Plot
3. Project Hail Mary
To Kill a Mockingbird, The Trees, The Remains of the Day
Beautyland by Marie-Helene Bertino: finished today after having almost no interestm starting it and it absolutely blew me away. Favorite read of the year.
North Woods by Daniel Mason: same exact story, another book from the library that I almost took back because didn’t think I’d like it, but I LOVED it.
The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett: awesome fantasy murder mystery with great characters.
The Bright Years by Sarah Damoff: family drama accurately depicting the impact of addiction on a life, but how life can still go on.
The Anomaly by Herve Le Tellier: thriller with a sprinkle of sci-fi. Terrrific.
Oops I thought it was five…
*Paradox Bound* by Peter Clines
*The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet* by Becky Chambers
*Seraphina* by Rachel Hartman
Trust by Hernan Diaz
Shark Heart by Emily Habeck
The Daevabad Trilogy by Shannon Chakraborty
Recursion by Blake Crouch
Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
(I’ve read tons of other books by these authors!)
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
The Fifth Season by NK Jemison
The Will of the Many by James Islington
The Sword of Kaigen by ML Wang
I’m sad to see I don’t know most other books here so far! My three are a segue into new genre territory but I enjoyed them all:
1. Starling House by Alix Harrow
2. The Witches of Bone Hill by Ava Morgyn
3. The Hazel Wood by Melissa Albert
Never let me go by Kazuo Ishiguro;
Blindness by Jose Saramago;
Atonement by Ian McEwan;
There is a sequel to How the Penguins Saved Veronica! I haven’t read it yet bc I am saving it for my vacation. Really enjoyed the first one.
Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie
The Darkness Outside Us by Eliot Schrefer
Witch King by Martha Wells
Orlando by Virginia Woolf
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
The Wonder by Emma Donoghue
I’m usually a genre reader but my mood recently has been caught by books which I would say are more literary but have compelling storytelling as well as writing.
Actress – Anne Enright (I’m actually Irish so it’s not the Irishness of this book which is attracting, rather the Mother-Daughter relationship)
Penance – Eliza Clark
Poor Things – Alasdair Grey
The Midnight Library
East of Eden
Parable of the Sower