I’m kinda in a reading slump and don’t want to start another book just to drop it again. I’m looking for something that captivates you instantly or at least is easy to get into — nothing too confusing or heavy upfront.
Genres I like:
• Sci-fi / dystopian
• Psychological thrillers
• Philosophical or emotional reads
• Some slower-paced or literary stuff too
Books I’ve loved:
• Divergent
• The Hunger Games
• Red Rising (finished the first trilogy — LOVED it)
• Olive’s Ocean (kind of niche but really stuck with me)
• The Alchemist
Movies I’ve loved:
• Inception
• Shutter Island
• A Beautiful Mind
• Memento
• Tenet
Basically looking for something gripping or thought-provoking, but not too slow or confusing in the beginnin
by Mountain_Mark824
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Find yourself a good bildungsroman!
The Sea of Tranquility by Emily St John Mandel
Dark Matter by Blake Crouch
Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman. Sci-fi/LitRPG about a dystopian future after aliens take over the planet and turn earth into an 18 level dungeon that’s broadcast to the universe as a show. Very funny, and if you listen to audiobooks at all the narrator Jeff did an incredible job with the voices and I highly reccomend it.
– Project Hail Mary
– Murderbot Diaries
– Assassin’s Apprentice/The Realm of the Elderlings Saga
Parable of the sower by Octavia Butler
I’d say give Project Hail Mary a go
I think it’s time you begin your journey to The Dark Tower
Tales of the Wandering Mists by Oleg Veretskiy
*Our Missing Hearts* by Celeste Ng is pretty much all of this – I might start here
*The Martian* is a gripping sci-fi psychological thriller, not dystopian
*When Among Crows* by Veronica Roth is urban fantasy, not sci-fi, but you like *Divergent…*
The Goat Brothers By Larry Colton,
Great Book should be required reading for all highschool seniors.
Austerlitz (by WG Sebald) has one section in particular that is not the easiest of reads but it is incredibly engrossing that you will be too interested to put it down.
Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy
The Kind Worth Killing – Peter swanson (psych thriller) ……
Shoeless Joe by WP Kinsella, you might of heard of the movie based on it, Field of Dreams
Killing Yourself to Live by Chuck Klosterman
Love is a Mixtape by Rob Sheffield
If you don’t know what sounds good to read try any of the Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader books. Lots of short quick reads about a variety of subjects with lots of trivia too.
Akata Witch by Nnedi Okorafor – it’s YA but you’ve got other YA on here
Kindred by Octavia Butler
Do you like graphics? I will often use graphics to break out of a reading slump. Papergirls might be right up your alley if you’re willing to go with a comic. Alternately, The Hobtown Mysteries are amazing and weird and suck you right in if you prefer more of a graphic novel.
The Hot Zone was a book I could not put down.