Looking for a book that is “easy to read”. My guilty pleasure is epistolary novels or any type of novel written in a mixed media or unique format. I don’t want something too off the walls though, like turning the book upside down. Looking for a book I can get through in a weekend-ish. I have an infant son so my time is precious and I want a book that keeps me up past my bedtime!!! I love all types of themes. I typically read fiction but am open to any nonfiction book so enjoyable I can cruise right through it. I would prefer a more “light-hearted” type of story but sometimes the twisted, scary, surreal ones are the ones I can’t put down! I am not in a reading slump but haven’t wanted to devour a book so badly I stayed up way too late in a long time. Hoping to find one!
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I really loved *Whale Fall* by Elizabeth O’Connor. It might fit the bill, if you haven’t read it yet!
I just started *Nothing to See Here* and I’m really enjoying it!
You might like some of Taylor Jenkins Reid’s books, she usually does something kind of unique with the format. My favorites of hers are: Daisy Jones & The Six about a fictional band told in the format of a documentary interview transcript, or Carrie Soto is Back about a tennis stars comeback which has clips of articles, and radio show transcripts mixed into the story.
If you’re into a romance, Emily Henry tried something a little more unique in most recent novel “A Great Big Beautiful Life” about two authors competing for a chance to write the biography of a famous media heiress. So the book is like half rom com of them falling for each other, and half fictional biography of this famous family.
The Unselected Journals of Emma M Lion! My new favorite series; I’ve blown throw all 8 in under a month.
Where’d You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple
Sorcery and Cecilia is a light but fun epistolary novel, set in an alternate Regency England with magic.
Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn is written in a series of letters and has other kinds of unusual formatting, I did find it a little tricky to understand while I was reading it but I know other people who did not have this issue