This is by far the biggest reading slump I've ever had and I really need some good recs. Till a few years ago I was reading all sorts of YA, fiction, fantasy, dystopia etc etc and I thought these were my kinda thing. But now I can barely go back to this genre. Also I never really read nonfiction so I'm not sure of that either. So first of all I want to rediscover what I really like so do help me out. I would preferably love less cringe and happy ending kind of stuff but just throw in your favs below and why you love them <3
by Becca_0613
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A Confederacy of Dunces. One of the greatest, funniest novels of all time. For non fiction, Over The Edge of the World. Enjoy!
Generation X by Douglas Coupland.
Maybe try a popular thriller: the silent patient, the guest list,
Or any of these if you haven’t been spoiled by the movie versions yet:
gone girl
behind her eyes
The girl in the train
**The Fifth Season by NK Jemisin**: Beautiful prose, fantastic world build, amazing characters. Just the kind of book one sinks into. I cannot begin to articulate how much I love the series this book kicks off, but I reread it at least once a year.
**Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir**: So, the tag line is ‘lesbian necromancers in space’ and the following is the opening line:
“In the myriadic year of our Lord — the ten thousandth year of the King Undying, the kindly Prince of Death! — Gideon Nav packed her sword, her shoes, and her dirty magazines, and she escaped from the House of the Ninth”
This should tell you everything you need to know about the tone.
**Ninefox Gambit by Yoon Ha Lee**: It’s a story about messy, complicated characters dealing with a messy complicated world. Everyone’s a broken bastard in the best way.
**The Traitor Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickenson**: I’m a huge sucker for morally complicated women, and Baru is just such a fun protagonist. She fucks herself over with her own cleverness and it hurts in the best way possible.
**Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie**: It’s a scifi book where the protagonist is a space ship pretending to be a human, and where characters spend as much time worrying about proper etiquette as they do about war without it ever feeling wrong for the setting. It’s grand scope scifi with a Jane Austen flavor, which is ridiculously refreshing to read.