I have nothing in my To Be Read list.
I'm a pretty fast reader and like a variety of stuff.
Definitely enjoy some nonfiction and light fantasy/sci-fi.
Sad is fine. Easy and fun is great. I do enjoy some YA stuff sometimes but more technical reading is good, too.
History related fiction or non fiction, particularly WWII related is a favorite.
I do struggle with unlikeable characters so if they're really annoying or awful that's probably not for me.
Some of the books I've read and liked in the last few months:
Weyward by Emilia Hart
Winter's Bone by Daniel Woodrell.
My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece by Annabell Pitcher.
Tell the Wolves I'm Home by Carol Rifka Brunt.
Educated by Tara Westover.
World War Z by Max Brooks.
The Endurance by Caroline Alexander.
Into Thin Air by John Krakauer.
The Martian by Andy Weir
The Great Influenza by John M Barry.
The Lincoln Lawyer series by Michael Connolly.
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children series.
Room by Emma Donoghue.
Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks.
Immortal Longings and Vilest Things by Chloe Gong.
Red Queen series by Victoria Aveyard.
A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles.
A Man Called Ove and Beartown series by Frederick Backman.
Ian Toll and Rick Atkinson's respective trilogies on WWII.
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid.
Stalingrad by Anthony Beevor.
The Hot Zone by Richard Preston.
Fourth Wing series.
Band of Brothers by Stephen Ambrose.
Helmet for my Pillow by Robert Leckie.
With the Old Breed by Eugene Sledge.
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*The Nightingale* by Kristin Hannah
**History + light SFF**
Farthing, by Jo Walton, murder mystery set in an alternate-universe UK in the late 1940s when the UK conceded to the Nazis. **SO GOOD**.
Blackout/All Clear (duology) by Connie Willis. Time travel + the London Blitz WWII. really well done historical fiction
*Just One Damned Thing After Another*, by Jodi Taylor -first in an ongoing series. adventures of time-traveling historians. Has dark moments, but can also be very funny. Meticulously researched about history.
**Light SFF**
The Spiritwalker Trilogy *(Cold Magic* is book #1), by Kate Elliott. Alternate reality fantasy where the world’s mini ice age never ended. It had a similar feel to the Lunar chronicles as there was a romance but the focus was on the character’s adventures and her relationships broadly, including non-romantic relationships.
The Lady Trent series, starting with *A Natural History of Dragons* by Emily Wilde
*Unnatural Magic*, by CM Waggoner. Some violence, do be warned, but still felt light-hearted at the end. Plucky young character must overcome sexism to reach her magical potential! (kind of). Upends a lot of tropes in a fun way.
*Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries*, by Heather Fawcett, and its sequel. Historical fiction SFF series set in an alternate Victorian-ish Europe. There’s a will-they, won’t-they romance subplot.
From a Kick in the Head to a Kick in the Ass My Involuntary Journey with Multiple Sclerosis and Ocular Melanoma
Everything is Tuberculosis by John Green! It’s nonfiction & very historical, all with so much character (because who doesn’t love John Green).
If you liked Winter’s Bone maybe you’d like Affliction by Russell Banks.
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women by Kate Moore
Oldies but goodies: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith and Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell (so much better than the movie)
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L Shirer.
Hyperion
All Quiet on the Western Front is my favourite war book and unsurprisingly, my favourite film adaptation of any book I’ve ever read too.