I’m 22 and I’ve been in a major reading slump since I graduated from high school over four years ago. I’ve started a few books (mostly nonfiction books about science or medical topics) but I haven’t been able to finish one. Any suggestions for a good nonfiction book that’s easy for a layperson to understand? I’m also interested in exploring the sci-fi/fantasy genre but I’m not interested in books with a major romantic plot.
by a-thespian-lesbian
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Project Hail Mary got me out of a huge slump. I couldn’t put it down
I’m a big fan of novellas, essay collections and short stories when slumpy. It allows you finish something and get that positive feedback without commiting to an entire book. You can dip in and out while building back up those reading neurons in the brain.
***Nonfiction Essay Collections***
On Immunity – Eula Bliss
The Mind’s Eye – Oliver Sachs
Braiding Sweetgrass – Robin Wall Kimmerer
***SF Novellas***
All Systems Red – Martha Wells
All you need is Kill – Hiroshi Sakurazaka
Nothing but the Rain – Naomi Salman
Joe Abercrombie – the Devils is long but good.
Shadow Divers is a non-fiction about a WW2 German sub found iff the coast of New Jersey that history says should not be there
Into Thin Air is about an Everest expedition gone sideways. Non fiction.
Project Hail Mary is great too. Read it before the movie comes out.