Here might help fun classics. Try “Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog)” by Jerome K. Jerome
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11/22/63 by Stephen King. It’s a great premise and is really well written.
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Yellow face by RF kuang
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Piranesi by Susanna Clarke is my favorite novel from the last few years and an absolute delight from start to finish. It is fairly short, wildly creative, beautifully written, but also a mind-bending page-turner. I wish I could read it for the first time again! I devoured it on a long haul flight. My #1 anti-slump recommendation!
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A Little Life. It’s a thick book so at first I thought I wouldn’t be able to finish it. Hours later, I found myself almost in the middle. Hanya Yanagihara’s writing is so smooth. But that book ruined me. I can never read it again 😭
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For sheer entertainment value, *Rogue Male* by Geoffrey Household, any of Ian Fleming’s James Bond books, *Shagduk* by J.B. Jackson, anything by P.G. Wodehouse, Nancy Mitford’s *Love in a Cold Climate*, most of Jack Vance’s fantasy and sci-fi, and Barry Hannah’s early books.
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The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
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‘Paradais’ by Fernanda Melchor propelled me out of reading slump earlier this year. It’s a translated novella from Spanish about two Mexican teenage boys who feel “wronged” by society and want to “take back what’s theirs”. If you’re sensitive to certain topics, I’d recommend looking up the trigger warnings for this book. It’s super short and the whole thing flew by like a fever dream for me.
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Here might help fun classics. Try “Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog)” by Jerome K. Jerome
11/22/63 by Stephen King. It’s a great premise and is really well written.
Yellow face by RF kuang
Piranesi by Susanna Clarke is my favorite novel from the last few years and an absolute delight from start to finish. It is fairly short, wildly creative, beautifully written, but also a mind-bending page-turner. I wish I could read it for the first time again! I devoured it on a long haul flight. My #1 anti-slump recommendation!
A Little Life. It’s a thick book so at first I thought I wouldn’t be able to finish it. Hours later, I found myself almost in the middle. Hanya Yanagihara’s writing is so smooth. But that book ruined me. I can never read it again 😭
For sheer entertainment value, *Rogue Male* by Geoffrey Household, any of Ian Fleming’s James Bond books, *Shagduk* by J.B. Jackson, anything by P.G. Wodehouse, Nancy Mitford’s *Love in a Cold Climate*, most of Jack Vance’s fantasy and sci-fi, and Barry Hannah’s early books.
The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
‘Paradais’ by Fernanda Melchor propelled me out of reading slump earlier this year. It’s a translated novella from Spanish about two Mexican teenage boys who feel “wronged” by society and want to “take back what’s theirs”. If you’re sensitive to certain topics, I’d recommend looking up the trigger warnings for this book. It’s super short and the whole thing flew by like a fever dream for me.