When I was a kid I read all the time, I loved being transported to other worlds through the books I read. Smartphones started becoming common when I was about 15, since then I haven’t been able to get back into reading and it really upsets me.
I am looking for a book that will excite me immediately so I have a hard time putting it down. I love all sorts of books but especially fantasy/adventure. In my younger years I really liked Clive Cussler books, Harry Potter, Hatchet and My side of the mountain.
I appreciate anyone willing to help me!
by AlligatorFister
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I don’t have a specific book recommendation, but I have a trick that actually worked for me when I wanted to read more.
The 5-Minute Rule: You must read for at least **5 minutes** every day.
It sounds silly, but that tiny commitment is enough to bypass the mental hurdle of starting. On a “bad” day, you knock out your 5 minutes and feel accomplished. But most of the time, once you’re in the chair and the book is open, that 5 minutes turns into 30 minutes or even hours! It gets you back into the reading mindset. Good luck!
Edit: In the end I do have a book recommendation. Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree. It was incredibly cozy, pulled me in immediately, and felt like a truly effortless read so it might be a good book to start with.
I’d suggest Red Rising by Pierce Brown. I got sucked in pretty easily. It’s part of an initial trilogy and then three additional books. Others say that book 1 is the “weakest” of them all and that the series only gets better. I agree. I also really enjoy the Fred the Vampire Account series. I’m currently listening to Sleeping Giants by Sylvain Neuvel. Highly entertaining imo.
Seven Deadly Wonders (The first book in the Jack West Jr. series) by Matthew Reilly
Matthew Reilly, the New York Times bestselling author and “pedal-to-the-metal action novelist” (Publishers Weekly), is back in high gear on the greatest treasure hunt of all time — a headlong race to find the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.
In ancient times, a Golden Capstone was placed atop the Great Pyramid at Giza during a rare solar event called the Tartarus Rotation. Once every 4,500 years, a superhot sunspot — the Tartarus Sunspot — aligned itself with Earth and caused immense worldwide flooding and sun-scorching. It is said that when the Capstone sat atop the Great Pyramid, no such flooding or solar damage occurred. And, according to legend, whosoever places the Capstone on the pyramid at the next Tartarus Rotation will gain absolute power over Earth for the next 1,000 years.
In 2006, the Tartarus Rotation will come again, but the Capstone is nowhere to be found.
With the fate of global dominance hanging in the balance, nearly every world power sends forth its troops to locate the Capstone. Among them are the United States, the European Union, Israel, ruthless terrorists, and one other unusual force: a coalition of seven smaller nations that have decided that the Capstone is too powerful for any one country to hold.
So they band together against all odds and send an eight-man team to take on all the great forces in the chase. Led by an Australian super-soldier named Jack West Jr., the team includes a Canadian professor, two crack Irish commandos (one of whom is female), a Spanish paratrooper, a Jamaican soldier, an Arab commando, and a daredevil New Zealand pilot. And with them always is a little girl named Lily, the ten-year-old daughter of the Oracle of Siwa — one of only two people in the world who can decode an ancient text that leads to the Capstone.
This stalwart group embarks on a global journey filled with booby-trapped mines, stupendous ancient wonders, gigantic evil forces, and adventure beyond imagination.
From the Colossus of Rhodes to the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, from the Lighthouse at Alexandria to the Great Pyramid itself, fasten your seatbelts and hang on as the author of Ice Station and Scarecrow takes you on the adventure of your life!
Percy Jackson books by Rick Riordan
But, if you want to read something short just to get started, try the one-act fantasy play, [The One True Goddess of Acropolis High](https://www.bigdogplays.com/playdisplay.asp?playid=707)
What got me back into reading after a long break was
1. putting a half hr timer on Facebook and insta which are the two biggest apps I waste my time on
2. downloading borrowbox and libby and getting a bunch of books
And yeh the combo meant I started reading lol. Also get books easy to read to ease yourself in for me it was travis baldtrees legend and lattes series and Richard osmans Thursday murder club that got me back in. Now ive got the concentration/stamina to read more literary stuff 🙂 good luck and enjoy reading x