It's our turn for the big winter storm to hit. When Helene came through we were caught off guard and I didn't have time to stockpile things to read. I have a TBR list, but I don't usually like to buy books before I read samples. The storm is supposed to hit this afternoon/evening and I'm not sure how long we'll have power. That means I don't have time to read every kindle sample in my library. So, hit me with something you'll never regret having read!
I figure having minimal parameters will give me time to branch out as well since I've been sticking with the same genres for years now. I'd love to read something that gripped you until the end or still sticks with you years later. It can be anything from romantic fluff to the darkest thing you've ever read, as long as it's something to escape into.
Please avoid SA triggers if possible, and I love horror but prefer to stay away from extreme body horror/gore. Otherwise anything is on the table!
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Shogun by James Clavell… will stay with you for years.Give it a shot if you haven’t already.
**The Arctic Event** by Robert Ludlum.
**Carrion Comfort** by Dan Simmons.
**Eifelheim** by Michael Flynn.
**Pushing Ice** by Alastair Reynolds.
**The Terror** by Dan Simmons.
**Hunter’s Run** by Daniel Abraham, George R.R. Martin and Gardner Dozois.
**The Sparrow** by Mary Doria Russell.
**Ship of Fools** by Richard Paul Russo.
an excellent time to catch up on
LOTR
malazan
Jules Verne
Don Quixote
H.G. Wells
The Anthropocene Reviewed – John Green
The devil and the dark water – Stuart Turton
Moon of the crusted snow – Waubgeshig Rice
Salt to the Sea – Rita Sepetys
These are all on my “books I’d recommend” list. 🙂
Into the Drowning Deep by Mira Grant
*The Historian* by Elizabeth Kostova. It’s a slow-ish novel about some people hunting Dracula during the Cold War (that’s an extremely basic non-spoilery summary). It’s not a stereotypical vampire novel at all.
If you like slow-paced thrillers, horror but not really horror, libraries, historical fiction, or history in general, you may like it.
It has stuck with me for years. I first read it around 2006, have read it multiple times since, went all the way to Budapest to visit after the book kicked off an interest in the Cold War and Eastern European history in general. Every time I finish reading it, I feel a bit bereft.
Anxious People by Frederik Backman had me crying from sweetness!
I want to suggest all of Discworld but that’s 42 books and that’s probably overkill. Guards! Guards! is hard boiled detective fiction in a fantasy setting. Wyrd Sisters is a parody of Macbeth from the point of view of the witches. Both are good introductions to some of the best humourous fantasy ever written.
I’ll throw in Heartless by Marissa Meyer, that I’m in fact rereading at the moment, and the Oz series by L Frank Baum