I need book recommendations. Any and all recommendations are welcomed, mostly fiction no horror. I am trying to get into reading, but I am having a hard time finding a book to read. I have tried reading ACOTAR. And it felt so elementary and surface level I do like romance, thriller fantasy, sci-fi, pretty much any genre I don’t mind.
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Try Dungeon Crawler Carl.
Earth suffers a total collapse-survivors can choose to stay up top and fend for themselves or enter into an 18 floor dungeon crawl. Main character is a guy in his boxers and his tortoiseshell Persian cat named Princess Donut. You will be immersed.
Great world building
Great character development
Several books in the series.
Even better if you listen to it with audiobook.
The Wizard of the Crow by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o is a wonderful novel about a fictional African nation with lots of power struggles and intrigue. It is so interesting because there are multiple first person storytellers who are different characters, giving you different perspectives on the same events. There is magic and most importantly romance.
“Gone With The Wind” and “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn” are two books that I really got immersed into.
It’s hard to rec without knowing anything you’ve liked before, so here’s my official advice to you
Go to a library or book store and browse. Go to the section you’re interested in (fantasy, for instance, or YA fiction) and look for titles or covers that intrigue you. Open one up and see if the first few pages easily grab your attention. Then read the back or inside flap for a summary. If you’re still interested, try it out.
Once you find a book that immerses you, it’ll become obvious more quickly when one will succeed and when one will fail. I recommend reading the first few pages before the summary because I have found that for me the writing *style* is vastly more important than the plot.
The point being that every reader is different. I could recommend you a few of my fantasy favorites (Six of Crows, The Princess Bride), or romances (The Rosie Project), or books that absorbed me instantly (11/22/63, The Secret History, Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead), but for other people those books likely dragged or bored them.
Once you have some favorites, you can find people with similar taste and have an easier time getting recs.
The Winternight trilogy by Katherine Arden