Has anyone else noticed this? Maybe it was just my recent experience, but I just walked into Barnes & Noble the other day to check out the new picks. Tell me why half of them had a protagonist that was a writer, journalist, author, and the other half the protagonist was extremely wealthy, high profile, director/producer, etc.
The two I was interested in reading aren’t available at my library yet, but I checked out “the other Lata” or whatever it’s called. I have yet to start it, but that was the most “high profile” I am willing to go.
I’m not a fantasy fan, I would love to just read about someone experiencing normal life, maybe a SAHM/SAHD, a teacher, someone unemployed and making terrible decisions. I want to live a normal life that becomes exciting!
Thanks for your help!
by orangek1d
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Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid.
I just finished This Book Will Bury Me and I loved it. Such a twisty thriller based in the world of true crime and the protagonist works at Starbucks for a while. Highly recommend.
Flight Behavior and Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver are fantastic stories about normal people.
The Emperor of Gladness by Ocean Vuong
The Heart’s Invisible Furies by John Boyne is adjacent to an author but the protagonist is a normal guy.
Convenience Store Woman
I really enjoyed Kelley Armstrong’s Rockton series – a detective joins a hidden community of folks hiding out in the Yukon – she thinks she’s there to hide, but she’s there because they’ve got some mysterious deaths they need solved.
I replied without reading carefully and realized i have no real suggestions. One of main character of Bury our bones in the midnight soil makes terrible choices but she’s also a vampire…