Hello hello! I was a voracious reader in my young adult and teenage years and I drifted away for about 15 years, so I am looking for some good books to dive back into! I have, uh, varied tastes lol. But here's some ideas of books and authors I love! Most of the authors vary from Horror, Thriller and Young Adult or fantasy collections. Ive a very broad range of tastes. I dont particularly like historical period peices or romance.
I've put authors of the series I like in so that if YOU are interested in a good read, you can find em easier. Happy to let you know what theyre about too!
some authors: I'll try any of their books!
* Richard Laymon
* Stepehen King
* Dean Koontz
* Richard Kadrey
* VC Andrews (mostly Dollanganger series)
some series: enjoyed these but didnt go looking for their other books
* Nekropolis Trilogy (Tim Waggoner)
* Septimus Heap series (Angie Sage)
* The Legend of Eli Monpress (Rachel Aaron)
* Ceveland Portal ( S. Andrew Swann)
* Redwall (Brian Jacques)
* Iron Druid (Kevin Hearne)
Probably there's a lot I am forgetting! Will add as I remember. Thanks everyone! I'm looking forwards to diving back into reading!
by LycheeDry3847
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I read My Husband’s Wife by Alice Feeney recently and it was fabulous. Keeps you guessing until the very last page. I listened to it on an audiobook and it was very well done. They had multiple voice actors and the guy who plays thorin in the hobbit movies is one of them.
Also I’m about to start To Bleed A Crystal Bloom trilogy by Sarah A Parker. It’s a repunzel retelling
Gillian Flynn
You’d probably enjoy **The Library at Mount Char** by Scott Hawkins, a weird, wild ride of a book, with lots of mystery, action, and interesting characters. It’s sort of a dark, urban-fantasy/horror-ish book, and quite unique!
**King Sorrow** by Joe Hill is a lot of fun as well. A group of friends interested in the occult, accidentally summon…something. And the story follows the repercussions throughout their lives. Intense, action packed, with great characters and lots of creative, magical/horror-y goodness. It reminded me a fair bit of Stephen King, which makes sense since Hill is his son, haha, but not in a ‘ripoff’ sort of way or anything, just a really great, well-written, story.
You might also enjoy **The Devils** by Joe Abercrombie, a fun, fast-paced, dark fantasy novel, featuring a cast of highly-flawed bastards you’ll come to love, lots of great banter, etc. It leans a bit more into the comedic side of things than his other (excellent) main series The First Law, but still features all the great character work, violence, and sardonic tone Abercrombie’s known for. A team of supernatural ‘baddies’ head out on a top secret quest across ‘alternate-history-medieval-fantasy-Europe’.