Deep yet funny/witty, spiritual but in a very REAL way, story and characters that stay with you – all that but also super easy to read because doomscrolling has shot my brain. Does this unicorn even exist? 😒
No horror or sci fi please. Not those cheesy romance books for sure!
Maybe “The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto” by Mitch Albom?
hollym13 on
Virgil by George Saunders
Stories-N-Magic on
Wow! Didn’t expect multiple recos within minutes. LOVE this!! Please keep them coming ny friends! This is great!!
12thnightkitties on
My Friends by Frederick Backman was this for me.
Wonderful-Eye-8377 on
East of Eden by John Steinbeck, not funny per se but spiritual and the characters will definitely stay with you. 10/10 book
jettison_m on
Not sure if it’s spiritual in nature but it’s a great read. Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson is smart, funny, unique. And Midnight Library by Matt Haig is also great. Makes you think about the life you’re living, regrets, hopes, etc.
tarwater_misfit on
Anything by Flannery O’Connor fits this.
“Wise Blood” is probably the funnier of her two novels.
All of her short stories are witty and spiritual. I’d start with the stories in “Everything that Rises Must Converge”.
panpopticon on
FRANNY AND ZOOEY by JD Salinger
Theopholus on
It’s a downer of a subject but it meets your description very well: Together We Will Go, by J. Michael Straczynski.
I also think you’d enjoy The Anthropocene Reviewed, by John Green. It’s nonfiction, and it’s just a lovely antidote to doomscrolling.
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Maybe “The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto” by Mitch Albom?
Virgil by George Saunders
Wow! Didn’t expect multiple recos within minutes. LOVE this!! Please keep them coming ny friends! This is great!!
My Friends by Frederick Backman was this for me.
East of Eden by John Steinbeck, not funny per se but spiritual and the characters will definitely stay with you. 10/10 book
Not sure if it’s spiritual in nature but it’s a great read. Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson is smart, funny, unique. And Midnight Library by Matt Haig is also great. Makes you think about the life you’re living, regrets, hopes, etc.
Anything by Flannery O’Connor fits this.
“Wise Blood” is probably the funnier of her two novels.
All of her short stories are witty and spiritual. I’d start with the stories in “Everything that Rises Must Converge”.
FRANNY AND ZOOEY by JD Salinger
It’s a downer of a subject but it meets your description very well: Together We Will Go, by J. Michael Straczynski.
I also think you’d enjoy The Anthropocene Reviewed, by John Green. It’s nonfiction, and it’s just a lovely antidote to doomscrolling.