Long time listener, first time caller here! I've been browsing this sub for a long time, but lately I feel like the suggestions I see are just the same books over and over again. I'm not sure whether it's just my imagination, but I swear I see I Who Have Never Known Men, Gone Girl, Into Thin Air, Lonesome Dove, Pillars of the Earth, Piranesi, Rebecca etc. wherever I turn. In other words, I see a lot of suggestions that I've either already read, or have already decided that I don't want to read.
Absolutely no offense is meant to those suggestions, but I'd love to be recommended some books that aren't mentioned here often! I'll read any genre except contemporary romance (romantic sub-plots are fine), and gory/disturbing books (ghost books and classic murder mysteries are ok). The writing is usually what makes or breaks a book for me. My favorite genres are historical fiction, comedy, and fantasy. I love something that keeps me on the edge of my seat, whether that's through, suspense, comedy, a character making mistakes, or whatever. It absolutely doesn't have to be the best book you've ever read – as long as you enjoyed it, it's enough.
Some books I've read lately:
The Turn of Midnight – Minette Walters
Nicked – M. T. Anderson
Katabasis: A Novel – R. F. Kuang
Some DNFs I've had lately:
Interview with the vampire – Anne Rice
The Lies of Locke Lamora – Scott Lynch
Mythos – Stephen Fry
Thank you in advance to anyone who takes the time to suggest something!
by InevitableSpender
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The iron Druid (series title)
Girl with the dragon tattoo (TW SA)
The road
Great book of amber
14 (cosmic horror, not gory, cool mystery)
Revolt of the angels
I think it helps to specify that you dont want the usual suspects. Apart from that, I am not sure if this is allowed, but I would suggest also looking at the sub r/ireadabookandadoredit . There is a bigger variety of books being posted.
Historical fiction
Years of Wonder – Geraldine Brooks
The Buffalo Hunter Hunter – Stephen Graham Jones
Science Fiction/ Fantasy
Neverwhere – Neil Graham
This is How You Lose a Time War – Amel El-Mohtar
Historical fiction
The Wolf Hall Trilogy by Hilary Mantel. This may be recommend a lot too though, but they are so good.
Company of Liars by Karen Maitland – a group of travellers who don’t know each other avoiding the plague in England in the late 1300s with some horror.
As Meat Loves Salt by Maria McCann. If you have triggers, check out the warnings before reading the book.
Tyll by Daniel Kehlmann – set around the time of the Thirty Years’ War.
The Wax Child by Olga Ravn – told from the perspective of a wax child.
The Shardlake series by CJ Sansom. About a lawyer solving mysteries during the time of Henry VIII.
*Sublimation* by Isabel J. Kim. It’s not out yet but I’m reading an ARC right now and I am hooked!!! Fantasy about immigration and doppelgangers and what it means to leave a homeland behind and come back to it.
Here’s some stellar authors- Robert B. Parker, Nelson DeMille, Don Winslow, James Lee Burke, John Lescroart ( Dismas Hardy ), William Kent Krueger