For my book club this year, we all drew prompts to select a book and my prompt is a “book by a male author.” Easy right? Well, apparently not. A lot of books I want to read by male authors are either classics or over 500 pages, and while neither of those are bad things, it’s not what I’m looking for (we are reading some more classics than normal this year so I don’t want to add to that, and page length wise we try to stay under 500 pages just because people have busy lives).
We’re a group of women in our mid to late 30s and we read nearly all genres except horror, and rarely do non-fiction.
Some books we all universally loved: *Station Eleven* by Emily St. John Mandel, *Long Bright River* by Liz Moore, *The Beekeeper of Aleppo* by Christy Lefteri, *A Man Called Ove* by Fredrik Backman, *All the Light We Cannot See* by Anthony Doerr, *The Great Alone* by Kristin Hannah, and *The Great Believers* by Rebecca Makkai.
Some books we’ve already read by contemporary male authors (there’s others but I suspect these may be more likely to be recommended): *A Gentleman in Moscow* by Amor Towles, *The Midnight Library* by Matt Haig, *The House in the Cerulean Sea* by TJ Klune, *Project Hail Mary* by Andy Weir, *Anxious People* by Fredrik Backman, *Beneath a Scarlet Sky* by Mark Sullivan, *Cloud Cuckoo Land* by Anthony Doerr
Thanks in advance!
by sm0gs