I’m currently in a reading slump and feeling burned out from reading books in series. I was wondering if anyone had any stand alone fantasy or sci-fi books they could recommend me?
So far I’ve read and liked:
1. The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker
2. The Martian by Andy Weir
3. The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison
4. The House on the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune
5. Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
6. Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susan Clarke
7. Piranesi by Susan Clarke
8. A Master of Djinn by P. Djeli Clark
9. Light From Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki
I know this is quite a mix! I’m open to anything really. Would love any suggestions! Thanks!
by elephantlove3
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Tress of the Emerald Sea by Brandon Sanderson is good. The humor is nice cause it’s different than the standard serious series
*The Forever War* by Joe Haldeman.
Cloud Cuckoo Land (part sci-fi, part historical, part contemporary)
China Mountain Zhang
– The Wayfarers books by Becky Chambers can really be thought of as four standalones, and they’re all excellent!
– Firebreak by Nicole Korher-Stace
A Fire Upon the Deep.
Spinning Silver.
The Spear Cuts Through Water by Simon Jimenez if you’re looking for something more literary and emotional.
Floating Hotel by Grace Curtis if you’re looking for something wholesome and low-key (though i think it comes out early next month if I’m not mistaken)
Tigana by Guy Gavriel kay
The Princess Bride. Nice, light, clever and humorous.
The ocean at the end of the Lane by Neil Gaiman.
Real world adjacent, bit mystical.
The Gone away world by Nick harkaway. Very unusual premise sci-fi.
This is how we lose the time war. Told in a series of letters. Very sci-fi.
– The Sword of Kaigen by M L Wang
>A mother struggling to repress her violent past,
A son struggling to grasp his violent future,
A father blind to the danger that threatens them all.
>When the winds of war reach their peninsula, will the Matsuda family have the strength to defend their empire? Or will they tear each other apart before the true enemies even reach their shores?
>High on a mountainside at the edge of the Kaigenese Empire live the most powerful warriors in the world, superhumans capable of raising the sea and wielding blades of ice. For hundreds of years, the fighters of the Kusanagi Peninsula have held the Empire’s enemies at bay, earning their frozen spit of land the name ‘The Sword of Kaigen.’
>Born into Kusanagi’s legendary Matsuda family, fourteen-year-old Mamoru has always known his purpose: to master his family’s fighting techniques and defend his homeland. But when an outsider arrives and pulls back the curtain on Kaigen’s alleged age of peace, Mamoru realizes that he might not have much time to become the fighter he was bred to be. Worse, the empire he was bred to defend may stand on a foundation of lies.
>Misaki told herself that she left the passions of her youth behind when she married into the Matsuda house. Determined to be a good housewife and mother, she hid away her sword, along with everything from her days as a fighter in a faraway country. But with her growing son asking questions about the outside world, the threat of an impending invasion looming across the sea, and her frigid husband grating on her nerves, Misaki finds the fighter in her clawing its way back to the surface.
The City in the Middle of the Night by Charlie Jane Anders (or her other book All the Birds in the Sky – both amazing, but I liked City more)