The last 3 books I’ve read have been stinkers. I haven’t rated anything 5 stars since the beginning of the year and am starting to fall into a slump.
What should I read next?
Favorite genres: horror, magical realism, slice of life
Least favorite genres: sci-fi, YA
Recent reads that I’ve loved:
Cold Moon Over Babylon, Faerie Tale, East of Eden, Half a Soul, And Then There Were None, Stardust, Slewfoot
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Piranesi by Susanna Clarke. (Magical realism/mythology)
Remarkably Bright Creatures – by Shelby van Pelt ( light magical realism, mystery)
Invisible Life of Addie La Rue – by V E Schwabb( magical realism)
My five stars this year were;
The Overstory by Richard Powers
Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar
North Woods by Daniel Mason
and The Last Samurai by Helen DeWitt
Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier, My Cousin Rachel is good too
Lying in Wait by Liz Nugent, the audiobook is good if you enjoy audio
The Long Walk by Richard Bachman/Stephen King
I Let You Go by Clare Mackintosh
Wayward Pines Trilogy by Blake Crouch
Rockton/Casey Duncan series by Kelley Armstrong
Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie for magical realism
Magic Lessons by Alice Hoffman. I didn’t care for the other books in the series, but it is a stand alone!
For horror, I’ve really enjoyed books from Grady Hendrix and Stephen Graham Jones.
“Our Share of Night” by Mariana Enriquez was the best book I read last year, hands down
Slade House by David Mitchell
Here are a few of my favorite 5-star bangers.
*The Hacking of the American Mind* –Robert Lustig
*The Big Picture* –Sean Carroll
*The End of the World is Just the Beginning* –Peter Zeihan
*Horizon* –Barry Lopez
*What We Owe the Future* –Will MacAskill
*The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth* –Jonathan Rauch
*Justice for Animals: Our Collective Responsibility* –Martha Nussbaum
*This is Vegan Propaganda* –Ed Winters
*The Deficit Myth: Modern Monetary Theory and the Birth of the People’s Economy* –Stephanie Kelton
*I Contain Multitudes* –Ed Yong
*Overkill: When Modern Medicine Goes Too Far* –Paul Offit
You say you like Stardust. Have you tried any of Gaiman’s other works?
If you haven’t, I say give **Neverwhere** a try.
A quick and easy read is “The Monster Hunter International” series by Larry Correia. Checkout r/TheMHI
I know everyone’s recommending it right now so I bet you’ve already read, but A Gentleman in Moscow is my favorite slice-of-life I’ve read recently
Best of year so far
Bonnie Garmus: Lessons in Chemistry is funny and feminist
Yaa Gyasi: Homegoing about those enslaved and those left in Ghana
Isabel Wilkerson: the Warmth of Other Suns (non fiction about the great South-North migration of US black folk)
Mary Doria Russell: the Sparrow about a Jesuit mission in space
Marlen Haushofer: the Wall