I have been wanting to start reading for the past 2 years but I never really know what book to get as a 20 year old because I don’t want to get the wrong book. Please suggest me anything but I think I might like a romance or science fiction I don’t really know so anything pls.
by Yukiggg
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Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt. Light read but very good story with a lovely ending. A great start to a new reading hobby!
This is too much pressure to pick the “one right book” out of millions. What is your favorite show or movie?
Sci fi I’ve enjoyed: “the sparrow,” Mary Doria Russell (gore, beware), “Ender’s Game,” Orson Scott card, Ursula k LeGuin is a fave too, but some might find it more dry/anthropological. “The possessed” is short and might be a good place to start? Octavia Butler is great and weird, I love her short stories (“Bloodchild” is a short story book) and I loved “Parable of the Sower.”
Naomi Novik writes really great fantasy/romance—I really liked “uprooted” and “spinning silver”
Jennifer Crusie is my fave romance novelist. “Bet Me” is really cute.
I agree with the other comment about reading books that your fave movies were based on!
I also recommend The Martian by Andy Weir and Ready Player One by Ernest Cline. Both are really fun Sci Fi reads and pretty easy in order to get you more.in the habit of picking books up. As a plus, the Martian movie was a pretty good adaptation! Though I did not enjoy Ready Player One’s movie adaptation very much.
Carl Sagan’s **Contact** is a book (and movie) that shows Earth receiving a message that maybe comes from non-terrestrials The movie played up the slight romance aspect between two characters more than the book, and the endings differed in their focus [I preferred the book’s ending.]
A note of caution: Carl Sagan had a large vocabulary and wasn’t shy in putting it on display in the book.