I'm looking for books to read while chilling on my balcony after work. So nothing too demanding or angsty. Doesn't need to to be vapid, though. Needs to have physical copies, I don't have a good e-reader and looking to have less screentime.
I love the following:
- Old-timey detective fiction, Dorothy Sayers is a fave, have read all Christie and Sherlock Holmes.
- Becky Chambers
- Terry Pratchett
- Rivers of London
- Catherynne Valente
- Bride's Story (a manga)
- Mysteries and adventure stories in general
- Non-fiction deep dives about oddly specific topics
- Fiction where the plot is there more to introduce a place or time the writer is interested in (see Bride's Story above or Apothecary Melchior series about the titular Apothecary solving crimes in medieval Tallinn).
Not so much into:
- Horror
- Thrillers
- Detective fiction where the main character's personal relationships and issues become the focus
- Straight-up romances (light, snarky romance sub-plots are fine, pining and making that one person more important than anything else are not)
by MryyLeathert