I am really in the mood to get transported. I read anything except romance. Can be fantasy, horror, YA or middle grade even. Have been super into gothic reads recently as well. (There can be romance I just don't like the full on genre. No romantasy please.)
Bonus points if it's good in audiobook form, TIL that you cannot use audible credits you've purchased to send gift books. So I got three burning a hole in my pocket!!
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– The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
– Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Children of time
Jurassic Park (I find Crichton’s writing very engrossing in general)
The book that wouldn’t burn
The will of the many
The Bobiverse
Shade of gray and its sequel Red Side Story, though it doesn’t explain what the heck is going on until the end of the second book.
Redshirts (if you enjoy campy sci-fi)
I really loved The Night Circus. It’s not for everyone, but it fit the bill for me 🙂
Hellions, by Julia Elliot. Just finished and this collection of tales have a very haunted swampy summer feel, abandoned summer camps, moldering trailers, strange transmissions from the very edges of the radio.
For a slightly different vibe try “Angels and Insects” by AS Byatt. Victorian mystics, collecting people like samples pinned in a case, death’s head moths and ant swarms, cold ghosts under the floorboards.
For classic horror, The Shadow over Innsmouth by H. P. Lovecraft
You might enjoy an audiobook I just recently finished, “Nightwoods” by Charles Frazier. The author can brilliantly take the reader to a different place and time, with interesting characters with relatable flaws. Masterfully read by actor, Will Patton
Hmm if I was to give my top five…
Well as my number one I’d have to say
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
And at number two… it’s Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier.
And number three, well, would you look at that… it’s Ga- just kidding, it’s Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier.
Number four? A controversial choice: the audiobook of Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier.
And rounding out the top five… It’s tough but would have to be.. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
I recently read The City and Its Uncertain Walls by Haurki Murakami (paper, not audio). Felt like a dream the whole way through.