Hi all! To keep it short, I am currently 75% of the way through a 52 book challenge, and I'm struggling to fill some prompts so I was hoping for some help/suggestions!
The prompts I'm struggling with are:
– starts with letter N
– set in summer (NOT folk tale, horror, or urban paranormal fiction)
– Climate fiction
– includes a diary entry
About my reading tastes –
Dislike: Romance or Dark Romance, Romantasy, smut, mystery/whodunit, thriller, YA, most classics. I despise JKR, Neil Gaiman, and Sarah J Maas.
Likes: Fantasy, Scifi, Horror, topical nonfiction (but not self help), Urban Paranormal, Memoirs, LGBTQ, Diverse reads. I love Louise Erdrich, Brandon Sanderson, and Jim Butcher.
Thank you for your suggestions in advance!
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Climate Fiction – *The Island Will Sink,* by Briohny Doyle
How high we go in the dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu, Gold Fame Citrus by Claire Vaye Watkins, pink slime by Fernanda Trías and how to fall in love in a time of unnameable disaster by Muriel Leung all could fit the bill of climate change fiction.
Starts with N: Nuclear War by Annie Jacobsen
N: Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson or Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss.
Includes a diary entry – Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells. It is a sci-fi series. Most books are 160-180 pages long, only 5th one is around 400. It is about a robot that hacks itself, but still keeps doing it’s job, so no one knows it is independent. People are annoying to it and it would much rather spend time watching TV shows. It has a great sarcastic sense of humor.
Diary of a young girl by Anne Frank.
November road by Lou Berney.
Of foster homes and flies by Chad Lutzke for set during summer.
Set in summer – Sunburn by Chloe Michelle Howarth is a sapphic romance/drama coming of age set in an Irish village in the 1990s. Such a good read, it’s not entirely set in summer, but summertime is central to the story
Starts with N: I just read Nettle & Bone by T. Kingfisher and really enjoyed it. It’s fantasy but with a dark and humorous twist, and minimal romance.
Maybe God of the Woods by Liz Moore for a book set in summer? It’s a mystery, but as someone who doesn’t usually like mysteries I really enjoyed it, because it’s focused primarily on exploring different characters’ histories and relationships.
For climate fiction, maybe try The Light Pirate by Lily Brooks Dalton. It’s a bit of a slow burn but powerful and beautifully written (and queer towards the end).
This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar is kind of all diary entries / letters, so that might fit your final prompt! It’s also queer and sci-fi.
I also love Louise Erdrich! 🙂
Climate fiction – The End We Start From by Megan Hunter.
Beginning with N – North Woods (Daniel Mason), Northern Lights (Philip Pullman), Name of the Wind (Patrick Rothfuss), Never Let Me Go (Kazuo Ishiguro), Norwegian Wood (Haruki Murakami).
[Nightingale, The](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21853621-the-nightingale) – Historical Fiction
[Night Circus, The](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9361589-the-night-circus) – Fantasy (has some romance, but I don’t remember smut)
N: Never Let me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Name of the Wind for #1, and Neal Stephenson has a good climate book
Climate fiction: The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson
Climate fiction: anything by Charlotte McConaghy. Migrations, Once There Were Wolves, or her new one Wild Dark Shore. I loved all three but if you don’t like thrillers, then probably skip Once There Were Wolves (even though it might be my favorite!).
N: Norwegian Wood, the Name of the Rose, Never let me go, Night watch, North and South (Gaskell)
Climate: Bewilderment by Richard Powers, Unsheltered by Barbara Kingsolver
Diary entry: Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
Starting with N: Night of the Mannequins by Stephen Graham Jones