Family Book Club – it’s my turn to choose the next book and I’m SICK of biographies and nonfiction. I need recommendations:

The last book made me want to throw myself into oncoming traffic and gouge my eyes out. It was so boring! I’m not going to say what it was here though because I already didn’t care for the topic to begin with so my hate is biased.

Anyway, I’m up next to pick a book and I don’t want to put my family through that again. There are typically 5-6 of us who partake in the family book club so it’s a mixed range of interests. The most common thing we all have (other than genes) are higher education academic backgrounds, so something well written would be appreciated (an example of a bad rec would be: “Pygmy" by Chuck Palahniuk,)

There’s a physicist, a psychologist, a podiatrist, a zoologist and an English professor with a rotating cast of others that pop in and out.

Anyway!!

99% of previous books have been biographies or self-help, so I’d really like to recommend fiction this time. I recommended “Dune” a year or so ago and it was pretty well received. It’s still the only fiction we have read together in the last 3 years.

I’d like there to be adventure, connection, some light magic or maybe even sci-fi elements. Nothing horror (Grandma doesn’t like it) but a murder mystery could be fun! Maybe soooome spice is acceptable? I’d put my neck on the line this month to sneak in a bit of very mild (like, “fade to black type scenes) spice.

Some recs I’ve been given before are:
Babel – R. F. Kuang,
The Silent Patient – Alex Michaelides, and Dark matter – Blake Crouch.

So if you second any of these or want to add recommendations, please do!