Looking for recommendations for an informal book club of friends. We are taking turns picking things to introduce to our group, but I think my tastes are the farthest apart from the rest so I was hoping for some recommendations that meld them. Ideally everyone should be interested in what we are reading, or at least dislike it enough to slander it when we discuss.
One friend is into: mystery/thriller (in particular murder/crime themed), urban fantasy, comedy, and innocent romance. She more so likes modern or fantasy settings.
Another: high fantasy, low/urban fantasy, all romance (especially the smuttiest of it), spooky/supernatural themes, and extreme drama.
The rest are not as particular, more than happy with most crossovers between mystery/fantasy and romance.
And then there is me, who after a bad streak of fiction books not hitting has long switched over to preferring nonfiction and is trying to break back into the fiction world. I like horror/supernatural, works grounded into the world with nature such as plants and animals, survival/adventure/dystopia, if it is romance then I like a depiction of a unique and complex relationship (I appreciate the impact in Eugene Onegin by Pushkin because he did not get the girl in the end), drama rooted in deep complex emotions and experiences (currently reading When The Cranes Fly South), a number of foreign/translated or historical works, and fantasy (low, high, and otherwise) that is not trying to actively revise my speech vocabulary. My issue is I get bored with fiction that does not keep me thinking or feeling, and I have found a lot on the best seller list just do not do that for me.
Any and all recommendations that could theoretically serve everyone (or most of us) would be greatly appreciated.
by Larka2468
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Don’t know if it fits, but how about Devoted, Dean Koontz.
You could try Hell For Hire by Rachel Aaron, maybe. I’m on the second book of the series, and I think it checks a fair number of your boxes.