I’m in a huge book slump! I’ve had many disappointments and DNF’s lately and I’m needing some great suggestions that will hook me right away! I need your most favorite recommendations! 5-6star reads please!
I prefer mystery/thriller or fantasy, but am willing to try anything that’s a great book!
by Quilter79
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If you haven’t read The Road by Cormac McCarthy that’s what got me out of a decade-long reading slump.
Thriller: Intensity by Dean Koontz (best thriller ever imo) and fantasy, Chronicles of The One Trilogy by Nora Roberts. Loved that
>I prefer mystery/thriller or fantasy
Here’s some easily readable books I have liked:
* We Are Satellites by Sarah Pinsker
* The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka
* A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking by T. Kingfisher
* The Butcher of the Forest by Premee Mohamed
Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
I’ll Be Gone In The Dark
The Lies I Tell
The Once and Future Witches
Bird of Paradise by Oliver K. Langmead. it’s the book that got me back into reading after a slump. best book i’ve ever read!
I love old Stephen King that’s not quite horror: The Dead Zone is one. I also love this book called Maia by Richard Adam’s that no one seems to know about— probably because the MC is a young girl and the book gets smutty. I read it when I was way young and had no idea this was problematic. But if you can get past that it is one of the best historical fiction- fantasy novels I’ve ever read. I reread it when I am in a slump and it always delights me.
I’m gonna go way out on a limb here; the Lord of Mysteries light novel. It’s a chinese novel (translated to English of course) and i can’t stop reading it, it has mystery, little slice of life, gods, politics, eldritch horror powers and a MC who plays the fool! (Jokes)
Best way to describe it is a guy gets transmigrated to a new world that’s steampunk Victorian into a man named Klein morreti who just committed suicide. Come to find out this world has people known as beyonders who can travel 22 different pathways through sequences 9 through 1 to attain godhood; all while fighting the madness that comes with it. He tries to figure out how to get back home all while navigating everything that’s going on through the many coincidences happening to him. It’s a big story, a big world, and a long read but so good. Maybe you might enjoy it!
Dungeon Crawler Carl. I can’t recommend it strongly enough. Take Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, add in The Running Man, a healthy dose of The Hunger Games and mix it all together with World of Warcraft and you are headed in the right direction. A man, his ex girlfriend’s cat and an insane AI that has a foot fetish. I can’t make this shit up! Audio books are off the hook. Now get out there, and kill kill kill.
For comedy/mystery, One for the Money by Janet Evanovich
God Touched by John Conroe
Storm Front by Jim Butcher
Survival by Devon C Ford
Fated by Benedict Jacka
The Butcher’s Boy by Thomas Perry
Playing For Pizza by John Grisham
The Hot Kid by Elmore Leonard
Sharpe’s Tiger by Bernard Cornwell
Burr by Gore Vidal
Witchcraft for Wayward Girls by Grady Hendrix