I’ve been picking up book after book lately, and they’re all… fine. Decent. Nothing terrible, but nothing that makes me forget to blink or forces me to stay up way past my bedtime.
So tell me, what’s the last book you would confidently give a full 5/5? The kind that pulls you in so hard you lose track of time, or leaves you sitting there afterwards, processing your life choices.
I’m open to almost any genre (just not heavy romance), but I tend to gravitate toward books with darker edges, atmosphere, mystery, or something that messes with your head in a good way.
Drop your best recommendations. I need something that actually hits.
by XxShockmaster
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Foucault’s Pendulum by Umberto Eco, Summer of Night by Dan Simmons, Solenoid by Mircea Cărtărescu
Against the Loveless World- Susan Abulhawa, 10/10 read, has stuck with me since I finished it. About a Palestinian women reflecting on her life from solitary confinement.
You sound like me. Here are some books I read this year that gave me those feelings in different shades:
– Between Two Fires by Christopher Buehlman
– The King in Yellow by Robert W. Chambers
– Blindsight by Peter Watts
– Tender is the Flesh by Augustina Bazterrica
– The Familiar by Mark Z. Danielewski
– The City & The City by China Miéville