I've been in a reading slump for a long time, like a year and a half. I used to read all the time, but I haven't been able to get hooked on much since then, and I haven't been able to get many personalized recommendations, so I don't even know what to try.
I think I'd need something fairly short, so it doesn't feel like some huge project. My favourite books in the past have been Franny & Zooey by J.D. Salinger, Less than zero by Bret Easton Ellis, Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami, The Waves by Virginia Woolf and Grotesque by Natsuo Kirino. Honorable mentions are Easy of Eden by John Steinbeck, Stoner by John Williams and Pachinko by Min Jin Lee.
I'm not a big fan of fantasy or sci-fi, I prefer realism, and I tend to like Japanese literature.
Thank you!
by Idonotlikewaffles
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Check out South of the Border, West of the Sun by Haruki Murakami. It’s an excellent, fairly short, novel that I’d compare more to Norwegian Wood than to any of his other, more surreal books.
The Paris Wife is really wonderful. A historical fiction about Ernest Hemingway’s first marriage/years living in Paris with F Scott Fitzgerald and his wife.