What are some fiction books/fiction series that you could not put down?

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The Neapolitan novels by Elena Ferrante might be up your alley. It’s so detailed and has a ton going on—the characters and their relationships are complicated, there’s a bunch of political stuff happening in the background that shapes their lives. I found it all riveting.

Hild and Menewood by Nicola Griffith, The Light Bearer by Donna Gillespie, The Wolf Den trilogy by Elodie Harper, or The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco might also be worth looking into; they all had such vivid and believable historical settings that it really felt like a window into what it might’ve been like then. Sacred Hearts by Sarah Dunant, if you happen to find Renaissance Italy era convents interesting (which I do)!

Maybe The Hungry Tide by Amitav Ghosh or The Gift of Rain by Tan Twan Eng. Or something by Kazuo Ishiguro. I feel like I actually learned stuff from those, but still massively enjoyed the stories.

The French Lieutenant’s Woman is my other thought, because it is sort of half novel, half philosophical musings on the way Victorian Era sexual norms constricted people. He kind of zooms in and out on the story, kind of using them as a little microcosm of the broader social trends. And yet somehow it’s not annoying or boring! I was also surprised by how emotionally invested I felt in all of this by the end. John Fowles is kind of GOATed in my eyes.

I highly recommend the red rising series. I could not put it down after I started and had the entire 6 book series finished in less the a month. I’m not a fast reader usually either. Fantastic series that reads kind of like galactic game of thrones.

Jim Butcher’s Harry Dresden and R. D. Wingfield’s Inpector Frost (up to A Killing Frost, as the next ones are not so good).