I usually read big lengthy epic fantasies with a few standalone books here and there to act as a palate cleanser after an exhausting read. I just finished the Farseer Trilogy recently so looking for a smaller book to give myself a break. Here are some of the previous books I read and enjoyed for this purpose, in no particular order:
- A Good Girl's Guide to Murder
- Queen's Gambit
- Piranesi
- Project Hail Mary
- The Martian
- Moneyball
- The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
- The Godfather
- Tress of the Emerald Sea
- The Three Body Problem
by NotLaddering3
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Here are some easy reads:
The wedding people,
Small things like these,
A man called Ove.
Three by John Scalzi:
***The Kaiju Preservation Society*** is ‘a common man put into uncommon circumstances’. It’s fun and adventuresome.
***Redshirts*** is a satire of space-opera from the point-of-view of ‘expendable’ crew.
More high-tech than sci-fi but ***Starter Villain*** is the most entertaining book I’ve read recently. It’s a spoof of the early James Bond movies. A substitute teacher inherits his estranged uncle’s villainy which comes complete with a secret volcanic lair.
Yahtzee Croshaw’s ***Will Save the Galaxy For Food*** follows a space pilot scrounging a living after being put out of work by technology advances. The protagonist is a mashup of Han Solo and Crocodile Dundee.