hello!
Recently, I've been reading a lot more than usual. Yay me!
Only problem is that it's all just kinda the same thing. MMC in their mid-twenties, literary fiction, probably something to do with addiction. That's fine and dandy, sure, but I'm a bit tired of it (Try reading The Goldfinch, Martyr!, A Little Life and Brideshead Revisited consecutively, I dare you).
So!
This brings me to my suggestion portion. Really, the only requirement is a FMC, and the book itself not being longer than 550 pages (some leeway is fine). If it's similar to what I've been reading, great! If it's something kooky, amazing!
Thanks sm!!
by Ellllenore
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You’re going to get five recommendations for *Gideon the Ninth*, and that meets your criteria and isn’t a bad suggestion at all.
But I think you should consider *The Wizard Hunters* by Martha Wells.
read worm by wildbow
Writers & Lovers by Lily King
If you haven’t read The Handmaid’s Tale, I’d recommend that.
Maybe Uprooted by Naomi Novik.
Yerba Buena by Nina LaCour is really beautiful
the bluest eye by toni morrison (211 pages)
hijab butch blues by lamya h. (284 pages)
the summer book by tove jansson (172 pages)
the fifth season by n. k. jemisin (498 pages)
the hollow places by t. kingfisher (341 pages)
Redwood and Wildfire by Andrea Hairston – this is a bit of an out-there suggestion, I think, but something about The Goldfinch made me think of it. It’s historical fiction with light fantasy elements, some romantic elements, about a Black woman singer and dancer who is part of the Great Migration as she moves from Georgia to Chicago in the 1910s-1920s.
Do you read short story collections at all? Fruiting Bodies by Kathryn Harlan has some dazzling ones. I think all FMCs.
Rainbow Black by Maggie Thrash is quite a harrowing book about a girl whose parents are caught up in the satanic panic, and about her involvement in the terrors of the justice system.
Tainaron by Leena Krohn is a very odd Finnish fantasy novel set in a city of insects.
I really liked all of these, and I think at least some of them are the right book for the kind of adventurous reader that you seem to be.
Chain Gang All Stars