Been too long since I’ve read something I’ve really loved. Can you look through my book ratings from the last year and a half to give me some recs?

Finished the Book Thief and halfway through Hitchhiker’s Guide and feeling underwhelmed. Really hoping for something that’s going to blow me away. 1984 and Lolita are my two fav novels.

Next up on the reading list as far as fiction are Upgrade by Blake Crouch, A Gentleman in Moscow, Pnin by Nabokov, and East of Eden, but that’s just the plan, please recommend additional novels!

Here’s my list. Ratings are just enjoyment/what I took away:

2024

1. The Book Thief – Markus Zusak – 6/10
2. Notes From Underground – Fyodor Dostoyevsky – 8/10

2023

1. A Brief History of Equality – Thomas Piketty – 8.25/10
2. Brave New World – Aldous Huxley – 5.75/10
3. The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny & Murder – David Grann – 9/10
4. The Song of Achilles – Madeline Miller – 8/10
5. The Zealot and the Emancipator: John Brown, Abraham Lincoln and the Struggle for American Freedom – H.W. Brands – 8.75/10
6. Dark Places – Gillian Flynn – 7.5/10
7. Invisible Monsters – Chuck Palahniuk – 7/10
8. The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde – 8.5/10
9. The Republic – Plato – 7.5/10
10. Blood and Iron: The Rise and Fall of the German Empire 1871-1918 – Katja Hoyer – 7.5/10
11. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime – Mark Haddon – 7.25/10
12. Slaughterhouse Five – Kurt Vonnegut – 7.25/10
13. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain – 8/10
14. The Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI – David Grann – 10/10
15. The Road – Cormac McCarthy – 8/10
16. Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov – 10/10
17. Recursion – Blake Crouch – 6.5/10
18. 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus – Charles C. Mann – 9/10

July 2022-End of Year

1. Night – Ellie Wiesel – 10/10
2. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd – Agatha Christie – 7.5/10
3. The Fisherman – John Langan – 4/10
4. Pet Sematary- Stephen King – 8/10
5. Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus – Mary Shelly – 8.5/10
6. The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini – 9/10
7. Meditations – Marcus Aurelius – 8.5/10
8. The Shortest History of Germany – James Hawes – 8/10
9. The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemingway – 5/10
10. Animal Farm – George Orwell – 8.5/10
11. 1984 – George Orwell – 10/10
12. Dark Matter – Blake Crouch – 9/10
13. American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the Whitehouse – Jon Meacham – 8/10
14. The History of the World in 6 Glasses – Tom Standage – 10/10
15. In Cold Blood – Truman Capote – 8.5/10
16. The Girl on the Train – Paula Hawkins – 7/10

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