I know this is probably a very commonly asked question but y’all got any recommendations for someone who doesn’t read books often. I really only have read books due to classes and and trying to find a book for an upcoming 13 hour flight with long layovers. I have enjoyed almost of the books I’ve have been required though I’ll be honest they were hard for me to get into.
Here are some of the books I have read:
Jane Erye (I actually really loved this one)
Things Fall Apart
Annihilation
The Elephant and the Rider: The Happiness Hypothesis
Pride and Prejudice
1984
Anthem (Really liked this one, finished it in a few hours but it’s really short)
That’s pretty much all I can remember since it’s been many years but as for other medias
Anime/Manga
Re:Zero
Frieren: Beyond Journeys End
Chainsaw Man
Shows/Movie (I don’t watch many)
Old school Star Trek (and Orville)
Starship Troopers
RRR
The Witcher (S1)
I don’t think I will be too picky with any books, but something that is not part of a series would be a plus
by Leodak
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Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Ivanhoe by Walter Scott
Them Bones by Carolyn Haines
Seems like you appreciate a lot of sci-fi and/or dystopian novels. Can’t go wrong with Ray Bradbury or Kurt Vonnegut.
Bradbury, I’d recommend The Martian Chronicles to start. It’s a book of short stories that were originally all published separately and then he later wove them together into a short novel. Then if you like that, you gotta move on to his best known work, Fahrenheit 451.
Vonnegut… personally, I’d start at the beginning. Player Piano was his first novel. Then just work your way down the list. His books aren’t serialized, so you can read them in any order you want. But he’s one of those authors that you can literally sense his growth as a person through the years if you read his books in the order they were published.
For a more recent author with a similar vibe, check out Ernest Cline. Ready Player One was so good!
I’m going to have to agree with the previous commenter that you might enjoy some modern dystopian classics or some classic science fiction.
*One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest* by Ken Kesey
*Brave New World* by Aldous Huxley
*Flowers for Algernon* Daniel Keyes
The Robot series by Isaac Asimov (you can start with *I, Robot*, the collection of short stories, or with *Caves of Steel*, book 1. If you find yourself confused with *Caves*, read *I, Robot*)
*The Martian Chronicles* by Ray Bradbury
*Ender’s Game* by Orson Scott Card
If you love *Jane Eyre*, you absolutely need to read *The Eyre Affair* by Jasper Fforde