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    I loved reading books as a child/teen and now I've been trying to get back into reading recently but my preferences have changed since then. I'll put a short list of what I'm NOT interested in right under this, any recommendations are appreciated and welcome!

    • no Magic
    • no Dystopian
    • no Fantasy
    • little to no romance

    by RiseUnhappy589

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    1. Different Seasons by Stephen King: Good collection of short story novellas that all have very different feels. Some stories have been adapted into timeless films you may recognize.

      The ocean at the end of the lane by Neil Gaiman

      Never Let me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

      Crooked House Agatha Christie

    2. BernardFerguson1944 on

      *Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time* by Dava Sobel.

      *In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex* [1820] by Nathaniel Philbrick.

      *Isaac’s Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane* [the 1900 Galveston hurricane] by Erik Larson.

      *The Klondike Fever: The Life and Death of the Last Great Gold Rush* by Pierre Berton.

      *The Columbian Exchange: Biological and Cultural Consequences of 1492* by Alfred W. Crosby, Jr.

      *Nothing Like It in the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869* by Stephen Ambrose*.*

      *Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West* by Stephen Ambrose*.*

    3. lady_stardust2028 on

      Perhaps To Kill A Mockingbird and The Catcher in the Rye? What got me into reading were folk tales, Kafka and Edgar Allan Poe. Try some Steinbeck too.

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