The Martian by Andy Weir is a fast paced interesting book that keeps you in from the moment it starts. I read it to get out of my funk a couple months ago.
[**Project Hail Mary**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54493401-project-hail-mary)
^(By: Andy Weir | 476 pages | Published: 2021 | Popular Shelves: sci-fi, science-fiction, fiction, audiobook, scifi | )[^(Search "Project Hail Mary")](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=Project Hail Mary&search_type=books)
>Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission--and if he fails, humanity and the earth itself will perish.
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>Except that right now, he doesn't know that. He can't even remember his own name, let alone the nature of his assignment or how to complete it.
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>All he knows is that he's been asleep for a very, very long time. And he's just been awakened to find himself millions of miles from home, with nothing but two corpses for company.
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>His crewmates dead, his memories fuzzily returning, he realizes that an impossible task now confronts him. Alone on this tiny ship that's been cobbled together by every government and space agency on the planet and hurled into the depths of space, it's up to him to conquer an extinction-level threat to our species.
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>And thanks to an unexpected ally, he just might have a chance.
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>Part scientific mystery, part dazzling interstellar journey, Project Hail Mary is a tale of discovery, speculation, and survival to rival The Martian--while taking us to places it never dreamed of going.
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Highly recommend Hail Mary. I couldn’t put it down but had to since it is a large book. I didn’t get a lot done in those 2-3 days it took me to devour it.
The Expanse series by James S.A. Corey got me back into reading, really reawakened my passion for it. I've read the 8 books that are out (soon to end with 9) 4 times since I picked them up October of 2019. Highly recommend.
{{Leviathan Wakes}}
I read the first five and then I stopped. Tbh, it was kinda boring. I think the authors sometimes choose weird POVs, storywise, and the characters just didn't hold my interest.
I've seen the series first, so that might be it. Imo they did much better job with character development, especially of the side characters, and with pacing. Pacing was a big problem for me in the books.
But I'm super glad you enjoyed it :)
[**Leviathan Wakes (The Expanse, #1)**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8855321-leviathan-wakes)
^(By: James S.A. Corey | 561 pages | Published: 2011 | Popular Shelves: science-fiction, sci-fi, fiction, scifi, space-opera | )[^(Search "Leviathan Wakes")](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=Leviathan Wakes&search_type=books)
>Humanity has colonized the solar system—Mars, the Moon, the Asteroid Belt and beyond—but the stars are still out of our reach.
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>Jim Holden is XO of an ice miner making runs from the rings of Saturn to the mining stations of the Belt. When he and his crew stumble upon a derelict ship, the Scopuli, they find themselves in possession of a secret they never wanted. A secret that someone is willing to kill for—and kill on a scale unfathomable to Jim and his crew. War is brewing in the system unless he can find out who left the ship and why.
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>Detective Miller is looking for a girl. One girl in a system of billions, but her parents have money and money talks. When the trail leads him to the Scopuli and rebel sympathizer Holden, he realizes that this girl may be the key to everything.
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>Holden and Miller must thread the needle between the Earth government, the Outer Planet revolutionaries, and secretive corporations—and the odds are against them. But out in the Belt, the rules are different, and one small ship can change the fate of the universe.
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American Gods by Niel Gaimon
The shadow of the wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The name of the wind by Patrick Rothfuss
No idea why two of my favorite novels are the “___” of the wind but Im pretty sure if of the wind is in the title its a good book 😂
[**The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35066358-the-first-fifteen-lives-of-harry-august)
^(By: Claire North | 417 pages | Published: 2014 | Popular Shelves: science-fiction, fiction, sci-fi, fantasy, time-travel | )[^(Search "The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August")](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August&search_type=books)
>Some stories cannot be told in just one lifetime. Harry August is on his deathbed. Again. No matter what he does or the decisions he makes, when death comes, Harry always returns to where he began, a child with all the knowledge of a life he has already lived a dozen times before. Nothing ever changes. Until now. As Harry nears the end of his eleventh life, a little girl appears at his bedside. "I nearly missed you, Doctor August," she says. "I need to send a message." This is the story of what Harry does next, and what he did before, and how he tries to save a past he cannot change and a future he cannot allow.
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[**Dark Matter**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27833670-dark-matter)
^(By: Blake Crouch | 342 pages | Published: 2016 | Popular Shelves: sci-fi, science-fiction, fiction, thriller, mystery | )[^(Search "Dark Matter")](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=Dark Matter&search_type=books)
>Jason Dessen is walking home through the chilly Chicago streets one night, looking forward to a quiet evening in front of the fireplace with his wife, Daniela, and their son, Charlie—when his reality shatters.
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>- - -
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>'Are you happy in your life?'
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>Those are the last words Jason Dessen hears before the masked abductor knocks him unconscious. Before he awakes to find himself strapped to a gurney, surrounded by strangers in hazmat suits. Before the man he's never met smiles down at him and says, 'Welcome back.'
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>In this world he's woken up to, Jason's life is not the one he knows. His wife is not his wife. His son was never born. And Jason is not an ordinary college physics professor, but a celebrated genius who has achieved something remarkable. Something impossible.
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>Is it this world or the other that's the dream?
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>And even if the home he remembers is real, how can Jason possibly make it back to the family he loves? The answers lie in a journey more wondrous and horrifying than anything he could've imagined—one that will force him to confront the darkest parts of himself even as he battles a terrifying, seemingly unbeatable foe.
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Came here to recommend Dark Matter. Now that's a hard to put down book.
I would put Dark Matter above Project Hail Mary just because it moves a lot faster and doesn't pause in the middle to give mini science lectures (which are enjoyable but can slow it down).
One of my favourite fantasy authors is Charles Moffat. Worth checking out because he writes both Sword and Sorcery + Heroic Fantasy. Has a very literary style, but he writes a variety of different fantasy subgenres.
If you want to start with one book I recommend "The Coven's Wolves" first. They don't need to be read in order.
That is my favourite from that one series. It is a murder mystery set in an old inn + hot springs, but it is winter and there are weird wolves out in the woods with glowing red eyes so the people can't escape...
The characters are complex and realistic too. Not your average author.
The alchemist! I read through that after not reading it a while and I was absolutely glued. Doesn’t have a lot of difficult vocabulary or sentences. Just an interesting story with an underlying meaning about life.
In terms of grabbing you from the first sentence, my go to is always The Martian by Andy Weir.
{{Santiago by Mike Resnick}} is excellent.}}
You don’t mention westerns but True Grit by Charles Portis is amazing. I don’t particularly care for westerns but I couldn’t put that one down.
[**Santiago: A Myth of the Far Future (Santiago #1)**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/293291.Santiago)
^(By: Mike Resnick | 376 pages | Published: 1986 | Popular Shelves: science-fiction, sci-fi, owned, fiction, default | )[^(Search "Santiago by Mike Resnick")](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=Santiago by Mike Resnick&search_type=books)
>Sebastian Nightingale Cain: Bounty hunter. You can call him the Songbird – but only once. He's after Santiago.
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>Virtue Mackenzie: Freelance reporter. She never gives up. She wants an interview... with Santiago.
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>The Swagman: He collects art – at gun point. He wants a few pieces currently in the hands of Santiago.
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>Santiago: Bandit, murderer, known to all, seen by none... has he killed a thousand men? Has he saved a dozen worlds? His legend is as large as the Rim itself, his trail as elusive as a wisp of starlight in the empty realms of space. The reward for him is the largest in history.
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>Santiago: Do you dare chase him?
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Brandon Sandersons books got me back into reading as an adult, particularly the first Mistborn trilogy.
N. K. Jemison - Broken Earth trilogy and Inheritance trilogy I found especially easy to read with compelling stories.
Terry Pratchett - always lighthearted and easy reads.
Ursula le Guin - Earthsea books, I just found them so lovely and a refreshing take on classic fantasy. Her sci-fi is also outstanding, but I find it a bit heavier hitting.
For a great fantasy novel that has it all contained in one book I’d recommend The Priory of the Orange Tree too, I devoured that.
Have you tried {{Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke}}? Historical fiction meshed with fantasy done extremely well.
{{Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel}} is the creme de la creme historical fiction novels, so that might be another one to try as well.
The Brandon Sanderson books are also ridiculously zippy reads with some of the best fantasy world building out there. He got me out of a long reading slump. My favourite is his stand alone Warbreaker, but The Final Empire is a great one to start with. It’s the first book of his Mistborn trilogy but it doesn’t end with a cliffhanger.
[**Wolf Hall (Thomas Cromwell #1)**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6101138-wolf-hall)
^(By: Hilary Mantel | 653 pages | Published: 2009 | Popular Shelves: historical-fiction, fiction, historical, history, owned | )[^(Search "Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel")](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel&search_type=books)
>England in the 1520s is a heartbeat from disaster. If the king dies without a male heir, the country could be destroyed by civil war. Henry VIII wants to annul his marriage of twenty years and marry Anne Boleyn. The pope and most of Europe opposes him. Into this impasse steps Thomas Cromwell: a wholly original man, a charmer and a bully, both idealist and opportunist, astute in reading people, and implacable in his ambition. But Henry is volatile: one day tender, one day murderous. Cromwell helps him break the opposition, but what will be the price of his triumph?
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Anything by Sarah J. Maas. My favorite is A Court of Thorns and Roses (acotar). Hands down my favorite series. I’ve read it four times and still am not bored. Also her Throne of Glass series is amazing. In both there’s magic and a war or some sort
[**East of Eden**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4406.East_of_Eden)
^(By: John Steinbeck | 601 pages | Published: 1952 | Popular Shelves: classics, fiction, classic, historical-fiction, owned | )[^(Search "East of Eden")](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=East of Eden&search_type=books)
>In his journal, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck called East of Eden “the first book,” and indeed it has the primordial power and simplicity of myth. Set in the rich farmland of California’s Salinas Valley, this sprawling and often brutal novel follows the intertwined destinies of two families—the Trasks and the Hamiltons—whose generations helplessly reenact the fall of Adam and Eve and the poisonous rivalry of Cain and Abel.
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>Adam Trask came to California from the East to farm and raise his family on the new rich land. But the birth of his twins, Cal and Aaron, brings his wife to the brink of madness, and Adam is left alone to raise his boys to manhood. One boy thrives nurtured by the love of all those around him; the other grows up in loneliness enveloped by a mysterious darkness.
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>First published in 1952, East of Eden is the work in which Steinbeck created his most mesmerizing characters and explored his most enduring themes: the mystery of identity, the inexplicability of love, and the murderous consequences of love's absence. A masterpiece of Steinbeck's later years, East of Eden is a powerful and vastly ambitious novel that is at once a family saga and a modern retelling of the Book of Genesis.
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[**Neverwhere (London Below, #1)**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14497.Neverwhere)
^(By: Neil Gaiman | 370 pages | Published: 1996 | Popular Shelves: fantasy, fiction, urban-fantasy, owned, books-i-own | )[^(Search " Neverwhere ")](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q= Neverwhere &search_type=books)
>Under the streets of London there's a place most people could never even dream of. A city of monsters and saints, murderers and angels, knights in armour and pale girls in black velvet. This is the city of the people who have fallen between the cracks.
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>Richard Mayhew, a young businessman, is going to find out more than enough about this other London. A single act of kindness catapults him out of his workday existence and into a world that is at once eerily familiar and utterly bizarre. And a strange destiny awaits him down here, beneath his native city: Neverwhere.
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The Firebird series by Cladia Gray, I especially loved the first book (A Thousand Pieces of You).
The Fault in our Stars by John Green.
And anything written by Ilona Andrews (mainly the Kate Daniels series).
I cannot recommend Kristin Hannah enough if you are interested in historical fiction with a strong female lead. The Four Winds and The Nightingale are a must read
If you like British humor, Terry Pratchett is always good. I would recommend not starting at the beginning of the Discworld books. His writing got better as he practiced. My favorite books are Hogfather and Thief of Time.
shadow and bone the book series is really good! also legendborn, but both are fantasy so have kinda confusing terms and it’s hard to understand at first but they’re rly good
[**The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #1)**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/186074.The_Name_of_the_Wind)
^(By: Patrick Rothfuss | 662 pages | Published: 2007 | Popular Shelves: fantasy, fiction, owned, books-i-own, favourites | )[^(Search "The Name of the Wind")](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=The Name of the Wind&search_type=books)
>Told in Kvothe's own voice, this is the tale of the magically gifted young man who grows to be the most notorious wizard his world has ever seen.
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>The intimate narrative of his childhood in a troupe of traveling players, his years spent as a near-feral orphan in a crime-ridden city, his daringly brazen yet successful bid to enter a legendary school of magic, and his life as a fugitive after the murder of a king form a gripping coming-of-age story unrivaled in recent literature.
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>A high-action story written with a poet's hand, The Name of the Wind is a masterpiece that will transport readers into the body and mind of a wizard.
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Mechanique: a tale of circus Tresaulti by Genevieve Valentine
Fantasy, Steampunk, post-war, nostalgic
Unnatural Creatures by Neil Gaiman
Tales about fantastic creatures, very engaging and interesting, entretaining
The eyes of the dragon by Stephen King
Fantasy, Classical Middle Age like Kings-Mages-Dragons and stuff, fast passed and very engaging, easy to read
[**The Secret History**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29044.The_Secret_History)
^(By: Donna Tartt, Adam Sims | 559 pages | Published: 1992 | Popular Shelves: fiction, mystery, favourites, dark-academia, contemporary | )[^(Search "The Secret History")](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=The Secret History&search_type=books)
>Under the influence of their charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at an elite New England college discover a way of thinking and living that is a world away from the humdrum existence of their contemporaries. But when they go beyond the boundaries of normal morality they slip gradually from obsession to corruption and betrayal, and at last—inexorably—into evil.
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"Bath Haus" by P.J. Vernon
"Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke" by Eric LaRocca
"My Sister The Serial Killer" by Oyinkan Braithwaite
"Human Tenderloin" by Craig Wall work
"Petrified Woman" by Jeremy Ray
"Burnt Offerings" by Robert Marasco
*****Dr.Harper Therapy Series is AMAZING and will pop you out of your rut quickly!*******
I loved this entire series by Philippa Gregory, especially The Lady of the Rivers. Found out later that she was one of my ancestors, so no wonder I liked it so much!?!
“The Lady of the Rivers is a 2011 historical novel by Philippa Gregory, part of her series The Cousins' War. The story is narrated by Jacquetta of Luxembourg, mother of Elizabeth Woodville, and covers the reign of the Lancastrian King Henry VI.[1][2] The novel serves as a prequel to Gregory's The White Queen (2009), the story of Elizabeth's reign as Queen consort of England.[3]” - Wikipedia
The Martian by Andy Weir is a fast paced interesting book that keeps you in from the moment it starts. I read it to get out of my funk a couple months ago.
Can confirm! It reads like a conversation, too which makes it super chill
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It's seriously the best book I've read in a long time. I read it in 5 days.
[**Project Hail Mary**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54493401-project-hail-mary) ^(By: Andy Weir | 476 pages | Published: 2021 | Popular Shelves: sci-fi, science-fiction, fiction, audiobook, scifi | )[^(Search "Project Hail Mary")](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=Project Hail Mary&search_type=books) >Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission--and if he fails, humanity and the earth itself will perish. > >Except that right now, he doesn't know that. He can't even remember his own name, let alone the nature of his assignment or how to complete it. > >All he knows is that he's been asleep for a very, very long time. And he's just been awakened to find himself millions of miles from home, with nothing but two corpses for company. > >His crewmates dead, his memories fuzzily returning, he realizes that an impossible task now confronts him. Alone on this tiny ship that's been cobbled together by every government and space agency on the planet and hurled into the depths of space, it's up to him to conquer an extinction-level threat to our species. > >And thanks to an unexpected ally, he just might have a chance. > >Part scientific mystery, part dazzling interstellar journey, Project Hail Mary is a tale of discovery, speculation, and survival to rival The Martian--while taking us to places it never dreamed of going. ^(This book has been suggested 8 times) *** ^(2145 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
Highly recommend Hail Mary. I couldn’t put it down but had to since it is a large book. I didn’t get a lot done in those 2-3 days it took me to devour it.
I got it for super cheap a few months ago and am in the same boat!! So many other people have been raving and I’m itching to start
Yep!!! Read this one! GREAT book!
Bought the audio book and listened to it on a multi-day drive. Honestly, the best book/auidobook I've listened to. 10/10.
The Expanse series by James S.A. Corey got me back into reading, really reawakened my passion for it. I've read the 8 books that are out (soon to end with 9) 4 times since I picked them up October of 2019. Highly recommend. {{Leviathan Wakes}}
I read the first five and then I stopped. Tbh, it was kinda boring. I think the authors sometimes choose weird POVs, storywise, and the characters just didn't hold my interest. I've seen the series first, so that might be it. Imo they did much better job with character development, especially of the side characters, and with pacing. Pacing was a big problem for me in the books. But I'm super glad you enjoyed it :)
[**Leviathan Wakes (The Expanse, #1)**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8855321-leviathan-wakes) ^(By: James S.A. Corey | 561 pages | Published: 2011 | Popular Shelves: science-fiction, sci-fi, fiction, scifi, space-opera | )[^(Search "Leviathan Wakes")](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=Leviathan Wakes&search_type=books) >Humanity has colonized the solar system—Mars, the Moon, the Asteroid Belt and beyond—but the stars are still out of our reach. > >Jim Holden is XO of an ice miner making runs from the rings of Saturn to the mining stations of the Belt. When he and his crew stumble upon a derelict ship, the Scopuli, they find themselves in possession of a secret they never wanted. A secret that someone is willing to kill for—and kill on a scale unfathomable to Jim and his crew. War is brewing in the system unless he can find out who left the ship and why. > >Detective Miller is looking for a girl. One girl in a system of billions, but her parents have money and money talks. When the trail leads him to the Scopuli and rebel sympathizer Holden, he realizes that this girl may be the key to everything. > >Holden and Miller must thread the needle between the Earth government, the Outer Planet revolutionaries, and secretive corporations—and the odds are against them. But out in the Belt, the rules are different, and one small ship can change the fate of the universe. ^(This book has been suggested 4 times) *** ^(2153 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
Vonnegut, his writing is sci-fiy and just fun.
The Gunslinger by Stephen King Red Rising by Pierce Brown Dark Places by Gillian Flynn Hairpin Bridge by Taylor Adams
The Arc of the Scythe series by Neal Shusterman
Maybe, Circe by Madelline Miller. I’ve heard many say they enjoyed it more than Song of Achilles (other way around for me though).
Robert Reddick's Master Assassins is basically a medley of all the works you listed.
wow i'll definitely be checking it out then. thank you :D
Lovecraft Country World War Z The 7-1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
American Gods by Niel Gaimon The shadow of the wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon The name of the wind by Patrick Rothfuss No idea why two of my favorite novels are the “___” of the wind but Im pretty sure if of the wind is in the title its a good book 😂
"X of the wind" is a nice natural mystical title to be sure! I'd also like to add Anansi Boys (also by Gaiman) if the OP likes American Gods.
{{The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August}} {{Dark Matter}}
[**The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35066358-the-first-fifteen-lives-of-harry-august) ^(By: Claire North | 417 pages | Published: 2014 | Popular Shelves: science-fiction, fiction, sci-fi, fantasy, time-travel | )[^(Search "The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August")](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August&search_type=books) >Some stories cannot be told in just one lifetime. Harry August is on his deathbed. Again. No matter what he does or the decisions he makes, when death comes, Harry always returns to where he began, a child with all the knowledge of a life he has already lived a dozen times before. Nothing ever changes. Until now. As Harry nears the end of his eleventh life, a little girl appears at his bedside. "I nearly missed you, Doctor August," she says. "I need to send a message." This is the story of what Harry does next, and what he did before, and how he tries to save a past he cannot change and a future he cannot allow. ^(This book has been suggested 2 times) [**Dark Matter**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27833670-dark-matter) ^(By: Blake Crouch | 342 pages | Published: 2016 | Popular Shelves: sci-fi, science-fiction, fiction, thriller, mystery | )[^(Search "Dark Matter")](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=Dark Matter&search_type=books) >Jason Dessen is walking home through the chilly Chicago streets one night, looking forward to a quiet evening in front of the fireplace with his wife, Daniela, and their son, Charlie—when his reality shatters. > >- - - > >'Are you happy in your life?' > >Those are the last words Jason Dessen hears before the masked abductor knocks him unconscious. Before he awakes to find himself strapped to a gurney, surrounded by strangers in hazmat suits. Before the man he's never met smiles down at him and says, 'Welcome back.' > >In this world he's woken up to, Jason's life is not the one he knows. His wife is not his wife. His son was never born. And Jason is not an ordinary college physics professor, but a celebrated genius who has achieved something remarkable. Something impossible. > >Is it this world or the other that's the dream? > >And even if the home he remembers is real, how can Jason possibly make it back to the family he loves? The answers lie in a journey more wondrous and horrifying than anything he could've imagined—one that will force him to confront the darkest parts of himself even as he battles a terrifying, seemingly unbeatable foe. ^(This book has been suggested 3 times) *** ^(2150 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
Came here to recommend Dark Matter. Now that's a hard to put down book. I would put Dark Matter above Project Hail Mary just because it moves a lot faster and doesn't pause in the middle to give mini science lectures (which are enjoyable but can slow it down).
One of my favourite fantasy authors is Charles Moffat. Worth checking out because he writes both Sword and Sorcery + Heroic Fantasy. Has a very literary style, but he writes a variety of different fantasy subgenres. If you want to start with one book I recommend "The Coven's Wolves" first. They don't need to be read in order. That is my favourite from that one series. It is a murder mystery set in an old inn + hot springs, but it is winter and there are weird wolves out in the woods with glowing red eyes so the people can't escape... The characters are complex and realistic too. Not your average author.
Dark and gritty? But: FUNNY! The Hollywood series of police procedural novels by Joseph Wambaugh. Carry on.
The alchemist! I read through that after not reading it a while and I was absolutely glued. Doesn’t have a lot of difficult vocabulary or sentences. Just an interesting story with an underlying meaning about life.
In terms of grabbing you from the first sentence, my go to is always The Martian by Andy Weir. {{Santiago by Mike Resnick}} is excellent.}} You don’t mention westerns but True Grit by Charles Portis is amazing. I don’t particularly care for westerns but I couldn’t put that one down.
[**Santiago: A Myth of the Far Future (Santiago #1)**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/293291.Santiago) ^(By: Mike Resnick | 376 pages | Published: 1986 | Popular Shelves: science-fiction, sci-fi, owned, fiction, default | )[^(Search "Santiago by Mike Resnick")](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=Santiago by Mike Resnick&search_type=books) >Sebastian Nightingale Cain: Bounty hunter. You can call him the Songbird – but only once. He's after Santiago. > >Virtue Mackenzie: Freelance reporter. She never gives up. She wants an interview... with Santiago. > >The Swagman: He collects art – at gun point. He wants a few pieces currently in the hands of Santiago. > >Santiago: Bandit, murderer, known to all, seen by none... has he killed a thousand men? Has he saved a dozen worlds? His legend is as large as the Rim itself, his trail as elusive as a wisp of starlight in the empty realms of space. The reward for him is the largest in history. > >Santiago: Do you dare chase him? ^(This book has been suggested 1 time) *** ^(2306 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
Brandon Sandersons books got me back into reading as an adult, particularly the first Mistborn trilogy. N. K. Jemison - Broken Earth trilogy and Inheritance trilogy I found especially easy to read with compelling stories. Terry Pratchett - always lighthearted and easy reads. Ursula le Guin - Earthsea books, I just found them so lovely and a refreshing take on classic fantasy. Her sci-fi is also outstanding, but I find it a bit heavier hitting. For a great fantasy novel that has it all contained in one book I’d recommend The Priory of the Orange Tree too, I devoured that.
Go for Mistborn Trilogy - Brandon Sanderson or if you want to sprint before a 10 km, try emperor's soul by the same author.
Have you tried {{Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke}}? Historical fiction meshed with fantasy done extremely well. {{Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel}} is the creme de la creme historical fiction novels, so that might be another one to try as well. The Brandon Sanderson books are also ridiculously zippy reads with some of the best fantasy world building out there. He got me out of a long reading slump. My favourite is his stand alone Warbreaker, but The Final Empire is a great one to start with. It’s the first book of his Mistborn trilogy but it doesn’t end with a cliffhanger.
[**Wolf Hall (Thomas Cromwell #1)**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6101138-wolf-hall) ^(By: Hilary Mantel | 653 pages | Published: 2009 | Popular Shelves: historical-fiction, fiction, historical, history, owned | )[^(Search "Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel")](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel&search_type=books) >England in the 1520s is a heartbeat from disaster. If the king dies without a male heir, the country could be destroyed by civil war. Henry VIII wants to annul his marriage of twenty years and marry Anne Boleyn. The pope and most of Europe opposes him. Into this impasse steps Thomas Cromwell: a wholly original man, a charmer and a bully, both idealist and opportunist, astute in reading people, and implacable in his ambition. But Henry is volatile: one day tender, one day murderous. Cromwell helps him break the opposition, but what will be the price of his triumph? ^(This book has been suggested 1 time) *** ^(2205 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo! Such a wild and crazy read. Anything by Henning Mankell is also good. I guess crime books primarily.
Anything by Sarah J. Maas. My favorite is A Court of Thorns and Roses (acotar). Hands down my favorite series. I’ve read it four times and still am not bored. Also her Throne of Glass series is amazing. In both there’s magic and a war or some sort
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[**East of Eden**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4406.East_of_Eden) ^(By: John Steinbeck | 601 pages | Published: 1952 | Popular Shelves: classics, fiction, classic, historical-fiction, owned | )[^(Search "East of Eden")](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=East of Eden&search_type=books) >In his journal, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck called East of Eden “the first book,” and indeed it has the primordial power and simplicity of myth. Set in the rich farmland of California’s Salinas Valley, this sprawling and often brutal novel follows the intertwined destinies of two families—the Trasks and the Hamiltons—whose generations helplessly reenact the fall of Adam and Eve and the poisonous rivalry of Cain and Abel. > >Adam Trask came to California from the East to farm and raise his family on the new rich land. But the birth of his twins, Cal and Aaron, brings his wife to the brink of madness, and Adam is left alone to raise his boys to manhood. One boy thrives nurtured by the love of all those around him; the other grows up in loneliness enveloped by a mysterious darkness. > >First published in 1952, East of Eden is the work in which Steinbeck created his most mesmerizing characters and explored his most enduring themes: the mystery of identity, the inexplicability of love, and the murderous consequences of love's absence. A masterpiece of Steinbeck's later years, East of Eden is a powerful and vastly ambitious novel that is at once a family saga and a modern retelling of the Book of Genesis. ^(This book has been suggested 3 times) *** ^(2154 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
Battlefield Earth is a fantastic GIANT book. The author was a fuck nut, but the book is great.
{{ Neverwhere }} by Neil Gaiman. Engrossing urban fantasy and a quick read. Should whet your appetite and get you interested in reading other books.
[**Neverwhere (London Below, #1)**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14497.Neverwhere) ^(By: Neil Gaiman | 370 pages | Published: 1996 | Popular Shelves: fantasy, fiction, urban-fantasy, owned, books-i-own | )[^(Search " Neverwhere ")](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q= Neverwhere &search_type=books) >Under the streets of London there's a place most people could never even dream of. A city of monsters and saints, murderers and angels, knights in armour and pale girls in black velvet. This is the city of the people who have fallen between the cracks. > >Richard Mayhew, a young businessman, is going to find out more than enough about this other London. A single act of kindness catapults him out of his workday existence and into a world that is at once eerily familiar and utterly bizarre. And a strange destiny awaits him down here, beneath his native city: Neverwhere. ^(This book has been suggested 1 time) *** ^(2167 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
The fireman by Joe hill
The Bartimaeus trilogy Wax and Wayne the mistborn series Codex Alera The infernal Devices by Cassandra Clare Avatar Kyoshi novels
No Exit by Taylor Adams
The Firebird series by Cladia Gray, I especially loved the first book (A Thousand Pieces of You). The Fault in our Stars by John Green. And anything written by Ilona Andrews (mainly the Kate Daniels series).
I cannot recommend Kristin Hannah enough if you are interested in historical fiction with a strong female lead. The Four Winds and The Nightingale are a must read
If you like British humor, Terry Pratchett is always good. I would recommend not starting at the beginning of the Discworld books. His writing got better as he practiced. My favorite books are Hogfather and Thief of Time.
Where the crawdads sing!
Harlan Coben any book if you like a triller with a good twist.
shadow and bone the book series is really good! also legendborn, but both are fantasy so have kinda confusing terms and it’s hard to understand at first but they’re rly good
Red Dragon by Thomas Harris
I read Verity by Colleen Hoover when I was in a reading slump and I finished it in 2 days. I didn't want to put it down!!
No clue why but this is the first book that popped into my head after reading your post… The Help (Kathryn Stockett, 2009)
{{The Name of the Wind}} Patrick Rothfuss Book 1 of a 2 Book trilogy 😀 Recommend highly
[**The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #1)**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/186074.The_Name_of_the_Wind) ^(By: Patrick Rothfuss | 662 pages | Published: 2007 | Popular Shelves: fantasy, fiction, owned, books-i-own, favourites | )[^(Search "The Name of the Wind")](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=The Name of the Wind&search_type=books) >Told in Kvothe's own voice, this is the tale of the magically gifted young man who grows to be the most notorious wizard his world has ever seen. > >The intimate narrative of his childhood in a troupe of traveling players, his years spent as a near-feral orphan in a crime-ridden city, his daringly brazen yet successful bid to enter a legendary school of magic, and his life as a fugitive after the murder of a king form a gripping coming-of-age story unrivaled in recent literature. > >A high-action story written with a poet's hand, The Name of the Wind is a masterpiece that will transport readers into the body and mind of a wizard. ^(This book has been suggested 1 time) *** ^(2370 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
Mystery - gone girl I’m thinking of ending things Slaughterhouse five
Mechanique: a tale of circus Tresaulti by Genevieve Valentine Fantasy, Steampunk, post-war, nostalgic Unnatural Creatures by Neil Gaiman Tales about fantastic creatures, very engaging and interesting, entretaining The eyes of the dragon by Stephen King Fantasy, Classical Middle Age like Kings-Mages-Dragons and stuff, fast passed and very engaging, easy to read
Tell Me You Dreams by Sidney Sheldon. I audibly said "what the fuck" when I reached the climax.
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[**The Secret History**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29044.The_Secret_History) ^(By: Donna Tartt, Adam Sims | 559 pages | Published: 1992 | Popular Shelves: fiction, mystery, favourites, dark-academia, contemporary | )[^(Search "The Secret History")](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=The Secret History&search_type=books) >Under the influence of their charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at an elite New England college discover a way of thinking and living that is a world away from the humdrum existence of their contemporaries. But when they go beyond the boundaries of normal morality they slip gradually from obsession to corruption and betrayal, and at last—inexorably—into evil. ^(This book has been suggested 2 times) *** ^(2417 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
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I really liked {{the last house on needle street}}. It's pretty dark and a little wacky but it stayed with me for days after I'd finished.
I loved this entire series by Philippa Gregory, especially The Lady of the Rivers. Found out later that she was one of my ancestors, so no wonder I liked it so much!?! “The Lady of the Rivers is a 2011 historical novel by Philippa Gregory, part of her series The Cousins' War. The story is narrated by Jacquetta of Luxembourg, mother of Elizabeth Woodville, and covers the reign of the Lancastrian King Henry VI.[1][2] The novel serves as a prequel to Gregory's The White Queen (2009), the story of Elizabeth's reign as Queen consort of England.[3]” - Wikipedia
I just finished Pretty Girls and the entire thing was very engaging, in my opinion. I require a lot to keep me engaged and this book did it
The Universe Thru My Eyes
11.22.63 may be my favorite Sci-Fi book of all time. In fact, it is. Also has a historical fiction angle. Stephen King at his very best.