Looking for a book that will make me want to never stop reading and will ruin my life a little when it comes to an end! Something that really transports you.
**Criteria:**
1. Does not take place in the modern day real world (i.e. historical fiction, sci fi, speculative fiction, fantasy, mythology retelling, dystopian, and possibly horror are all fair game)
2. Not principally a romance (romantic subplots are fine, but ideally not central. I’m also more willing to entertain romance in the story if it’s queer)
3. Normal about women, and/or written by a woman. I’ve read enough /r/menwritingwomen type books and I have decided I am done giving them a shot even if they’re otherwise “good stories”
4. No YA please
5. Has a good audiobook!
**A non-exhaustive list of books I’ve liked in the past (does include some YA, though I’d prefer to stay away from it unless it’s really really good):**
– The Locked Tomb series (my current brainworm)
– The Broken Earth series
– Madeline Miller’s books (Circe, Song of Achilles)
– Babel
– Piranesi
– Erin Morgenstern’s books (The Night Circus, The Starless Sea)
– Station Eleven
– The Bear and the Nightingale (and the rest of the trilogy)
– Most of Neil Gaiman’s stuff
– Most of Becky Chambers’ stuff
– Discworld
– Never Let Me Go
– A Thousand Splendid Suns
– Parable of the Sower
Leaving this open ended because I am not in any particular mood. I just want something good! Thanks in advance
by IReadBooksSometimes
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A Redbird Christmas is set in the 50s. My favorite Fannie Flagg to get me in the Christmas spirit
The Enchanted Forest Chronicles by Patricia C Wrede are a satire of fairy tales where the princess runs off to live with dragons and fights the avenging knights off herself
Freedom’s Landing by Anne McCaffrey is technically modern, but 95% of it takes place on planets that aren’t earth
Project Hail Mary is also modern, but most of it takes place in space
(It is YA but I thought it was really really good) Dark Rise by C S Pacat? I couldn’t stop listening to the audiobook and the sequel comes out next week!
Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse?
**Stone Blind** and **A Thousand Ships** by Natalie Haynes (mythology retellings)
**The Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi** by S.A. Chakraborty (historical/fantasy, MC is a female pirate)
Garth Nix’s first three Old Kingdom books (Sabriel, Lirael, and Abhorsen) are narrated by Tim Curry. It’s technically YA I suppose, but they predate most of the tropes nowadays. You might just be totally against anything not specifically aimed at adults, but I figured I toss it out there because of Tim Curry.
The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells
*Before We Were Yours*
*The Handmaid’s Tale*