I used to read books as a child and really enjoyed them. Whenever I try to read books for people my age i just cant get past a chapter or two. some books are just too difficult to follow. someties I get bored. some books talk about being deeply in love(can’t relate tbh). Some have really sad endings that leave you feeling empty. Some books have too much smut for my liking.
I feel like I am at a point where books for children are too childish and books for adults are way too deep and convulated.
I want a book that is not too childish but also not too deep. Something that I can just turn off my brain and laugh along with or a book that I can be deeply invested in.
Some books I enjoyed reading in the past (and still do):Good Omens, Paper towns, Hunger games, PJO and sequels, Harry Potter, diary of a wimpy kid, tom gates, The Fault in our stars
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Nightside, Green. First book is *Something From the Nightside*
I haven’t read it yet (although I have a copy sitting in my living room) but Piranesi by Susanna Clarke is apparently doing wonders for getting a lot of people back into reading lately.
Try All Creatures Great and Small, Jurassic Park, Up the Down Staircase, The Long Ships by Bengtsson, City of Theives by David Benioff
If you’re open to a reread – I’d start with Harry Potter. It’s always great for another go around when you’re in a slump or need a kickstart. When I can’t pay attention or need something but nothing is interesting me I start HP again.
Flawed by Cecilia Aherne – it’s young adult fiction, but I’m in my 50s and I was gripped by it.
Here are a few of my 5-stars:
The Sun Is a Compass: A 4,000-Mile Journey into the Alaskan Wilds –Caroline Van Hemert
The Big Picture –Sean Carrol
Thinking, Fast and Slow –Danny Kahneman
I Contain Multitudes –Ed Yong
How the World Really Works: The Science Behind How We Got Here and Where We’re Going –Vaclav Smil
Enlightenment Now –Steve Pinker
The Hacking of the American Mind –Robert Lustig
The End of the World is Just the Beginning –Peter Zeihan
Pale Blue Dot –Carl Sagan
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time –Dava Sobel
The Uninhabitable Earth –David Wallace-Wells
Justice For Animals –Martha Nussbaum
This is Vegan Propaganda –Ed Winters
Psych: The Story of the Human Mind –Paul Bloom
Never Split the Difference –Chris Voss
Neil Gaiman (American Gods)
Terry Pratchett (Discworld Series)
Douglas Adams (Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy)
Sherman Alexie: the Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
Gavin Extence: the Universe Vs Alex Woods
Frederick Forsyth: the Day of the Jackal
Mark Haddon: the Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time
Yann Martel: the Life of Pi
RL Stevenson: Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy and the dirk gently books by the same author are very comedy based and shouldnt be too heavy or even have too much adult content. the audiobooks are pretty good from what ive tried and the books i have in ebook form have good formating and not to hard of a vocabulary. Also look into brandon sanderson who has mostly fantasy book series in both ya and adult and should have something that might catch your interest. if you never read eragon or percy jackson you should give those a try cause honestly they are both ya but i hear alot of adults really enjoy reading them like they enjoy reading harry potter.