So firstly here is the author’s I’ve read or am still busy with that I loved that I am looking for more of:
* Andy Weir
* Blake Crouch
* Peter Clines
* Andrew Maynes
* Stuart Turton
* Jeffrey Deaver (Book 1 The bone collector)
* Leigh Bardugo
* Douglas Adams
* Eoin Colfer (Artemis Fowl and Airman)
* Martha Wells
\[I haven’t tried Girl with a dragon tattoo mostly because of the dark themes.\]
With that out of the way, I love it when someone walks into a room with multiple experts and they get that person out of someone’s garage or prison or high school and they can prove they are equal to the experts in the room. By the questions they ask or the theories they propose two books that did this so well for me was
Project Hail Mary – Andy Weir
and then
The Fold – Peter Clives.
I can do any genre but I do prefer something not morbidly dark.
Thank you for reading and thanks if you leave a suggestion.
by Alzena_Mugiwara
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‘The Lost City of Z’ by David Grann is an enthralling recommendation for those fascinated by exploration and mystery. It recounts the true story of Percy Fawcett’s obsessive quest for a legendary civilization in the Amazon. Grann’s narrative is both a historical detective story and an adventure tale.
You might enjoy **Dante’s Equation** by Jane Jensen
>Rabbi Aharon Handalman’s expertise with Torah code—rearranging words and letters in the Bible—has uncovered a man’s name. Who is Yosef Kobinski, and why did God hide his name in His sacred text? To find the answers, Aharon begins an investigation, and discovers that Kobinski, a Polish rabbi, was not only a mystic but also a brilliant physicist who authored what may be the most important lost work in human history.
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>In Seattle, Jill Talcott’s work with energy wave equations is being linked to Yosef Kobinski, now deceased, who claimed nearly fifty years ago that he discovered an actual physical law of good and evil. But when Jill’s lab explodes, she is forced to flee for her life, realizing that her cutting-edge research is far more dangerous than she ever has imagined. And that powerful people have a stake in what she may have uncovered.
Also, **Ender’s Game** by Orson Scott Card
>Andrew “Ender” Wiggin thinks he is playing computer simulated war games; he is, in fact, engaged in something far more desperate. The result of genetic experimentation, Ender may be the military genius Earth desperately needs in a war against an alien enemy seeking to destroy all human life. The only way to find out is to throw Ender into ever harsher training, to chip away and find the diamond inside, or destroy him utterly. Ender Wiggin is six years old when it begins. He will grow up fast.
Neither is super high on humor, and both include a lot of fighting-against-adversity, but I wouldn’t call either outright “dark”.