Suggest me ANY book that hooks me to reading. Interests in body:

I’m a hopeful reader that has struggled to continuously finish a book. I’ve done so in the past but with a majority being assignments.

Over the last 4 years I’ve found my self romanticizing the idea of self development books and feeling the sense of accomplishment from theoretically “gaining knowledge”. In some cases, it stuck!

“How to win Friends and Influence People” was a book I tore up from sentence to sentence and treated like a textbook. I LOVED the short stories with moral points to each example. This was a genuine page turner for me but strangely any other book in the same realm or same style of “tell a story and summarize it”, bored me to death. I can acknowledge that not all authors are good teachers…but I was hoping it was the category of book that captivated me, not the authors writing.

What I found out later was that there are other writers that hold my attention for periods of time but they drag out their points for too long and I think I appreciated the fast paced read. An example of this was “Start with Why” or even the famous “Rich Dad, Poor Dad”.

Interestingly I recently picked up the newer book “The Wager” by David Gann and I felt a sense of excitement at the idea that this was historically accurate yet written as a captivating story. Admittedly it’s starting to feel like an early game of thrones episode where there is so much introduction to new characters and new “hold this topic for later” moments that I’m losing track of why I care. To which case, I’ve been pushing through and it’s been hard so far.

Is there anyone out there that can fill this gap for me and help me find a great story and written as a great page turning, fast paced story?

– kid with likely undiagnosed ADHD

by kasrahash