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    Title. It’s been a rough couple days and I’m only expecting it to get worse for the time being. What are the books that swept you away into another time and place until you came back to reality and realized it is way past bed time? Some books that have had this effect on me in the past are:

    All the Light we Cannot See

    East of Eden

    Grapes of Wrath

    Lord of the Rings

    A Tale of Two Cities

    The Indifferent Stars Above

    Catch 22

    Books are going to be a huge part of my recovery… if you have any recommendations please share them! 🙂

    by busterknows

    10 Comments

    1. Have you tried any of Terry Pratchett’s Discworld novels? I can lose myself in them for hours

    2. If you liked A Tale of Two Cities then there are many Dickens novels that have that effect on me. David Copperfield was Dickens’ favorite and is mine, too.

    3. Stormlight Archive by Brandon Sanderson. Enormous and fantastic fantasy series.

    4. thebeardedcats on

      Ken Follet’s Pillars of the Earth series did this for me. The Expanse too, which is 9 books + a book of short stories

      I also got into reading manga recently and Berserk pulled me in *hard*. I read all 41 volumes (367 chapters total …so far) in about 5 weeks

    5. WhiteKnighT_27 on

      Project Hail Mary, Dark Matter, Kafka on the Shore, Norwegian Wood, Book Thief, Can’t Hurt Me (not fiction but it’s really inspiring)

    6. love medicine by louise erdrich is a good one. i sat down one evening to read a chapter of it, ended up pulling an all nighter to finish it. she writes wonderfully and really creates a beautiful sense of place, people and history 🙂

    7. Some big chunky books for you, based off of those;

      Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
      Still Life by Sarah Winman
      Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr
      Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
      The Book of Form and Emptiness by Ruth Ozeki
      The Earthsea series by Ursula le Guin

      And, for a good laugh, Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams.

      Best of luck in the coming weeks, friend!

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