Got out of a depressive „episode” enough to read again – but it’s been a decade and I don’t know where to start.

Hello everyone.

As a young teenage girl I loved to read, and read THOUSANDS of crappy young adult books. However for the past decade I have struggled with mental health issues and haven’t really had the strength to commit to a book. Now that I’m 25, it’s been a decade and don’t really know where to start and whenever I go to the book shop I get completely overwhelmed and don’t know what to look for.

I can remember I used to love (in no particular order):
– the whole shatter me series by Tahereh Mafi
– the selection series by Kiera Cass
– Blue Bloods series by Melissa de la Cruz
– anything and everything by Michelle Read
– the mortal instruments (especially the prequel series with Tessa and Will and Jem)
– Divergent series
– The Maze Runner series
– The Darkest Minds
– Strange Angels series
– a series I can’t find anymore neither in my home nor online – it was set in a fantasy world, where some poor girl awakened her powers on accident and turned out to be very powerful. All I can remember is that they had to listen to the outside, then inside the room and then inside their bodies as a part of the magic awaking? She could join one of the 3 specialties at that school and had an affair with one of the teachers. She got into bad, evil forbidden magic. Whatever they were fighting against came, destroyed their whole city – her and her teacher lover had to escape though some desert and that’s all I can remember. Bonus points if you know what book that was lol I think it had a hooded mage on the cover.

And many many more. I used to love some fantasy, some post apocalyptic themes.

I’d love to hear some recommendations based on this list, but maybe a little bit more mature? The selection is my feel good series so if there’s anything similar I’d love to know about it.

Thanks for reading,
V