Books for someone that’s tired of searching for books to read!!

Goodreads is the worst website ever to discover new books. It doesn’t help that my standards for books have only gotten higher the more I read. I spend more time searching for good books than actually reading them. It shouldn’t be this hard!

Please give me AMAZING books you have read recently. 5 star only books. They have to be FUN. I have no patience for:

Slice of life/“slower-paced” books that will bore me to tears (a gentleman in Moscow).

Sappy books so sweet I could get diabetes from them (house in the cerulean sea).

Books that need you to “push through” the first 50% for before it gets “good” (assassin’s apprentice)

Books with STUPID/annoying/USELESS main characters

Books with a toxic/annoying/unbelievable romance (ACOTAR)

Books that have no nuance and explains the meaning of every action to the reader because the author thinks we’re stupid

I’ve recently read books with amazing writing, but it’s like the authors forgot to make the plot interesting too. Or it’s like they’re so focused on world building, introducing POVs, setting up the story, that it then becomes a chore to read and get through. I recently read the Jasmine throne by Tasha Suri and while the characters were well-written, I could not connect/root for them at all. When I read I want to get my heart torn apart by the characters ffs. Maybe it’s just my bad luck but lately everything I’ve read seems so sterilised. There’s good writing, good descriptions, but no heart, nothing that will make you feel intense emotions.

For anyone that resonates with this, please give me your favourite books. I’m up for any genre, including non fiction! Some books I love: the will of the many, the hunger games (first book), howl’s moving castle, project Hail Mary, the lymond chronicles, pride and prejudice, the seven deaths of Evelyn hardcastle (LOVED THIS), mistborn, I’m glad my mom died, educated.