White Nights – Fyodor Dostoevsky
Stoner – John Williams
Price of Salt- Patricia Highsmith
Boulder- Eva Baltasar
Kairos – Jenny Erpenbeck
The Familiar- Leigh Bardugo
Some people need
killing- Patricia Evangelica
Mater 2-10 – Hwang Sok Young
At the moment I'm in a fantasy mood and I have four books lined up (One for the Enemy (CR), Klara and the Sun, Illicit Happiness of Other People and He who drowned the world)
I'm trying to decide on a book to buy for after I'm done with these four. My reading moods change all the time, so the next purchase doesn't have to be relevant in genre or style to my current reads.
I want to pick a book that is absolutely worth the money (I have the budget for only one or two) from the list I put up.
Currently leaning towards Kairos, The Familiars and Some People Need Killing, but I'd like to hear your thoughts about these titles.
by AdhesivenessOwn7747
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Hope Mirrlees’ *Lud-in-the-Mist* is a fascinatingly strange fantasy novel from 1926. With beautiful prose, it’s got small town troubles, a drug problem, a murder investigation, a courtroom trial, and a quest, which is frankly enough plots for five books, but it manages to make it work. It’s in the public domain, so it shouldn’t break the bank—you can snag an ebook [here](https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/hope-mirrlees/lud-in-the-mist).
The Familiar is easily my least favorite book by Leigh Bardugo. It’s not particularly memorable or distinctive. Also for whatever reason, it’s not marketed as a romance at all, when it’s absolutely a historical romance with some magic tossed in.