I don’t even know what I want to read. Non fiction, fiction, spooky, inspiring. Everything I look into seems to just not be quite what I’m looking for. I’m the same with movies and series, and then get hooked once I’ve given things enough of a chance. I think I need something fast paced that’s only a few hundred pages to give me motivation. I’m also still kind of in the mindset to read respected books to say i’ve read them, and half just want to read to enjoy myself.
by Significant-Round696
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{{ Fight Club }}, by Chuck Palahniuk
This sub might not be the best place to ask if you’re struggling to stick to something. Half of the suggestions will be classics
I’m rereading (listening to) Raymond Feist’s Riftwar Saga. You could try that. 🤷🏻
*The Thief of Always* by Clive Barker. Everyone i know who has read it has loved it.
At least for me, The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka was short, pretty easy to read, and its a classic so you can say youve read Kafka and people will be impressed even if you try to explain that it wasnt that difficult the way i did. also it’s meaningful i suppose yes
Starter Villain, John Scalzi. It’s fun, not too serious, not too long.
{{The DaVinci Code by Dan Brown}}
EDIT: The DaVinci Code is #2 in a series, which begins with {{Angels and Demons by Dan Brown}}
*The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy* by Douglas Adams
The Great Zoo of China by Matthew Reilly
The Chinese government has been keeping a secret for forty years: they have found a species of animal no one believed even existed that will amaze the world. Now the Chinese are ready to unveil their astonishing discovery within the greatest zoo ever constructed. A small group of VIPs and journalists has been brought to the zoo deep within China to see its fabulous creatures for the first time. Among them is Dr Cassandra Jane ‘CJ’ Cameron, a writer for NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC and an expert on reptiles. The visitors are assured by their Chinese hosts that they will marvel at these beasts, that they are perfectly safe, that nothing can go wrong . . .
Leviathan James Byron Huggins
On an Icelandic Island, an illegal experiment intended to create the perfect biological weapon has transformed a once-innocent creature into the biblical Leviathan that once terrorized the world. Able to shatter steel and granite as easily as it can melt the strongest containment shields, Leviathan escapes from its pen and is loose in a vast underground chamber harboring soldiers and scientists.
The installation cannot allow Leviathan to reach the surface. For if Leviathan reaches the world, it could well be the end of the Earth. They must hold the line, here, and destroy it… even if they must detonate a last-chance nuclear failsafe built into the chamber itself. But, first, they must fight with every weapon at their disposal to discover if the beast can be killed at all.
It is a battle many will not survive.
As soldiers and scientists are vaporized by Leviathan’s hellish flame, or ripped apart by the dragon’s claws and fangs, a lone electrical engineer is forced to join the fight. And in the midst of what might well be the last battle for Mankind, Connor must find a way – any way – to save his family and kill this powerful, bloodthirsty Beast of Legend that has never been killed before.
Before it feasts upon the world.
And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie.
It’s easy to read and spooky. Whenever I go through a slump, I read a whodunnit because wanting to find out who the killer is keeps me from abandoning the book.
Maybe try something shorter that’s got a more adventure feel like Catcher in the Rye, Of Mice and Men, The Alchemist, or All Quiet on the Western Front. Of Mice and Men is the shortest but I think The Alchemist is the best
In the Heart of the Sea by Nathaniel Philbrick is a great short non fiction book. About the real life story that inspired Moby Dick.
Red Dragon or The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris are great short reads full of thrills and suspense.
If you like weird literary horror, I couldn’t put down Monstrilio by Gerardo Sámano Córdova. Short and easy to get through while being beautiful and emotional.
For classics that come with some bragging rights for finishing, The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde is another easy short one.
Just to cover as many bases as possible, I’ll also include The Princess Bride by William Goldman. Again, short, easy, fun, action packed, funny.
Read Flowers for Algernon
It’s recced constantly here because it’s easy, enjoyable, and respected. I read it during a period I was struggling to stick with anything, and got through it in less than a week
Non-fiction: Packing for Mars by Mary Roach.