Currently shopping for books for my partner who is a massive reader. She's mid-twenties, focuses on how books make her feel moreso than plot. Fiction preferred. Her favorite genres are literary, horror, as well as sci-fi and fantasy.
Some of her favorite books from the last few years:
- Bewilderment by Richard Powers
- Mary by Nat Cassidy
- Beartown by Fredrik Backman
- The Overstory by Richard Powers
- The Secret History by Donna Tart
- Bury Your Gays by Chuck Tingle
- You Should Have Left by Daniel Kehlmann
- How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu
- I Have Some Questions for You by Rebecca Makai
- House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
- Vladimir by Julia May Jonas
- Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel
- Comfort Me with Apples by Catherynne Valente
Mostly looking for stand-alones but she did love Fonda Lee's Jade City series as well as The Poppy War series by R.F. Kuang.
Thanks so much!
by grocerystorefan
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Since she’s enjoyed some dark academia and also The Poppy War trilogy, I would say Babel by R.F. Kuang might work!
The Underland by Robert MacFarlane
Light From Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki
To Be Taught if Fortunate by Becky Chambers
Slewfoot by Brom
Binti by Nnedi Okorafor
Fingersmith by Sarah Waters
The Brides of High Hill by Nghi Vo
A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik
The Disordered Cosmos by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
Black Hole Survival Guide by Janna Levin
The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett
Yellowface by RF Kuang
Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake
A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers (the Wayfarer series can be read separately or apart, in any order)
The Book of Strange New Things by Michel Faber
The Rachel Incident! Litfic about a young Irish woman living with her queer roommate in the early 2000s. Rachel is planning to seduce her college prof into an affair but accidentally finds out he’s having an affair with her roommate instead. It’s funny and chaotic. I put off reading it for a long time, but I finished it recently and really enjoyed it.