Hello, I recently stumbled across a lot of books I read in middle and high school (the Selection series, Shatter Me series, Hunger Games series, Divergent series, Red Queen series, etc) and I’ve reread a lot of them for the nostalgia. But now that I’m on a reading kick, I feel a bit silly reading these books as a 25 year old. Does anyone have any suggestions for fiction stories that are a little more adult than the books listed above? Thanks in advance!
by serpentinemoon
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I still read middle-grade and YA from time to time. There’s no age limit on what books you can and can’t read. Read whatever brings your happiness, enjoyment and lets you experience the wonderfulness of reading 🙂
With that said, here’s a few that I always recommend for people getting back into reading:
– Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo
– Red Sister by Mark Lawrence
– Mistborn trilogy by Brandon Sanderson
– Skyward by Brandon Sanderson
Happy reading!
I think a lot of those books are so good because even though they are technically YA, they are relatable to anyone who has gone through a hard time growing up – which is, literally, everyone. So I wouldn’t feel silly reading them at all!
But here are a couple of books/series that I think you’d also like. Some are YA, but most are not.
– **Silo** trilogy by Hugh Howey. Post-apocalyptic mystery/suspense/thriller about a giant underground silo that holds the only humans left on earth. Though why that is – and why they can’t yet leave the silo – is a mystery to you and its inhabitants.
– **Wayward Pines** trilogy by Blake Crouch. A secret service agent is sent to a small, idyllic Idaho town to investigate the disappearance of two colleagues. When he arrives – very dramatically – he starts to notice right away that something is really wrong with this place.
– **Poster Girl** by Veronica Roth. I think this one is technically YA but I still love it. A young woman – the child of important officials in her country’s brutal, totalitarian regime – is also the worldwide recognizable face of the government’s propaganda arm. When the government is toppled in a violent coup, the new regime imprisons her and intends to use her as an example of what happens to traitors. But she is given a tiny chance to win back her freedom if she helps to find a young girl important to the new government. As she begins her search, she has to confront the brutality and terror directed at current enemies of the state, and come to terms with the part she played in the last regime which did pretty much the same thing.
The Lying Life of Adults – Elena Ferrante
1984; Ready Player One