Bookworms! I need your help!
I want to read a new book but I have completely run out of ideas and need your help to pick a new title. Are you ready to take on the challenge?
I am open to most genres but I have a preference for fiction, historical, travel/adventure, and what is called world literature in European classrooms.
Just drop your recommendations below and maybe a line as to why you’ve picked said title.
(I’m reading dry economics academic texts as part of my degree and need something engaging.)
by StrangeAffect7278
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[Shantaram](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shantaram_(novel)) by Gregory David Roberts – an Australian bank robber escapes to India and has fascinating adventures
Four standalones I’ve enjoyed:
**We Have Always Lived in the Castle**, Shirley Jackson. A delightfully creepy family story narrated by a unique young (early teen?) girl. There’s mystery, there’s superstition, there’s something of the unwanted outside world, but not too much.
**Night Circus**, Erin Morgenstern. A wizards’ duel by proxy plays out through two young adults designing unique attractions for a magical traveling circus. The attractions are truly beautiful to read, and the characters are still learning.
**This Is How You Lose the Time War**, Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone. Epistolary romance between agents for competing time-travel-wrangling masters. I really can’t improve on that.
**The Heart is a Lonely Hunter**, Carson McCullers. Slower than the others. It’s a bit Southern Gothic, the story about three ordinary people and their confessions and projections toward a mute man who lodges in the town.