I can feel myself going into a reading slump soon! Each of the past 10 or so books I’ve read have not been any higher than 3 stars for me. I’m looking for a book that’s going to be an automatic 5 star read. I read just about any genre but my favorites are literary fiction, horror, thriller.
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Lonesome Dove
Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles is pretty near perfect to me. It should replace Catcher in the Rye and A Separate Peace on reading lists asap.
My most recent 5-star read was *Lambs of God* by Marele Day.
Some other books that blew me away were *The Road* by Cormac McCarthy, *Birnam Wood* by Eleanor Catton, and *The Rich Man’s House* by Andrew McGahan.
Last one I finished was 11/22/63 by the King
One I’m in the middle of now is Swan song by Robert McCammon both of these are my favorites of the year. Kinda long (both over 800 pgs) but fantastic and gripping, I read the first in a week and swan song im almost done with read it every spare moment it’s so flipping good.
Jack Carr series.
Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer
If Alice in Wonderland had a Scfi baby with Stephen King
[Prayers for the Stolen by Jennifer Clement](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38322395) The MC and narrator Ladydi is a young girl growing up in a remote town in Guadalajara Mexico. Between the men all leaving to work in the US and the drug cartels that threaten lives (particularly of pretty girls), it’s not an easy life. The book blew me away – stunning writing (the kind where you reread lines just to hear them again), incredible relationships between characters, absolutely harrowing situations.
The Secret History
I find myself hitting a slump when I read too many thrillers in a row, like my brain starts finding them predictable so I need to break them up. Here are three non-thrillers that I absolutely adore:
The Prettiest Star by Carter Sickels
Bright Young Women by Jessica Knoll
Anita de Monte Laughs Last by Xochitl Gonzalez
Depends on your tastes of course but my last two 5 star reads were Stoner by John Williams and The Quiet American by Graham Greene. Original, I know, but there’s a reason they’re popular.