Have any of you been in a reading funk? How did you get out of it?
It’s been almost 2 years since I finished the Elderlings book series and I haven’t been consumed by any other book since. I really loved those books but I’m having trouble getting as passionate about any other books since then. I’ve read a few, abandoned a few but I just don’t much care anymore. I’d like to care again, have that page turner, the book I can’t stop reading, that I NEED to read another chapter of.
I’ve read some stand alone books and shorter series that I liked but nothing quite as all consuming. I’ll start a book, then life gets in the way and I never get back to it.
I’ve always loved fantasy, sci fi, dystopian stories with world building and intricate plots and complex characters. Not so much romance and soppy teenage love.
Some of the books I enjoyed in the past are Dune, Foundation, Elderlings, GoT, anything Margaret Atwood , Fifth Season trilogy, His Dark Materials, A thousand ships, Circe, Shogun, Octavia Butler books, 1984, Harry Potter.
by Tara_Crane
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I’d recommend The Poppy War by R.F. Kuang, Red Sister by Mark Lawerence, and Foundryside by Robert Jackson Bennett. All are the first in trilogies.
Also, I feel like Brandon Sanderson is a very popular recommendation so if you haven’t tried his books yet, check them out. Either Mistborn or The Stormlight Archive would be a good starting point.
I also just finished The Will of the Many by James Islington and I read it in two days because I literally couldn’t put it down. Unfortunately the next book isn’t out yet..
>fantasy, sci fi, dystopian stories with world building and intricate plots and complex characters
* The Player of Games by Iain M. Banks
* Anything by Ursula K. Le Guin. My personal favourites are The Left Hand of Darkness and The Dispossessed.
* A Country of Ghosts by Margaret Killjoy. A lot like the two Le Guin books above, but much shorter and modern.
* Leech by Hiron Ennes
* Manhunt by Gretchen Felker-Martin (warning: VERY explicit gore and sex. Contains scenes of rape.)
* The Snow Queen by Joan D. Vinge. This is my favourite Dune-inspired book.
* A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr.
* Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
my god you like a big book. honestly for you i would suggest something short. you spent so much time reading huge books no wonder you dont want to read. have you tried brandon sanderson, or perhaps the dark tower by stephen king