I graduated college with a BA in English and have read almost every classic out there. Classics seem to be what I lean towards the most, but I’m wanting to branch out and read something from this era. The only problem is, I hate awful writing, and anything similar to Colleen Hoover makes me never want to pick up a book again. I love true crime, I love anything interesting, I’ll even read a love story! Some of my favorites:
-To Kill a Mockingbird
-Leaves of Grass
-Gatsby
-Emily Dickinson
-Louisa May Alcott
-Jane Austen
Just please no Colleen, or anything similar to her crappy writing. (I’m so so sorry for anyone who loves her my best friend loves her and I totally respect it I just can’t deal with her writing) Someone please help me find a good book written in the last 15 years😭😭I want something with meaning, something you have to think about and analyze, something gooddddddd. Help help.
by ApprehensiveReach581
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Circe by Madeline Miller
The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker
Okay, as a fellow Colleen Hoover hater…what don’t you like about her writing? The characterization? The story lines? The writing itself? The fact that (most) are contemporary “romances”? Anti-Colleen-Hoover might be a little too broad to suggest a book that you will actually enjoy!
Try something by Peter Swanson or Tiffany D Jackson.
Some of my favorites:
Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell
Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
The Idiot by Elif Batuman
Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart
Look at j.m. Coetzee
“Disgrace” seems like a good one to start with
Demon Copperhead is amazing. Birnam Wood. I personally love The Sentence by Louise Erdich, the structure is really novel.
Anything by Clare Foster. I have so many recommendations for you.
The secret history, Donna tart
Their eyes were watching god, Zora Neale Hurston
In the woods, tana French
The interestings, Meg wolitzer
Our tragic universe, Scarlett Thomas
Jazz, Toni Morrison
Trust exercise, Susan Choi
Who will run the frog hospital, lorrie Moore
The secret lives of church ladies, deesha philyaw
The men we reaped, jesmyn ward