Posted in this community about 5 days ago, asking for help due to a HUGE reading slump. And this is why I love Reddit, the community came through with all these suggestions and I finished 2 books already ☺️
I’ve compiled them here, the most popular suggestions – hope it helps anyone who is finding it hard to pick a book up again 😉
- Young Jane Young – Gabrielle Zevin
- Demon Copperhead – Barbara Kingsolver
- The Rook – Daniel O’Malley
- Ursula Guins Hainish Cycle
- The Sun King – Nancy Mitford
- All the Colours of the Dark – Chris Whitaker
- Remarkably Bright Creatures – Shelby Van Pelt
- The Measure – Nikki Erlick
- The Nickel Boys – Colson Whitehead
- All Systems Red – Martha Wells
- Out of Sight – Elmore Leonard
- Lonesome Dove – Larry McMurtry
- Ridley Walker – Russell Hoban
- The Martian – Andy Weir
- The Tiger – John Vallant
- The second life of Mirielle West – Amanda Skenandore
- Appetite for Innocence – Lucinda Berry
- Ender’s Game – Orson Scott Card
- The Anthropocene – John Green
- Sea of Tranquility – Emily St John Mandel
- Neuromancer – William Gibson
- City and the Stars – Arthur C. Clarke
- The Island – Adrian McKinty
- Here One Moment – Liane Moriarty
- House on the Cerulean Sea – TJ Klune
- The Hike – Drew Magary
- Starter Villain – John Scalzi
- Open Throat – Henry Hoke
- Memory Man – David Baldacci
- Novellas/Short Stories
- Small Things Lie These & Foster – Claire Keegan
- Microcosmic God & A Saucer of Loneliness – Theodore Sturgeon
- A Collection of Short Stories – Ted Chiang
- Gargoyle – Andrew Davidson
Some additional advice by fellow readers to get out of a slump:
* Try audiobooks!
* Read something short and fun. Completing a book while enjoying the read.
* Go back to an all-time favourite (perhaps from your childhood 😉)
by Renaissance_rrr