I feel like I’ve been stabbing in the dark trying to find a great book that I will finally enjoy, so I’m going to lay out some of the authors and books I like, in hopes I can get a targeted recommendation.
I read a lot of books, mostly mystery, thriller, suspense, and drama, but with a “literary fiction” flair.
Here are some authors I love (I’ve read all their books), with my favorite book of theirs:
– Dan Chaon (favorite – Ill Will)
– Laura Kasischke (favorite – White Bird In A Blizzard)
– Susanna Moore (favorite – In The Cut)
– Cormac McCarthy (truly everything, especially Child of – God, Outer Dark, Blood Meridian)
– Pete Dexter (favorite – The Paperboy)
– Irvine Welsh (favorite – Maribou Stork Nightmares)
– Susanna Jones (favorite – The Earthquake Bird)
– Bonny Nadzam (favorite – Lions)
Some other favorite authors: Brett Easton Ellis, Chuck Palahniuk, Joyce Carol Oates, Gillian Flynn, Joyce Maynard, Tammi O’dell, Otessa Moshfegh, Iain Reid, Donna Tartt.
by judgyjudgersen
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i see you mentioned Ian Reid. have you read his book [**Foe**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37510662)? i absolutely loved it and i was shocked at several points.
Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy
The Brothers K by David James Duncan
Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry (although I suspect you’ve tried this before)
The Round House by Louise Erdrich
Expand your mind with some Jeff Vandermeer. I’d recommend Veniss Underground to start.
Dan Simmons Hyperion Series is excellent, he also writes thrillers.
Maybe jump genre’s? One of the most edge of my seat books I’ve read is called Endurance about Shakelton’s failed mission to the Antarctic.
Luke Davies ‘Candy’
-Yung Mungo by Douglas Stewart
-Eleanor Oliphant is completely fine by Gail honeyman
-Mansfield Park by Jane Austen (because Jane Austen is amazing and if you haven’t read it you don’t know how it ends so it’s a pure Jane Austen joy reading experience)
-if an egyptian cannot speak English by
Nope Naga
-Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
The Candy House or A Visit from the Good Squad by Jennifer Egan
Cormac McCarthy’s two new connected books, The Passenger and Stella Maris, are well worth your time.
„I read through one book every three days, but I don’t enjoy anything I read“ How about you start reading less and read not just for the sake of finishing a book?
Some Russian literature maybe. Read Anna Karenina or Crime and Punishment
Start reading classics
Think of the ones you enjoyed. Take the title. Search for it in Amazon. Look at the section that says “what other people bought.”. That’s my method.
Don’t finish something to say 103. Say 200 but you quit 100 because they sucked.
Id recommend filth by Irvine Welsh as well as it also is a bit experimental with a device the book uses like marabou stork nightmares but not as much as MSN.
Id also recommend his name was death by Rafael Bernal.
Also you should try out Faulkner if you liked McCarthy, his magnum opus and my favourite so far being “Absalom, Absalom” but its a tough read with really long sentences with an non-linear story with allusions to Greek myth and with a narrative that we aren’t sure who is narrating until a good bit into the story.
I second whoever said Dan Simmons Hyperion Cantos-it’s excellent.
I think maybe Jay McInerney and Jeffrey Eugenides might be up your alley.
I know it’s probably cliche but have you tried Sherlock Holmes?