Hey, can anyone recommend a book to start on my birthday? I promised myself to complete 100 books (not many ik, but feels too much already, but no backsies on the first day itself)
Chess by Stefan Zweig is a nice short story to bump up your numbers, about a savant chess player and his story revealed in conversation. Very chill book, very nostalgic for a time we did not live.
The Grip of It by Jac Jemc is a page turning thriller about a couple that move house and discover it is haunted. It’s sort of paranormal, but also has some human creepiness to it.
No Land To Light On by Yara Zgheib is a great story about a Syrian couple separated during the immigration ban in the US, and how they and their love survive despite distance and stress.
These three pop to mind as the books I’d most readily pick up to get back into reading, and I suppose that’s exactly what you’d need to read two books a week(ish).
Good luck!
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Shark Heart by Emily Habeck was an absolutely beautiful story in my opinion and it was a fairly quick read as well. Here’s some other quick, good reads:
A Spindle Splintered / A Mirror Mended – two short connected fantasy books from Alix E. Harrow
Comfort me with Apples – Catherynne M. Valente
Eartheater – Dolores Reyes
Poison for Breakfast – Lemony Snicket
Nothing but Blackened Teeth – Cassandra Khaw (another one by her The Salt Grows Heavy is on my tbr list)
The bear – Andrew Krivak
The cat who saved books – Sosuke Natsukawa
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The Sunflower Protocol – Andre Soares.
Recursion – Blake Crouch
This Is How You Lose The Time War
The God of Endings
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The Martian by Andy Weir, if you haven’t (I realize it came out in 2014). A favorite of mine, and a spectacular scarily realistic sci-fi book, if you aren’t put off by fake-real science. Has a movie too, if you’re motivated to read by that!
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{{The Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan}}. This will knock 14 books off your list (15 if you count the prequel).
Don’t watch the Amazon series. Another show ruined because they didn’t follow the book.
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Chess by Stefan Zweig is a nice short story to bump up your numbers, about a savant chess player and his story revealed in conversation. Very chill book, very nostalgic for a time we did not live.
The Grip of It by Jac Jemc is a page turning thriller about a couple that move house and discover it is haunted. It’s sort of paranormal, but also has some human creepiness to it.
No Land To Light On by Yara Zgheib is a great story about a Syrian couple separated during the immigration ban in the US, and how they and their love survive despite distance and stress.
These three pop to mind as the books I’d most readily pick up to get back into reading, and I suppose that’s exactly what you’d need to read two books a week(ish).
Good luck!
Shark Heart by Emily Habeck was an absolutely beautiful story in my opinion and it was a fairly quick read as well. Here’s some other quick, good reads:
A Spindle Splintered / A Mirror Mended – two short connected fantasy books from Alix E. Harrow
Comfort me with Apples – Catherynne M. Valente
Eartheater – Dolores Reyes
Poison for Breakfast – Lemony Snicket
Nothing but Blackened Teeth – Cassandra Khaw (another one by her The Salt Grows Heavy is on my tbr list)
The bear – Andrew Krivak
The cat who saved books – Sosuke Natsukawa
The Sunflower Protocol – Andre Soares.
Recursion – Blake Crouch
This Is How You Lose The Time War
The God of Endings
The Martian by Andy Weir, if you haven’t (I realize it came out in 2014). A favorite of mine, and a spectacular scarily realistic sci-fi book, if you aren’t put off by fake-real science. Has a movie too, if you’re motivated to read by that!
{{The Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan}}. This will knock 14 books off your list (15 if you count the prequel).
Don’t watch the Amazon series. Another show ruined because they didn’t follow the book.