Hi! I love reading but I have kind of a short attention span. I’m looking for book suggestions that are easy reads but still well written if that makes sense.
I don’t really enjoy sci fi or fantasy, I like realistic fiction and memoirs and essay collections.
I like mysteries/thrillers but I haven’t read many. I’ve read books by Gillian Flynn and Lucy foley and enjoyed them.
I also don’t like books that have that sort of millennial cringe tone. Idk how else to explain it lol. I didn’t like So Sad Today by Melissa Broder because of that.
I love Joan Didions book Play it As It Lays but I find that her other books of the essays are hard to focus on.
I also tried reading Capotes Women and that was also hard to focus on because of all the names and places and I couldn’t keep everything straight.
I gravitate toward female authors but it’s not required. My favorite books I’ve read in the last couple years are Eileen by Otessa Moshfegn and Lucia Berlins short story collection. Also reading Demi Moores memoir right now and really enjoying it.
Does anyone have any recommendations for me, based on all this random info? Thank you!
by Antique-Ad-509
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Get a Norton Anthology of American literature, but find a used copy. Any big book of short stories might be right up your alley.
The Last House on Needless Street by Catriona Ward. One of the best books I’ve read. Go in blind, that’s the best way to read this book.
Agatha Christie is my go-to for easy read murder mysteries! (Plus there’s a few movie adaptations that you can watch afterwards too!)
Notes On An Execution – Danya Kukafka is another crime thriller type book that I found to be pretty easy to read (and was VERY good!)
Little Disasters – Sarah Vaughan is another mystery/thriller I read this year and really enjoyed. Found it very quick to get engrossed in. (Check the trigger warnings for this one though BC it’s quite a specific topic that I imagine would be extremely difficult to read if it applied to you)
The Marlow Murder Club – Robert Thorogood is another murder mystery that somehow has very cosy vibes. Thoroughly enjoyed.
The Good Girls Guide To Murder series is another easy read suggestion (although possibly a bit too far on the millennial speak/cringe side of things as I think it’s a YA book) (also I’ve only read the first one so nobody come for me if the rest of the series is shit)
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo – Taylor Jenkins Reid is another mystery that I really enjoyed, but again *possibly* a bit too millennial (and I say that purely BC it’s a booktok favourite) ? You’d have to check out a preview and get an idea of the writing style. But honestly this one is probably more about the characters life than the actual mystery itself, but alas still enjoyable.
Murder In The Family – Cara Hunter is another murder mystery that went viral on tiktok. Found this one really easy to read and very engrossing largely due to the fact that it’s written through a bunch of different media (e.g. texts, newspaper clippings, TV scripts, posters, etc) so it kept my attention consistently renewed.
Source: I have ADHD and I love a murder mystery/ thriller!