I started off this year by reading a lot, but I haven't really been keeping that up, but I'd like to start reading again. I enjoy a pretty broad selection of genres, but I guess to put it simply the ones I like most are historical fiction and non-fiction (mostly focusing on history and/or politics). Here are some books I've read that I've enjoyed:
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Going After Cacciato by Tim O'Brien (I read some of The Things They Carried and I didn't like it as much, though)
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As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
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Sean Duffy series by Adrian McKinty (fiction about a Catholic cop in Northern Ireland in the 1980s)
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The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Claire North
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The Stranger by Albert Camus
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The Cold War: A New History by John Lewis Gaddis
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When the Angels Left the Old Country by Sacha Lamb
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The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century by Kirk Wallace Johnson (about a kid who stole rare bird feathers from The British Museum to make fly ties)
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There Will Be Fire by Rory Carroll (about the IRA's plot to kill Margaret Thatcher in that hotel with the bomb)
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Dubliners by James Joyce
I hope this provides some guidelines for what I enjoy. If you have any suggestions at all, please let me know.
by Moonshot_Melody