Since I was a teenager, I used to read several books a year, with peaks of 2-3 books a month. I enjoyed reading so much that my first summer paychecks were spent almost entirely on books (mostly satisfying my hunger for contemporary history). Now, I barely read 2 entire books a year. For sure working full-time has a good chunk of fault for this, but I believe also that I'm mostly fed-up with non-fiction books which my bookshelf is full of.
I have to say that the last time that I really enjoyed reading and I was doing it for several hours a day was 2 years ago by finally taking on The Hobbit and LOTR trilogy. After that, my interest plumbed again. So much so that right now it is a good 1 year and a half that I have not opened a single book (I was reading political magazines though). So I'm writing here to get some recommendations and hopefully rekindle my passion for books.
Counting my last reading streak, I was looking for a book with a quest/team adventure similar to The Hobbit or Bone (Jeff Smith) but maybe not in a fantasy setting as I doubt something will surpass it. Counting also my general interest in survival and apocalypse settings (big fan of The Last of Us/Metro), are there great books that share both of these themes? And regarding history fiction, are there any recommendations for a newbie but huge history nerd in this genre, preferably sets in the medieval era (I'm recently into castles and Kingdom Come/CK3)?
Or what is your recommendation for cases like mine?
Hopefully, you can help me finally regain this passion and start to look forward to arriving home to read some pages.
by Glittering-Impress-4
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You may want to try Station Eleven, which touches on both the quest and survival themes.
Anthony Doerr’s All the Light We Cannot See (World War II) and Cloud Cuckoo Land (Greek mythology, the past, the future) are both good reads that kept my interest.
Perilous Times is a newer novel about the environment but features knights from King Arthur’s round table.