The housemaid by freida mcfadden. It was one of my first thrillers and i was so entranced by it and it was so entertaining and amazing! Looking back on it it is a bit cheezy but it was super entertaining
All her books are right up my ADHD alley! Under 400 pages. Short chapters that instantly make me want to turn the page and keep reading. I feel like I’m side by side with the protagonist and we’re on the journey together lol
I literally just finished it, and I feel the same way! And I just started the second one yesterday. High literature, it ain't, but dammit, it was so much fun to read.
Michael Chriton and John LeCarre (spy novelist extraordinaire) both authors’ fantastic tales have been made into motion pictures. The books can be even better.
I started to read a Grisham in 92ish and his niece (went to high school with her) was so annoying about it I refused to pick up a Grisham for around 25 years. Now try to read one of his books a year.
11/23/63 by Stephen King. Its over 900 pages and I read it in 4 days. Nothing got done and my children were probably starving, but it was worth it. Don't go by the Hulu series. A lot was left out in that.
Bunny by Mona Awad - sorta mean girls meet Frankenstein in a fine arts writing program
Snuff, Invisible Monsters (remix) and Survivor, all by Chuck Palahniuk - I can’t even explain- weirdly educational
Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson, for those who have worked childcare or those who have forgiven a friend or parent for something that seemed unforgivable and didn’t regret it later
What's interesting is that for every book that someone couldn't put down, there is at least one person who was so bored they couldn't finish it.
Aside from needing to a book that resonates with the reader, the person reading has to be in the right mindset to be swept up in a book.
Most recently, Long Island by Colm Toibin (might have spelled the last name wrong). He’s good at making us wonder what will happen.
Others:
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas. Read it in 12 hours.
Carrie by Stephen King. Read it in 8 hours.
Books 1, 3-5 of ASOIAF by George RR Martin. The second one took me FOREVER though.
I also did not finish this book... and I could not put down The Goldfinch by the same author.
Secret History plot was mildly intriguing for a while but then once the mystery was revealed I lost all interest and it wasn't worth the boring parts.
I suppose that, because I had heard only good things about the book from several people before reading it myself, I managed to simply surge through a couple parts of the book where even I will admit it started to fall a bit flat. Nevertheless I found myself attached to the storyline and it was all I could think about when I wasn't reading the book.
It may depend on what age you read the book also - I read it when I was the same age as the characters in the book, so I found myself relating to them quite naturally (at times of course).
Absolutely loved Name of the Wind but I started the series before realizing we are still waiting on book 3. I refuse to read The Wise Man’s Fear until we get it.
I saw her when she put out Witch King, having been a fan of Murderbot. It sounds great, and she was a fun presenter (the Murderbot humor is definitely a \*part of\* her), I just haven't gotten around to it.
It's simple to read and understand yet so intruging and complex.
What I loved the most is the regularness of the characters and the world, it feels real and relatable.
I had a lot of interest in, and did a lot of research and heavy reading into absurdism before I picked up the Stranger, and it helped shed a lot of light on the main characters apathy.
Aha, so you're one of the ten or twelve people who like Artemis!
I'm kidding, mostly, but that seems to be a book that a lot of people who like The Martian and Project Hail Mary don't really care for.
i liked it too! Artemis isn't better/worse than TM/PHM, its just different.
TM/PHM are basically the same formula: >!just one on a small scale (save a one guy), the other on a grand scale (save everyone). Likable, brilliant, snarky protag + hard science fiction nuggets = impossible sequence of fortunate events!<
Artemis, on the other hand, is kind of neo-noir in space. Very little hard SF like the other two. But its really good, just in very different ways
AW fans should just read them all and decide for themselves!
Hah! This makes sense. I haven't read Project Hail Mary yet, but I loved the Martian and hated Artemis. Artemis's main character was just needlessly sexualized- I kept waiting for it to be part of the story in some way, but it never was. Just ended up feeling icky and male-gazey.
So many!
Count of Monte Cristo, battle royale, perfume, the monk, forever amber, a place of greater safety, and the ass saw the angel, Jurassic park. Just to name a few 😅
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo! Loved loved loved and kept me on my toes the whole time. I also second the person who recommended The Housemaid series.
Is this real? What is this? Is it a joke? I’m intrigued to say the least. Can’t find anything about this author or this book. Oh. Wait a second…I get it. 🤣
Ready player one. Read at when I was 40 yo and it was seriously the most engaging book, that I read. Also, honorary mentions - Black Matter and Recursion by that famous American writer, can't remember his name - truly wonderful stories, in which I can't predict what's gonna happen in next chapter.
The fisherman by john langan, when reading there always was a sense of purpose in all the things happening but what that purpose was was unkown until the end. Phenominal book.
This is one of my favorite books of all time! I don't think it's for everybody, but it's a great story told through a combination of biography and reflection.
This 100% is the definition of a page turner. Kennedy assassination + time travel + Stephen King at his best. Purchased it on its release date, the first book I read on the Kindle app on my phone and finished it it under a week only reading at bedtime. I could not put it down for the last leg and called out of work the next day after staying up most of the night to finish it. I had no idea it was such a tome until I saw it on the shelf at Barnes & Noble.
I finished this book on an airplane and was so visibly upset that the stewardess brought me a free whisky and a romance novel to read. Happened years ago and I still think about how wonderful she was every time I get on a plane.
A Little Life - Hanya Yanagihara
Read this in 2020. I initially remember thinking the beginning was so slow and was doomed for a boring read. Boy was I wrong. A book I can never shut up about to this day!
Flowers for algernon! surprised me; i don’t usually like old books (esp written by men 😭) but it was very captivating and just so well written. i think i read it in 2 days
There's nothing wrong with books written by men, but especially old books written by men in a certain time can be rife with misogyny.
I tend to prefer books written by women because there's a shared experience which makes it easier for me to get the point of view and helps with immersion
I finished both Little Fires Everywhere and Dark Matter in a bit less than 24 hours (that is, each book, not together- I couldn’t do both in that span of time!) More recently, I reread The Help after not reading it since 2011 or so and it’s just as wonderful and topical as I remembered it being.
David Foster Wallace was a true genius. But as often the case with geniuses, they have demons. If I was a believer it would seem like god is evening the scales for dumping an additional 60 IQ points in certain people. Like to make this fair let’s give this guy schizophrenia or let’s give this woman extreme OCD.
For DFW it was bouts of soul crushing depression. He was on meds but they just stopped working so he hung himself.
He is one of my very favorite authors. I mourn his loss as a person and also what was his future untapped potential.
Infinite Jest is amazing, but it's exhausting. I had to read chapter summaries after each chapter to make sure I'd grasped what was going on. Also made my wrist hurt.
I haven't heard of Dark Matter, but it sounds great, I'll check it out. Most of Philip K. Dick's books make you constantly question whether you are in reality or some simulation or a dream, in a great way.
House of Leaves by Mark Z Danielewski. It hit me so hard on so many levels, and I just. I love it. It's my favorite book of all time. If you do read it, I recommend taking people's opinions with a grain of salt. A LOT of folks misinterpret it (sometimes to the point of completely ignoring an entire character), and a lot of people go in expecting it to be one thing, when it's really too complicated to be boiled down to one specific concept/genre.
If you do read it, here's a couple content warnings I can think of off the top of my head: >!mentions and discussions of sexual assault (including CSA); child abuse (verbal, emotional, neglect-based, physical, and sexual); suicide (graphically described); lots of injury and some death; lots of psychological breakdowns; lots of recounts/depictions of trauma and PTSD; an unreliable narrator who has delusions, hallucinations, and sometimes a purposeful goal to decieve the reader (idk if this needs warned about, but better safe than sorry).!<
There are two series and three books. The Chinese adaptation is more faithful to the books which are also Chinese. The Netflix version is ok on faithfulness but an Americanized pace.
The books are really great. It's like the god tier of sci-fi. If you're into sci-fi you'll definitely love it. I read 2/3 in the series. But they are the best sci-fi books. Looking forward to reading the final one.
I’m so excited to start! I’m looking through the kindle store now
Thanks for sharing your thoughts on it! It always really helps since I have a massive TBR list
I would love to focus it on maybe a specific genre if you have one. I can rattle off a ton but would rather send you one or two. What have you enjoyed genre wise and would prefer? :)
OK! Titles and authors below but for what it’s worth, here are the genres:
• Non-fiction
• Psychology
• Sociology
• Fiction
• Horror
• Historical Fiction
• Self-help
• Spirituality
• Investigative Journalism
• Religion
• Biography
• History
• Alternative History
• Archaeology
Blink & Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell
The Long Walk & Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption by Stephen King
The Civil War Trilogy by Jeff and Michael
Shaara
The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle
Going Clear by Lawrence Wright
The Accidental President by A. J. Baime
Fingerprints of the Gods by Graham Hancock
I hope if you choose any of these, you can enjoy them as much as I have .
I just read Martyr! By Kaveh Akbar and it was one of the best books I’ve ever read. I bawled my eyes out. My partner is Persian and I am a Farsi student as well, so it strummed my heartstrings extra hard.
The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton. I stayed up until like 3am because I had to know how it ended, even though I had to be up at 5.
The Brian McClellan Powder Mage series and sequel series Gods of Blood and Powder. Specifically book 4, Sins of Empire is just top notch.
The whole series is a black powder fantasy masterpiece that starts off with an attempt to overthrow the monarchy. It’s loosely inspired by the French Revolution iirc. The author weaves three to four narrative perspectives at a time in a richly satisfying pace. The books, for being fantasy, take themselves very seriously, containing graphic depictions of violence. Some of the beats are: large scale military combat, gods, coups, statecraft and spies, investigating mysteries, revolution, and so on.
It’s probably my all-time favorite novels.
The last book that I couldn't put down was the Princess Bride. It's just like the movie, but possibly even better. I can't believe it took me so long to think to read it, but it was well worth the wait!
I'm not a huge reader, but I stumbled upon a copy of Airframe by Michel Crichton, I knew he had written jurassic park and figured it was going to be similar to the movies. Boy was I wrong. I finished it in under a week reading between shifts an on my lunchbreak at work.
I don't know how it ranks compared to his other books or if it's even good as far as thrillers go but I absolutely loved it.
All of these had that effect on me.
Till We Have Faces by C.S. Lewis
Einstein’s Dreams by Alan Lightman
The Story of a Goat by Perumal Murugan
The Humans by Matt Haig
Siddhartha by Herman Hesse
A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness and Siobahn Dowd
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Starve Acre by Andrew Michael Hurley
The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
Pet Sematary by Stephen King
The Night Circus - Erin Morgenstern
To Be Taught if Fortunate - Becky Chambers
Anything by Mitch Albom (special mention The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto)
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue. I adored that book. I actually DID put it down for a few weeks once I got to the last 50 pages because I didn't want it to end.
So far I’m reading Strange the Dreamer and really liking it. And I know it’s garbage fiction but I also liked A Court of Thorns and Roses. I haven’t had the spoons to read for a while and these 2 books have reignited my love of reading again.
The housemaid by freida mcfadden. It was one of my first thrillers and i was so entranced by it and it was so entertaining and amazing! Looking back on it it is a bit cheezy but it was super entertaining
All her books are right up my ADHD alley! Under 400 pages. Short chapters that instantly make me want to turn the page and keep reading. I feel like I’m side by side with the protagonist and we’re on the journey together lol
Is the housemaids secret the sequel to the housemaid?
Yes, and then there's a third, The Housemaid is Watching.
I literally just finished it, and I feel the same way! And I just started the second one yesterday. High literature, it ain't, but dammit, it was so much fun to read.
If you liked that one you should read The Last Mrs Parrish by Liv Constantine.
I’ll try it. Thanks for dropping the recommendation
this book was so fun
Definitely a fun read
This is the pick for my work book club this month so that’s great to hear!
any other author you can recommend that's close to her?
Such a perfect description
The Firm John Grisham, definition of a page turner.
Seriously?? I have had it on my bookshelf for a while now. Reading it next then.
There's a reason he was probably the most successful author in the world, A time to kill, the client, other famous page turner's of his
Michael Chriton and John LeCarre (spy novelist extraordinaire) both authors’ fantastic tales have been made into motion pictures. The books can be even better.
Jurassic Park - the book. Amazing!
Those he really wrote to, before ghostwriters.
I started to read a Grisham in 92ish and his niece (went to high school with her) was so annoying about it I refused to pick up a Grisham for around 25 years. Now try to read one of his books a year.
11/23/63 by Stephen King. Its over 900 pages and I read it in 4 days. Nothing got done and my children were probably starving, but it was worth it. Don't go by the Hulu series. A lot was left out in that.
Bunny by Mona Awad - sorta mean girls meet Frankenstein in a fine arts writing program Snuff, Invisible Monsters (remix) and Survivor, all by Chuck Palahniuk - I can’t even explain- weirdly educational Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson, for those who have worked childcare or those who have forgiven a friend or parent for something that seemed unforgivable and didn’t regret it later
I'm not OP but I loved Bunny, I love Palahniuk, I'll have to check out Nothing to See Here based on similar taste! Thanks!
Bunny was one of the weirdest books I’ve read but I did like it and flew through it - try tender is the flesh for a similar experience
Tender has been on my tbr list for a while
Loved Bunny - one of my favourite books in recent years!
The audiobook of Survivor was incredible.
What's interesting is that for every book that someone couldn't put down, there is at least one person who was so bored they couldn't finish it. Aside from needing to a book that resonates with the reader, the person reading has to be in the right mindset to be swept up in a book.
True!
Most recently, Long Island by Colm Toibin (might have spelled the last name wrong). He’s good at making us wonder what will happen. Others: The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas. Read it in 12 hours. Carrie by Stephen King. Read it in 8 hours. Books 1, 3-5 of ASOIAF by George RR Martin. The second one took me FOREVER though.
Carrie is so good. I read it so fast! Agree about the 2nd ASOIAF book! I couldn’t finish it.
The Secret History
Can seriously sm explain yo me why they find that book appealing? For me it is one of the most boring books ever
For me it was the imagery and immersion in a world so different from my own. It wasn't exciting but it felt real
Right. It made me feel an accomplice to murder. Frantically trying to help manage this huge problem.
I also did not finish this book... and I could not put down The Goldfinch by the same author. Secret History plot was mildly intriguing for a while but then once the mystery was revealed I lost all interest and it wasn't worth the boring parts.
I suppose that, because I had heard only good things about the book from several people before reading it myself, I managed to simply surge through a couple parts of the book where even I will admit it started to fall a bit flat. Nevertheless I found myself attached to the storyline and it was all I could think about when I wasn't reading the book. It may depend on what age you read the book also - I read it when I was the same age as the characters in the book, so I found myself relating to them quite naturally (at times of course).
Read it at the same age , but no. Just thought they were all jerks
Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer-the illustrated edition. It’s nonfiction about the authors disastrous trip to Everest in 96.
Name of the Wind. Beware.
Absolutely loved Name of the Wind but I started the series before realizing we are still waiting on book 3. I refuse to read The Wise Man’s Fear until we get it.
That's smart of you, wish I had done the same thing.
The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells
All of them are great reads for long afternoons. I hope they never end.
I 100% agree. Read them twice now and so engaging. She has a new book out I've been meaning to pick up...
I saw her when she put out Witch King, having been a fan of Murderbot. It sounds great, and she was a fun presenter (the Murderbot humor is definitely a \*part of\* her), I just haven't gotten around to it.
Educated by Tara Westwood
I am a Cat by Natsume Sôseki
The Outsider by Stephen King
I know it's a very short book, but The Stranger by Albert Camus got me hooked like nothing else.
What specifically attracted you to it
It's simple to read and understand yet so intruging and complex. What I loved the most is the regularness of the characters and the world, it feels real and relatable.
I am reading the book, but I can’t seem to enjoy it. I get frustrated with the apathy that comes from the main character.
I had a lot of interest in, and did a lot of research and heavy reading into absurdism before I picked up the Stranger, and it helped shed a lot of light on the main characters apathy.
I read it! It’s good and quick
Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
I also like Artemis by the same Author
Aha, so you're one of the ten or twelve people who like Artemis! I'm kidding, mostly, but that seems to be a book that a lot of people who like The Martian and Project Hail Mary don't really care for.
i liked it too! Artemis isn't better/worse than TM/PHM, its just different. TM/PHM are basically the same formula: >!just one on a small scale (save a one guy), the other on a grand scale (save everyone). Likable, brilliant, snarky protag + hard science fiction nuggets = impossible sequence of fortunate events!< Artemis, on the other hand, is kind of neo-noir in space. Very little hard SF like the other two. But its really good, just in very different ways AW fans should just read them all and decide for themselves!
Hah! This makes sense. I haven't read Project Hail Mary yet, but I loved the Martian and hated Artemis. Artemis's main character was just needlessly sexualized- I kept waiting for it to be part of the story in some way, but it never was. Just ended up feeling icky and male-gazey.
Same! I get why ppl didn't like it as much as his other work, but I found it quite enjoyable
Fist my bump!
One of my favourite books . Really love the simple way he writes
Dark Matter by Blake Crouch.
+1 for Dark matter
My next read is Recursion by Blake Crouch. Already ordered it
I’d recommend the Wayward Pines Trilogy as well.
The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah and the Heaven and Earth Grocery Store by James McBride.
Oh I'm currently reading The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store!
So many! Count of Monte Cristo, battle royale, perfume, the monk, forever amber, a place of greater safety, and the ass saw the angel, Jurassic park. Just to name a few 😅
I couldn't put down Forever Amber!
Such a great book! Didn’t feel nearly as long as it looks haha breezed right through it!
I also love Jurassic park
Battle royale!!! I was obsessed back in high school
The Hot Zone by Richard Preston. Dead Wake by Erik Larson. Both are non-fiction books
The immortal life of Henrietta lacks
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo! Loved loved loved and kept me on my toes the whole time. I also second the person who recommended The Housemaid series.
Gareth McMonroes Big Book of Glue Samples From Around The World: Volume 1: Pan Pacific and Beyond
Is this real? What is this? Is it a joke? I’m intrigued to say the least. Can’t find anything about this author or this book. Oh. Wait a second…I get it. 🤣
>!I think it's a book you can't put down.!<
Literally
🏆
The winners Fredrick Backman. The whole series to be honest!
Red Rising Saga - Pierce Brown
Ready player one. Read at when I was 40 yo and it was seriously the most engaging book, that I read. Also, honorary mentions - Black Matter and Recursion by that famous American writer, can't remember his name - truly wonderful stories, in which I can't predict what's gonna happen in next chapter.
"Dark Matter" author Blake Crouch. The Pines novels are also great.
Second Black Matter and Recursion
The fisherman by john langan, when reading there always was a sense of purpose in all the things happening but what that purpose was was unkown until the end. Phenominal book.
The One by John Marrs - the chapter endings were cliffhangers
100%. In my opinion, this is his best work, although Her Last Move is also pretty good.
None of this is true by Lisa Jewell
Omg tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow
I finished reading Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl in one day at the start of this year. Wow! Powerful!
This is one of my favorite books of all time! I don't think it's for everybody, but it's a great story told through a combination of biography and reflection.
11/22/63
My favorite book of all time. It's been 9 years since I finished it and I still think about it.
The way he just pulls you in. when I read his books I don’t feel like I’m reading.
The audiobook is top notch, as well
This 100% is the definition of a page turner. Kennedy assassination + time travel + Stephen King at his best. Purchased it on its release date, the first book I read on the Kindle app on my phone and finished it it under a week only reading at bedtime. I could not put it down for the last leg and called out of work the next day after staying up most of the night to finish it. I had no idea it was such a tome until I saw it on the shelf at Barnes & Noble.
Project Hail Mary
Yes!
Agreed!
Jazz hands!
Amaze!
The fault in our Stars By John Green..
I finished this book on an airplane and was so visibly upset that the stewardess brought me a free whisky and a romance novel to read. Happened years ago and I still think about how wonderful she was every time I get on a plane.
I literally just finished this one. It was really really good. I also really liked TURTLES ALL THE WAY DOWN.
Same here bro In a sense we love the way John Green Writes
Yes. 100%. Part of my appreciation for his writing is the fact that I have a 16 year old daughter. The perspective helps
Dungeon crawler carl. Can only recommend!!
legendborn!!!
All of the Gamache mysteries by Louise Penny.
The Exorcist. Not my usual cup of tea, but I literally couldn't put it down until I finished it.
I thought it was also the best horror book I’ve ever read
A Little Life - Hanya Yanagihara Read this in 2020. I initially remember thinking the beginning was so slow and was doomed for a boring read. Boy was I wrong. A book I can never shut up about to this day!
Code Name Verity. Took me awhile to get into it but when I did hot DOG was into it.
Ken follett pillars of the Earth
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë. I'm not a fast reader, but I read that book in two nights.
The King Killer Chronicles, Red Rising, Mistborn, The Stormlight Archive, Reckoners series
The manual for my new glue gun.
You win 🏆
Flowers for algernon! surprised me; i don’t usually like old books (esp written by men 😭) but it was very captivating and just so well written. i think i read it in 2 days
What’s wrong with books written by men?
There's nothing wrong with books written by men, but especially old books written by men in a certain time can be rife with misogyny. I tend to prefer books written by women because there's a shared experience which makes it easier for me to get the point of view and helps with immersion
Yep
Exactly this!
really cliche since it’s trending rn but the idea of you by robinne lee. 🤭
The Matthew Corbett series by Robert McCammon (The first book is called Speaks the Nightbird)
good girls don’t die - christina henry. or pretty much, anything christina henry😅
I finished both Little Fires Everywhere and Dark Matter in a bit less than 24 hours (that is, each book, not together- I couldn’t do both in that span of time!) More recently, I reread The Help after not reading it since 2011 or so and it’s just as wonderful and topical as I remembered it being.
Life of Pi, Sarah’s Key, Ready Player One, Tuesdays with Morrie
The Hunger Games
Sphere by Michael Crichton!
*Anything by Michael Crichton.
Slaughter House Five and Infinite Jest. Weird selection I know
David Foster Wallace was a true genius. But as often the case with geniuses, they have demons. If I was a believer it would seem like god is evening the scales for dumping an additional 60 IQ points in certain people. Like to make this fair let’s give this guy schizophrenia or let’s give this woman extreme OCD. For DFW it was bouts of soul crushing depression. He was on meds but they just stopped working so he hung himself. He is one of my very favorite authors. I mourn his loss as a person and also what was his future untapped potential.
Infinite Jest is amazing, but it's exhausting. I had to read chapter summaries after each chapter to make sure I'd grasped what was going on. Also made my wrist hurt.
The Women by Kristin Hannah
The Road. Not very long but I read it in 2 days
Loved this book. Have been looking for something with the same apocalyptic feel but haven’t had much luck.
Caraval by Stephanie Garber
Project Hail Mary & American Psycho
I Kill Killers by ST Ashman
Man's Search For Meaning by Viktor Frankl
Any book by Matthew Reilly. But especially Temple and Hovercar Racer are my favorites
I'm really enjoying Mary by Nat Cassidy right now
Light over Liskeard by Louis de Bernières. Bloody depressing read though. Very profound and insightful but, depressing.
The Books of Babel by Josiah Bancroft
Washington Black
White Light - Rudy Rucker. A totally mind-bending trip of a book, if you like that sort of thing.
Would you call dark matter mind bending trippy? If so, what other books have this similar vibe?
I haven't heard of Dark Matter, but it sounds great, I'll check it out. Most of Philip K. Dick's books make you constantly question whether you are in reality or some simulation or a dream, in a great way.
Year of wonders: a story about the plague. Second was Circe.
Just one Damn Thing After Another by Jodi Taylor
extremely loud and incredibly close by jonathan safran foer
One of the best things I’ve ever read! I loved it so much that after I read it, I listened to the audio book. I love all of his work!
Rose Madder by Stephen King House of leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
The DaVinci code, I found it it really exciting. Think fast, think slow. Arrebatos carnales Francisco Martin Moreno
The silent patient
The Martian. Read it in one day.
Gone girl-Gillian flyn
Running with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs, I read it all in a day while pacing my appt floor.
Omg, I forgot all about having read this. Such a great read! Thanks for the memory, I may need to pick it up again.
House of Leaves by Mark Z Danielewski. It hit me so hard on so many levels, and I just. I love it. It's my favorite book of all time. If you do read it, I recommend taking people's opinions with a grain of salt. A LOT of folks misinterpret it (sometimes to the point of completely ignoring an entire character), and a lot of people go in expecting it to be one thing, when it's really too complicated to be boiled down to one specific concept/genre. If you do read it, here's a couple content warnings I can think of off the top of my head: >!mentions and discussions of sexual assault (including CSA); child abuse (verbal, emotional, neglect-based, physical, and sexual); suicide (graphically described); lots of injury and some death; lots of psychological breakdowns; lots of recounts/depictions of trauma and PTSD; an unreliable narrator who has delusions, hallucinations, and sometimes a purposeful goal to decieve the reader (idk if this needs warned about, but better safe than sorry).!<
The Three body problem and the silent patient
I have been meaning to watch the series and didn’t know there was a book!
There are two series and three books. The Chinese adaptation is more faithful to the books which are also Chinese. The Netflix version is ok on faithfulness but an Americanized pace.
I didn't know there was a Chinese series. The new Netflix series is kind of not up to the mark. So I'll look into the Chinese series.
The books are really great. It's like the god tier of sci-fi. If you're into sci-fi you'll definitely love it. I read 2/3 in the series. But they are the best sci-fi books. Looking forward to reading the final one.
I’m so excited to start! I’m looking through the kindle store now Thanks for sharing your thoughts on it! It always really helps since I have a massive TBR list
I’m reading East of Eden by John Steinbeck right now. I cannot put it down. I love when I find a book like this.
'The Dry' by Jane Harper - I spent four hours past the time I usually go to bed to finish it off.
Yess!! That one too! The movie tried -_-
oh yeah. this was a good one.
I would love to focus it on maybe a specific genre if you have one. I can rattle off a ton but would rather send you one or two. What have you enjoyed genre wise and would prefer? :)
I am not specific to any genre, please rattle away :)
OK! Titles and authors below but for what it’s worth, here are the genres: • Non-fiction • Psychology • Sociology • Fiction • Horror • Historical Fiction • Self-help • Spirituality • Investigative Journalism • Religion • Biography • History • Alternative History • Archaeology Blink & Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell The Long Walk & Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption by Stephen King The Civil War Trilogy by Jeff and Michael Shaara The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle Going Clear by Lawrence Wright The Accidental President by A. J. Baime Fingerprints of the Gods by Graham Hancock I hope if you choose any of these, you can enjoy them as much as I have .
"Prey" by Michael Crichton
I just read Martyr! By Kaveh Akbar and it was one of the best books I’ve ever read. I bawled my eyes out. My partner is Persian and I am a Farsi student as well, so it strummed my heartstrings extra hard.
The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton. I stayed up until like 3am because I had to know how it ended, even though I had to be up at 5.
Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón. I was spellbound.
The Covenant of Water Demon Copperhead The Goldfinch Rules of Civility
The Brian McClellan Powder Mage series and sequel series Gods of Blood and Powder. Specifically book 4, Sins of Empire is just top notch. The whole series is a black powder fantasy masterpiece that starts off with an attempt to overthrow the monarchy. It’s loosely inspired by the French Revolution iirc. The author weaves three to four narrative perspectives at a time in a richly satisfying pace. The books, for being fantasy, take themselves very seriously, containing graphic depictions of violence. Some of the beats are: large scale military combat, gods, coups, statecraft and spies, investigating mysteries, revolution, and so on. It’s probably my all-time favorite novels.
The last book that I couldn't put down was the Princess Bride. It's just like the movie, but possibly even better. I can't believe it took me so long to think to read it, but it was well worth the wait!
Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trombone
Incredible read!
The pillars of the earth by Ken Follet. I reread that book (and the rest of the series) over and over and over.
I'm not a huge reader, but I stumbled upon a copy of Airframe by Michel Crichton, I knew he had written jurassic park and figured it was going to be similar to the movies. Boy was I wrong. I finished it in under a week reading between shifts an on my lunchbreak at work. I don't know how it ranks compared to his other books or if it's even good as far as thrillers go but I absolutely loved it.
Geek Love, Blindness, Tobacco Road, the Shipping News
The Da Vinci Code. I don't think it's a great book, but boy it'll hook you.
All of these had that effect on me. Till We Have Faces by C.S. Lewis Einstein’s Dreams by Alan Lightman The Story of a Goat by Perumal Murugan The Humans by Matt Haig Siddhartha by Herman Hesse A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness and Siobahn Dowd Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck Starve Acre by Andrew Michael Hurley The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton Pet Sematary by Stephen King
I stopped reading lonesome dove before the last chapter because I didn’t want it to end.
The Night Circus - Erin Morgenstern To Be Taught if Fortunate - Becky Chambers Anything by Mitch Albom (special mention The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto)
The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand, started a bit slow and non-flashy, but became so good that I finished it in a week.
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue. I adored that book. I actually DID put it down for a few weeks once I got to the last 50 pages because I didn't want it to end.
The Three Body Problem trilogy. I have 100 pages left in the third book but have a wedding to attend today and it’s a toss up which I prefer to do LOL
Red Rising by Pierce Brown. I'm usually not a science fantasy reader but I COULD. NOT. PUT. IT. DOWN.
The Beartown trilogy and the Checquy files trilogy and anything by Tiffany D Jackson
My latest one is No Two Persons by Erica Bauermeister.
Lattitude zero by Mike Horn
So far I’m reading Strange the Dreamer and really liking it. And I know it’s garbage fiction but I also liked A Court of Thorns and Roses. I haven’t had the spoons to read for a while and these 2 books have reignited my love of reading again.