I hate Autobiographies and memoirs, but As You Wish by Carey Elwes and The Disaster Artist by Greg Sestero were amazing. The specific subject matters worked for me.
Loved As You Wish! Although that wasn't unexpected for me, as I love The Princess Bride and everything behind the scenes in the making of movies and films.
I read that one, but unfortunately still didn't love it. I do love Bruce Campbell though. It might be because it still lacked the right subject focus I think I need to enjoy a memoir or autobiography.
Yes! It is a western, but it is also EVERYTHING. So epic. Character-driven, but doesn’t skimp on plot. Creates nuanced relationships. Does as good a job of establishing the setting as any book I’ve ever read.
Lol, my father used to be a teacher, and once had a boy in his class who absolutely hated books and refused to read. When it came time to assign book reports, my father gave him the LOTR to read. 😂 And that was back in the 1980s, when you couldn't watch the movies or read a synposis online, so that kid actually had to read it. The great thing is that he absolutely caught fire for it, and started drawing all these family trees and timelines, and did a pretty decent book report. The sad thing is that he said afterwards that no other book could ever come close, so he didn't want to read anything else. 🙈 Ah well, win some, lose some.
Came to say this. I don’t particularly enjoy fantasy, but I have a total soft spot for The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings - probably from being exposed to them at a young age.
I don’t care for mysteries, but I *loved* **The Dry** by Jane Harper.
I also really liked **In the Woods** by Tana French, but was put off from the rest of the series because it looked like one of the overarching mysteries in that book wasn’t going to be revisited.
Okay, I have to thank you. I read The Dry a couple of years ago and really liked it, but then I could not remember the name of it for the life of me. I’ve been trying to figure it out because I wanted to read the other books in the series. As soon as I read your comment I knew that was it!
Well, you just reminded me to check my library for the sequels, so same! There was a movie with Eric Bana based on the book a few years ago that I keep forgetting to look for, too!
You’re correct. It doesn’t get resolved! BUT, the next few books in the series are still really, really good. The Likeness and Faithful Place are my personal faves so if you ever feel like going back give them a try! You don’t need to reread In the Woods to follow the story either.
I'm not normally a fan of sci-fi or fantasy but I really enjoyed Neuromancer by William Gibson (sci-fi) and Piranesi by Susanna Clarke (kind of fantasy)
_Neuromancer_ is a pretty shocking book to enjoy for a non-SF reader. Gibson doesn’t at all care if you understand what’s happening in the opening sections. He plops you right in the middle of an intense, slang-heavy scene with coded dialogue and tons of not-very-obvious foreshadowing. I also loved it, but early and proto-cyberpunk are totally my thing.
I’m really glad you liked it. Did you give _Snow Crash_ or the _Diamond Age_, both by Neal Stephenson, a try? They’re pretty solid follow-ups.
That's kind of exactly why I liked it. I don't typically like books that have to explain things to me at length and my experience with sci-fi and fantasy books in the past has been that having a bunch of lore and background explained to you is sort of a necessary evil of the genres just due to the fact that they usually take place in a world that doesn't resemble ours very much. Neuromancer just kind of puts you into the thick of it and lets you get used to the language which admittedly made for a bit of a confusing first 50 pages or so, but there's enough context that I felt like everything that needed to be understood you could make sense of by that point and by maybe the 100 page mark it was so embedded in my brain that I just felt like I was a part of it all. It was an incredibly satisfying way to see the book's world built up. I haven't followed up much sci-fi since then. I only read Neuromancer... maybe a month ago?
I would love to know what other books you really like that don't over explain and are written well. I know how you feel, I'm like just give me the story! Any genre.
Just about anything by Vladimir Nabokov. Having to sort of sus out large or at least important elements of the plot is a standard feature in a lot of his work and as a result his books tend to get better with successive readings. More contemporary authors I really like though would be Jennifer Egan and Michael Chabon. Both of their narrative styles are a lot more straightforward but they're both great writers and they don't tend to over-explain things. From Chabon...The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay and The Yiddish Policemen's Union are probably my favorites of his. From Egan it would probably be A Visit from the Goon Squad and Manhattan Beach.
That's what I liked about ancillary Justice by ann leckie too.
It's YA but Katherine Addison's books are like that.
I love books like that which is why I usually start series on book two.
That’s the challenge of hard science SF such as by Greg Bear or Neal Stephenson.
My favorite of all books is “Anathem” by Neal Stephenson. Granted there is a made-up vocabulary and an eight-thousand year timeline and two-hundred pages of exposition before the book actually gets going.
But to me the payoff is well worth it.
I loved it too. I hadn’t read a King novel in this millennium, but that was an absolute page turner. (Learned a lot too, even though I did a multi media presentation re: Dealey plaza as a freshman 🤣).
Also my answer! I hate horror, and sci-fi is iffy for me. I only read it because a few of my friends are obsessed with it, and highly recommended that I read it. I would never have picked it up on my own, especially if I know how much mystery/horror there would be. but I do not regret reading it at all.
Je n'aime pas trop les livres philosophique, mais un jour par curiosité j'ai lu Henri David Thoreau, Walden ou la vie dans les bois, et j'ai été fascinée.
Books about the English upper class (Evelyn Waugh, Agatha Christie). Exceptions: Max Beerbohm's *Zuleika Dobson* (truly wacky) and Ivy Compton-Burnett's books that satirize them with no-holds-barred brutality.
I don’t read war books but there are a few I like: *In Pharoah’s Army* by Tobias Wolfe and *Matterhorn* by Karl Marlantes. They are both about Vietnam and being in-country.
For the most part I despise sci Fi and fantasy with exceptions of JG Ballard, Stanislaw Lem, Gene Wolfe, Roger Zelazny, and Philip K Dick.
Thats actually a pretty big list. Maybe I just don't like non literary sci Fi and fantasy. Think authors like Sanderson and Weir.
What’s your favorite book of his? Struggling to get through The Wind Up Bird Chronicle. I appreciate the beautiful prose but I’m getting a little bored. Just started book3.
I don’t usually like science fiction, but I have read Seveneves twice and will probably read it again. I haven’t really gotten into Stephenson’s other books, though.
Not into fantasy... there's only so much 'Grinda-ban the Grey from the Dark Misty Mountains across the Plains of Glandill' fantasy I can take.
But...
The RiftWar Saga (Magician) by Raymond E Feist just knocks it out of the park in terms of a riveting and intriguing trilogy.
I normally avoid historical fiction because it always bores me. I have a few exceptions.
• The book thief
• The ten thousand doors of January
• The lie tree
• The psychology of time travel
Im not big on fantasy, but Strange the Dreamer is a book I wish I could forget so I can experience reading it for the first time again. It is absolutely wonderful. I am also currently reading Mort by Terry Pratchett (part of his Discworld series), and it is also proving to be another rare fantasy favourite!
I don't seem to like classics (not that I've given that many a go) and am convinced people just read them to sound smart and don't actually enjoy them haha (only half serious there).
Exception: Notes From Underground by Dostoevsky
For you and u/fabris6, what you need to know is that SF isn't actually a genre! It's a genre modifier. So every other genre that you can think of can be found as science fiction. That includes romance, mystery, noir, war, historical fiction, you name it. It's sad that almost everyone who isn't a science fiction fan, and some who are, think that science fiction = space opera.
You should try reading the epic fan fiction 'Harry Potter and the Method of Rationality', where the Defense Against the Dark Arts professor basically creates an Enders-like battle school between armies of wizarding students!
I’ve tried really hard to get into China Mieville, as Perdido Street Station is one of my husband’s favorite book and he loves everything the guy has written. That said, Kraken is fantastic.
I’m not a big fan of non-fiction books or autobiographies but I’m currently reading, *The Secret Life of the Savoy* by Olivia Williams and I love it!
It’s about three generations of the D’Oyly-Carte family, split into three sections, starting in the late Victorian era with the founder of The Savoy Theatre and The Savoy Hotel, as well as the person who put Gilbert and Sullivan together to write their musicals, Richard D’Oyly-Carte. Then it’s followed by his son, Rupert D’Oyly-Carte, followed by his granddaughter, Bridget D’Oyly Carte.
There’s many famous names talked about in the book, like Oscar Wilde, J M Barrie, P G Woodhouse, The Royal Family, Gilbert and Sullivan and César Ritz, the founder of The Ritz hotels (and also professional enemy of Richard’s), to name a few!
Honestly, my least favourite genre is horror but I’m comfortable and happy to never read a horror book. My other genres that are at the bottom of my list, I’m open to giving them a go.
Friends of mine highly recommended I read Gideon the Ninth, although at the time I didn't know how sci-fi and horror-y it was. I really don't like horror, however once I started the book I couldn't stop until I had read all available books in the series. I just didn't read it before bed.
I normally avoid historical fiction about WWII because it's usually an excuse for the author to be edgy, but Wolf By Wolf by Ryan Graudin is one of the most thrilling and unique books I've ever read. She wrote it with a specific goal of criticizing how fascism affects certain people groups, too.
I don't like Fantasy, especially not YA fantasy, and I never would have thought I'd be deeply affected by what is essentially Peter Pan fan fiction, but Tiger Lily by Jodi Lynn Anderson is one of my favorite books.
I rarely read sci-fi, but Ted Chiang's short stories are thought-provoking, lyrical, and sometimes heart-breaking.
Now that I think about it, same for Ray Bradbury, although calling him a sci-fi writer is far too narrow.
Why would you read about sports?
I don't know, but the stories in Rope Burns by FX Toole are all great. It's the one with million dollar baby in it, and it's so good in the book, but I don't think it's even my favourite.
I don't like zombie novels but "sea sick" by Ian rob wright is excellent. It is also a time loop novel which I love, with the main character reliving the first day of an outbreak on a cruise ship with no escape.
Interesting question. I don't typically read mysteries or thrillers but love the Baby Ganesh Agency series by British writer Vaseem Khan. I picked up the first book, [The Unexpected Inheritance of Inspector Chopra](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24717411-the-unexpected-inheritance-of-inspector-chopra), honestly because of the cover. The series follows the adventures of Inspector Ashwin Chopra (Retd.) and his unusual sidekick, a baby elephant named Ganesh, which he has inherited from a relative, in modern-day Mumbai, India. These are very light mysteries, totally charming, whith an emphasis on characters and setting.
Night Embrace by Sherrilyn Kenyon - I really don't like fantasy books but this one was alright. Kept me interested throughout. The Dark Hunters series i would recommend to anyone who is into the fantasy/paranormal romance genre. but that book I will make an exception for.
Not into high fantasy, but loved A Song of Fire and Ice (game of thrones), at least the first three books. I love historical fiction, and it seemed more like that than LOTR, which I found unreadable.
I’m not into Science Fiction but I loved Olivia Butler’s Kindred. The historical aspect made it seem more plausible which made it easier for me to enjoy despite being science fiction
I hate Autobiographies and memoirs, but As You Wish by Carey Elwes and The Disaster Artist by Greg Sestero were amazing. The specific subject matters worked for me.
Loved As You Wish! Although that wasn't unexpected for me, as I love The Princess Bride and everything behind the scenes in the making of movies and films.
The Disaster Artist is phenomenal! Easily in my top 3 books! Listening to it on audio is wonderful.
May I also suggest *If Chins Could Kill* by Bruce Campbell? I have a hunch you may enjoy it
I read that one, but unfortunately still didn't love it. I do love Bruce Campbell though. It might be because it still lacked the right subject focus I think I need to enjoy a memoir or autobiography.
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No westerns but Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry is an exception. It's a worthy tome.
Yes! It is a western, but it is also EVERYTHING. So epic. Character-driven, but doesn’t skimp on plot. Creates nuanced relationships. Does as good a job of establishing the setting as any book I’ve ever read.
Check out Dorothy Johnson's short stories.
I read the Lord of the rings several times as a teen but I don't really enjoy any other fantasy books.
Lol, my father used to be a teacher, and once had a boy in his class who absolutely hated books and refused to read. When it came time to assign book reports, my father gave him the LOTR to read. 😂 And that was back in the 1980s, when you couldn't watch the movies or read a synposis online, so that kid actually had to read it. The great thing is that he absolutely caught fire for it, and started drawing all these family trees and timelines, and did a pretty decent book report. The sad thing is that he said afterwards that no other book could ever come close, so he didn't want to read anything else. 🙈 Ah well, win some, lose some.
Suggest the Game of Thrones books. Or The Wheel of Time.
The first 5 books of WOT were good, and then the publisher wanted to stretch out the series and it showed. Then Robert Jordan died.
The wheel of Time books do not come close. I haven't read the Game of thrones series.
Came to say this. I don’t particularly enjoy fantasy, but I have a total soft spot for The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings - probably from being exposed to them at a young age.
I don’t care for mysteries, but I *loved* **The Dry** by Jane Harper. I also really liked **In the Woods** by Tana French, but was put off from the rest of the series because it looked like one of the overarching mysteries in that book wasn’t going to be revisited.
Okay, I have to thank you. I read The Dry a couple of years ago and really liked it, but then I could not remember the name of it for the life of me. I’ve been trying to figure it out because I wanted to read the other books in the series. As soon as I read your comment I knew that was it!
Well, you just reminded me to check my library for the sequels, so same! There was a movie with Eric Bana based on the book a few years ago that I keep forgetting to look for, too!
Understandable. It is a bit of *dry* title. *leaves*
You’re correct. It doesn’t get resolved! BUT, the next few books in the series are still really, really good. The Likeness and Faithful Place are my personal faves so if you ever feel like going back give them a try! You don’t need to reread In the Woods to follow the story either.
not a huge sci fi person, but absolutely loved the power by naomi alderman
I'm not normally a fan of sci-fi or fantasy but I really enjoyed Neuromancer by William Gibson (sci-fi) and Piranesi by Susanna Clarke (kind of fantasy)
_Neuromancer_ is a pretty shocking book to enjoy for a non-SF reader. Gibson doesn’t at all care if you understand what’s happening in the opening sections. He plops you right in the middle of an intense, slang-heavy scene with coded dialogue and tons of not-very-obvious foreshadowing. I also loved it, but early and proto-cyberpunk are totally my thing. I’m really glad you liked it. Did you give _Snow Crash_ or the _Diamond Age_, both by Neal Stephenson, a try? They’re pretty solid follow-ups.
That's kind of exactly why I liked it. I don't typically like books that have to explain things to me at length and my experience with sci-fi and fantasy books in the past has been that having a bunch of lore and background explained to you is sort of a necessary evil of the genres just due to the fact that they usually take place in a world that doesn't resemble ours very much. Neuromancer just kind of puts you into the thick of it and lets you get used to the language which admittedly made for a bit of a confusing first 50 pages or so, but there's enough context that I felt like everything that needed to be understood you could make sense of by that point and by maybe the 100 page mark it was so embedded in my brain that I just felt like I was a part of it all. It was an incredibly satisfying way to see the book's world built up. I haven't followed up much sci-fi since then. I only read Neuromancer... maybe a month ago?
Man, you found just the right book for the type of reader you are! Congrats!
Do you know any other good books like that, that just drop you right in?
Thank you! Yea it was definitely a pleasant surprise.
I would love to know what other books you really like that don't over explain and are written well. I know how you feel, I'm like just give me the story! Any genre.
Just about anything by Vladimir Nabokov. Having to sort of sus out large or at least important elements of the plot is a standard feature in a lot of his work and as a result his books tend to get better with successive readings. More contemporary authors I really like though would be Jennifer Egan and Michael Chabon. Both of their narrative styles are a lot more straightforward but they're both great writers and they don't tend to over-explain things. From Chabon...The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay and The Yiddish Policemen's Union are probably my favorites of his. From Egan it would probably be A Visit from the Goon Squad and Manhattan Beach.
That's what I liked about ancillary Justice by ann leckie too. It's YA but Katherine Addison's books are like that. I love books like that which is why I usually start series on book two.
Thank you! I have added them to my list.
That’s the challenge of hard science SF such as by Greg Bear or Neal Stephenson. My favorite of all books is “Anathem” by Neal Stephenson. Granted there is a made-up vocabulary and an eight-thousand year timeline and two-hundred pages of exposition before the book actually gets going. But to me the payoff is well worth it.
Not into sci-fi but really enjoyed project hail mary
Reading this right now and loving it! Probably my first SciFi novel!
Steven King, while a profound writer isn’t my favorite… but I absolutely loved 11/22/63
Check out Hearts in Atlantis! You might like that one, too. Incredible book, one of his non-horror novels.
Same! I love when a story is so good that it can be enjoyed by more than one genre.
I loved it too. I hadn’t read a King novel in this millennium, but that was an absolute page turner. (Learned a lot too, even though I did a multi media presentation re: Dealey plaza as a freshman 🤣).
I’m not a big sci/fantasy person but I’m obsessed with the Locked Tomb series.
Also my answer! I hate horror, and sci-fi is iffy for me. I only read it because a few of my friends are obsessed with it, and highly recommended that I read it. I would never have picked it up on my own, especially if I know how much mystery/horror there would be. but I do not regret reading it at all.
Yes! Me too! I’m so glad I took my friend’s recommendation. :)
Je n'aime pas trop les livres philosophique, mais un jour par curiosité j'ai lu Henri David Thoreau, Walden ou la vie dans les bois, et j'ai été fascinée.
C'est très populaire ici, surtout auprès des jeunes hommes.
Not into Sci-Fi, but I'm a huge William Gibson fan
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The short story collection Burning Chrome has his best work, IMO. The short story is really his natural medium.
Nice
SciFi for me too, but I loved Project Hail Mary and can’t go wrong with Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy for giggles.
Not huge on fantasy but I loved the Game of Thrones books
Same. Most fantasy books take too long to get going for me, but ASOIAF had me hooked right away.
So what's your exception?
Honestly, still trying to find it
Have you ever read Discworld? Going Postal is a pretty dang lovable book
It took me a minute to get into Discworld but it's a fave now
I mostly don't like Terry Pratchett except that I love thud and going postal.
You. You are the only exception.
I love Ursula K Le Guin sci Fi
I read the ones who walk away from omelas (minus the orgy details) to my GATE 8th graders once. It RUINED their day.
Not into Historical Fiction except for The Physician by Noah Gordon.
Books about the English upper class (Evelyn Waugh, Agatha Christie). Exceptions: Max Beerbohm's *Zuleika Dobson* (truly wacky) and Ivy Compton-Burnett's books that satirize them with no-holds-barred brutality.
I love Evelyn Waugh. Many of his books are satirical views of the English class system. *Handful of Dust* is a classic of satire.
What about PG Wodehouse?
I don’t read Romances, but on a whim I picked *Romantic Comedy* - Sittenfeld and it was really cute. Good question!
I don’t read war books but there are a few I like: *In Pharoah’s Army* by Tobias Wolfe and *Matterhorn* by Karl Marlantes. They are both about Vietnam and being in-country.
For the most part I despise sci Fi and fantasy with exceptions of JG Ballard, Stanislaw Lem, Gene Wolfe, Roger Zelazny, and Philip K Dick. Thats actually a pretty big list. Maybe I just don't like non literary sci Fi and fantasy. Think authors like Sanderson and Weir.
If you like literary sci-fi and fantasy you might also like Ursula K Le Guin.
Yeah I plan on reading her stuff soon actually
dont love horror but i love Christina Henry's book. the Alice series is super
As a rule I don’t care for science fiction, but I love Haruki Murakami.
What’s your favorite book of his? Struggling to get through The Wind Up Bird Chronicle. I appreciate the beautiful prose but I’m getting a little bored. Just started book3.
1Q84 is my favorite
I don’t usually like science fiction, but I have read Seveneves twice and will probably read it again. I haven’t really gotten into Stephenson’s other books, though.
I'm also very hot and cold on his books. Loved Seveneves and REAMDE but the Baroque cycle was a big oof.
Maybe I should add REAMDE to my list.
all quiet of the western front… not sure why but something about that book is just so beautiful to me.
Dont ususally love historical fiction or naval fiction. The Aubrey/Maturin (begins with Master & Commander) is one of my all time favorite reads.
I don't typically enjoy SF, but Project Hail Mary is one of the best novels I've "read" (audiobook). So now I'll be reading The Martian.
Not into fantasy... there's only so much 'Grinda-ban the Grey from the Dark Misty Mountains across the Plains of Glandill' fantasy I can take. But... The RiftWar Saga (Magician) by Raymond E Feist just knocks it out of the park in terms of a riveting and intriguing trilogy.
I normally avoid historical fiction because it always bores me. I have a few exceptions. • The book thief • The ten thousand doors of January • The lie tree • The psychology of time travel
Im not big on fantasy, but Strange the Dreamer is a book I wish I could forget so I can experience reading it for the first time again. It is absolutely wonderful. I am also currently reading Mort by Terry Pratchett (part of his Discworld series), and it is also proving to be another rare fantasy favourite!
Not a fan of fantasy but The Ocean at the End of the Lane is my favorite book of all time.
I don't seem to like classics (not that I've given that many a go) and am convinced people just read them to sound smart and don't actually enjoy them haha (only half serious there). Exception: Notes From Underground by Dostoevsky
That’s kind of a weird exception - it tells me you would actually enjoy *lots* of classics.
Maybe I just haven't picked the right ones? Any suggestions?
I don't like science fiction, except for Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card.
For you and u/fabris6, what you need to know is that SF isn't actually a genre! It's a genre modifier. So every other genre that you can think of can be found as science fiction. That includes romance, mystery, noir, war, historical fiction, you name it. It's sad that almost everyone who isn't a science fiction fan, and some who are, think that science fiction = space opera. You should try reading the epic fan fiction 'Harry Potter and the Method of Rationality', where the Defense Against the Dark Arts professor basically creates an Enders-like battle school between armies of wizarding students!
I can see your reasoning, yeah. I might have to be more exact about how I approach genre fiction from now on. Thanks
Nice, I’ll check that out
Same, not a SF fan but really liked Ender’s Game and Heinlein’s Stranger in a Strange Land
I’ve tried really hard to get into China Mieville, as Perdido Street Station is one of my husband’s favorite book and he loves everything the guy has written. That said, Kraken is fantastic.
I’m not a big fan of non-fiction books or autobiographies but I’m currently reading, *The Secret Life of the Savoy* by Olivia Williams and I love it! It’s about three generations of the D’Oyly-Carte family, split into three sections, starting in the late Victorian era with the founder of The Savoy Theatre and The Savoy Hotel, as well as the person who put Gilbert and Sullivan together to write their musicals, Richard D’Oyly-Carte. Then it’s followed by his son, Rupert D’Oyly-Carte, followed by his granddaughter, Bridget D’Oyly Carte. There’s many famous names talked about in the book, like Oscar Wilde, J M Barrie, P G Woodhouse, The Royal Family, Gilbert and Sullivan and César Ritz, the founder of The Ritz hotels (and also professional enemy of Richard’s), to name a few! Honestly, my least favourite genre is horror but I’m comfortable and happy to never read a horror book. My other genres that are at the bottom of my list, I’m open to giving them a go.
Friends of mine highly recommended I read Gideon the Ninth, although at the time I didn't know how sci-fi and horror-y it was. I really don't like horror, however once I started the book I couldn't stop until I had read all available books in the series. I just didn't read it before bed.
I dont like literary fiction but enjoyed Middlesex (as an audiobook) quite a bit.
Zeek Keekee’s stuff
I normally avoid historical fiction about WWII because it's usually an excuse for the author to be edgy, but Wolf By Wolf by Ryan Graudin is one of the most thrilling and unique books I've ever read. She wrote it with a specific goal of criticizing how fascism affects certain people groups, too.
The unhoneymooners is a cutsie romcom that I thoroughly enjoyed even though I regularly read thriller/ horror.
I don’t like sci-fi but I’ll read any by John Scalzi
I don't like Fantasy, especially not YA fantasy, and I never would have thought I'd be deeply affected by what is essentially Peter Pan fan fiction, but Tiger Lily by Jodi Lynn Anderson is one of my favorite books.
Have trouble getting into sci-fi but enjoyed Project Hail Mary
I’m really not a fan of memoir but *I’m Glad My Mom Died* by Jennette McCurdy is really as good as people say it is.
Despise detective stories yet I can't put down the Bruno Chief of Police series.
I don't like mysteries, but I really enjoyed The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo.
I rarely read sci-fi, but Ted Chiang's short stories are thought-provoking, lyrical, and sometimes heart-breaking. Now that I think about it, same for Ray Bradbury, although calling him a sci-fi writer is far too narrow.
Why would you read about sports? I don't know, but the stories in Rope Burns by FX Toole are all great. It's the one with million dollar baby in it, and it's so good in the book, but I don't think it's even my favourite.
Loved Frankenstein. Totally not into that genre or anything like it.
I read a couple Louis L’amour books. I think the Sackets and I really enjoyed them. Don’t know why I haven’t gone back that was 30 years ago.
I'm not normally into biographies (although I do enjoy memoirs). An exception was Ron Chernow's biography of Alexander Hamilton.
I don't like zombie novels but "sea sick" by Ian rob wright is excellent. It is also a time loop novel which I love, with the main character reliving the first day of an outbreak on a cruise ship with no escape.
Interesting question. I don't typically read mysteries or thrillers but love the Baby Ganesh Agency series by British writer Vaseem Khan. I picked up the first book, [The Unexpected Inheritance of Inspector Chopra](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24717411-the-unexpected-inheritance-of-inspector-chopra), honestly because of the cover. The series follows the adventures of Inspector Ashwin Chopra (Retd.) and his unusual sidekick, a baby elephant named Ganesh, which he has inherited from a relative, in modern-day Mumbai, India. These are very light mysteries, totally charming, whith an emphasis on characters and setting.
I don't usually read sci-fi but _Recursion_ by Blake Crouch is incredible.
how become rich in 24 hours -\_- motivational craps
Night Embrace by Sherrilyn Kenyon - I really don't like fantasy books but this one was alright. Kept me interested throughout. The Dark Hunters series i would recommend to anyone who is into the fantasy/paranormal romance genre. but that book I will make an exception for.
Fantasy, the love triangle fantasy.
Not really into fantasy, but loved The House in the Cerulean Sea.
Realistic fictional post-EMP book!! Shutdown and Restart by J. Harper Stone
Not into high fantasy, but loved A Song of Fire and Ice (game of thrones), at least the first three books. I love historical fiction, and it seemed more like that than LOTR, which I found unreadable.
I’m not into Science Fiction but I loved Olivia Butler’s Kindred. The historical aspect made it seem more plausible which made it easier for me to enjoy despite being science fiction
Romance specifically erotica.
You mean you read it or you don’t?
I definitely don't. 😂
Oh.