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Any fiction book recommendations? Want to pick up reading again

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Three body problem and sequels

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I just ordered this one. I’m excited to start it.

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World War Z
https://g.co/kgs/rpp1RA

Circe
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Unequal Affections: A Pride and Prejudice Retelling
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Children of Time
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If you like dystopian novels, feel free to turn on CNN.

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If you’re looking for classics, arguably the greatest novels ever written are:

- War and Peace (not as boring as it’s stereotyped to be; a beautiful and wonderful and world-encompassing story that is impossible to put down once you get past learning all the names)
- Anna Karenina (similar to War and Peace, a story that encompasses all of humanity and somehow still manages to be intensely personal and insightful)
- Moby Dick (a challenging, sprawling book that, if it were published today, would arguably seem avant garde, even though it was written ten years before the American civil war. I keep it in the philosophy section of my shelf for reasons that will become obvious if you read it)
- Middlemarch (inarguably the greatest novel ever written by a woman and arguably the greatest English language novel)
- Bleak House (Dickens’s War and Peace)
- The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (certainly a wonderful book, probably not top ten of all time, but a personal favorite)

I hope some of this is helpful!

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Pride and Prejudice and Oliver Twist are both great classics as well. Also the old man and the sea

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Literary: How to Lose The Time War
Sci Fi: ancillaries mercy trilogy
Epic fantasy: Brandon Sanderson books
Light fantasy/satire: Terry Pratchett
Light feminist romance: Tessa Dare books
Dark humor/fantasy: Neil Gaiman
Navajo fantasy: Trail of Lightning
African fantasy: Akata Witch
Suburban dystopia: little fires everywhere
Light fiction: crazy rich asians
I can tailor better suggestions if you tell me what you've enjoyed in the past

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Also I review books of all genres on instagram, you can follow me at @lonslibrary if you're interested

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Ted Chiang writes awesome sci-fi short stories.

I also just started Asimov’s Foundation series

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Neil Gaiman is great. I binged him on overdrive.

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All the light we cannot see
Gentleman in moscow
Pachinko
Nickel boys
Underground railroad

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Lamb by Christopher Moore, the one second after trilogy

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Sally Rooney stuff. You’ll never put it down. Irish fiction is the best.

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Second Sally Rooney, I loved both Normal People and Conversations with Friends

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If you're into time traveling romance, Outlander is a meaty book series

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I just checked out IMDB, and I think Roger is more up my alley

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The Alchemyst by Michael Scott

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Dandelion dynasty

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Crazy rich asians trilogy is def good light beach reading novels to get back into fiction reading groove

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Appreciate all the replies - not as interested in sci-fi. Just a solid, non-war book that would be hard to put down

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Anything by Somerset Maugham!

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Leave the world behind - Rumaan Alam for a relatively recent book

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