Looking for fiction book reccs. Prefer to keep it fairly lighthearted and entertaining! Basically a touch above beach reads but hopefully better written. Thanks :)

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Recursion by Blake Crouch was a good, quick, fun read.

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I like Blake Crouch’s writing style a lot.

Little Fires Everywhere, Where the Crawdads Sing, anything by Gillian Flynn

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I’ve read them both...Loved Little Fires Everywhere! Where the Crawdads Sing is wonderful too but a bit too heavy for my current state of mind

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Agents of Innocence by David Ignatius. One of my favorite books of all time — about a CIA case officer in Beirut during the civil war. Thrilling, complex, fantastic character development, and bits and pieces of history that had me deep diving Wikipedia for days.

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Just finished “Early Work” by Andrew Martin, which is a quick, easy, funny read about the sloppiness of being romantically-involved, twenty-something, and post-liberal arts degree’d. It was a little stuffy in its 2010’s intellectualized hipsterish ways—the cultural reference points are insular and dated in that way—but still a fun read with well defined love/hate characters.

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Here’s some of the better book club books we’ve read recently. Our choices have been skewing a bit dark so these are the lighter ones! The language of flowers, station eleven, the girl who wrote in silk, a man called Ove, daisy jones and the six, the secret life of violet grant, the school of essential ingredients

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Horns Joe Hill. Im usually not a fiction person

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I’ve been plowing through the Cormoran Strike mystery series - the books JK Rowling wrote under a pseudonym until it got revealed like three books in to the press. Fun and addictive!

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City of Girls, The Alchemist

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Eleanor oliphant is completely fine

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Dear Mrs Bird - will take you 2 at the most but a solid read

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Ive read this one 😊

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Go old school with anything by Jules Verne or Edgar Rice Burroughs.

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