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Any fellow bookworms have any reading recs for me?

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I like non-fiction enjoy sci-fi, fantasy, mystery , dystopian and even comedy. The only genre I don't realy read is romance
Recently I've started to venture out to the world of horror adjacent books (even if ifull horror isnt my jam) and read house of leaves.
My favourite author is pratchett (discworld)

And for reasons I hope I won't have to be the bearer of bad news on, Neil Gaiman isn't realy an option.
 
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I’m assuming, like me, you fellow bookworms got lots of books from Santa. I had a list which I distributed to the family and got all but one, plus some I didn’t ask for. One of them was the new Strike book. The Running Grave. It is over 900 pages long and weighs a ton! I’ve read most of the other ones I received but wanted to be able to give Strike my full attention, remember the Ink Black Heart! 😱 Yesterday, my daughter finished work to go on maternity leave so I’ve no more regular child care for 10 months. I’m...
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There is also this thread.
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Thread 'What are you reading?'

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I’m assuming, like me, you fellow bookworms got lots of books from Santa. I had a list which I distributed to the family and got all but one, plus some I didn’t ask for. One of them was the new Strike book. The Running Grave. It is over 900 pages long and weighs a ton! I’ve read most of the other ones I received but wanted to be able to give Strike my full attention, remember the Ink Black Heart! 😱 Yesterday, my daughter finished work to go on maternity leave so I’ve no more regular child care for 10 months. I’m...
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Ohh thank you I will definitely enjoy looking through that
 
My two favourites are Kate Atkinson and Maggie O'Farrell. I read a lot of crime fiction too but assumed that wasn't your thing. Some of Atkinsons books are crime fiction but not all
 
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My two favourites are Kate Atkinson and Maggie O'Farrell. I read a lot of crime fiction too but assumed that wasn't your thing. Some of Atkinsons books are crime fiction but not all
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Oh do like crime fiction, I just can't do true crime because it tends to trigger my anxiety around stuff happening to me, but if I know it's fiction it's fine. Death ar the sign on the rook sounds good but not sure if it's part of a series followimg the detective or if it can be read as a stand alone
Edit: ah I see it's a stand-alone that's great
 
If you like crime fiction try Elly Griffiths.......the Dr Ruth Gallaway series.....bit of a twist as the charectar is an archeologist

Peter May........Enzo McCloud series
 
I just read Hotel Avocado by Bob Mortimer, light hearted, what on earth is going on here book but thoroughly enjoyed it
 
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If you like crime fiction try Elly Griffiths.......the Dr Ruth Gallaway series.....bit of a twist as the charectar is an archeologist

Peter May........Enzo McCloud series
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I've read a lot of the Ruth Gallaway ones. I know Norfolk well and the criminal justice system.
 
Arthur C Clarke's Childhood's End, The City and the Stars, Rendezvous with Rama & 2001 A Space Odyssey are my favourite SciFi novels.
 
I love The Expanse books for sci fi with good characters.
 
The Mountain Man series by Keith C Blackmore. About a Zombie Apocalypse……. I make no apologies, it’s awesome :rofl:
 
Sara Grice said:
Oh do like crime fiction, I just can't do true crime because it tends to trigger my anxiety around stuff happening to me, but if I know it's fiction it's fine. Death ar the sign on the rook sounds good but not sure if it's part of a series followimg the detective or if it can be read as a stand alone
Edit: ah I see it's a stand-alone that's great
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Crime Fiction ? Have you ready any of Sara Paretsky's excellent feisty lady detective books. Or the Wallender series of Henning Mankell.
In non-fiction Ed Conway's 'Material World' is fascinating about the six basic things, sand, salt, lithium etc that the present world depends on.
In political non- fiction Anthony Selden's biographies of our last six Prime Minister are depressingly informative.
History-wise, Andrew Marr wrote a smashing, very readable, account of Britain since the war.
If you're of a philosophical frame of mind Julian Baggini wrote 'How the World Thinks'. It gets off the treadmill of the Western tradition of philosophy to look at how other cultures, India and China, etc see things.
 
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