AIBU to ask for book recommendations

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I’m trying to get back into reading more books. I used to love reading and would go to bed early just so I could read my book. Read on my lunch break etc But the last few years I’ve just not bothered, letting myself get sucked into TV and social media. Nothing wrong with either of those and I enjoy both, but I’d just like to redress the balance a bit and get back to something else I really enjoyed.

But whenever I go to the library or charity shop to get a book I just can’t decide what to read. The few I have picked have been tosh and one I have up on a quarter of the way through. I’ve lost my touch! AIBU to ask for help?!

For crime/detective fiction I could recommend the Kate Atkinson novels about Jackson Brodie - Case Histories, One Good Turn, When Will There Be Good News and Started Early Took My Dog.

Another sort of fantasy one I enjoyed recently was The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Claire North

Burial Rites by Hannah Kent
The Dinosaur Feather by Sissel-Jo Gazan

5foot

Yes to Kate Atkinson, and actually to all her novels

Malcolm Mackay series
RJ Ellory
Linwood Barclay
One Fine Day in the Middle of the Night by Christopher Brookmyre
Good in Bed by Jennifer Weiner
11.22.63 by Stephen King

The Martian is great (for a sci fi recommendation). I enjoyed the film too.

"Burial Rites" By Hannah Kent.
It's a fictional account of the life of Agnes, the last woman to be executed, by beheading, in Iceland.
The book references actual official 'problems' for example, the axe wouldn't be sharp enough to behead in one stroke, so another, sharper one was bought.
Agnes's voice is lyrical and soaring, like the ravens she can't talk to, despite the stone that her mother told her to put in her mouth.
This book, this story has shrivelled me.