To ask you to help me fall in love with reading again?

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When I was younger I used to loose myself in books. I'd be able to sit for hours and really enjoyed it. Since having my DD 8 years ago I've fallen out of the habit. However, I will come across a certain book once in a while and love it and manage to read it to the end.

Can I ask for some amazing book recommendations in the following kind of categories -

• sober books (pretty sure I've read them all)

• psychological thrillers - fiction

• disturbing/dark books (homelessness, prostitution, mental illness, abuse, murder etc) - fiction or non fiction

• books about nazi Germany but written from a person that experienced it perspective.

• books about addiction - fiction or non fiction.

Thank you.

On addiction

A million little pieces James Frey.

Was recommended on a thread here last year and is one of the best I've read on that subject.

Another on alcohol, Amanda prowse another love.

The Passenger, by Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz. Written by the Jewish author soon after he escaped from Nazi germany, gives a frightening vision of the struggles of a Jewish man trying to avoid arrest by travelling around Germany by train. Very different to other books I've written set in the era or by survivors. Tragically the author died in his twenties, I think the ship he was travelling on was torpedoed.
Another incredible book if you haven't read it is Man's Search for Meaning by Victor E Frankl, a psychologist who survived Auschwitz. It is incredibly moving and his observations of human nature are so acute. The description of how he got upset about having to hand in the manuscript for a book when he arrived, and then all his realisations after that incident- are mind boggling. Very thought provoking.

Case Study by Graeme Macrae Burnet. It was just released in September this year. The author also has a previous book that is a good read called His Bloody Project.

Start reading the book in the bath

Oh sorry, I thought this was for tips on how to get lost in the book, not for actual book recommendations!