Recommendations?

[biostudent]

I am slowly starting to get back into reading and I could do with some recommendations as I went through a funny phase and got rid of over 100 books, I am now looking for new things to read but I don't know where to start.

I enjoy classics but at the moment they can be a bit hard to sink my teeth into, so I'm looking for some easier reading. I like either historical fiction, dystopian stories, fantasy and thriller & horrors. I'm not a fan of modern romance.

For reference, favourites have been:
Harry Potter series
Divergent series
Hunger Games series
Frankenstein
Journey to the Centre of the Earth
Shatter Me series (still on first book but planning to read them all)
Pet Semetary

Please help - reading is my absolute favourite thing to do! :)

@biostudent I know that you've said no classics but A Christmas Carol is a short read and very readable.

it seems to me that a person chooses a book according to his inner needs, two years ago I was reading novels and admired them, now I am older and I am interested in getting to know this world and I am reading psychology - now it is Radical Forgiveness

You might have read these already as they're fairly obvious but as far as dystopian novels go, you can't get much better than The Handmaid's Tale or any of the other Margaret Atwoods (I liked Hagseed). I also really love Angela Carter (Nights at the Circus is my favourite - it's magic realism rather than dystopian).

There's also the retelling of 1984 from Julia's perspective (title: Julia. But I can't remember the author) which came out recently. I haven't read it yet but it got quite good reviews.

One that I loved this year was The Snow Hare' by Paula Lichtarowich (think it's out in paperback soonish). It's a historical novel about the Soviet occupation of Poland in WWII but it's also so much more than that.