Hi I am new. Been reading a lot recently so thought I would share my list. I am mostly a fantasy reader, with some apocalyptic tendencies. I am always looking for more to read though.
Book 1, 2, and 3.
Mistborn Trilogy Boxed Set: The Final Empire, The Well of Ascension, The Hero of Ages by Brandon Sanderson
I started reading this as this author took over another series by another author I liked and I wanted to see what his own fiction was like. I loved this series. Brandon writes some really great magic systems and his world building is top class. He also writes a good female protagonist. This series made me want to read everything he has written.
Book 4
The Things That Keep Us Here byCarla Buckley
A really interesting read about a couple and their children and what happens when flu virus hits the population with an almost 50% kill rate. This book made me cry, perhaps because I could totally see myself in the mother's position. It is an emotional read, this is a separated, unhappy couple, trying to hold it together through illness, loss of power, hunger, human violence and terrible weather. When I finished the book, I had to sit for a while and just think about it, it was entirely plausible that this situation could hit, and a reminder of how thin the veneer of civility really is when we are talking about survival.
Book 5
Burn for Me: A Hidden Legacy Novel by Ilona Andrews
This is an urban fantasy with elements of romance. A young magic user and her mostly teenage family, along with ex-army sharp shooter mother, and tank fixing, straight talking grandmother.
Most of the world was changed in the past by a serum that encouraged developments of "magic" throughout the population. This changed the structure of society, with major magical families becoming high society and basically running their cities themselves. People basically arrange themselves into castes based on the strength of their magic, with Primes being on top.
The protagonist is a young woman who runs a private investigation firm, family based, which works out of one of the major families due to financial issues, has been given the impossible task of bringing in one of the runaway sons from another family. She's probably going to die trying. And she gets some unwanted attention trying to do so. At least nobody knows that she's not completely powerless herself.
Since I love this author, I can only recommend. It's kind of a fantasy trope, the young female PI against the world, but it doesn't read that way. I like the strong female characters who don't just fall in love and let their man save the day.
Book 6
A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness
Another book that made me cry. Proper sobbing with snot too. It's a story about a monster in the night, nightmares, bullying and death, but it's not what it seems. Another one that is a dark read with a very interesting message, and also another one where another author has taken up the reins of a story after the death of the initial author. I find it very interesting to see how these stories compare to the original works, and what the new author brings to it.
Will do some more later on as I have catching up to do, fortunately I got plenty of books read, and plenty more in the to read pile.