Recommend me a book to reignite my love of reading…

[Wonderingpurple]

I used to love reading but found once having children I fell out of the habit. I’ve been trying to get back into reading but struggling to find a really good page turner… I’d love some recommendations please?
my favourites in the past have been:
The handmaids tale
the time traveller’s wife
the midwich cuckoos
I like Dystopia, post apocalyptic fiction but not really young adult (unless it’s really good!), fantasy (but not really fantastical if that makes sense!), nothing with too many characters as I am rubbish with remembering who everyone is!
I would love to hear any suggestions for books I might enjoy. Thanks

The Rose Code - fiction but based on women's contribution to cracking Enigma at Bletchley Park

Maybe Next Time - a woman gets stuck in a time loop, trying to fix the bad stuff that happened to her on a really really bad day

The Housemaid - this felt to me like one of the characters was obsessed with Handmaids Tale and treat her maid "Offred"y (without the rape/bear a child element)

I've read all 3 recently, and devoured each one.

If you liked the Midwich Cuckoos have you read Day of the Triffids? It's such a great story and. Very easy read.

How about The Power by Naomi Alderman?

Yes I loved this one, maybe time for a reread?

Ah I have read this one, I thought it was quite good too

Vox - similar to handmaids tale.

The End Specialist
The Chrysalids

The Passage
The Road
The Stand
World War Z

The Girl with all the Gifts was an excellent read.

I've just come back to recommend that one. I don't do a lot of dystopian fiction but particularly enjoyed this one.

The History of Bees - Maja Lunde
Greenwood - Michael Christie
Station Eleven/Paper Palace/Sea of Tranquility- Emily St John Mandel
Cloud Cuckoo Land - Anthony Doerr

I’m reading the scythe trilogy at the moment, by Neal Shusterman. Finding it very good

You might like The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue. I read it for book group and enjoyed it. Not my usual genre, but would fall into fantasy category. I hear they are making it into a movie.

I love Brave New World by Aldus Huxley.

Klara and the Sun by Ishiguro

Eleanor Oliphant is completely fine

Well, it's not a dystopian world kind of vibe but a short, wonderfully written book is Ethan Frome. Something short might get you back into reading?

Station Eleven reawoke my love of reading after a few years away - dystopian near future

The Mandibles by Lionel Shriver is a good dystopian read.

Not dystopian and set in the 19th century but a clever book that’s an easy and enjoyable read is Fingersmith by Sarah Waters.

Seconding The Girl With All The Gifts (and The Boy On The Bridge), Station Eleven, The Road and Fingersmith.

Also (in no particular order): Parable of the Sower (series) by Octavia Butler, The Passage (series) by Justin Cronin, Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell (but that's a bit of a chunky monkey to get you back into reading), Pines (Wayward Pines series) by Blake Couch and The End Of The World Running Club by Adrian J Walker.

And Never Let Me Go also by KI - it stayed with me for a long time

Cloud Cuckoo Land is a real must! Going to read it a second time as it’s so Bloomin good

I Who Have Never Known Men - Jacqueline Harpman.
Tender is the Flesh - Agustina Bazterrica.

Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke, and also by same author, Piranesi