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Fiction! (lemm.ee)

submitted 9 months ago by BarrelAgedBoredom@lemm.ee to c/books@lemmy.ml

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I've finally fallen in love with reading again over the last year. Problem is I've only been reading non-fiction. it makes my brain hurt. I'd like to have some stuff I can turn to when attempting to read gender trouble gives me another headache. I don't have any particular preference for genre. I used to read fantasy, historical fiction, dystopian stuff but I'm more than happy to explore other genres as well!

A short list of things I've read for reference:

The saxon stories, Bernard Cornwell
LOTR, the hobbit
1984
The road, Cormac McCarthy
The plague dogs, Richard Adams

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[–] hallwaymaster 3 points 9 months ago

For something with a strong story, an equally strong protagonist, and is oddly cathartic

The Memoirs of Stockholm Sven by Nathaniel Ian Miller

If you enjoy fantasy and dystopian then you may like some magical realism and surrealism. I recommend any fantasy novel by Haruki Murakami. After reading a few of his novels he has become my current favorite author.

Kafka on the Shore (not his most surreal but is a great intro into his style and worldbuilding)
The Wind Up Bird Chronicles
Hard Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World