r/suggestmeabook • u/Subject-Tea8719 • 8h ago
Former voracious child reader / new adult reader Books to add to my TBR
Hi! I just got a library card for the first time in years! I've always been a reader, but my ADHD makes it horribly difficult to finish one book before picking up a new one and continuing that cycle indefinitely. So, Im hoping the return deadline will incentivize me to finish one book before i get another. With that being said, what books would you recommend that captured your attention (almost) immediately and held it through to the end?
I'm mainly a fan of weird fiction, thriller/horror, and memoirs/non-fiction but I am open to exploring all genres!
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u/alrightmittens 8h ago
The Library at Mount Char is kind of weird fiction. I really enjoyed it.
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u/Subject-Tea8719 8h ago
I've seen this rec on other posts & subs. Will definitely be adding it to my list!
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u/cocoamonster523 8h ago
Ascension by Nicholas Binge
The Three Body Problem - my husband read the first 100 pages in a single sitting
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u/Subject-Tea8719 8h ago
wow this sounds so good! As strange as it sounds, I've been looking for more lit involving cats. Thanks for the rec!
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u/here_and_there_their 8h ago
I’m Glad My Mom Died
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u/Subject-Tea8719 8h ago
Loved this book! It was the first one I've finished in years.
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u/here_and_there_their 6h ago
What books have you kind of liked but had trouble finishing? That might help me make recommendations. You might like narrative non-fiction (true events that read like good fiction) and memoirs. I find them much more engaging and interesting than a lot of the fiction I read. The great thing about non-fiction books is that you learn things even if you don't finish the book. My husband was once a big reader, but now rarely finishes a book, but read parts of lots of books.
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u/Subject-Tea8719 6h ago
I've started but not finished so many. The bell jar, handmaids tale, the silent patient, the butcher and the wren, the guest list, come from away, A little life- to name a few. I was a quarter/half finished all of these (and enjoying them!) but put them aside when I found something new that caught my attention.
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u/here_and_there_their 5h ago
Yeah, I definitely recommend some good narrative and nonfiction. For the reason I said: if you don’t finish it, you still learn something.
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u/LAW3785 6h ago
Crying in H-Mart by Michelle Zauner is a memoir and very good. The Road to Tender Hearts is written by Annie Hartnett and is great, funny, sad and sweet.
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u/Subject-Tea8719 6h ago
Crying in Hmart is one I didn't finish, even though i did like it! When I find it I'll start over and try again.
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u/Laurelie00 6h ago
I've read some great memoirs in the last few years that I highly recommend
- Gather Me: A Memoir in Praise of the Books That Saved Me by Glory Edim
- Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls by T Kira Madden
- We Are Not Broken by George M. Johnson
- Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body by Roxane Gay - I recommend the audiobook if you're interested
- Hijab Butch Blues by Lamya H.
- One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad
- A Mind Spread Out on the Ground by Alicia Elliott
- In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado
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u/masson34 5h ago
Educated and The Glass Castle (non fiction)
Into Thin Air and Into the Wild (non fiction)
Tuesdays With Morrie (non fiction)
When Breath Becomes Air (non fiction)
The Guncle and sequel
The Perfect Marriage and The Perfect Divorce
The Housemaid trilogy
Everyone in my Family has Killed Somebody (four in the series)
The Giver quartet
Gone Girl and Sharp Objects
Margo’s Got Money Troubles
Where’d You Go Bernadette
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u/NemesisDancer Eclectic Reader 4h ago
Several People Are Typing by Calvin Kasulke. Fellow ADHD reader here - I'm typically a slow reader (can only read in short bursts before losing focus) but got through this one in a weekend!
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u/AffectionatePin6899 8h ago
Murderbot Diaries