I need your help: I have been in a reading slump and need some suggestions.
My fellow bibliophiles… I need your help: I have been in a reading slump and need some suggestions. I love historical fiction, paranormal, fantasy etc. I’ve read Laurell K Hamilton, Diana Gabaldon, Kim Harrison etc. I also loved Francine Rivers and the Poison Study series/ game of thrones. Just finished The Witcher books (loved them). Any suggestions would be great!
Try J.R. Ward #1″Dark Lover” Black Dagger Brotherhood series
These are fantasic.one of the best series i’ve read.
Logan Ninefingers is the best badass in fantasy!
I want to know how the Bloody Nine came about.
Ken Follett’s Century Trilogy for historical fiction.
The Historian and Discovery of Witches series
Deborah Harkness Discovery of Witches
Can’t go wrong with this one!
Not historical fiction but its really short and will get you out of a slump.
Its one of my favorites (about the holocaust and his experience as a prisoner)
Dresden files by Jim Butcher
I love the Cousins’ War Series by Philippa Gregory next on my list is her Tudor Court Series
The Tudor court series is really good as well!
Didn’t she write The White Queen etc?
Angela yes that’s part of The Cousins’ War series ?
Oooh! I’m absolutely guilty of seeing the TV series first but I’ve read a couple of Ms. Gregory’s books before and enjoyed her writing. Thanks!
The Dragon Songs Saga: The Complete Epic Quartet by JC @Kang
This is an excellent series.
You had me at Dragon…
The Temeraire series by Naomi Novik is an alternate history/fantasy. The Napoleonic war with dragons.
The Bf has this one! He said it’s really good. Thank you!
Hope you like it!
Have you read any of Elizabeth Hunter books? I love the Elemental World series and the new Elemental Mysteries. Her Cambio Springs series is good too. She is my favorite fantasy writer. And her books are very readable. Or listenable. The narrator on the Elemental World series is great. Or maybe Deborah Harkness “A Discovery of Witches” trilogy. It is a good mix of fantasy and historical fiction. –
I have not! Eager to look through these though!
Mystic Cove series
Mercy Thompson series by Patricia Briggs
I’ve tried reading them but I think I made the mistake of reading the Anita Blake Series first and they just felt too similar…? I’m down to try it again. I have to go in with a ‘clean slate’ so to speak lol
@Angela I haven’t read Anita Blake but I seriously love Mercy Thompson. The series battles with The Hollows for favorite series.
I adored The Hollows series and was devastated when Harrison took away one of my favorite characters (I swear I went through at least three stages of grief). Very good.
@Angela I loved it too and I’m sure I know who you’re talking about. But I really like where the series ended up too
Veil Diaries by B.L Brunnemer
Curse of the God’s by Jane Washington
God Hunter by Amy Sumida
Hopeless Magic by A.K Koonce
Seraph Black by Jane Washington
Winter Princess by Skye MacKinnon
All are paranormal and/or scy-fi
Angela, have you read any of these? ?
Nope! I looked them up though and they’re on my list now ❤
Great! They are amazing!
Have you read any of the Poison/Magic/Fire study books by Maria V. Snyder yet? Based on your suggestions, I think you may like them.
@Angela no I have not
The thirteenth tale by Diane Setterfield
The All Souls Trilogy by Deborah Harkness.
This ????
I just realized that I saw this series when the first book came out and bypassed it to read Karen Moning’s Fever series, subsequently forgetting all about this one . I really wish I followed my gut and tried this one instead. So excited!
The Historian and I’m reading Neil Gaiman’s Nevermore. The narration is excellent, you might want to sample it.
Thanks you guys! My boyfriend said if I pass my Insurance license exam this week, he’ll take me book shopping and now I have so much to investigate.
@Trev, my bf said that guy is a really good author. He’s trying to get me to read the Stormlight Archive and I don’t know if I’d live long enough to finish them lol.
My friend @Melissa recently recommended I read Aztec which I believe is historical fiction. I’m only a few pages in so far…. I hope she doesn’t mind that I dropped her name as she did give me a bit of a warning before I started it lol ?
Good story.I think there are 3 other books in the series.
The Nightingale, Kristin Hannah and Lilac Girls, Martha Hall Kelly
I won’t lie, I’m afraid of what people will think of me when I say “This is a great book!!” and then they get to one of the juicy parts of the story. Haha!
Lol steer into the weird my friend, no judgement here!
Listen, with Aztec, we’ve steered into the weird and made camp there! Haha!
Trev Bryan There is. I read the second one, Aztec Autumn, and it was just as good as the first.
@Melissa we have always been weird anyways haha
Philippa Gregory
Kate morten
The Gentleman Bastard Sequence, by Scott Lynch. I’m right now on the second book of the Farseer trilogy by Robin Hobb (also the first of 5 trilogies that compose it’s total universe) and enjoying more than expected. So far I recommend too.
”Arbanhalle“ is a new knockout fantasy series. Well written and with a gripping narrative. The author weaves a convincing tale of intrigue and betrayal. I can’t wait for the next book to be published!
The Invisible Bridge by Julie Orringer
John M Ford’s The Dragon Waiting and Michael Moorcock’s Gloriana
Have you read Shelly Laurenston’s paranormal romance? They are so funny – IMO Beast Behaving Badly is the funniest
Richard Kadrey
Love him
Also try Soulless by Gail Carriger
I loved the midnight, Texas series by Charlaine Harris. I shied away from her because of her popularity, but midnight converted ne
Wonderful reading
The labyrinth by Kate moss
I’ve been reading the st Mary’s series by Jodi Taylor and it’s great – sci fi time travel
Try Sharyn McCrumb Ballad series, my favorite was the Ballad of Tom Dooley
America’s First Daughter
Jojo Moyes writes books other than the Me Before You books. Ones that bounce back and forth in time, historical/modern….The Girl You Left Behind or Last Letter From Your Lover
Historical FIction: Books by Sandra Dallas, Nancy E. Turner, Jacqueline Winspear
Burial Rites by Hannah Kent
This was a great book!
@Marla indeed
Acheron by Sherilynn Kenyon
As you like dragons you might like: A Natural History of Dragons: A Memoir by Lady Trent by Marie Brennan. It is the start of a wonderful series. Other suggestions: The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss…Archangel by Sharon Shinn…The Snow Queen by Joan D Vinge…The Crystal Cave by Mary Stewart…Shogun by James Clavell…Shangri-La by James Hilton…Here Be Dragons by Sharon Kay Penman…Fortunes of War by Olivia Manning…The Physician by Noah Gordon…
https://bookriot.com/2017/10/20/best-epic-fantasy-series/
Discovery of Witches
Try something a bit different, Wedlock by Wendy Moore A biography of Mary Eleanor Bowes the first woman to obtain a divorce in eighteenth century Britain, It will make you cry but ultimately make you cheer for this heroic woman
Jimmy Paz trilogy by Michael Gruber. I’m re-reading it and enjoying it as much as I did the first time.
For historical fiction, the Flashman books by George MacDonald Fraser. Everything except Flashman is historically accurate.
Paranormal PD series by John P Lagsdon and Christopher P Young. I’ve read the Ian Dex series and am now working on Piper and Payne.
Patricia Briggs is a good author for urban fantasy/paranormal. Also Jim Butcher Dresden files.
I love anything by Barbara Michaels, which usually has something paranormal about it.
Discovery of Witches by Harkness!!!!!!
Try something different: Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry.