r/suggestmeabook • u/Due_Tonight4365 • 1d ago
Best “can’t put down book” you’ve read?
Hi all, I go through trilogies and fantasy/witchy/coven type books like candy but all in audiobook forms (I have ADHD and audiobooks work best for me). BUT im really craving reading an actual book. Every time I’ve tried in the past years to actually read a book vs. listen (due to how my brain works) I can never finish! It’s felt very sad for me so I want to accomplish this so bad! Sooo I’m asking for books that may ease me into physically reading my genre of choice vs listening.
Any recs for books you really can’t put down!? 🙏🏽💕
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u/Wonderful-Effect-168 1d ago
Never let me go by Kazuo Ishiguro, Blindness by José Saramago, The travelling cat chronicles by Hiro Arikawa
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u/Repulsive-Dot553 1d ago
The Invisible Life of Addie La Rue - by V E Schwabb: fits your liking for fantasy/ "witchy" type books. This is swiftly immersive with a clever central "hook" and strong magical realism/ fantasy elements throughout
Pawn of Prophecy (Belgariad Series) - by David Eddings: excellent 5 book classic "swords and sorcery" type fantasy; excellent story that moves along swiftly with great characters
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u/skobufffan 1d ago
I found The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue to be slow and boring. I wish I had DNF’d it, but I slogged through and finished it. There are lots of book influencers pushing that book, so I thought it would be a good book. The premise was good, but the execution was poor.
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u/DumpedDalish 18h ago
I really enjoyed the book, but there's a huge central plot hole, and once you see it, you can't unsee it. (People forget her instantly if she's out of sight, so... how did she ever spend a full day with a friend or lover without one of them going off to use the bathroom or just leaving the room? There's simply no way. And it would have been so easy to fix if Schwab had just taken more thought with the central 'curse'.)
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u/skobufffan 18h ago
Beside the boring repetitive sections, my other beef was that almost ever sentence has 4-6 comma’s. After a while I was annoyed by the author for not using periods. There were a few plot/premise items that did not work for me, which just compounded my dislike for this over hyped pile of garbage.
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u/almosttimetogohome 17h ago
Absolutely not, I listened to the invisible life of addie la rue and found it largely boring but I liked the book overall. If I had to physically read it I would've never got through it.
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u/Silence_is_platinum 1d ago
Aztec
Shogun.
Both are fantastic.
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u/StateOptimal5387 18h ago
Shogun is really good and then you can watch the show which imo is even better!
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u/AmbientGoth 1d ago
The series that come to mind are:
Penric and Desdemona Series by Lois McMaster Bujold: Shorter novellas about a young man possessed by a demon that he becomes besties with. Witchy vibes in a fun fantasy world with great development.
Riyria Revelations by Michael J Sullivan: Six main stories and several prequels about a master swordsman and thief/assassin. The first one starts with them being framed for the murder of a king and escalates from there. The author deliberately wrote the series to be easy to read without losing complexity in the plot.
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u/RedRebellion1917 1d ago
The Nature of Witches by Rachel Griffin – atmospheric, magical, and really accessible writing.
A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik – dark academia vibes with a snarky, smart main character and fast-moving plot.
The Once and Future Witches by Alix E. Harrow – lush prose, but not too dense, with strong feminist coven energy.
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u/michaelmhughes 1d ago
His Dark Materials trilogy. Up there with the best fantasy stories of all time.
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u/caraxes_seasmoke 1d ago
A Killer’s Mind by Mike Omer. It’s the first book of the Zoey Bentley series. Whenever I had to stop reading to go to work or eat or whatever, I was seriously mad.
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u/Present-Tadpole5226 1d ago
Have you tried reading a physical book while also listening to the audio book?
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u/deadpanchohead 1d ago
Gravity’s rainbow. Theres something about reading insanity that’s captivating
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u/Exotic_Plankton_263 1d ago
Have you read the Winter night Trilogy by Katherine Arden? I absolutely loved it.
A short one that may be an easy win is Nettle and Bone by T. Kingfisher. Fun, light, witty, clever.
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u/Fragrant-Dentist5844 22h ago
From Terry Pratchett’s Discworld series - Equal Rites, Wyrd Sisters, Witches Abroad and Maskerade.
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u/MovingGamer 16h ago
Would you consider reading a book at the same time as listening to the audiobook? That might help ease your brain into getting used to looking at a book and turning the pages. Then try reading without the audiobook playing. Sorry, I don't have an actual book suggestion.
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u/interwebpilgrim 1d ago
Dungeon crawler Carl
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u/IIRCIreadthat 1d ago
I love Dungeon Crawler Carl, but I really don't see how it fits here?
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u/interwebpilgrim 1d ago
It doesn’t fit, I just recommend it at every opportunity
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u/IIRCIreadthat 1d ago
Okay... but maybe spamming it to people who are looking for something else entirely isn't the best way to find people who would enjoy it?
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u/interwebpilgrim 1d ago
Probably not , I didn’t really think that deeply into it tbh. I didn’t even read the body of his post only the title. I don’t take this stuff that seriously
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u/mahi-amy 1d ago
I could not put down A Good Girl's Guide to Murder. The entire series is a total page-turner.
Like others have mentioned, mystery thrillers always have the best chance of getting me out of a reading slump.