What are people reading these days?

[anon33673328]

I was writing some sort of very bland autobiography to cope with depression and forget about the suicidal ideation this weekend, when I realised I have no idea what people read these days.

I read about 2500 books up until I was 19 before my illness started to manifest itself, but those had been gathered by a parent who had lived all of her life behind the Iron Curtain, and they were defined by a double censorship, one was the Communist one and the other, less powerful and consistent ( I remember reading A Yankee in King Arthur’s Court by Mark Twain a few times, for example) was the religious, slightly sectarian censorship.

So please don’t give me classics. I know classics. Don’t throw Hugo, Zola, Dostoyevsky, Camus and Hesse at me, I need to know if living people write books that other living people enjoy reading, and what those are.

Thanks so much to whoever gives me some time of their day and answers this, it is important for me.

[anon92887483]

Harry potters and the’s philosophers stone

[Songbird]

Tamora pierce, James Herbert and something new called the Essex serpent

[crimby]

I usually find John Grisham to be a good read. When I read his only nonfiction book, “An Innocent Man”, it turned me against the death penalty.

[Hadeda]

I just finished reading Dan Brown’s professor Langdon series - brilliant!
Now reading science books for kids and a book on cat behaviour

[FatMama]

Margaret Atwood. Both “Alias Grace” and "A Handmaids Tale "

[Rhubot]

I just read Naomi Novik’s Spinning Silver and Uprooted. They’re two loose fairy tale retellings set in something that bears a passing resemblance to medieval Poland and Lithuania. Both really good - I probably preferred Uprooted, which was deliciously creepy, but I recommend them both.

[Montezuma]

I plan on starting “Sophie’s World” soon.

[ThePickinSkunk]

The Eragon Quadrilogy is very good.

[Coldcomfort]

I was reading Jordan Peterson’s book antidote for chaos.

[melmel7]

Nice thread. I’m reading the latest Flavia de Luce mystery written by Alan Bradley. She’s an 11 year old detective who’s brilliant and hilarious. A lot of wit and dark humor. I just love this series.

I’m also reading a collection of Ray Bradbury stories.

[SkinnyMe]

I love to read and I am an avid reader. Right now, I am reading two books. I am in the middle of the English version of Don Quixote of La Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes. It is a very, very good book and a classic. It has almost one thousand pages.

I am also reading a modern book. It is a self help book called, Maybe It’s You, by Lauren Handel Zander. Lauren is a Life Coach and she teaches people how to change their ways so that they can realize their dreams. It also is a very good book. I am enjoying them both immensely.

[anon2818416]

[Coldcomfort]

Don Quixote is hilarious. I loved reading his forwards especially.