Fiction reviews from Reddit

"The Martian Andy Weir"

"And The Martian same author PHM"

"The Martian by Andy Weir. It was made into a movie starring Matt Damon. So many facts it sometimes feels like nonfiction."

"I read both of thise books by Kristin Hannah - i also recommend the Nightingale if you haven’t read that one yet."

"Historical fiction is my favorite genre too! I enjoyed Kristin Hannah’s The Women & The Four Winds"

"The Nightingale is fantastic! Gut wrenching story."

"Ken Follett's *The Century Trilogy,* as it says, covering most of the 20th century in three books, or his *Kingsbridge* series."

"Ken Follet, The Eye of the Needle."

"Jackdaws."

"Bill Bryson, anything."

"Bryson really makes science fun and shows the human side of a lot of scientists."

"In A Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson"

"Light from Uncommon Stars, by Ryka Aoki (violinist who made a deal with the devil must sell others' souls to escape hell, along t"

"Light from uncommon stars-by Ryka Aoki is a fantastic read!"

"Historical: Robert Harris's Cicero trilogy"

"Otherwise the Cicero trilogy by Robert Harris for Ancient Rome or Munich by the same author for ww2."

"The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue is one of my all time favorites!"

"If you loved The Invisible Life of Addie Larue, definitely put Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil on your radar. Same author (V.E. Schwab), coming out in June."

"Nightfall by Asimov"

"Isaac Asimov: the End of Eternity (time travel)"

""Stranger in a Strange Land", by Robert Heinlein"

"THE MOON IS A HARSH MISTRESS by Robert Heinlein is one of the best straight-up sci-fi novels ever written."

"King Rat also by Clavell is amazing. Set in a Japanese POW cap during the war."

"Yes, Shogun is a great one."

"Sharpes Rifles series Bernard Cornwell."

"The Last Kingdom by Bernard Cornwell. If you like medieval history, especially the viking invasion of England, these books are really great!"

"The Matthew Shardlake series by CJ Sansom"

"The Shardlake series by CJ Sansom is excellent."

"Been getting into Russian scifi with the Strutgatsky brothers. Really enjoyed *Hard to be a God*"

"Currently burning through *Roadside Picnic*."

"Ray Bradbury is great for genre beginners!"

"Ray Bradbury: Fahrenheit 451 (dystopia here on earth)"

"The Cruel Sea by Nicholas Monsarrat LtCdr, FRSL RNVR (fiction)."

"Nicholas Montserrats The Cruel Sea."

"John Green's Everything is Tuberculosis"

"Everything is tuberculosis by John Green"

"The Mythos series by Stephen Fry"

"Mythos. Book about the ancient gods. Stephen fry reads it."

"Killing Mr Watson by Peter Matthiessen"

"At Play In The Fields Of The Lord, by Peter Matthiessen"

"Any of Marie Benedict's bio-fiction, esp. *The Only Woman in the Room,* about Hedy Lamarr."

"Apocalyptic: 'Severance' by Ling Ma"

"Dee Henderson! She writes Christian romantic suspense, and her O'Malley series is one of my absolute favs (also Undetected)."

"My Grandmother Asaled Me To Tell You She's Sorry by Frederik Backman **The story follows Elsa, a seven-year-old girl with a penchant for grammar and deep affection for her grandmother, Granny, who dies from cancer**."

"Legends and Lattes by Travis Baldree!"

"Apocalyptic: 'The Wind-Up Girl' by Paulo Bacigalupi"

"Michael Crichton's **Timeline** has a group of grad students go back to 14th century France to investigate a mystery while another group stays in the present to assist/protect them."

"*The Winds Of War* and *War And Remembrance*, by Herman Wouk. This tells the events leading up to, and during World War 2"

"I also loved Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller for the literary prose and heart wrenching love story."

"The Power by Naomi Alderman – women develop a power that flips the world upside down"

"Any book by Pauline Gedge. Her ancient Egypt books are the best I’ve ever read."

"For more mystery thriller, I would recommend The Last One by Will Dean (and I was told to go into it as blind as possible and after having read it, would definitely echo that sentiment)."

"I have to recommend Francine Rivers! She is the first Christian Romance author I got into... The Lady’s Mine, Redeeming Love, The Masterpiece"

"Crime: The Godfather by Mario Puzo"

"Ursula Le Guin: the Dispossessed (different kinds of society)"

"*The Demolished Man* by Alfred Bester is amazing."

"The Chronicles of Brother Cadfael by Ellis Peters is very good. It's a historical mystery series... the author does take the protagonist's faith very seriously."

"Have you read any of C. S. Lewis' adult works? Check out his Space Trilogy for sci-fi or Til We Have Faces for fantasy."

"W.E.B. Griffin for a whole selection of WW2. I would start with Semper Fi."

"Anything by Lynn Austin. Very highly recommend “Return to Me” audiobook."

"Fantasy: Robin Hobb's Realm of the Elderlings"

"Scifi: Connie Willis's Oxford Timetravel series, especially the last two"

"Apocalyptic: 'Oryx & Crake' by Margaret Atwood"

"*To Be Taught, If Fortunate* by Becky Chambers is a science fiction standalone novella."

"Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro – dystopian but deeply human"

"Absolutely recommend *Measuring the World* by Daniel Kehlmann. It’s technically fiction, but it reads like a witty, fast-paced double-biography of the mathematician Carl Gauss and explorer Alexander von Humboldt."

"Historical fiction: 'Manhattan Beach' by Jennifer Egan"

"Love Comes Softly is the start of series of books by one of my favorite authors, Janette Oke."

"Dark Matter, Upgrade, and Recursion by Blake Crouch and science fiction thrillers that are fast paced and a good mix of science/action/some more human elements!"

"If you haven't read them yet, TJ Klune's other books in the "kindness trilogy" might hit the spot! That's Under the Whispering Door and In the Lives of Puppets."

"Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones!"

"Horatio Hornblower series C.S. Forester."

"Just about anything by Umberto Eco will blow your mind. Foucault's Pendulum and The Name of The Rose in particular."

"I really enjoy "with fire and sword" by Henryk Sienkiewicz."

"My first recommendation is books by Karen Witemeyer. I recommend starting with the Hanger's Horseman series... Archer Brothers series and the standalone novel A Tailor Made Bride."

"Honor by Thrity Umrigar, A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry, Pachinko by Min Jin Lee, A Thousand Splendid Suns AND The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini, Human Acts by Han Kang are some of my favorites! Historical fiction’s been my favorite lately."

"Cross of Iron by Willi Heinrich (fiction)."

"Carl Sagan: Contact"

"Catch-22 by Joseph Heller (fiction)."

"Beneath a Scarlet sky by mark sullivan is one of the coolest WW2 stories I’ve ever heard"

"Kim Stanley Robinson: Aurora (space colonization)"

"Elizabeth Peters Amelia Peabody series’s set in Egypt is fun."

"A memory called empire arkady Martin"

"I'm currently reading A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towels and loving it so much."

"Maybe he would like 1984 by George Orwell if he hasn't already read it."

"If you like historical fiction and you haven't read 11/22/63 by Stephen King then you definitely should."

"Otherwise, head for Ted chiang."

"Clive Barker has some fantastic fantasy books: Weaveworld, Imajica, The Great and Secret Show"

"The Wolf Hall trilogy by Hilary Mantel"

"These are the authors you need - RF Delderfield, Bernard Cornwell, George Shipway, Jeffrey Farnol, Rafael Sabatini, Alfred Duggan, Ellis Peters, CS Forrester (Hornblower), Annamarie Selinko ('Desiree'), Nigel Tranter, Robert Graves ('I, Claudius' and 'Claudius the God') and Josephine Tey ('The Privateer' and 'The Daughter of Time')"

"Jane Austen is a good bet. She wouldn't have called her books romances, but as a slice of life in the 1800s... the plots do tend to centre around the right (and occasionally wrong) ways that people choose their spouses."

"I loved the parallels to Phantom of the Opera so you might enjoy Phantom by Susan Kay."

"What if? By Randall Munroe"

"*Three Hours in Paris,* by Cara Black. WWII, and there is at least one sequel."

"If you're okay diving into a heavier book you can definitely try The Women by Kristen H"

"The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna"

"The Sweet Smell of Decay, Paul Lawrence"

"The Spellshop, by Sarah Beth Durst (perhaps heavier on the romance than found family, but both are present)"

"The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson"

"Also Taylor Jenkins Reid- The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, Daisy Jones & The Six, Carrie Soto is Back (these are super “easy,” enjoyable reads)"

"The God Of The Woods by Liz Moore"

"Devil All The Time by Donald Ray Pollack"

"Starlight by ML Briggs"

"{Saturn Run by Ctein and John Sandford}"

"Santa Evita by Tomas Eloy Martinez"

"Try Lance by Nabokov. I adore that, even tho Nabokov didn’t write sci fi."

"Lady Tan’s Circle of Women by Lisa See"

"Going With The Boys by Judith Mackrell"

"Fall On Your Knees by Ann Marie Macdonald"