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Ask HN: Suggest Me Some Good Fiction

by mkbkn on 3/24/25, 1:20 PM with 3 comments

Preferably, excluding your top 10. Just to see something which are the not the usual all-time bestsellers.

Want to get back into the reading habit, build vocabulary, and go deep into the visualization/creative part. Constant Youtube and mobile phones have over-stimulated my brain and my focus is at all time low.

I do have watched a lot of spy & WW2 movies. I like history, sci-fi and adventure. But please recommend all kinds of genre.

  • by mnky9800n on 3/24/25, 1:50 PM

    I keep a running list of books on my website:

    https://mnky9800n.github.io/booklist/

    I have read each book here so I suppose I would recommend all of them (except in the cases where my short review indicates otherwise).

  • by PaulHoule on 3/24/25, 1:28 PM

    Worlds by Haldeman. The Long Lavender Look by McDonald.

  • by dtagames on 3/24/25, 2:24 PM

    Authors that have survived history are good for a reason! Have you explored...

    Isaac Asimov

    C.S. Lewis

    Arthur Conan Doyle

    Michael Chrichton

    Mark Twain

    George Orwell

    Agatha Christie

    P.K. Dick

    Ayn Rand

    William Shakespeare

    ...