I currently can only read free books (open for recommendations, although I think I wrung the classics dry for all their worth), but I found a book in one of those mobile libraries that does actually have me hooked: The Innocent by Harlan Coben.

It’s not even close to being the best book I ever read. But it’s well written enough and well plotted enough to keep me hooked. Probably my biggest gripe is the author’s description of the women is how attractive they are. Even when he’s describing the protagonists’ wife, he only describes how much the main character thinks she’s hot. Not a complete turn-off, but still a gripe. 😅

The Dragon Heart Legacy trilogy, by Nora Roberts, was a fairly solid YA/fantasy series.

Piranesi by Susannah Clarke. She writes so simply and yet so beautifully.

Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy was by far the best fiction and best book overall that I read this year. I couldn’t bring myself to read anything else for a few weeks after finishing it, because it was so much to digest. Legit one of the best fiction books I’ve ever read, and it’s not even a category or time period I like reading about.