Can anyone recommend a good novel?

[weedoh]

dresden files

 

[Shikid]

Patricia Highsmith - Strangers On A Train is a classic thriller, should check it out. She is the master of the genre.

 

[freshmilk]

strange pictures by uketsu is a good quick read

 

[radiantstars]

if you like Litrpg try Wish upon the stars by Malcolm tent

 

[Exist0]

Depends what you're into

• Mystery/thriller → The Silent Patient
• Dark fantasy → The Name of the Wind
• Sci-fi → Project Hail Mary
• Emotional/drama → A Little Life

 

[RiniKat28]

The Illuminae trilogy is a really good scifi series! reads very much as found footage if that makes sense

 

[EMS]

The bible written in old English........shed loads of stories in there, all fiction of course.

 

[lichtjunger]

The Good Samaritan by John Marrs
The Passage by Justin Cronin (don't bother with the TV show, not a patch on the book)

I tried out The Passage earlier this year, I'm not sure how I feel about it. Like, I was pretty into it for the FBI agent's part of the story, but then it ended, and the leap forward in time was a little jarring, and I found it somewhat less interesting. The TV show is junk for sure, though.

OP: not what you're looking for, but the last book I read that I really liked is called Wake Up And Open Your Eyes. It's about a demonic possession that spreads through social media. It's a little like the book version of the Crossed comic, but somewhat less "gross just to be gross". There's a super interesting portrayal of the gradual possession of a family though, that was my favorite part about it.

 

[elcisitiak]

I'm adding on to the recommendations for The Expanse. It's a lot of books, yes, but I found most of them, especially the first one, to be fairly satisfying on their own as a novel.

 

[spiderclaw]

Metro 2033, 2034 and 2035 by Dmitriy Glukhovskiy, really good stuff. they also made really cool games about those and theres one coming soon, actually. was announced a week or two ago or something like that

 

[mwoodsher]

If you like history, then the historical fiction genre is for you.
I love Ken Follett's books. Start with the Pillars of the Earth series and go from there.

 

[x1o]

The Stormlight Archive was a good read. Its more fantasy than sci-fi but still.