Can anyone get me out of my reading slump?

[jai-geeks-out]

I have roughly 97437582709 books in my possession. Recently, I've found it very difficult to get into a book, and have about 6 different ones on the go at the moment.
I think my problem is my literary tastes haven't grown up since I was about 17/18- I'm now 23. Therefore, a lot of my books are of the Twilight ish genre (please don't judge!)...
Does anyone have any recommedations for books suitable for a 23 year old girl (yes girl, I'm not a lady yet), I'm quite open to genre, I do like books that make you think (one of the books I'm currently attempting to read is Swan Song, very creepy).
Any help would be very much appreciated,
thanks dolls xxx

[sjbook]

Well, I really enjoyed The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton. I found the first chapter or two rather slow but after that I really started getting into it. Hope this is at least a little helpful!

[Lexie]

I just read the book thief (years later than everyone else i know!) and loved it so if you haven't read that give it a shot. Other books I've read that I loved are:

henrietta's war by joyce dennys (think a married bridget jones in the first world war)
the winter ghosts by kate mosse (a ghost story but not in a typical way)
enders game by orson scott card (sci-fi book about kids trained to defend the planet, really really good)
the sense of an ending by julian barnes (short but it really makes you think)
kitchen by banana yoshimoto (my favourite author, all set in japan and a bit whimsical, this is my favourite)
me before you by jojo moyes (have some tissues present!)
before i go to sleep by sj watson (such a good book, i was on the edge of my seat the whole way through)
room by emma donoghue (amazing book but the issues it deals with aren't pleasant)
diary of a provincial lady by e m delafield (another war time housewife book, a lovely character)
little boy lost by marghanita laski (a man is searching for his lost son after the war has ended but is trying to decide if he wants him back, a persephone classic, they specialise in literature written by women that was overlooked in the past)

If you want to read a few new teen books I would recommend:
divergent by veronica roth
tempest by julie cross
the future of us by jay asher

I have loads more recommendations so if you want more let me know! (I work in a book store and read far too much!)

[jai-geeks-out]

OOoh thank you so much! I'll definitely look into a few of those, great list Lexie! SO jealous you work in a bookshop, that'd be like my dream job right now haha!
What would be your favourite out of those, if you had to pick??
xxx

[Lexie]

Sorry I haven't replied in ages!
My favourite would be a toss up between the winter ghosts and kitchen. Both amazing.

I also just read delirium by lauren oliver which was brilliant.

enjoy xx

[green like the color]

read Bright's Passage, by josh Ritter. Because that guy is incredible.

[michellezaporojets]

Looking for Alaska by John Green is pretty spectacular. I'm reading it now and am basically obsessed!

[Ameliesnow]

Haha! This made me laugh
Well, by the sounds of it you're a little bit like me in the way you'd like something a little more in depth than Twilight-esque reads! Any Victorian literature is excellent to make you think harder and use your brain cells and you have anything from pastoral to romance to adventure!
For adventure I recommend anything by Robert Louis Stephenson and Bram Stoker's Dracula, and for romance anything by the Brontes, Elizabeth Gaskell, George Elliot, Emile Zola (although he is a French writer and focuses more on workers' rights in France). They are all amazing books

If you don't want books with too many multi-clausal sentences, I recommend "The Collector" by John Fowles, which is about a girl who is kidnapped by a deranged man who just wants her to return his love. Also, "Lolita" is always good!!! If you like books that challenge the 'rights and wrongs' of love. I couldn't put that book down.

'Birdsong' is also brilliant, obviously. 'Diary of an Ordinary Woman' by Margaret Forster is also brilliant, and resembles the Diary of Anne Frank

Hope you find some good books and get out of your slump!

A xx

[Lexie]

Would people recommend Lolita? I know it's a modern classic but it's never been one to jump out at me from the shelves.

I just read Perfume by Patrick Suskind which is wonderful. Quite dark but worth a read,

[caffeitina]

I'd recommend my all-time favorite: Going Bovine, by Libba Bray. It won some awards a few years back... The book itself defies genre. To simplify it's about a terminally ill teen who goes on a mad adventure to save the world and possibly find a cure. But that description doesn't do it justice. There's humor, there's romance, there's depth, there's friendship, it's a commentary on politics, social issues, religion, philosophy... You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll love it. It's one of those quirky thrill-ride books you actually have to read more than once to pick up on all the subtleties, but it's excellent! If you're open to genres as you say, I think you'll like this one.

Good luck with finding a good book!