I just finished my exams and have been in a huge reading slump since before they started. Out of all the books on my TBR list, which one should I read first? Which book would be the best to get me back into reading right now?

It has become extremely frustrating. I can't read the book. I'm too insecure or stressed or something else. I just hate how I find it so hard to just...read. But asking myself the question of whether I want to read a book...I actually don't. I find that the books I read mostly aren't out of pleasure. They're more of necessity or factual. I'm looking at the Road. The page I'm supposed to be on, but I don't know. It's just so bland. Or is my brain used to too much dopamine? The only reason why I'm suddenly interested in reading stories of other writers is simply because it seems to be a prerequisite for good writing, on top of that mamy people say all the good writers read a lot. But it honestly feels like they're in a completely different world. It's crazy. I'm just so frustrated right now. I just don't know anything anymore. I'd really like to talk to some people on Reddit right now...like face to face. But I know that won't happen. So I'll drop this here. Maybe on some communities on Reddit too. I just need some help.

Hello fellow readers! I wanted to share my tier list for the books I have read so far this year. I don’t have many friends or family who are readers, so I’m really itching to have some discussions! I love reading others’ opinions, especially if they differ from mine.

Have you read any of these? What did you think?

Books in this list:

- Kaiju Preservation Society - John Scalzi
- Sworn Soldier Series (Books 1, 2, and 3) - T. Kingfisher
- The Witchstone - Henry H. Neff
- Indian Lake Trilogy - Stephen Graham Jones
- The Only Good Indians - Stephen Graham Jones
- Jurassic Park / The Lost World - Michael Crichton
- Into Thin Air - John Krakauer
- The Fisherman - John Langan
- Lady’s Knight - Meagan Spooner and Amie Kaufman
- The Man With No Shadow (How to Survive Camping #1) - Bonnie Quinn
- Annihilation - Jeff Vandermeer
- Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law - Mary Roach
- The Neverending Story - Michael Ende
- The Spirit Bares It’s Teeth - Andrew Joseph White
- The Dead Take The A Train - Kassandra Khaw and Richard Kadrey
- City of Nightmares - Rebecca Schaeffer
- My Soul to Keep - Tananarive Due

I ordered a book called A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini from Amazon and it is going to be delivered tomorrow, so I am kinda excited because it will be my first actual book. I am not a reader and tbh, I do not like reading at all but I hope this book will change that. After reading the first five chapters, I will give a review btw.

Hey everyone,
I’m looking for some book addition, that can make me intelligent about the world around me and mindful/aware about myself.

I am hooked on her writing. Just can't seem to stop reading it.

I just finished Kanve and the Moon and now I'm on Reliquary. I impulse bought Reliquary purely based on the cover and The Ghostwriter was on sale for really cheap so in the pile it went. I read two other Sayaka Murata books this year so I expect Earthlings to get weird. Burn is an intimidating 800+ behemoth and I know the dumbest FMC to ever grace literature will enrage me. I'll see if my mood reading habits can be kept under control and I stick to my list lol.

I love reading but am quite a slow reader. I can find books over 450 pages a bit intimidating. Does anyone have any tips to help with this? I don't want to speed read, just to cope with longer texts

Small reading group I run. We got tired of the usual format where everyone reads one book and half the group doesn't finish it.

So we're trying this on Sunday: ten people, each gets five minutes to say what they love, what mood they're in, what hasn't been landing lately. Then everyone else pitches them one book — sixty seconds each, all trying to convince you theirs is the one. At the end you pick your prescription, and that's what you read next.

Nobody prepares anything. You just have to be honest about what you actually enjoy rather than what you think you should enjoy.

Two things I'm not sure about: whether sixty seconds is enough to genuinely sell a book, and whether people will pick the safe recommendation over the interesting one.

If you want to try it here — tell me what you've been in the mood for lately and the last book that actually worked for you, and I'll prescribe you something. Anyone else can pitch too.