Wow! What a change for you. Welcome to book world. I raided my dad’s book shelf when I was 11 and never stopped reading. I’d start with things you love or things you’re interested in. Is there something appealing about memoirs? There are certainly many books that are not by celebrities, just amazing life stories and you could branch into non-fiction, about areas (like Appalachia, India, etc), religions, experiences. Or, if you’re ready for fiction, are there books your son reads and likes that you could start with? I love some teen and young adult books: Speak, Harry Potter, The fault in our stars, hunger games, under the whispering door…
If you’re a short story fan or into shorter works, you could try novellas (short novels) or short story books. It’s a nice way to see if you like a particular style of book, like fantasy, romance, mystery, science fiction. These aren’t my personal favorites, so I don’t have good recommendations for you.
I love science fiction and fantasy and am a fan of Charles de lint who writes urban fantasy. He does have quite a few short story books. There are deep sagas like Lord of the Rings that can be admittedly boring until you really get into it— like 100 pages into it. Memory, Sorrow and Thorn trilogy is brilliant and beautiful, but the books are 800-900 pages long! Worth every letter in each page.
Female authors like Nnedi Okorafor, Margaret Atwood, NK Jemison, Joy Ellis, Faith Hunter, Becky Chambers, are mystery, science fiction, alternate future, and fictions writers who write great books, in my opinion.
Also, check out John scalzi for fantastic moderate length reads for fun, inventive, funny, science fiction and fiction. He brings me joy when I need it.
Wow! What a change for you. Welcome to book world. I raided my dad’s book shelf when I was 11 and never stopped reading. I’d start with things you love or things you’re interested in. Is there something appealing about memoirs? There are certainly many books that are not by celebrities, just amazing life stories and you could branch into non-fiction, about areas (like Appalachia, India, etc), religions, experiences. Or, if you’re ready for fiction, are there books your son reads and likes that you could start with? I love some teen and young adult books: Speak, Harry Potter, The fault in our stars, hunger games, under the whispering door…
If you’re a short story fan or into shorter works, you could try novellas (short novels) or short story books. It’s a nice way to see if you like a particular style of book, like fantasy, romance, mystery, science fiction. These aren’t my personal favorites, so I don’t have good recommendations for you.
I love science fiction and fantasy and am a fan of Charles de lint who writes urban fantasy. He does have quite a few short story books. There are deep sagas like Lord of the Rings that can be admittedly boring until you really get into it— like 100 pages into it. Memory, Sorrow and Thorn trilogy is brilliant and beautiful, but the books are 800-900 pages long! Worth every letter in each page.
Female authors like Nnedi Okorafor, Margaret Atwood, NK Jemison, Joy Ellis, Faith Hunter, Becky Chambers, are mystery, science fiction, alternate future, and fictions writers who write great books, in my opinion.
Also, check out John scalzi for fantastic moderate length reads for fun, inventive, funny, science fiction and fiction. He brings me joy when I need it.