READING SLUMP BUSTERS | for when you need to prove your brain still works

Are you emerging from your winter bed rot, wondering if your brain is still capable of doing more than just doom scrolling? Are you worried you've lost the love of reading forever? Well in this episode we give spoiler free recs for the books that pulled us out of our worst reading slumps and reignited our confidence in reading. These may not be the best books you've ever read (in fact we can almost guarantee you they aren't), but they will be captivating and easy enough to make you remember that your brain works after all.

7:54 - YA/New adult fantasy

City of Bones by Cassandra Clare

Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros

13:04 - YA fiction

I’d tell you I love you, but then I’d have to kill you by Ally Carter 

The Inheritance Games by Jennifer Lynn Barnes  

To all the boys I’ve loved before by Jenny Han

Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo

Caraval and Once Upon a Broken Heart by Stephanie garber

Fable by Adrienne Young

26:06 - Adult Contemporary Fiction

The Secret Keeper by Kate Morton

The Seven Husband’s of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid

Normal People by Sally Rooney 

37:31 - Thriller

Verity by Colleen Hoover

None of This Is True by Lisa  Jewell

A Good Girls Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson

41:30 - Romance

The Ex Hex by Erin Sterling

Puck and Prejudice by Lia Riley

Emma by Jane Austen

Bride by Ali Hazelwood

51:36 - Slump Breaker or Slump Maker??

Dune by Frank Herbert

58:36 - Slump Makers

Children of Dune - Frank Herbert

A Secret History by Donna Tartt

Ninth house by Leigh Bardugo

Anything by Sarah J. Maas

Chain of Thorns by Cassandra Clare

The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins 

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