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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