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the 20 best fiction books I’ve read in the past 3 years
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items If you’re trying to read some of the best fiction books of all time, start with this list of must read books and crack open a masterpiece. #books #fiction
I pre-judged this book, thinking I wasn’t part of the target market for a coming-of-age story about four sisters. I was 100 percent wrong. Alcott’s classic about Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy Marsh is meaningful, fun, and inspiring.
Little Women
Remarkably, I never read Austin until this year, and now I know why her books have a prominent place on nearly every Top 100 list ever written. Austen’s story is a fascinating view into social classes, outdated gender roles, family, vanity, gossip, a...
Pride and Prejudice
Just like everyone else in the country, I jumped on the young adult (YA) fiction bandwagon after reading books like The Hunger Games. Red Rising is the best series I’ve found to scratch that same itch, and the first book of the series is also one of ...
Red Rising
Bulgakov’s classic novel served as a scathing critique of the political and religious oppression in Stalinist Russia. The devil comes to earth and wreaks havoc in Russia alongside his motley crew which includes a black cat, a tall man with broken gla...
The Master and Margarita
Precocious youngster Ender Wiggin is enrolled in a military school and pitted against fellow students and otherworldly foes in this fast-paced sci-fi novel.
Ender's Game
The year is 2045, and the world has been ravaged by poverty, climate change, and war. The majority of humanity copes with the world’s destitution by immersing themselves in the virtual reality of the OASIS - brainchild of computer scientist James Hal...
Ready Player One
It’s hard to express exactly how good (and underrated) this book really is. Two federal agents go missing in Wayward Pines, Idaho, and the Secret Service agent who’s sent to find them realizes there’s a lot going on behind the scenes in this spooky t...
Pines
I’ve watched the old Gene Wilder movie multiple times, but reading the book gave me the chance to experience the joy anew when Charlie unwraps the chocolate bar containing that glorious golden ticket. Dahl is one of the best children’s authors of all...
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Every one of Flynn’s books is dark and twisted, and this one is my favorite. A woman named Amy Dunne disappears, and passages from her diary indicate her husband Nick may not be the gentleman he seems. Not only is this book an incredible psychologica...
Gone Girl
Chances are, you’ve seen the movie but not read the book. The Princess Bride is a fun romp through piracy, romance, intrigue, murder, and revenge. You’ll leave the book with an even deeper love for Westley, Buttercup, and the gang.
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If you love suspense and you’ve never read Patricia Highsmith, stop reading my article and go pick up this novel. Tom Ripley is many things: con man…genius…sociopath. After Tom reconnects with his old friend Dickie in Europe, Tom decides he’s too jea...
The Talented Mr. Ripley
I struggle with long books, so this 1,200+ page monster was a challenge for me, but the payoff was worth it. Les Miserables contained several of the best examples of non-romantic, unconditional love I’ve ever read. It’s also a great primer on the Jun...
Les Miserables
The Dead Zone quickly became one of my favorite Stephen King books of all time, and I’ve read 22 of them. I was amazed by King’s ability to foreshadow plotlines early in the book, then deftly connect back to them later in the story.
The Dead Zone
Author Paul Sheldon comes face-to-face with his biggest fan in this creepy novel. When Sheldon’s car crashes in the middle of nowhere, a woman named Annie Wilkes nurses him back to health. But then Wilkes decides to hold Sheldon hostage until he writ...
Misery
Washed-up writer Jake Bonner is working as a professor when he meets brilliant and arrogant student Evan Parker. Parker tells Bonner the plot of a story he’s writing, then dies before he can publish it. So Bonner takes things into his own hands, only...
The Plot
One recent Halloween, I decided to read one of the most iconic horror books: Rosemary’s Baby. Levin’s foreshadowing and storytelling were so brilliant, I immediately ordered two of his other books: The Stepford Wives and A Kiss Before Dying. Together...
Rosemary's Baby
Bird Box is one of the best thrillers I’ve read in years. Malerman does an amazing job building suspense around an unseen entity that causes millions of people across the world to kill themselves. Scattered survivors live in fear, cowering behind bli...
Bird Box
As soon as I read the synopsis of this book, I immediately wanted to read it: a woman named Rachel gets a phone call saying her daughter has been kidnapped. In addition to paying a $25,000 ransom, Rachel must select and kidnap another kid to keep “Th...
The Chain
Michaelides’s rookie novel is a thriller about a woman who murders her husband, then refuses to speak for six years. This book kept me guessing until the end. Apparently, it did the same for the rest of America as well because The Silent Patient spen...
The Silent Patient
Another stunner from Michaelides. This 2021 release tells the story of a professor who exerts a mysterious hold on a young group of female college students. It’s full of Greek tragedy, murder, intrigue, and twists.
The Maidens