You could try some novellas, something a bit faster passed might help out. For example there's the Murderbot Diaries.
I had fun recently reading the first 5 books in the 'Book of Amber' series by Roger Zelazny, published through the 70's-80's. Each book is also on the shorter side, and the first 5 books are a contained story. The rest of the series follows a different character after. The magic and world hopping I found pretty interesting, a bit different, and the family drama is entertaining.
'Pod' by Laline Paull. Multi perspective story, follows a hand full of different sea creatures. Quite a heavy story, It's a dramatization about the effects humanity has had on the ocean, and has a lot of other themes tied in to. It's just really well written, great characters, <\3.
You could also try some murder mysteries, Agatha Christie stories are still like for good reason. They are fun reads and there's a lot of them if you do end up liking them. 'And Then There Were None', and 'The Murder of Roger Ackroyd', or for the Miss Marple stories 'A Murder is Announced'. Though of course racism will just pop in sometimes. There's also more current series in this genre being published but I don't have enough experience with them to make any recommendations.
There's the Books of Earthsea, they read more along the lines of a fairytail. My favourite of them at the moment is 'The Tombs Of Atuan'.
You could try some novellas, something a bit faster passed might help out. For example there's the Murderbot Diaries.
I had fun recently reading the first 5 books in the 'Book of Amber' series by Roger Zelazny, published through the 70's-80's. Each book is also on the shorter side, and the first 5 books are a contained story. The rest of the series follows a different character after. The magic and world hopping I found pretty interesting, a bit different, and the family drama is entertaining.
'Pod' by Laline Paull. Multi perspective story, follows a hand full of different sea creatures. Quite a heavy story, It's a dramatization about the effects humanity has had on the ocean, and has a lot of other themes tied in to. It's just really well written, great characters, <\3.
You could also try some murder mysteries, Agatha Christie stories are still like for good reason. They are fun reads and there's a lot of them if you do end up liking them. 'And Then There Were None', and 'The Murder of Roger Ackroyd', or for the Miss Marple stories 'A Murder is Announced'. Though of course racism will just pop in sometimes. There's also more current series in this genre being published but I don't have enough experience with them to make any recommendations.
There's the Books of Earthsea, they read more along the lines of a fairytail. My favourite of them at the moment is 'The Tombs Of Atuan'.