Help me find my next favorite drama book!
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1bustellogirl
I LOVE a good drama book but it's so hard to find one that's not a thriller. Don't get me wrong, I love a good psychological thriller (especially Alex Michaelides and Grady Hendrix), but I can find those easily. But just a drama with no thriller or horror in there is so tough. Please help!
Dramas I have loved: Daisy Jones and the Six and The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid, Magic Hour & The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah, Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens, Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman, Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams, and Margot's Got Money Troubles by by Rufi Thorpe. I also adored The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls and Educated by Tara Westover for nonfiction.
Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng was a little too much of a slow burn for me.
I have a hard time with the death of a child and/or fertility issues and animals suffering, so I'd prefer to avoid those topics. I'm open to some historical fiction in there but I think I've read all the WWII I can handle. I'm open to YA lit (I just finished Monday's Not Coming by Tiffany D. Jackson and WOW) as well but would prefer adult books.
Thanks in advance!
Dramas I have loved: Daisy Jones and the Six and The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid, Magic Hour & The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah, Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens, Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman, Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams, and Margot's Got Money Troubles by by Rufi Thorpe. I also adored The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls and Educated by Tara Westover for nonfiction.
Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng was a little too much of a slow burn for me.
I have a hard time with the death of a child and/or fertility issues and animals suffering, so I'd prefer to avoid those topics. I'm open to some historical fiction in there but I think I've read all the WWII I can handle. I'm open to YA lit (I just finished Monday's Not Coming by Tiffany D. Jackson and WOW) as well but would prefer adult books.
Thanks in advance!
4bustellogirl
Thank you! I will add those to my TBR list!
5nessreader
Here's a historical melodrama The Vizard Mask by Diana Norman. A big fat brick of a story which kicks off with a puritan girl from colonial America emigrating to London to stay with her black sheep aunt. Who runs a brothel. It's just before the great fire of London (1666) and our hero gets to be one of the early women actresses, shag Prince Rupert, meet Aphra Benn the dramatist/spy, and generally try and survive england. I found it immersive; I felt like you could smell London reading it, but it is long.
6bustellogirl
Sounds interesting! We should be due for a snowstorm soon. Love a long book then. Thanks for the recommendation!
7GraceCollection
Just finished The Midnight Library recently. It's a little spec-fic (deals with a sort-of afterlife/limbo situation, exploring different paths the main character could have chosen throughout her life) but tickled the same parts of my brain that adored Eleanor Oliphant.
