With boredom comes dedication and commitment. I recommend The Count of Monte Cristo. Long but very captivating.

If you want something fast paced, recent, and ok with scifi, I suggest Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir. It’s a quick and fun read, I highly enjoyed it. The movie just came out, so you can watch that then compare the two. So far, folks have said it’s a good adaptation, I am seeing it tomorrow.

That would take a fair bit of time out of your boredom.

Lies of Locke Lamora - Scott Lynch

Kind of like Ocean’s 11 in a fantasy setting with some of the best snarky dialogue I have ever read.

Dune by Frank Herbert

The Illuminatus Trilogy by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson

Hyperion and Fall of Hyperion by the recently departed Dan Simmons

If you want something a bit more humourous:

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams

Guards! Guards! - Terry Pratchett

The Blade Itself. Joe Abercrombie has ruined the entire fantasy genre for me… nothing can compare.

Old Man's War - by John Scalzi.

It's such a fun and good written sci-fi space story.

Nation by Terry Pratchett. Make sure you have tissues.

I’ll throw some of my favorites on the pile in addition to two others I’ve already seen and replied to (Hail Mary and count of monte cristo). Warning - all over the spectrum here

• lord of the rings
• Frankenstein - much better than I thought it would be
• the picture of Dorian Grey - Lord Henry might be the best villain in any book. He’s so scandalous you can’t help but love his ridiculousness.
• the road to tender hearts
• a man called ove
• red rising series
• titan (biography on rockerfeller, fascinating but long)
• the intelligent investor

I have plenty more if you want me to keep going. If any one of those interests you at all, I’m positive you’ll enjoy reading from that list.

These are my favorites from each category:

Classic: The Odyssey, Homer
Fantasy: Here There be Dragons, James Owen
Horror: The Fall of House Usher, E.A. Poe (short story)
SciFi: Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury
Science: Cosmic Querries, Neil deGrasse Tyson
Politics: A Second Treatise of Government, John Locke
Philosophy: Phaedo, Plato
Poetry: Songs of Innocence and Experience, William Blake
Play: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Shakespeare
Historical Fiction: Little House on the Prarie, Laura Ingals Wilder
Cooking: The Classic of Tea, Lu Yu
Religion: The Screwtape Letters, C.S. Lewis
Romance: idk havent read one I like yet

Horace McCoy - They Shoot Horses, Don't They?

It's a quick read, and it hits like a bullet.

Moby Dick

https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/herman-melville/moby-dick

11/22/63

In my top 5 books ive read.

Grapes of wrath

1984

The martian

Brave new world

The Remaining by DJ Molles. It's the first book in one of my favorite series. The first series has 6 books, there is a follow on series with 6 books, and there are 4 stand alone novels and a prequel following that. Awesome concept with realistic, flawed characters and lots of gruesome post-apocalyptic action. chef kiss

Discworld.

Try follow the reading order suggested. I would start with the city watch or witches series.

Lamb - by Christopher Moore

or any book by Christopher Moore really.. https://www.goodreads.com/author/list/16218.Christopher_Moore

Hounded by Kevin Hearne

To Kill a Mockingbird. Very entertaining, easy and quick read.

Or Brave New World or 1984 or Fahrenheit 451. Very topical.

The Victorian Internet by Tom Standage.

Great book. It’s about the story of the invention and proliferation of the telegraph.

Authenticity by Deirdre Madden

Moonbound by Robin Sloan, My favorite book of 2025, maybe my favorite SciFi of all time

High Fidelity

After being dumped, the owner of a record store details his top 5 breakups of all-time.

“Zombie Fairy Tales” by Kevin Richey

ISBN-13: 9781494298043

Cloud Atlas (don't watch the movie it's a train wreck)

I mean if you have not read it do the first wheel of time.

Terry Pratchett's Reaper Man

One of the most-important books for anyone to read, if they want their life to be managed into being better than what "fate" would make it:

Logan, King, & Dr. Fischer-Wright's "Tribal Leadership" on the 5 social-process levels, & how to get people to climb up into a healthier one, if they're ready to do that..

the oversimplified TED Talk about the meanings they discovered in their years of research - https://www.ted.com/talks/david_logan_tribal_leadership

The actual book: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/tribal-leadership-revised-edition

I'd require this of all highschool graduates, for them to be eligible for their diploma: it'd fundamentally improve society profoundly, to make these understandings normal.

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