Hello hi my name is yousafAkram welcome to this post reading slumps we all get into them we hate them
they suck to get out of but today i have some book recommendations for you for books that will help
you get out of a reading slump i can't guarantee anything so don't sue me if you read one of these
and it actually ends up putting you in another slump i don't know you i don't know your tastes
but i feel like i have a really good mix of a lot of different things here that could
potentially help you get out of a slump i've broken things up into different categories
so based on whatever mood you're in i feel like there's something for you here to help you get out
of that reading slump whether it's been a couple weeks a couple months or even a couple of years
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reading slump tips
book recommendations for how to get you out of a reading slump because i know you're suffering it's
hard it's a struggle but we're gonna get through it okay we're gonna get you out of it we're gonna
get you out of it before we even get into the books though my number one biggest recommendation
for how to get out of a reading slump is to let yourself naturally get out of it and what i mean
by that is to just not force yourself to read if you don't feel like reading i think the biggest
thing i've learned over time with the amount of time i have been super into reading and the number
of times i've been in and out of a reading slump i think the biggest and most important lesson i have
learned is that i have to let myself just not read sometimes because you just cannot always be doing
something you will get tired of it you will get burned out you will get uninterested for a little
while and sometimes you have to just take a few steps away and then let yourself come back to it
naturally so that's my number one biggest tip but if you've done that for some time now and you feel
that like inkling of maybe i kind of want to start reading again but i don't even know what i want to
do i've just been in a slump for so long and like i don't know how to get myself out of it right now
and this video is for you these recommendations are for you to kind of like dip your toe back
into reading if you've stepped away from it for a little while so i've broken this list up into
six different categories and i have two book recommendations in each category so starting out
with the first category we have magical books kind of urban fantasy a little bit of magical realism
magical books
something along those lines so the first book i have to recommend in this category is the house in
the cerulean sea by tj cloon i read this book this year for the first time and i've recommended it a
couple of times on my channel now but i think this is a perfect book to help get you out of a reading
slump this book is one of those books that kind of like reminds you why you love to read so much it's
a perfect heartwarming found family fantasy story and it is so well-rounded well-written compelling
character-driven but also somewhat plot-driven and it will just leave you feeling so warm and happy
inside it takes place in a world where people can be born as like monsters or magical creatures
and we follow around our main character who is basically like a social worker and he's assigned
to go to this orphanage where some children who are born as magical creatures that are deemed
especially dangerous are living and he has to go like investigate their case essentially that's
all i think you should really know about it before you go into it but yeah it's just such a wonderful
story it is something that definitely helped me get out of my reading slump over the past year
and it's something that i definitely think a lot of people will enjoy it's a very popular
book many people have read it but i think that if you're trying to get out of a reading slump this
is a really good book to pick up and try out the next book that i have to recommend in this magical
category is the weight of feathers by anna-marie mclemore i read this book years ago and it is one
of my favorite whya contemporaries and i think it's deeply underrated it's a little bit of a
romeo and juliet retelling i hesitate saying retelling it's not a full retelling it's just
kind of like a reimagining of that story or it takes tropes from that story because it follows
the story of these two rival families who are both like traveling performers
but they're each other's competition so you know like the two main characters fall in love with
each other but they're from these like competing families hence the romeo and juliet inspiration
but this is a magical realism book and i think it is so beautifully written it's really not very
long at all i think it's only about 300 pages or something yeah it's 308 pages so definitely on the
shorter side and something that you will be able to fly through you kind of have to suspend some of
your disbelief while you're reading this because it is magical realism it's not meant to make full
sense all the time the writing is really lyrical it's really beautiful it's a wonderful story
it's another book that i feel like just reminds me of why i like to read and it's something that
you can get through fairly quickly as well i've only read one other anna-marie mclemore book and
i enjoyed that one as well but this is definitely my favorite of the ones i've read and i want to
check out their other books too especially when the moon was ours but of the ones i've read this
is the one i definitely recommend but if you're interested in checking out their other books i'd
highly recommend that as well because the writing in here is great alright so my next category
is a category that i feel like i could make an entire video about once i read some more books
in this genre category whatever you want to call it but that is books about books i always find
books about books
that reading books about books helps me get out of a reading slump because again it reminds me
of why i like to read and then it just makes me want to read more and the first book i have to
recommend in that category i feel like neither of these are going to be surprises but the first one
is the shadow of the wind by carlos rezaphon i recommended this book countless times because it
is one of my all-time favorite books it's so good please read it it's a historical fiction book set
in the 1940s in spain and we follow around our main character who finds this book in a library
and he finds out that this is like the only copy of this book and he can't seem to find any other
books by this author until he learns that all of this author's books have been burned and he
doesn't know why and then he spends years trying to figure out what happened to him
and what his whole story is and it's just so good it's actually a series i still have yet to read
the other books in the series but i desperately need to this is definitely a book that's on the
longer side it's a little bit over 500 pages so yes lengthier i usually just recommend books that
are pretty short when you're trying to get out of a reading slump but this book is so captivating
that like you just need to keep reading and i think that's another really important key thing
to look for in a book when you're trying to get out of a reading slump you want something that's
going to grab and hold your attention and never let it go that's what this book is it's so good
i know plenty of people have read it i know plenty of people have recommended it but another thing
that another tip that i have is sometimes you gotta reread a book to get yourself out of a
reading slump so if you've read like literally every single book i recommend in this video i
highly recommend a reread because sometimes that will also help you but if you haven't read this
it'll remind you why you like to read if you like books about books if you've never read books about
books you definitely should start and this is a great place to start alright and then of course
i created this entire category and decided to finally film this entire video because
i just finished reading this book that i'm about to mention which is now probably my new all-time
favorite book and that is of course none other than the starless c by aaron morgenstern if
you missed it i just recently uploaded a video of myself reading this book and um vlogging my whole
experience so you could see all of my reactions to it it's pretty much a spoiler-free video so
i'll leave it linked on the screen if you want to watch my reaction to reading the stylist c because
oh my god this book like changed everything for me i was in the worst reading slump that i'd been in
for years like years and years and this book was what finally completely pulled me out of it after
i finished this i've literally already read three books like the day after i read this i started
reading everything else immediately and i finished three books in four days like i haven't done that
in so long in so long i used to be able to read a book a day and then i fell out of that completely
for like well over a year and now i'm back to it because oh my god this book just changed it for me
i really don't think you should know anything about the starless c before you read it i knew
nothing absolutely nothing and i really think that's the best way to go into it
i said this in my video review of it as well but i don't think this is a book for everybody
i really don't because of the writing and because of how confusing it can be it's definitely
on the more confusing side because it's not meant to make sense and that's kind of the point but if
you are willing to let yourself be confused if you are willing to let yourself get lost in a story
completely get lost in fantasy and magic and just the power of storytelling
because that's pretty much what this book is entirely about then i think you will love this
and i think it will again remind you of why you like to read and finally start to pull you out
of your reading slump i had multiple people tell me that this book had like the same effect on them
where they were in a reading slump and this book really just like pulled them out of it because
oh my god if you end up liking this if this ends up being your type of thing i promise you
it will get you out of a reading slump it might put you in one too because it's just so good and
you're just going to want to read it over and over again but still i think it will pull you out of a
reading slump too the only thing i'll really tell you about it is that this book is i don't want to
say a book about books i prefer to call it a story about stories because i feel like that's more
accurate to what it actually is but the general story just follows around our main character who
is a graduate student and he finds this book in a library that has like parts of his life written
in it and so he's like fascinated by it and then he wants to find out more and so he does and i
think that's all you should know i don't think you should know anything else just read it read
the starlet c oh my god it is so good it literally pretty much topped the night circus for me i don't
know how to talk about this book it's so good read it it will get you out of a reading slump
unique format/audiobooks
all right the next category that i have are books that are written in a unique format and also i
feel like this category can double for audiobooks you should listen to because i think that these
are perfect audiobooks and audiobooks always definitely help me get out of a reading slump too
but these books both have a very unique format that's very different from a lot of other books
and the audiobooks for them are exceptional and you should definitely listen to them the first one
is another one of my all-time favorite favorite books and that is of course none other than
daisy jones and the six by taylor jenkins read this book might also put you in a reading slump i
feel like like i said before so many of these can double for both it'll get you out of one but it
might put you back into one just because they're so good um but everyone has talked about daisy
jones i've talked about this book for years now ever since it came out i have been obsessed with
it and i remain obsessed with it because it's so incredible but if by some chance you have not yet
read daisy jones in the six it follows the story of this fictional band and their story of how they
got together how they broke up and everything in between their relationships with one another
but it's all told in the format of an interview so if you can see inside the book it has like
the character's name who is speaking and then what they said in their interview and then like
the next character's name and like what they said in their interview so it's literally just like
reading an interview essentially i highly highly recommend the audiobook for this one i've read it
both physically and listen to the audiobook and honestly i think listening to the audiobook is
even more fun because it has a full cast playing each different character and it's so immersive and
just so great to listen to so yeah definitely think this is a book that can get you out of a
reading slump just because it's so different it's honestly really quick to get through it's about
350 pages so on the slightly longer end of what i would call like a shorter book but again with
the audiobook you'll fly through it it's basically essentially all dialogue it's just so much faster
to read but yeah again one of my all-time favorite books highly recommend if you have still not yet
read it again i know it's really popular but maybe it's time for a reread who knows it that could
help you it could really help you i just want everyone to read daisy jones in the six because
i've been screaming about it for years and i'll continue to scream about it because it's so so
good the next book that i have in this category is of course sadie by courtney summers this is
a book that is essentially told in the form of a podcast and again listen to the audiobook because
it essentially just feels like listening to a true crime podcast because that's pretty much
what the book is again it's another book i think you should know pretty much nothing about other
than the story is about this girl named sadie who goes missing and then we have like this radio show
pretty much that's kind of like trying to uncover her story and figure out what happened to this
girl and that's all you should know again please listen to the audiobook it's such a fun experience
i mean it's a really sad book don't get me wrong but at the same time it's just such an enjoyable
reading experience because it really just feels like a podcast but it's in novel form which is so
cool and so fun and so unique to anything else i've ever seen it's another one that is again
pretty short it's about 300 pages maybe just a little bit over that but not much at all so you'll
fly right through it and it's a very easy read as well again definitely like darker in terms of the
subject matter but easy to get through because of how compelling and readable it is so for the
poetry
next category i have some poetry books slash books that are written in verse i think poetry is really
helpful for helping you get out of a reading slump because they're pretty short for the most part and
sometimes just finishing a book motivates you to keep reading and i've definitely found that when
i'm in a reading slump sometimes reading a poetry book reading something really short just because
i finished it i feel more motivated to continue to read some more so that's why i would recommend
a couple poetry books and the first one is one of my favorite switches no matter the wreckage
by sarah k sarah k is one of my favorite poets if you were online on tumblr in like 2013 circa
2013 2012-ish you would know that sarah k had like tumblr and like that whole like
hipster community like by the throat her poem b is still one of my favorite poems of all time if you
don't know what i'm talking about please look it up it's just a spoken word poem it's on youtube
you can watch it it's so good and i think about it all the time but she released poetry collection
a few years ago and i read it and i really really loved this as well so i'd highly recommend reading
this i think it's wonderful it's really easy to get through the poems in here are beautiful and
you'll be able to finish it really quickly and hopefully that can help you get out of your slump
a bit my other poetry recommendation is actually a novel that is written in verse i've recommended
this several times as well but it's just because i think it's so good and it is so easy to read
again the subject matter in this one is a little bit difficult from time to time but it's just
really really readable and because it's written in verse you get through it so fast and that is none
other than the poet x by elizabeth acevedo i love the writing in here it is so good the story itself
is so good it's something that makes you want to keep reading you don't really want to put this
book down you just want to finish it in one go it's not very long it looks so much longer than
it actually is because if you even like look at some of the pages you will notice like it's short
you know like because it's written in verse it's poetry it's about 360 pages but it's actually much
shorter than that if you were to condense it all down because there are some pages with just like
a few lines written on them but it's also just an incredible story with just lavish writing so so
well done elizabeth acevedo has a way with words because she is a poet and it's just a wonderful
wonderful book it's a book written in verse about a girl who loves spoken word poetry so i find that
really unique as well and it's just one of my favorite why contemporaries too and i highly
highly recommend it if you still haven't picked it up alright so my next category is graphic novels
graphic novels
because just like poetry these are so easy to read they are so easy to finish and once you finish
something you feel like you have the motivation to keep going so i highly recommend trying out
graphic novels or manga or comics or anything when you're trying to get out of a reading slump but
these are two of my recommendations the first one i have here can kind of double as a poetry book
i don't exactly know what to call it sometimes but i feel like graphic novel slash illustrated
poetry book is the most appropriate thing to call it but i'm just putting it in my graphic
novel section but that is everyone's an alien when you're an alien too by johnny's son this
book is mostly just kind of like an existential little book of motivational quotes that are very
like heartwarming really simplistic but for some reason really really emotionally impactful again i
call it like a graphic novel because it has like the illustrations and stuff in it with the text
and it's pretty much like a graphic little storybook so i don't know what else you would
really call it you can call it poetry you can call it whatever you want but i definitely think it's
something that you should read if you're trying to get out of a reading slump it's another one of
those things where i read this and i was like this is why i love reading because i love the power of
writing i love the power of words regardless of how simple or even misspelled they are which is
intentional obviously in here it can really hit you in a way that you're not expecting sometimes
that's one of my favorite things about reading and it's another book that just reminded me of why i
like writing and why i like reading so much i also read this at a time when i think i was in a pretty
bad reading slump and i think this helped pull me out a little bit too just because it was so
easy to get through and i think about it still from time to time even though i read it years
ago i'll remember like little lines and things from in here or just revisit it every once in a
while because it meant that much to me and i just think it's a really nice read really simplistic
if you're not trying to get into something that requires you to think a lot you know
this book will kind of just like think for you and comfort you and reassure you which i think
can be really helpful when you're stuck in that reading slump space the last graphic novel i have
to recommend is definitely one of my favorites and that is the prince and the dressmaker
by jen wang the prince in the dressmaker is so cute i literally walked into barnes noble one day
i'd heard a few things about this book before but i walked into the graphic novel section i
picked up the book i was like i just want to try reading it i sat there i was trying to just kill
some time because i was waiting for something and i sat there i started reading it and then like 30
minutes had gone by and i'd literally finished the entire thing without even realizing it and so then
i immediately just went up and bought it because i was like i need this this was so cute i loved it
so much it was such a good story it's definitely on the longer side um i did read it in like half
an hour maybe 45 minutes or something like that just because i was so engrossed in the story but
i think that's one of the reasons that i pick it as like one of the graphic novel recommendations
i have to help you get out of a slump because you don't want to put this down like you want
to finish the story all at once which i think is super important when you're trying to get
out of that like slump space i always whenever i'm in a reading slump we'll start a book and
then just like put it down after like a few pages or maybe a few chapters and if it doesn't hold my
attention from like the first page i get bored so i need something that is attention grabbing
instantly and i think this one definitely is from beginning to end it's super cute the art is so so
well done it's literally just about this prince who loves to wear dresses and he meets this girl
who makes dresses for him she's a dressmaker and their story is adorable and heartwarming
and beautiful and i don't know how else to describe it it's just such a good graphic novel
i highly highly recommend you check it out alright and then the very last category that i have is
nonfiction
non-fiction books and the first one that i have in this category is actually another graphic novel so
i could have put it in the graphic novel section but i wanted to include this in non-fiction
and that is persepolis so there are two volumes to this or there's like a bind-up volume but this is
just volume one persepolis is a graphic memoir about mahjong satrapi's life as she was growing
up in iran during the iranian revolution and there's actually a film for it out as well like
an animated film which i still have yet to see i really need to i've been saying it for years
because i love this graphic novel it's genuinely very funny it's heartbreaking it's sad but also
hopeful at times and just a beautiful way of sharing one's life and one's experience through
like a graphic memoir i just find that really really fascinating and something i don't feel like
we see that often but i would like to see more of it's very easy to read really easy to follow it's
not confusing whatsoever and something that you'll get through really fast it's also very short so
like it will take you no time at all to read this the art is pretty simplistic and it's black and
white but it's also just really well done and like i said it's also still funny like it's not
just all sad which i sometimes really need when i'm trying to get out of a slump like i just
want something light-hearted or something that can make me laugh and while the subject matter
of this is definitely not light-hearted the tone that she has towards some of it and the approach
that she has some of the jokes that she makes in here definitely make it a lot more fun to read
and it's not just all sad you know which i find really nice and really refreshing highly highly
recommend checking this one out if you're looking for some new nonfiction to read if you're looking
for something that's a little bit just like outside of your comfort zone if you're too tired
of something you've read a lot of try picking up something new and this might be that thing
and then the last non-fiction book that i have in the last book i have to recommend in this video
for books to help you get out of a reading slump is none other than in the dream house by carmen
maria machado i have talked about this book so many times over the last year because it is just
so good this is probably the best nonfiction book i have ever read and i don't know if i can read a
non-fiction book that i will like more the subject matter of this one is very sad sometimes it is
kind of hard to get through but because this book is so well written and it is so unlike anything
else you will read and unlike any other nonfiction book that you've probably read i've definitely
wanted to include it on this list because i just think that it is something that for me at least
definitely reminded me of why i like reading why i like storytelling and it made me want to
continue reading it looks a little bit like on the thicker side but it's under 300 pages some of the
pages really have like almost no writing on them at all it's just a few lines the only thing that
i feel like might be a slight hindrance is just how difficult it can be to read sometimes because
of the subject matter and the fact that it's a lot darker and just really emotionally heavy so that's
the only thing i would say for sure but apart from that if that is something that you're actually
looking for because sometimes i know when i'm in a reading slump i just want something like emotional
because everything feels like it's lacking and i just want something that's actually going to
make me feel this book will make you feel like i i promise it's going to make you feel something
this book is another memoir and it's about carbon maria matrado's life in this emotionally abusive
relationship that she was in and how it affected her life and her future relationships and her view
of herself and so much more like i don't even know how to describe it and i've recommended
it countless times but i'm gonna keep doing so because her writing is so so good so if you're
looking for really good writing to help you get out of a slump too this is like one of my top
tier recommendations because the writing is just exceptional but there you have it that is it for
all of my recommendations of books to help you get out of a reading slump i hope that you enjoyed
this video i hope that you got something out of this i hope that you can find at least one book on
this list of like what 12 books that i had to help you get out of your reading slump maybe even just
one of them caught your eye caught your attention but again like i said my biggest tip is always
always just to let yourself come back to reading naturally do not force it don't force yourself
to read let yourself come back to it when you actually want to come back to it and when you do
try picking up one of these books because i feel like at least one thing on this list will motivate
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