The Hour I First Believed by Wally Lamb. Not a masterpiece but my favorite novel, second to She Comes Undone also by him.
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I absolutely loved the Inheritance Cycle by Christopher Paolini. I cannot explain how great my disappointment with the Eragon movie was after how fantastic I thought the books were.
Probably the early books of the Lewis Barnavelt novels, beginning with The House with a Clock in Its Walls
The 2018 film is a pretty decent introduction to the concept, the magic world in it has always stuck with me as a rather fun subtle kind, the characters are quite enjoyable to read about, but I can totally see why it's not exactly hailed as one of the great classics, too
Not my favourite, but one I just finished was Invasion: Downfall by DC Alden
An action thriller about a hypothetical invasion of the UK by the Islamic state
It's mostly all-action from the start, but there's a lot of "what-if"s about what the average citizen would do if that happened
Needless to say, despite being a fantastic series, it gets some utterly unhinged reviews, and there's no fucking way it's ever getting made into a film lol
Tom Godwin's The Survivors. Not very sophisticated, especially by modern standards, and quite short, but very enjoyable.
Sword of change series, I hold it dear but it has it's issues.