Hello, everyone, my name is Olivia, and today I'm going to give you Adult Fiction recommendations
if you primarily read YA and you want to dip your toes into Adult Fiction but don't really
know which books to start with. I have a part 1 for this video that I will link down below,
in case you want to see that to get even more recommendations, but I'm back with even more Adult
Fiction. So let's start with a dark academia novel and the one that I have to recommend is If We Were
Villains by M.L. Rio. So this follows a group of Shakespearean actors at a college where they
put on a Shakespearean play every single year and they very much mimic the roles that they
play in real life. So we follow Oliver, who is a part of these group of actors who are all friends
with one another, and on the opening day of their Shakespearean play that they are set to perform
this year, tragedy strikes. So all of these actors have to work together to convince the
police that they are innocent. So a blurb on the back says, “Full of friendship, betrayal,
and passionate devotion, this is a page-turning, literary thriller whose final shocking twist
you won't soon forget.” I loved this novel. It was so fun, especially if you're a fan of Shakespeare
because this has so many Shakespearean references woven into the narrative. This is a mysterious
dark academia where you don't really know who to trust and you don't even know if you can trust the
main character themselves and that's what I loved about it. If you're a fan of The Secret History,
if you're a fan of dark academia and want to get into Adult Fiction dark academia,
I would highly recommend this because it is so beautifully written, so atmospheric, and will
leave you wondering what's going to happen next. If you're looking for Adult Romances to get into,
I would highly recommend Rebekah Weatherspoon. Her romances are fantastic. They are a page-turner.
You'll want to read it all in one sitting and her romances are just so beautifully written
and they are some of my favorites of all time, so I will recommend you a couple. Here we have Xeni
whose aunt recently passed away, so she goes to her aunt's estate, in Upstate New York, and she
hears the will being read and she finds out that her aunt has paired her up with a man named Mason
and they must marry in order to receive their inheritance from her. So she has no idea who
Mason is but turns out he is a Scottish man living in his town who was friends with Xeni's aunt and
Xeni's aunt matched them together because she knew that they would make such a good couple
and she wanted to push these two characters together. So this is a dual point of view,
marriage of convenience novel and both of the main characters are bisexual and they are just such a
wonderful couple. They are so sweet to one another and their romance that blooms is so beautiful,
and I cannot recommend Xeni enough. It's such a quick read that I want everyone and their
mother to read. And three other books by Rebekah Weatherspoon are all part of the same series and
it is the Beards and Bondage series. So we have Haven, we have Sanctuary, and we have Harbor.
I have not read Harbor yet, but I have read Haven and I have read Sanctuary and I
loved those romances so much. That was my introduction to Rebekah Weatherspoon, and
I am just obsessed with her romances. I think she writes them so well. The chemistry is palpable.
You won't want to put this book down and Haven and Sanctuary both take place in, like,
woodlands. So it's very remote and very isolated so it's focused solely on the romance between two
characters and it's so steamy and wonderful and if you have not picked them up, you must. They are
amazing. If you are looking for a historical adult fiction to read, I have so many recommendations,
but here I have The Bass Rock by Evie Wyld. The Bass Rock follows three different points
of views in three different time periods. So we follow Sarah, during the 1700s. who is accused
of being a witch. We follow Ruth, who is just recently married to a new husband after World
War II. And then we follow Viv, who is mourning her father and she finds her connection to Ruth in
the past and is learning more about her life. So these three characters are seemingly unconnected,
but, slowly but surely, as you follow along with their narrative, you find out that all of these
three narratives are connected to one another. This novel really highlights the mistreatment of
women throughout history and how they interconnect with one another and share the same darkness
and how they have to deal with different mistreatments throughout history. And I think this
is just such a wonderful very underrated read. I picked up this novel solely because of the cover
that I saw all over Instagram, and I listened to it on audiobook and I thought the audiobook was
fantastic. So if you're looking for an Adult Fiction audiobook to listen to,
I would recommend this one. And I wish I had read it physically because I would love to have
highlighted so many different lines because this book was just so profound and sadly relatable,
and I just cannot recommend it enough. An Adult Fiction Sci-Fi that I have to recommend that is
one of my favorite novels of all time, which is very surprising because I do not like Sci-Fi,
is The Memory Police by Yōko Ogawa. I saw this cover at Barnes Noble's with my best friend and
we both gravitated towards it, and I just had to find out what it was about. So we both read the
synopsis at the same time and I'm going to read you some of it because I feel like this sums up
the story better than I ever could, which is its whole point! So, it says, “A haunting, Orwellian
novel about the terrors of state surveillance from the acclaimed author of The Housekeeper and
The Professor.” That's what initially piqued my interest, when they said it was Orwellian because
I love 1984, but I do want to let you know this is nothing like 1984. 1984 is so much more complex.
You get so many more answers from it. This is a very ambiguous, very dark Japanese fiction
that I love beyond words. I am obsessed with this book. You just have to go into this novel
not knowing too much. All you have to know is that these people live on an unnamed island
and things are disappearing from their memory, and there is a group called The Memory Police who is
set to ensure that these people continue to forget these objects. And anyone who still remembers it
is a threat to the government. It was so completely unique,
so I think if you're a fan of 1984 and if you're a fan of ambiguous novels, you have to read The
Memory Police. It's immersive. It's atmospheric. It is just so good. My next recommendation is The
Travelling Cat Chronicles. I listened to this on audiobook and I think everyone should read it on
audiobook. This is a very bittersweet novel about Satoru, who is going on a road trip with his cat,
Nana. And they are visiting so many different people along the way and Nana is trying to
find out what is happening and why are they visiting so many people and what's the overall
purpose of this road trip. It put such a big smile onto my face. It brought tears to my eyes.
It's such a well-rounded story that I want so many people to read, and I think it's a great story to
pick up on audiobook because the narrator just does such a fantastic job of narrating
from the point of view of a cat and really bringing those thoughts to life by using his voice
in such a posh way to really describe Nana's point of view because Nana is a very posh cat. Even if
you're not a cat person-- I'm not like a true cat person-- because I'm allergic to cats, so I can't
have them. But even as a very casual cat lover, it's just so good and the audiobook fantastic.
And the final book that I have to recommend to you is The Dreamers by Karen Thompson Walker.
If you're a fan of Sci-Fi, if you're a fan of apocalyptic reads and you want to get into Adult
Fiction apocalyptic reads, you have to pick up this book. So it says, “An ordinary town is
transformed by a mysterious illness that triggers perpetual sleep in this mesmerizing novel from
the New York Times best-selling author.” This follows a town in California where, one day,
a college student goes to sleep and one by one people in this town are starting to succumb to
this sleep sickness. So the government puts this town under quarantine and nobody's able to go in
or out and we follow multiple points of views to really get a look at how different people react
to this illness that is going around this town. This is a book that I finished and thought about
for days upon days and months upon months because I just could not stop thinking about the concept
of it. This is definitely a on the nose type of novel that not a lot of people will want to read
at the current time, but I would definitely add it to your TBR and read it when you can,
if you are interested, because the way that it explores the human condition and the way that it
explores different reactions to very stressful situations is so fascinating and it's something
that I'm very interested in. It's a very specific type of narrative that I really enjoy where it's
people under very stressful circumstances and they all have to survive together but people are acting
in very different ways, and it explores the way that people handle life-threatening circumstances.
I listened to this on audiobook and it felt like a radio drama in my head, so if you're looking to
listen to another audiobook, I would highly recommend this one because it was so immersive
so atmospheric and left me on the edge of my seat. So if you're looking for Sci-Fi novels,
I would highly recommend both of these. So those are some Adult Fiction recommendations for those
who are trying to dip their toes into this area of fiction, if you have primarily read YA. I will be
sure to leave a link down below to an article that I read about the differences between YA and Adult
Fiction. Primarily, it's just that these novels follow adults and YA novels follow people in their
teens and early twenties. Let me know if you are interested in any of these novels. Let me know if
you've read any of these novels. These are some of my favorite stories that I think are so readable
and engaging that will make you want to read these books in one sitting. If you have other Adult
Fiction recommendations for those who primarily read YA and want to dip into Adult Fiction,
please put them down below. Leave the genre as well so people can really filter through the
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