Yes!

“Lincoln in the Bardo” is one of the best books I’ve ever read. It has tons of characters doing rambling monologues, but it also has a distinct story line that is fascinating and original. The audiobook is excellent as well. I loved reading and then listening to that book so much that I eagerly bought his book of short stories “Tenth of December” to which I had a similar reaction as you - didn’t quite get into them at first and found them all-over-the-place. However, it’s been over a year since I read it and I can still vividly remember many of the stories because they have some very original plots. Two of my sisters and my mom read it as well for our short-lived book club and what’s interesting is that we all had some very different understandings of the stories. For instance, half of us thought a character was killed in one of the stories and the other half interpreted the “killing” as only in the main character’s mind.

I hope you enjoy it if you do read it :D

Nice! Two of his stories I really enjoyed are A Terrible Vengeance and Nevsky Prospekt.

And Poe (of course)

Short stories by Gogol and Dostoyevsky

I feel the same way because a huge amount of thrillers use the same tropes and that makes them predictable. But they’re just so easy to read and just entertaining enough that I consume so many…reminds me of the addictiveness of social media now that I think about it.

Now that said, I want to recommend a few thrillers that I didn’t find predictable :D

• Behind Her Eyes by Sarah Pinborough

• Local Woman Missing by Mary Kubica

• Don’t Believe It by Charlie Donlea

-In My Dreams I Hold A Knife by Ashley Winstead

• The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides

• Rock Paper Scissors by Alice Feeney

• The Kind Worth Killing by Peter Swanson