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EPISODE · Mar 18, 2025 · 1H 14M

READING SLUMP BUSTERS | for when you need to prove your brain still works

from The Great Obsession · host RiLee and Sam

Are you emerging from your winter bed rot, wondering if your brain is still capable of doing more than just doom scrolling? Are you worried you've lost the love of reading forever? Well in this episode we give spoiler free recs for the books that pulled us out of our worst reading slumps and reignited our confidence in reading. These may not be the best books you've ever read (in fact we can almost guarantee you they aren't), but they will be captivating and easy enough to make you remember that your brain works after all.7:54 - YA/New adult fantasyCity of Bones by Cassandra ClareFourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros13:04 - YA fictionI’d tell you I love you, but then I’d have to kill you by Ally Carter The Inheritance Games by Jennifer Lynn Barnes  To all the boys I’ve loved before by Jenny HanShadow and Bone by Leigh BardugoCaraval and Once Upon a Broken Heart by Stephanie garberFable by Adrienne Young26:06 - Adult Contemporary FictionThe Secret Keeper by Kate MortonThe Seven Husband’s of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins ReidNormal People by Sally Rooney 37:31 - ThrillerVerity by Colleen HooverNone of This Is True by Lisa  JewellA Good Girls Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson41:30 - RomanceThe Ex Hex by Erin SterlingPuck and Prejudice by Lia RileyEmma by Jane AustenBride by Ali Hazelwood51:36 - Slump Breaker or Slump Maker??Dune by Frank Herbert58:36 - Slump MakersChildren of Dune - Frank HerbertA Secret History by Donna TarttNinth house by Leigh BardugoAnything by Sarah J. MaasChain of Thorns by Cassandra ClareThe Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins FIND US AT:Instagram: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@thegreatobsessionpod⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Email: [email protected]⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠RiLee's Goodreads⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ & ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Sam's Goodreads

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