The Best Books to Escape Into
From a dark fantasy set at Yale to a romance on the shores of Ancient Greece, there’s something to fill the time for everyone
When you need a little distraction and escapism, there’s no better answer than a good book. More than TV or film, a good book engrosses your entire mind and can transport you somewhere new. You can’t multitask; you have to be totally committed to the act of reading.
Specifically, you can’t also be scrolling Twitter while you read a book, unlike when a show is on TV.
So, in an effort to help us all check out of reality and enjoy something — even if only for an hour or two — here are some of my recent favorites in the fiction realm.
Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo
Leigh Bardugo is Young Adult fiction royalty, but with her first adult book, Ninth House, she proves she can write in any genre she wants — not that anyone who’s read her work before would have doubted that.
Ninth House is a dark and twisted thriller set amongst Yale’s secret societies, except in Bardugo’s world, these societies are sources of ancient magic. We get to know this mysterious world through Alex Stern, a freshman recently recruited to Lethe House and a mystery herself, who…
