Quest: Outside my Comfort Zone

They say some of the best things in life are waiting for us outside of our comfort zone. Does that proverb apply to what we read too? These explorations are bound to bring some big surprises with them.

Add books you've read that you wouldn't normally have picked up, but you decided to step out of your comfort zone and try something different.

2 occurrences

I'm Glad My Mom Died

by Jennette McCurdy

Memoir & AutobiographyHealth & Wellness

320 PagesAugust 2022

Read by 20 people

2 occurrences

A Midsummer Night's Dream

by William Shakespeare

PoetryPlaysDrama

224 PagesJanuary 1590

Read by 19 people

2 occurrences

The Poppy War

by R.F. Kuang

The Poppy War #1

High/Epic FantasyHistorical Fiction

527 PagesMay 2018

Read by 34 people

2 occurrences

I Who Have Never Known Men

by Jacqueline Harpman

ApocalypticPost-ApocalypticDystopia

208 PagesJanuary 1995

Read by 13 people

2 occurrences

Dungeon Crawler Carl

by Matt Dinniman

Dungeon Crawler Carl #1

LitRPGApocalypticComedic Fiction

446 PagesOctober 2020

Read by 24 people

2 occurrences

A Good Girl's Guide to Murder

by Holly Jackson

A Good Girl's Guide to Murder #1

Contemporary FictionSuspenseThriller

592 PagesMay 2019

Read by 28 people

1 occurrence

斜陽 [Shayou]

by Osamu Dazai

Historical Fiction

350 PagesJanuary 1947

Read by 1 person

1 occurrence

A Prayer for Owen Meany

by John Irving

Historical FictionContemporary FictionLiterary Fiction

640 PagesMarch 1989

Read by 4 people

1 occurrence

Atlas Shrugged

by Ayn Rand

DystopiaPhilosophyPolitics

1077 PagesOctober 1957

Read by 4 people

1 occurrence

Careless

by Kirsty Capes

RomanceContemporary FictionLiterary Fiction

336 PagesMay 2021

Read by 1 person

1 occurrence

The Romantic Agenda

by Claire Kann

Contemporary RomanceContemporary Fiction

336 PagesApril 2022

Read by 1 person

1 occurrence

Book Lovers

by Emily Henry

Contemporary RomanceContemporary Fiction

384 PagesMay 2022

Read by 18 people

1 occurrence

Coffee Boy

by Austin Chant

RomanceContemporary Fiction

162 PagesOctober 2016

Read by 3 people

1 occurrence

A Head Full of Ghosts

by Paul Tremblay

ParanormalSuspenseThriller

June 2015

Read by 6 people

1 occurrence

Alpha and Omega

by Patricia Briggs

Mercy Thompson World #1.5

Urban FantasyParanormal RomanceParanormal

August 2007

Read by 5 people

1 occurrence

You Make It Feel Like Christmas

by Toni Shiloh

Contemporary FictionRomance

208 PagesSeptember 2023

Read by 1 person

1 occurrence

The Tea Dragon Society

by Kay O'Neill

Tea Dragon #1

Fantasy

60 PagesOctober 2017

Read by 21 people

1 occurrence

Ejaculate Responsibly: A Whole New Way to Think About Abortion

by Gabrielle Stanley Blair

144 PagesOctober 2022

Read by 3 people

1 occurrence

The Fault in Our Stars

by John Green

DramaContemporary FictionRomance

313 PagesJanuary 2012

Read by 33 people

1 occurrence

Educated

by Tara Westover

Memoir & AutobiographyEducationalReligion & Spirituality

368 PagesFebruary 2018

Read by 13 people

1 occurrence

Romancing the Holidays Collection

by Austen Johnson

Romancing the Holidays #1-4

204 Pages

Read by 1 person

1 occurrence

Cat's Cradle

by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

DystopiaFantasyComedic Fiction

January 1963

Read by 8 people

1 occurrence

A History of What Comes Next

by Sylvain Neuvel

Take Them to the Stars #1

Historical FictionAlternate HistoryFantasy

304 PagesFebruary 2021

Read by 1 person

1 occurrence

Redemption Ark

by Alastair Reynolds

Revelation Space #2

Alternate HistorySpace OperaFantasy

January 2002

Read by 3 people

1 occurrence

Uncommon Measure: A Journey Through Music, Performance, and the Science of Time

by Natalie Hodges

EssaysMemoir & AutobiographyMusic

224 Pages

Read by 1 person

1 occurrence

vermilion

by Samantha Erron Gibbon

PoetryArt

80 PagesJanuary 2024

Read by 1 person

1 occurrence

A Court of Thorns and Roses

by Sarah J. Maas

A Court of Thorns and Roses Main Trilogy #1

RomanceParanormalFantasy

419 PagesMay 2015

Read by 65 people

1 occurrence

The Deal Of A Lifetime

by Fredrik Backman

Contemporary FictionFantasy

57 PagesOctober 2017

Read by 1 person

1 occurrence

A Letter to Three Witches

by Elizabeth Bass, Emily Durante

RomanceFantasy

January 2022

Read by 1 person

1 occurrence

Bunny

by Mona Awad

Magical RealismContemporary FictionLiterary Fiction

373 PagesJune 2019

Read by 9 people

1 occurrence

A Good Demon Is Hard to Find

by Kate Moseman

Supernatural Sweethearts #1

Paranormal RomanceParanormalComedic Fiction

202 PagesApril 2020

Read by 1 person

1 occurrence

Wait Till Helen Comes: A Ghost Story

by Mary Downing Hahn

MysteryParanormalFantasy

January 1986

Read by 1 person

1 occurrence

The Vanishing Half

by Brit Bennett

Historical FictionContemporary FictionLiterary Fiction

343 PagesJune 2020

Read by 3 people

1 occurrence

Wordhunter

by Stella Sands

Mystery

256 PagesAugust 2024

Read by 1 person

1 occurrence

A Thousand Splendid Suns

by Khaled Hosseini

Historical FictionDramaContemporary Fiction

May 2007

Read by 8 people

1 occurrence

A Broken Queen

by Sarah Kozloff

The Nine Realms #3

High/Epic FantasyRomanceAdventure

448 PagesMarch 2020

Read by 1 person

1 occurrence

Orbital: Une journée, seize aurores

by Samantha Harvey

Literary FictionContemporary FictionScience Fiction

224 PagesDecember 2023

Read by 4 people

1 occurrence

Because of Winn-Dixie

by Cherry Jones, Kate DiCamillo

Fiction

160 PagesMarch 2000

Read by 4 people

1 occurrence

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

by Stieg Larsson

Millennium #1

Contemporary FictionSuspenseThriller

August 2005

Read by 21 people

1 occurrence

Solaris

by Stanisław Lem

Science FictionPhilosophyFantasy

214 PagesJanuary 1961

Read by 3 people

1 occurrence

The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness

by Jonathan Haidt

Parenting & FamilyPsychologyAnthropology & Sociology

395 PagesMarch 2024

Read by 2 people

1 occurrence

Witches, Midwives, and Nurses: A History of Women Healers

by Barbara Ehrenreich, Deirdre English

Contemporary Classics - The Feminist Press

History

112 PagesNovember 1972

Read by 1 person

1 occurrence

Asylum Piece

by Anna Kavan

PsychologyHealth & Wellness

212 PagesJanuary 1940

Read by 1 person

1 occurrence

The Book of Azrael

by Amber V. Nicole

Gods and Monsters #1

High/Epic FantasyRomanceParanormal

793 PagesApril 2022

Read by 4 people

1 occurrence

Confessions of the Fox

by Jordy Rosenberg

Historical FictionLiterary Fiction

352 PagesJune 2018

Read by 2 people

1 occurrence

Miss Percy's Pocket Guide to the Care and Feeding of British Dragons

by Quenby Olson

A Miss Percy Guide #1

Historical Fantasy

421 PagesOctober 2021

100

Read by 4 people

1 occurrence

The Godfather

by Mario Puzo

Mario Puzo's Mafia

MysteryHistorical FictionDrama

608 PagesMarch 1969

Read by 3 people

1 occurrence

Aesop's Fables

by Aesop, Alice Shirley, Ann McGovern, More...

Studies in Romance Languages

MythologyFairy TalePhilosophy

64 Pages-500

Read by 3 people

1 occurrence

Desperate Measures

by Katee Robert

Wicked Villains #1

Contemporary RomanceContemporary FictionErotica

May 2019

Read by 8 people

1 occurrence

The Luminous Dead

by Caitlin Starling

HorrorScience FictionThriller

435 PagesApril 2019

Read by 7 people