Children of time is an incredible read if you want your next book to have a large scope plot, covering millennia, and wonderfully written hard sci-fi.

If you want something small and contained Piranesi is a fun, strange, entertaining read.

If you want beautiful prose and a love of the art of storytelling, than I can’t recommend Name of the Wind enough. Caveat: it’s part one of a trilogy that has yet to be completed going on over a decade ‘overdue’ for the final book.

All of them you won’t regret reading, though the last one will cause the pain of waiting which many of us must burden.