Ask HN: How to transition from non-fiction to fiction reading?

Read heavy fiction. Try Jorge Luis Borges, or the Nobel winning J M Coetzee.

Krishnamurti is worth a read.

Great answer!

You can read books by master story tellers too. Those will never be boring and will be full with twisted facts and interesting relationships. You can start with Crime thrillers, Murder mysteries.

Adding to the above list:

Jeffery Archer and Dan Brown present some very interesting books in the form of "Kane and Abel" and "Angels and Demons".

Another good book that you might find interesting is "Flatland - a romance of many dimensions" by Edwin Abbott.

Listen to all the recommendations you hear, but you need to keep trying different authors and genres until you find what grabs you. We all have different tastes, so if you don't yet know what you like, sample a bit of everything until you do know.

If you like movies, pick books that were made into movies you like. The books are always much better and provide a lot more detail. I tend to like books that are rooted in some version of our reality and not sci-fi or fantasy, etc.

There also is historical fiction - authors deeply researching that period of time to paint a realistic narrative but with fictional characters.

One thing to remember is that you may not get on with works that other people gets engrossed in - so you'll probably need to try a variety of styles to work out what works for you.

Books worth trying to see if you like the styles include:

* Rivers Of London - Magic in a modern London setting

* Burning Chrome - A collection of classic Cyberpunk short stories

* Leviathan Wakes - The start of the Expanse series of works, a harder style of sci-fi

* All Systems Red - The start of the Murderbot Diaries, a softer style of sci-fi

* Permutation City - Existential sci-fi