I need a book

I have been in a reading funk lately. I have not really found a new hidden gem in the pages of a book. So I have taken to reading and sometimes rereading literary classics, in hopes that they are classics for a reason. However I am still disappointed, I am not saying that the books have been mislabeled as classics but they are just not what I am looking for. I finished The Awakening by Kate Chopin recently and while reading the book for the first time in my life I thought briefly about suicide. I felt trapped and helpless; like I was on a runaway train, speeding out of control on an already laid track with no ability to change the situation. It was the foreshadowing of Edna’s suicide that I was feeling while reading and it was powerful but it still left me wanting when I finished the book.

I am now rereading To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. I first read this book as a child in middle school; I loved the book at the time. I can’t recall if it was from my initially reading of the book or references after it but I had morphed the part about Boo Radley into so sort of nightmare with a villain, where Boo is the villain. Given that I just started the book yesterday that might still be true but right now I just feel very sorry for Boo. I am enjoying To Kill a Mockingbird but it is still not what I am searching for, I want a book that grabs me and entertains me. I want a book that takes me away to a place full of mystery, adventure, love and happy endings. I don’t want a book that changes the way I think, attempts to educated me or gives me an alarming insight to the human condition through a simple story. Right now I can’t take a poorly wrote book either, is there a book out there that meets my needs? I am on a quest, any suggestions?