As the title states, I'm looking for certain kinds of book; the vibe that I want to feel is something like cottagecore aesthethic. I know it my sounds crazy but if you look up on google images "cottagecore aesthetic" different pictures will pop up with plants, tea cups, nice country houses and stuff…

I have completed reading all the books by Dan Brown. After the completion, it came to my mind that they are strikingly similar, even the non-Langdon ones. So let's discuss about the striking similarities (keep in mind that there are exceptions) ... * Death - Someone dies; probably someone…

I'm dyslexic but I love reading so much (ironic I know) so reading a book takes a lot longer than normal and I find it hard to focus or fully remember what i read sometimes. However I try to do a book track every year to practice and I never got more that 20 books but I finally reached 100 books and…

The past year, I started reading books out loud together with friends and I love it. We usually just read a few chapters, not the whole book because that would be too much. Although we did manage to read "Beowulf" in one go during the pandemic. Things I've noticed: * Having a book read to me…

I used to be able to find old paperbacks for $1 on sites like half.com, ebay, or others. Shipping would be a few dollars, but many times books could be bundled form one seller – 10 books for $15-18, something like that. Half Price Books used to have a $1 clearance section in their stores, but it was…

well, i just finished reading (and watching) the lord of the rings and now i am sad. i love it so much and i can’t bear to say goodbye to all these characters that i journeyed with in what felt like years. to be honest, i did not expect to get this emotionally invested with this book at all. i…

As someone who reads alot of sci-fi literature, this might be the best science story I've ever read till now. A lot of sci-fi I've read till now uses sci-fi elements - spaceships, suits, aliens to tell plot driven or character driven stories. It's rare to find stories with science and discovery at…

The most common criticism I see on this sub of all fiction is that people found themselves unable to ‘like’ or ‘identify’ with any of the characters. This genuinely perplexes me. I don’t mean this as a critic but why does that matter? Nor am I trying to blanket say that my taste is better but in…

I’m sorry if this has been asked before, but I picked up this series as a fun quick escape, and got hooked. Now when I say worse… if you know what I mean, you know what I mean. Everyone made it out to be so scandalous and maybe I’m desensitized but… I was kind of hoping for more? I love the fantasy…

I loved behind her eyes and was looking for something similar.

When I was younger I read a lot. Mostly YA and I read the hungergames and Harry Potter series. Then I stopped reading somewhere around my early twenties. Around two years ago I wanted to pick up the reading habit again and raided my mothers bookcase. I borrowed and read Jane eyre, wuthering heights…

I just finished reading Catcher in the Rye for the first time. We’ve all heard that liking this novel is a “red flag” and folks seem to talk a lot of shit when men and young boys like this novel especially. I knew this book resonated with some real criminals who enacted awful acts of violence, so I…

I used to just pickup a book and read whenever I get time when I was in university but now that I'm out and been busy with job hunting and all, I don't get that much time and the books that I have ordered is just piled up on my table. Only then I realised that I'm not reading like I used to and I…

I often see the word used in a way similar to this: > It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they > would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil > would die in his own tracks of ennui > > - Hellen Keller, The Story of My Life So if…

I'm running out of books to read. Love books that keep you up at night

I’m looking for page turners that are also well written. I love murder mysteries in particular, but have found that many (if not most) books in the genre are quite poorly written. Any recommendations for plot-driven murder mysteries or thrillers that also stand on their own as literature would be…

I like to go back to books I haven't read for a year or two or even more because it really helps me identify my growth. It reminds me what parts of the novel I found striking, therefore what I valued at the time, if that makes sense. I also gain a deeper understanding of the book itself as well,…

I've been trying to find good/long fantasy series to read after I finish my TBRs on my bookshelf. Most of what I stumble upon is YA, and I'd like to read from more mature character perspective. I've enjoyed Mass, Harkness, Bardugo, Aveyard, and Tahir recently, just to give an example of past series…

I’m curious to what books people think should fall under required reading. We all know most required reading is hit and miss especially for adolescent and growing audiences without much experience; what book would you say got to your core and actually had an effect on you? For me personally it was…

About a month ago I finished War & Peace by Leo Tolstoy after trying to get into it on 3 separate occasions before. The book is absolutely incredible and genuinely does deserve the recognition it has as one of the greatest books of all time. What really did shock me however, was that once I got over…

I'm old enough that I remember when audiobooks were called books on tape, and they were on a carousel in the bookstore at the mall. Then they appeared on compact disc. I never thought there was anything wrong with them, or that they weren't "real reading", I just never got into them. Maybe the…

May the chocolate chips in your cookies always turn out to be raisins. May the people who come to talk to you in your room leave the door slightly ajar, so that you have to get up and close it. May your article load that extra little bit as you're about to click a link so you click an ad…

The second half without Holmes is a little eh and in retrospect can make you wince with Doyle’s political inexperience . But you get a brilliant murder mystery in the first half. While I found the Hound of the Baskerville to be an excellent novel, I do feel this one is superior. It’s criticized as…

I've been reminiscing about the books I've read so far this year, trying to pick my favorites. Although I've enjoyed most of them, some definitely stood out: Rebecca by Daphné du Maurier (A new all time favorite) Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin (The writing is EXQUISITE!) The portrait of Dorian…

I’m new to Reddit and thought this was the perfect story to share, so here goes! My great-grandmother was born and partly raised in France before moving to America with her family in her teenage years. When she became older, reading Les Mis was always on the top of her bucket list as multiple of her…

Reading all 5 ASOIAF books was a monumental task for me, but I really enjoyed them. I am a slow reader, and I often fall asleep after reading just a few pages, so this took me a couple years. After I finished them, I read A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms which I also really enjoyed. I am now looking…

It doesn’t have to be the best writing, or mean that much in the end, I just want something full of light and joy.

I saw a recommendation of a comic book by none other than GRRM himself. The comic is called Saga and it's very good. It's star wars meets game of thrones in a way. Annd I thought it was a complete series since it started in 2012 but it's on hiatus as of 2018 and only 50% complete. Any book or series…

White Teeth by Zadie Smith introduces Archie Jones in the beginning of the book and for some reason I was really thrown back for the fact that his story, his life as we know, it begins at the age of 45. It begins with him trying to end his life, but couldn't go through with it because of a the…

I LOVE just about anything by Julia Quinn. I think her writing is beautiful and I love the way she writes her characters. I’m really wanting more romance novels like hers, but without all the gory details. I’m not talking about a prudish, YA novel, I just don’t want to feel like I’m reading total…

Hi everyone! A college prep class, taught by the university, that I took when I was 18 had a speed reading course. Since then, 13 years have passed, I’ve seen the trend of speed reading skyrocket and have tried multiple times to learn speed reading. However, recently I had a realization that I had…

I never liked reading growing up. And being forced to read was excruciating. And when I did read, I had a lot of difficulty comprehending what was being read. It would take me forever to finish a book because I would lose attention too frequently and have to reread passages. I’m currently going…

I know because McCarthy tells us. Holden takes the kid "in his arms against his immense and terrible flesh." The secret of Blood Meridian is this: it is exactly what it appears to be. There is no mystery. After many readings, I've learned that the answers are on the page. What do we know about the…

I need a book that will make me question my life. Something depressing, with a lot of thoughts about human behaviors ig?

Have you ever had a book genre you just couldn’t get into, no matter how many times you tried. It could be horror, crime, sci fi anything. For me it’s got to be any kind of fantasy. I just couldn’t get with the ten book series and the thousands of pages and the numerous characters with odd names…

I’ll be reorganising my shelves soon and I’m thinking about different styles of organisation. Currently I keep a separate shelf for unread books and I was wondering how common that was. Do you usually mix your read and unread books, or do you keep unread books separate and only add them to your…

This book is really good. I don’t have many folks that into the same type of books or read like I do or at least started to. I am about half way through the book. He is starting to learn to live and it seems like he is taking in more and more of his surroundings. I like where this book is going.…

So, as the title suggests, I am looking for a book where one (or more) of the characters has ADD/ADHD/Autism, etc. I got diagnosed with ADD a little while ago, and I kinda just want to see what forms of representation are out there, and see how other people experience it. I prefer fictional books,…

Oh. My. God. This is the first SK work I have ever read, and let me tell you, it won’t be the last. This book had me on the edge of my seat the entire time, cheering for the characters and flat out crying by the end of it. The chapter near the end when Stu is laying in the ravine, getting ready to…

I've seen people criticize books with the excuse that they couldn't relate to the protagonist. Sometimes ive seen people completely stop midway through a book for that same reason. I get that one element is to live vicariously in this fictional world through a character of similar mind to you, but…

Just like the title says. This seems to be rampant for less popular books and it enrages me to no end. Like, dude, I just read the whole book and came to hear someone else's thoughts on it. What even motivates people to leave 'reviews' like this (for example I just finished '7 years in Tibet' and…

I watched the movie and detected so much thematic substance that I knew I had to dig in deeper and read the book. I've been reading about 50 pages a day for the past few days and I just finished it. I am sitting here in a total daze, hardly even able to think. Not only was it an incredible narrative…

I asked because the Barnes and Nobles near me are really nice and I like being there, sitting at the cafe and reading a book I purchased, or else researching new books or Manga. But the prices are almost always worse than, say, Amazon. So it’s hard for me to choose whether to keep buying stuff there…

I read it again last weekend. That was the book that always made me laugh along with Hitchhiker's guide to Galaxy. Now all I think is :John just wants to complete his missions and come home. His goal keeps getting farther and farther but He doesn't give up,he is trying his best(the best ) he can…

Ok me a very unhappy person, but not because of any external circumstances. For the longest time, I thought it was because I just wasn't meant to be happy. Like I'm just not built for that. But tjen I realized how stupid that idea is. It's not that I can't feel happiness. It's that I don't know how…

Hello! I'm TJ Klune. Since 2011, I have published over twenty novels in different genres, including contemporary to science fiction to fantasy. The main throughline for all of my books is that they are about queer people from all walks of life. In 2020, I released my first novel with Tor called The…

I want to get into fantasy because it seems fun and i love getting lost in a story. Where is a good place to start. ( i have never read a fantasy book before)

In the last year I’ve read blurbs for several modern mystery novels that are set in an isolated location with a limited number of suspects. The blurbs incorrectly call these kind of books locked room mysteries. But they are not: they are closed circle mysteries, which is a mystery with a limited…

I started with the Harry Potter series I so desperately wanted to read as a child and flew through them. I always loved books but found reading through the same page 4-5 times daunting. With this font paired with the dark mode option, I’ve even read an entire 345 book in one day! Dyslexia prevented…

Like 'spaceship tycoon', the novel. (not a real book (at least, I don't think so)).

I knew I liked these books when I was a kid but I just re-read them as an adult and they're tearing me up the way the best books do. People forget about what it's like to be a kid. I think we leave too much behind when we "put away childish things." Another quote that comes to mind is something like…

My child loves horses so we have a series of fiction books about horse riding. The author, a former sports celebrity, is an absolute horse bore. You might think that would help in this scenario but the result is just lists of famous horses, important race course names and the titles of important…

I find so often there are books that have been on my to-read list for so long and I get so excited about them and then they're just... incredibly underwhelming. I recently finished reading The Secret Life of Bees which had been on my list to read for years and I was so worried it would fall short…

so i just completed reading 'a little life' by hanya yanagihara, and i have to talk about it. i'll be honest i've never cried so much reading a book, this book is so devastating, the characters so amazing and different and so beautiful in their own ways, their relations with each other, the…

I recently read Song of Achilles and Circe by Madeline Miller and it's like it pulled me out of my reading slump. And now I'm all about the Greek mythology, I always have been. I would like more myths told from the perspective of the characters instead of just as a tale from an outside perspective.…

I was reading the Wikipedia page on Mary Doria Russell [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Doria_Russell] and nearly choked on my coffee when I came across this line, about her book The Sparrow [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sparrow_(novel)]: > Because of the quality of its writing, and the…

A nice little subversion of the usual “character with ruthless ambition wants to have their cake and eat it too.” See I thought Evelyn would be this Machiavellian character who as I stated above would always believe “More power,” was the solution to get what she wanted and like a lot of “anti…

Love hitchhikers guide to the galaxy too reminded me a lot of that

I was thinking it would be fun to have a reason to talk to my mother once a week about something. I'm a 32 year old man that's into sifi. I'm not sure what to choose to read with her at all. Any ideas? Doesn't have to be sifi at all.

Recently finished an lgbtq+ book after 2 years of not reading anything *physical since the pandemic happened. I was so giddy reading it from finish to end, I even put sticky tabs for the scenes i liked! anyways, hit me with the best lgtbq+ book you got, can be mainstream, cliche, any tropes really,…

For context, I am a 21 year old dude who, outside of class assignments, hadn't voluntarily touched a book since high school until last month.. I have always been a fitness junkie, and I have never been able to set aside time for reading due to exercising, work, cooking protein-packed meals, and…

I read Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl multiple times when I was growing up and was always really fascinated with Anne's story. Now I'm 32 and the other day, I bought a copy of the Definitive Edition of her diary and was just as excited to read the parts that were omitted from the other…

I think I'm in need of serious help. Generally people ask "how to read books" but well I'm asking "how to NOT read books". All i wanna do is read, like 24/7! In the starting it felt amazing but it's becoming a problem now. I don't remember when was the last time i slept before 3 or 4 in the morning,…

First off, I was totally blown away by this book. The world that Gibson creates here is so enthralling I found it impossible to put down, especially the last third. He does a great job of creating memorable characters and scenes that stick with you. While some of the prose can be confusing…

I'm currently reading an author's debut fantasy novel in a finished series and the beginning of it blew my mind in how compelling it was; it was well-written, well-fleshed out, and had me on board with the MC from the first few pages. As someone who recently came to terms with not forcing myself to…

I bought the complete collection on Audible because it hit a bunch of things I was enjoying at once; mystery/crime stories and Stephen Fry for the most part. I'm up to "The Final Problem" at the moment, the story where Moriarty gets introduced. At this point it's been roughly 2 extended novels and…

For me, I've got The Stand by Stephen King and Pachinko sitting on my shelf, looming over me. I just read 3 SK books in a row and now I'm reading a short novella by a different author as sort of a pallet cleanser. I'm heading to the beach in Mid-September for a long weekend and thought that The…

I recently got into a bit of a muddle when I didn't know why some people seem to hate author Brandon Sanderson. After asking around I learnt that nobody really hates him, they just dislike seeing him pop up in every book recommendation, he's not as good as some people claim, and there are other…

Recently I've been feeling like I should have read Jane Austen by now. I read Pride and Prejudice in high school for a class, but I hated it because literature classes suck at teaching literature, so I don't really count that. So I found a Jane Austen box set on Amazon and started with Sense…

I have tried many times over the years, and it just bores the crap out of me. Bombadil, the songs that take forever, the slow pacing. I read for fun, it shouldn't feel like it is a slog, right? Immensely enjoyed The Hobbit, and the LOTR films, and stuff like Steven Erikson's epic fantasy. But this…

I'm a 21 year old female and I'd like to read something that could change my life or make it better. I have food in my fridge and a place to sleep, but things are not okay in my house. I live with my parents, and my relationship with my father is awful because we hate each other. Plus, I feel…

Yes, this is partly in response to the recent Little Women post, but more broadly about similar posts I have seen here that always seem to get a lot of attention and praise and many comments I’ve seen over the years. Like so many other teenage girls in high school, I had to read and relate to…

I want a very fall-vibe book. If anyone has seen season one of Gilmore Girls it starts at the beginning of school and the fall energy is unmatched. Also much like the Dead Poet's Society! Doesn't necessarily have to take place at a school but that's a plus! Ps. Also, has anyone read the Dead Poet's…

I'm looking to read one book from authors born in each of 195 countries. Please recommend.

Hi all. I'm from the UK. I'm looking for suggestions of the most messed up book you know of? Could be crime? Science fiction? factual? Any really. I'm fed up buying crime or horror books and they're don't scare or shock me in the least.

Fictional or nonfictional it doesn't matter. What about those books made you feel that way?

It is hard not to judge a book by its cover, hence the cliche. But, are there any books you've put off reading because of how their covers looked? For me, it was Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels. I found the covers often looked like a fantasy convention attendee's daydreams. I ignored quite a few…

A book that is the literary equivalent of a psychedelic trip

I read the first four books of the Steve Alten's "The Meg" series, and I was shocked. It is so well written, and even has scientific moments explained very carefully so many people can understand it. I read these books after I watched the movie and I understood, that the movie is awful and he didn't…

edit: i managed to put a typo in the title, of course it's "Dave Barry" I really dislike books that are supposed to be funny. I think the last book that was intentionally funny and that actually made me laugh and that I enjoyed was Hitchhiker's Guide, and I read that 20 years ago. Doubtful if I'd…

When I'm really enjoying the book... I turn to the last page and read the last line, sometimes even the last paragraph. I don't know why I do this, but I hate myself afterwards because then I've literally just ruined the book for myself and the ending always stays in my mind as I read the rest of…

Ok I'm usually on the side of "the book is better than the movie!" Because... it is..... like by a lot. BUT. BUT BUT. I watched the show and decided to read the book - it's not usually a problem for me bc my own imagination will take over despite already having a visual in my head- and, to put it…

I’ve never read the books but the reviews seem to be that they’re good but are they any good for an adult?

Once in a blue moon I'll read a book that just gains access to my heart and leaves an impact. Eleanor Oliphant is completely fine is one of those books. At first i hated the protagonist, Eleanor, but as the story progressed I managed to not only understand her but fully empathise with her. She went…

I read the book cover to cover, twice, years apart. I don’t get the hype about it. I can see how it’s an interesting story. It’s in the Roaring Twenties, the age of jazz, there is love and hate, and a rollercoaster of emotions and events that keeps going till the very end. Even the hook is great: a…

Some examples would be Candy, Monkey Grip and Praise, all in the grunge lit genre. All the above are set in Australia but im open to any setting.

i’m looking for books where group of people solve new mysteries together, it could be a friend group or a school club or something. i was reading this book called project loki then i remembered how much i used to love this kind of setting. i really thought this was a common trope so i was surprised…

I am a huge John Green fan. Yesterday I was in heaven (Barnes and Noble) and I saw a signed copy of John Green’s The Anthropocene Reviewed. Ofc I bought it, I’m so excited. I read The Fault in Our Stars in middle school, and I was instantly drawn to his writing. He seems to get inside of the…

I think we have all heard this saying by now: the most unrealistic thing about zombie movies is that there aren't a bunch of people rushing toward the zombies to get bitten while shouting "It's all a hoax!" I haven't read The Stand in a while, but I think that's probably the best known pandemic…

I recently read Beyond Good and Evil. Here are some interesting ideas that stuck to mind! Find out the problem with thinking in absolutes, Nietzsche's writing tips, why men and women fight, and more.👇👇 👇 1. Thinking in B/W. The young think in absolutes - and pay a terrible price. The young…

New or old! Doesn't matter. I am so very excited to read House Of Leaves but i unfortunately do not possess the funds to purchase the book at the moment so I'll have to wait a little longer till i get my fingers on it. I've heard so many great things about this novel ( the format alone was enough to…

I had never heard of the book, "Little Women" [https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/292496/little-women-by-louisa-may-alcott-with-an-introduction-by-regina-barreca-and-an-afterword-by-susan-straight/9780593198025], but was just browsing the classics section at a B&N with an eye for the…

This summer, I reread Jurassic Park. I turned my bed into the ultimate cozy reading nest, closed the blinds, and read this on my computer in dark screen mode. I lit a candle, and turned on an 8 hour YouTube ambient noises ofJurassic Park video. I had SO MUCH FUN reading this book. I first read this…

I posted a few months back about not having read anything since high school and wanting to improve my reading ability in order to tackle difficult non-fiction texts. I realized that most of the time that I did try starting to read, I gave up because the book was too difficult or dry for me stick…

TLDR... My personal favorites... The Moor's Last Sigh (1975) The Ground Beneath Her Feet (1999) The essential Rushdie Novels... Midnight's Children (1981) Shame (1983) Shalimar the Clown (2005) Quichotte (2019) For the Rushdie enthusiast only... Grimus (1975) The Satanic Verses…

I remember reading Mexico and Hawaii from my dads book shelf as a teen. Too long ago to remember much on plot, but I remember feeling like this guy must do an incredible amount of research to write these novels. They also had the feel that the location itself was a character so to speak, maybe even…

Seeking a book(s) from the POV of Native Americans. Either historical fiction or biographies. Don’t really care on the setting or time period. Just trying to become more understanding of their culture and suffering.

Just started reading The Lord of the Rings and I can't believe I waited till I was 34 to read it. The writing is magic - beautiful turns of phrase, poetry, diction, Tolkien did it all - and even though there's lots of peril, I find it calming to read. This series is like comfort food and I think I…

This doesn’t have to be the books entire storyline but strong elements of this is what I’m looking for.

I love Name of the Wind and even really like the somewhat fairly maligned sequel. In fact, my favorite scene in the series and one of my all time favorite moments in any book is in Wise Man's Fear. In chapter 7 Kvothe has been drugged making him emotionally unstable. This results in him hiding in…

(The library is tiny and free—not me.) After making up a proposal and presentation to the HOA, I got a Tiny Free Library [https://littlefreelibrary.org/] installed at my HOA park. In gratitude, I took it upon myself to become the “librarian” for the library. Here’s what that meant to me: * Take…

Loved the characters, most of all Toranaga. He kills it imo. Funny in a dry way, witty, deep understanding of human nature and the politics and schemes of his times. Love how Clavell wrote that man. Based on the historic Tokugawa Ieyasu [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokugawa_Ieyasu] I read. Found…

Whenever I finish a book I can’t wait to drop it off. If the book was really good I’m excited for the next person who happens to grab it from the box. I also get excited about what books may be left for me. I know I could sell (or keep) the books I’ve read but there’s something so satisfying about…

Reading Heinlein’s 1961 “Stranger in a Strange Land” now (for the first time— tag spoilers if you must!), and it has me thinking about many things including how people of the past wrote about the future and future technology. Curious if anyone has read an older work of science fiction that…

I read this book expecting a fun horror/escape thriller. I guess it ticks some of those boxes (I wouldn’t call it fun), but not really in the cathartic way I assumed it would. I sort of want to hate this book, because it’s so disturbing, but I can’t help but be impressed by it. I’m not sure that…

I've recently reread these four books and while I'm not the targeted audience for this Young Adult series, I really enjoy them. The books are around 300 pages each and pretty light reading. They introduce concepts of "What is free will?", "What is our place in the world?", the value of friendship…

I've been playing Hades on PlayStation and I've loved the Greek mythology storyline woven through it- any books which tell a good story with this theme would be great, thanks!

TW: profanity hahah. I’m at my wits end Hi guys! Praying the modbots don’t shoot me down for being too new. I just inherited a TON of books from my late grandmother, and some of them are very rare and expensive. However, they come with a caveat- she was an insane pack rat. These books were full of…

Hello all! I’ve recently changed jobs to a clinical trials office, and in the training the Nuremberg trials were briefly mentioned. Do any of you have recommendations on nonfiction books that detail the Nuremberg trials specifically or any other previous unethical experimentation? I’m morbidly…

DISCLAIMER (because there's always that one person who doesn't understand): The following is my very personal opinion/experience. I don't expect you to have a similar experience since it probably really depends on your personal taste. Your personal taste isn't wrong, but neither is mine, so please…

A lot of authors have witty ways to describe human beings. My favorite is from Terry Prattchett. Small thinking bags of water, held upright by fragile accumulations of calcium, who are enjoy breaking large rocks in to smaller pieces and then putting them back together in much more complex…

So I’ve only recently been getting back into reading and I’ve gone through about 3 Stephen King books so far. I love how accessible he is. However, if I took a shot for how many times a character has to hold back laughter for something they thought to themselves or how often a female character is…

I had no idea what I was getting into with this book. I had been reading "Moneyball" by Michael Lewis, and at one point he mentioned that he wanted to write as well as John Updike. Seeing as how that book was about MLB, I got into my audible app, and chose the Updike title that had a basketball on…

Reading first, watching second - YES PLEASE. I love watching movies. & I especially love watching movies based on books that I enjoyed. It's a chance to compare it to what I had imagined while reading. Knowing what happens doesn't bother me at all. In fact, it just makes me more interested in…

I just finished Andy Weir's latest book, Project Hail Mary. Unfortunately, I don't have any friends who have read it but I need to talk about it. It's been awhile since I felt that kind of sad, empty feeling after reaching the end of a good book. I've been looking for something to get me hooked…

Anybody read this? It came up on my Kindle and thought "Eh, why not?" Man, I enjoyed this. A multi-species crewed ship on a minor mission, trying to make it into the big times. They take an ambitious job and have adventures along the way. I have no idea why this book affected me so much. I'm an old…

like a POV of living in that time. even a completely made up story, but for example it takes place in gold rush era USA, and includes historically accurate details like clothing, language and phrases, setting, etc.

I'm not a bookworm but I enjoy reading. One of the biggest problems that I face is trying to grasp the inner meaning or the underlying theme, parallels between characters or something that is not really spelled directly out in a book. The reason I believe is because I tend to think about whether the…

My mom showed me the film which stars Sally Fields when I was a kid but I didn’t really remember the details of it. Then one day I was walking by a little free library and saw the book and took it. That’s how I spent my lasik surgery recovery at the beginning of 2019. It’s a fantastic memoir about…

I'm not sure if this is the right place to post... As the title says, without meaning to I've quite badly damaged a library book without realising. It was in the back of my car and water has got in through the window seals and made the book soaked. I tried to dry it out but the pages have turned to…

New Years resolution to read more this year so had a look on this sub for suggestion. So far this year I’ve read; The Stormlight Archive 1-4, Dune and Station 11. Just finished station 11 - beautiful book, finished it in two days. Dark matter, A man called Ove, Into thin air and Night all arrived…

I have missed fiction. I have missed reading, and I have realized just how fast life is ticking by with me having not experienced some of the greatest works of all time. Maybe it’s because I’m turning 30 this winter, who knows, but after seeing this…

My god. What a book. It’s about a man in a society where there are magical creatures and they have registered. He goes around from orphanage to orphanage to check on children and make sure they are okay. He doesn’t have any family or friends really and lives a humdrum life until he sent chosen to…

I've been looking for a good mystery novel and I saw lots of people recommend "And then there were none" by the amazing Agatha Christie. I had never read anything of her works, but boy, did I love it! I admit I had a bit of a hard time understanding some parts (since I'm not a native English…

Those books that after reading it you realize how awful the world is. Everyone is evil. Dogs die. Life sucks. Mine is Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn.

Was he the original horror/thriller writer for children!? Adults!? I LOVED all the books and stories as a kid but goddamn, they scared and intrigued the shit outta me. What a talent he had on portraying what unnerving, immoral, and also… hear me out… beautiful human life can be. The Omnibus of his…

I’m in high school and for my AP Lit reading, our teacher had us pick between three books. I picked The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini. Essentially, it tells the story about a young boy Amir, who lives in Kabul, Afghanistan. I decided to read it because the story seemed interesting and I also wanted…

And what did you like about them?

I just finished Vonnegut's Mother Night and can't stop thinking about it. First, if you haven't read the book, I highly highly recommend it. Its a very quick read with short chapters. I don't want to give too much of the plot away because I went into it blind and really enjoyed reading the story…

"My Dear Lucy, I wrote this story for you, but when I began it I had not realised that girls grow quicker than books. As a result you are already too old for fairy tales, and by the time it is printed and bound you will be older still. But some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy…

Some common ones I hear are: Misery by Stephen King, And Then There Were None and The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie, The Martian and Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir what should I add to that list?

Tonight on a flight across the US, I sat next to a wonderful older lady who was the perfect amount of talkative, as far as strangers next to you on flights are concerned. I asked her what her biggest regret was in life. She responded with… “Well I’m a librarian, and I’ve had the joy of reading many…

Spoiler alert. There is a specific line that destroyed me, and every time I think about it, my heart aches. It's after Clare makes dinner for the first time and it's already been established that Henry is going to die. Alba & Henry are telling Clare how good the meal is, when Clare & and Henry…

…I really wish I would have kept all the books. They’re always the heaviest boxes to move. For me, they were the first thing that went into the trash when I downsized in 2008. I regret throwing them away. I have hundreds of books once again. But I really miss all the books I threw away. I don’t…

Like many of the users on here, i was pretty much a non reader for most of my life. 3 years ago i came across this sub after a post reached r/all [/r/all]. I had reached a point where i was tired of social media, but couldnt find a way to break free. After scrolling through a few posts, i found the…

I loved James Howe's Bunnicula series as a kid, especially Howliday Inn; the humor, the creepiness, animals vs the paranormal -- it basically ticked every box for me. Is there anything at all like that for adults? (I've read Meddling Kids and enjoyed it, but I'd really be stoked to find something…

I loved all three of her books and urge everyone to read them even if you aren’t particularly into mysteries/thrillers. They have beautiful writing and extremely interesting plots. She is my favorite author of the genre she does for sure and haven’t really found anyone who lives up to her, in my…

Looking for some nice book recommendations that are mind-bending and hard to put down. I absolutely love Dan Browns books but also enjoy when it's a bit flavored with some sci-fi/mystery and plot twists and potentially implements astrophysics (Like in the film Interstellar by Christopher…

I have started reading a lot more lately and have started to fall in love with it. There are so many beautiful quotes out there, I’d like to hear everyone’s favorite. I am currently rereading The Kingkiller Chronicles by Patrick Rothfuss and these are my favorite quotes from them. “Bones mend.…

I was reading the book "a Man called Ove" and I haven't finished it yet but it's interesting so far and I love the build up. However, when buying it I saw a lot of reviews about it on amazon saying the book was inherently a racist and prejudiced book. I'm sorry if it offends anyone who agrees with…

Big fan of the Red Rising series, love how they’re full of action and don’t shy away from violence. I’m looking for more books like that. Does matter if it’s dystopian, historical, sci fi fantasy, etc. Just as long as I can’t put the book down

Hello! I’m new to this community and I need some help. My niece, who’s 9, loves reading. Since last year during the COVID-19 lockdown, she’s been devouring books faster than we can provide. However, now that she’s returning to school, she took one of those standardized placement tests. On the…

I'm so proud of myself, and that's not something that usually happens. I read a post yesterday about someone reading Agatha Christie for the first time and how she was so excited during the twists. So I thought, that's it! I immediately went a bought "And Then There Were None". I'm obsessed I'm…

I've seen many readers suggest the series on this sub so I gave it a try and I was absolutely hooked! Carlos Ruiz Zafon was an incredible writer and I was so sad to see that he passed last year. My favorite of the series is probably The Shadow of the Wind followed by The Angel's Game. I was so…

We're still reading authors and books from many years ago, ranging from Shakespeare to Charles Dickens and Edgar Allan Poe. But what books and authors from our time people will still read in the future? Suggest me your books, fellow redditors!

Published in 2008, it tells the story of a woman who lived through the take-over of Afghanistan by the Taliban after the Soviet withdrawal. It's both a tragedy and a hero story, I think. Anybody else been thinking about it and what's going on in the news today? I feel like the narrator of the book…

I'm curious to hear what book, if any, you didn't understand/appreciate/enjoy until you were older (or until you reread it). For me, I read 'Carol' when I was 16 when the movie was first announced and thought it was just boring and whiney. I read it again when I turned 19 (the same age as the main…

Hey guys just wanna share this app called Libby its a very cool app and only requires a library card (you can make one online) it has a great collection of books and audiobooks you can listen/read the books by your favorite author and its all free and if the book is not available you can put it on…

Edit 2: Holy hell, this is not a request for books to help understand. It's my push for a great book to others! Edit: This is a recommendation, not a request. I cannot edit the title of the post, but it’s been pointed out that the title looks like a request while obviously the post is a…

I used to be an ardent reader. I used to always be in the middle of some book, finishing at least one a month. I loved reading. Then I read "Half of a yellow sun" by Chimamanda. And it broke me. I've never been so emotionally wrung out by a book before. I cried. I was exhausted when I finished it.…

I'm reading Dune and sometimes I have to stop for awhile because the interactions between characters give me anxiety. Every conversation is a battle, every meeting is like scouting out a new enemy. The characters analyze every movement, word and intonation. It's impressive and fascinating but the…

I don't understand the amount of infatuation of readers with Mukarami at all. I have read about 5 books of Mukarami. All of his books are the same: it's like someone keeps retelling you their dreams which don't make sense at all but with the same themes in each one. These books sure feel mystical,…

Recently I saw some people talking about the novel series and it seemed interesting. Wondering if its worth getting

People come on here all the time to talk about fantastic books and to give some great advice on what to read, but what is the worst you’ve ever read. Mine is Age of Iron by JM Coetzee. It’s supposed to be a great book by an award winning author, but honestly I hated every second of it. The writing…

I know I'm late to the discussion, this book was given to me as a gift a year and a half ago and has always taken a backseat to life. Finally decided it was just time to read it and I have to say it was awful. A day and a half of reading I wish I had spent on another book since I do have such…

I'm usually the type to finish something once I have started it but I'm currently considering giving up on American Psycho - for reference I'm only 30 pages in. Really thought it would stick with my personal taste but it feels like a chore to read and I'm a bit disappointed in myself. Perhaps I…

I started reading it and finished the first chapter. But it takes a lot of time to even understand a single line. Is its supposed to be like that or I am just dumb? With this speed it is gonna take me a long time to finish this book which is rather short. The lines feel poetic and deeper than usual…

If yes, then please recommend some of her books!:-)

So, I recently started taking reading seriously, after three years of not touching a book. I got a list of recommendations from r/booksuggestions [/r/booksuggestions] and r/suggestmeabook [/r/suggestmeabook] but even I knew I would not be able to get back into reading that quickly. Seriously, it…

I'm 17. In the last year I picked up reading again with books like The Haunting Of Hill House, Dune and Ender's Game. And I love it. I've been reading for at least 1 hour every 4 out of 7 days. And in the last 4 days, since I have a few holidays, I've reading for about 3-5 hours a day. At first I…

I've realized that the first book you really like from a particular genre ends up being really formative and influences what you later like, dislike and look for the other books from the genre. Shirley Jacksons haunting of hill house and the lottery made me fall in love with reading horror and I…

What are you favourite 10 pages or less short stories?

I recently discovered my public reading spot. It's a small cafe tucked away on a side street of my equally small Appalachian town in Virginia. Rather, it's a courtyard with a metal table and lawn chairs adjacent to the cafe, shaded by a bradford pear tree at all times of day. I can sit at the…

I really just wanted to share this with other book lovers because most people in my life wouldn’t understand the significance and joy of the following: Since Carlos Ruiz Zafón’s death last summer, I’ve been collecting his bibliography (seven published works and one posthumous release scheduled…

Seriously, kids fantasy books about fighting aliens with your cool animal powers, and it's 63 books of emotional termoil, ptsd, depression, torture, the horrors of war and everyone is a bastard. There's even one book were Rachel (who is 13 at the time) straight up nearly gets raped, and Marco is…

I grew up in a household that always had the tv on and it was natural for the tv to be on all night every night. Books didn’t feature much in my childhood except for goosebumps and Harry Potter. When I moved into a place of my own with my wife we to would have the tv on when we were at home unless…

I always find myself reading rather heavy material (I love to learn and am a huge nonfiction fan) but I really need some lightness in my life.

Reminds me of what a hell of a writer Hunter s Thompson was. “No sympathy for the devil; keep that in mind. Buy the ticket, take the ride...and if it occasionally gets a little heavier than what you had in mind, well...maybe chalk it up to forced consciousness expansion: Tune in, freak out, get…

I would like to formally apologize to Alexandre Dumas for underestimating him. I looked at the date and length and thought it would be boring, and I even made sure to download a few other books before I started reading it on the assumption that I would need a break during the tedious parts. There??…

Unpopular opinion: reading a book in one sitting is not necessarily a sign of its quality. It can simply mean that an author is very good at establishing and mainting tension. Sometimes such books heavily prioritise destination over journey and have weaker characters. The re-readability might also…

- Finished Hitchhiker's Guide a day or two ago, book one at that, and have had a chance to mull it over. Obviously, I've seen it on tons of "Best Books" lists and had it recommended to me several times. I knew going in it was a bit slapstick and whimsical, and it was fantastically so. But, somehow,…

So I ended up picking up Stardust by Neil Gaiman yesterday since I love the movie so much and wow.... I don't think I've finished a book that fast in forever lol! To be fair it wasn't a very long book, but I seriously couldn't put it down all day today. It just had such a fantasic whimsical vibe,…

As the grandfather in Princess Bride describes it: Fencing. Fighting. Torture. Revenue. Giants. Monsters. Chases. Escapes. True Love. Miracles. I’ll add male protagonist and romance to that list! I know Stardust is often recommended but surely there are others that have this sense of adventure and…

Lately, I have most often seen "Death of the Author" used synonymously with platitudes like "you gotta separate the artist from the art", thrown around in culture war nonsense, on the defensive side of whether this or that book is "problematic". Which is a shame, because the original literary…

Kinda a weird question but I'm just thinking about the books I've read, which as a dyslexic who was never terribly invested in books isn't many but I'm getting back into them now. But I'm just thinking there's only been one book in my life as far as I can remember I cried at which was Kensuke's…

I want to be clear that I understand the goal of many writers is to subvert expectations and surprise their audience. But lately, I can't help but notice this trend across books, TV, and movies. If a character explains or mentions their plans, either outwardly to other characters or expressed as…

I started out with the intent of highlight and marking good quotes and after the first ten pages I had to stop because I realised I was essentially just colouring the book in. Every page was gold and it moved me to tears multiple times. It has changed my outlook on the world and I’ve never been…

I mean I mostly read Non-Fiction books.. But I have read Harry Potter, The Hobbit, The Silent Patient, A Monster Calls etc etc in Fiction...

So I just finished reading 'We' and was curious why it doesn't seem as well regarded as 'Brave New World', '1984', or other dystopian novels. The ending hit me like a brick, and the prose throughout does an excellent job of conveying D-503's thoughts and emotions as they change. The last chapter as…

Winner of the Hugo Award in 1963 (the only K. Dick book that won an Hugo Award). I never got disappointed by Philip K. Dick book, and so not by this one. Germany & Japan have won World War II and the world is now in total fascism. North America is split between Japan & Germany and there is kind of…

Yeah, so I'm a university student, and as you know, I've come to hate books so much, that I stopped reading. Last thing I enjoyed reading was Lord of the flies and Dante and Aristoteles in search of the universe secrets (it's a gay love story in Spanish as far as I know). So I was wondering if…

I’ll start by saying that I haven’t seen the movie. Most of what I knew prior to the book was pop culture references. Unfortunate that was my introduction to the book and, upon reading it, how much misconception I was given about. Especially when it came to The Godfather himself, Don Corleone. This…

Okay, this sounds controversial but hear me out. Recently I've seen a surge in trends like '100 books a year' or '10 books a months' I don't know if it been this way since a long time or just recently but all I know is it's tiring. As a non native English speaker and a student it's difficult to keep…

As with most of Reddit, the sub is filled with english speaking authors but I believe authors in other countries might not get the recognition they deserve. For example, Colombia's Garcia Marquez has one of the most amazing stories ever written in spanish. In my country, Huasipungo by Jorge Ycaza, a…

Just finished reading and I have to be honest. It was not an easy book for me to read. I never thought about reading it before because in history class they give you a raw summation of it's contents. It is used as a reason why Theodore Rosevelt created the FDA, this is in American schooling. My…

I’m looking for a book that explores religion and shows its positive and negative sides. It will also help if the book has parts that discuss history or compare it with other religions or mythology (like Greek mythology or the Egyptian cosmology). I’m doing it for research. Thank you for your…

I loved the show and, although I think it was unnecessarily lengthened, I was intrigued at how they managed to squeeze religious lore (among others) for all it was worth. If possible, I would like your suggestions be more epic or maybe even have a pinch of cosmic horror, since it was something that…

I apologize in advance for the format of this post - I wrote it after finishing the book at about midnight, and couldn’t be bothered to write formally. Now on to my thoughts… What an amazing book. Almost ripped my heart to shreds. Doubtlessly one of the most difficult, heavy yet beautiful books…

There's only 1 bookshop in my town (small town in Spain) and they're always promoting in Facebook that we have to shop locally and support them. I tried to do so by ordering a just released book from them. I had to pay upfront and noticed the book was 5€ more expensive than in Amazon. They told me…

During the quarantine of 2020, I did not read a single book. Or one that I can remember. This, of course, was bad. Spending all of your time on social media, especially a website like Twitter, will erode your mental health like spending your free time in a radioactive crater. Eventually, you will…

I just finished Death with Interruptions by José Saramago. The premise: What if one day everyone stopped dying? The execution: Read like a dry philosophy book that I didn't find interesting or engaging. Got any good examples of something that sounded fantastic as a concept but ended up being…

I've been a fan of Michael Crichton's books for many years; the aspect I appreciate most about much of his work is that it's kind of sci-fi but heavier on the "sci" than the "fi". I've been trying to find other authors that scratch that same itch and have mostly fallen short. A couple of years ago I…

Has anyone here read the Song of Achilles and if so, would u recommend it?

For some reason, it feels as though each time I try to read, my brain is brimming with fog. I feel that I do not take my time to thoroughly understand a book, I am not sure why. This is ironic, since I am planning on majoring in English Literature. It should be easy, but it isn’t. I struggle…

For me it has to be from ASOIAF. A continent that would otherwise be unconquerable was taken over by dragons. However, the dragons died off and from then on the kings had to keep their realm together through political arrangements. Plotlines nearly a century in the making are coming to a head…

I love mysteries and police procedurals, but I’m finding that, especially with books in a series, authors write more and more violence and torture into their stories. These series almost always take a very dark turn. A quick example that comes to mind is Patricia Cornwell. Her early works…

So I've been trying to acquaint myself more with the fantasy genre as I'm not super well-read on it. Have read a few new ones that I really loved (Realm of the Elderlings, Book of the New Sun, The First Law, Discworld) and some that I disliked (Wheel of Time). I've also gone through a lot of the…

Just to be frank, it really annoys me so much when people complain about forced diversity or, having diversity forced down our throats, or trying to find a reason to "justify" the diversity in whatever book they are reading. Like your favorite book is litterally set in a world with dragons, magic,…

I first read The Beach when I was about 20 and, like the protagonist, was doing lots of traveling and backpacking. When I read it the first time I thought Richard was a really cool, intelligent and interesting dude who just went a bit bonkers. I'm 32 mow and I've reread the book or the first time…

I'm not a really good reader, and i've always had trouble getting into books. I've probably picked up more books that i haven't finished compared to the ones I have finished. My friend recommended the BAD BLOOD book and I figured I'd like it since I'm sort of into intense real life events like this…

I finished Midnight Library by Matt Haig today, released in August 2020. Not long into the book I discovered a major flaw with the execution of the book's premise. To sum up, the protagonist of the book wakes up and is trapped in an otherworldly library, where she can choose from an infinite number…

For me, it's House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski. It's a big book; dense, with lots of interesting formatting. I make it through the first 30 or so pages before I either give up or start on something else or 'backburner' it for another day. I must have read those first pages a dozen times. It was…

Either due to recommendation hype or it coming from a favorite author or anything else, what book were you really looking forward to that ended up being a big fat disappointment? For me, the most recent one is Malice by John Gwyne. I'd heard it was an amazing subversion of tropes, that he wrote…

I noticed several posts about Catcher in the Rye lately, so I thought I'd chip in my two cents. I read Catcher in eleventh grade around 2010, and I honestly didn't get why it was considered good. At all. I found it to be an exhausting slog with an awful POV character that didn't make any sense.…

Sarah Harding from Michael Chriton’s the Lost World is one of the best and most hardcore protagonists out there. There is a part where she pre-meditatedly murders a man with a Tyrannosaurus rex via Indian leg-wrestling. (He did try to kill her earlier, so there was history). Also when she’s trying…

They are genre fiction, which is often looked down on, but they are far more literary than most pew pew scifi. The characters are fleshed out and compelling, the style is creative, there's usually a twist ending, the society envisioned is aspirational. And it still manages to have exciting action…

I expected the novel to be horrifying. I expected a brutal, evil, apathetic monster. But the 'monster' turned into a 'creature' in my head, implying the impact of the words or adjectives we use and assign to other people, and the significance of parenting. I cried several times because of this…

To start, I'm actually trying to make this a learning experience for me. I'm a huge movie critic and only can name a few which I think are extremely well done. As far as books, I'm not as big a reader, but I did read Angels and Demons and The Da Vinci Code and I really enjoyed them. What is it…

I've been powering through a lovely dense fantasy series as of late, and I'm about three books and 2000 pages in. I want to take a little break due to the mental effort of making it this far, but any time I crack open another book I find myself disinterested within 10 pages and unable to disentangle…

I want to get rid of the "pick up phone, scroll through shit I've already seen, repeat" cycle by replacing that habit with picking up a book for 20-30 minutes! What are some good books that suit being read in small chunks? I haven't read a book in like 6 months and the last one I read was graphic…

Hello guys, I'm planning to get my self some Dune books to try out the Sci-fi genre. But I've been wondering if the whole Dune series worth reading because I have heard many different opinions about this series. Some says Dune is great as a stand alone, some says the last 3 is not really worth it…

Reading has always been a significant part of my life, my parents instilled a love of the written word by encouraging me to read on my own, reading to me and my siblings each night, helping us pick out books at Scholastic Book Fairs & my local Library, helping us track books we read each summer to…

I just finished reading it and the book was pretty fine imo. Yes the narrator is a bit annoying at times and can come off as arrogant. But even if you say that Holden Caulfield is your favorite main character I don’t see how that’s a problem. He really exemplified the type of character he was…

I'm continuously hearing people discussing babying their libraries, replacing dust jackets, and generally treating books like sacred art as if they weren't just purchased online for $11.99. I don't intentionally damage them, but put literally zero effort in keeping them perfect. It's paper; it's…

My new year resolution this year was to read 25 books. Bought a Kindle and slowly cultivated the habit which I had forgotten over these past few years as social media slowly drew me in armed with knowledge of my acute weakness - a very short attention span. 8 months in and I am more than half way…

If someone asked you “What’s your favorite book? And why?” What’s your answer?

I have just finished Herbert's Dune, and what a captivating story it was! A TV show based on Asimov's Foundation and a movie based on Herbert's Dune both come out this fall, so I figured I should read the books first — I used to read a lot of sci-fi as a kid, but somehow missed these two series. I…

I heard a lot of hype around the book and decided to read it this summer for fun. I thought that it was super overrated. First off, I thought that the climax of the book was all around underwhelming. Specifically, I thought that the trial and murder of Chase Andrews was too predictable which…

I dont even know why I have such an absolute visceral feeling of disgust towards the book. It's not even cause it's depressing because depressing shit is my bread and butter. Is it cause its akin to trauma porn? I think it's because everyone in the book is absolutely miserable and no one takes…

Hello! My girlfriend is going to study abroad for 6 months... She is not only my girlfriend but also best friend and those 6 months will be hard. Because i am not good in expressing feelings about how much she means to me I would like to "express" it with a book. I know it sounds silly but if…

The Definitive Edition. As a kid, I knew about her, and learned about the Holocaust. Now, I’m 30. I was able to finally get to purchase and read this book. I did read this book a little in school, but never an edition such as this, as well, now with much understanding. I just finished it after…

So, recently I was gifted my first bible. I am not Christian, nor did I grow up in a Christian household, so I am not aware where you're meant to keep a bible, but I wish to put it on my bookshelf. Receiving this gift has made me wonder, where exactly am I meant to place a bible on a bookshelf?…

Every time I find myself reading a hardcover book that has a dust cover/jacket, I always take it off until I'm done with the book. On most, if not all, hardcover books, the addition of a dust jacket just seems pointless. Sure, they can be used as a built in bookmark, and contain the blurb…

“Bad books on writing tell you to "WRITE WHAT YOU KNOW", a solemn and totally false adage that is the reason there exist so many mediocre novels about English professors contemplating adultery.” - Joe Haldeman I mean, don't get me wrong, it's a great quote, but how many novels do you know of that…

We all have those special bookstores, I hope. The ones from before Amazon wrecked them all. I'm not a Luddite, but I do have a soft spot for a place where you can come in browse for hours.Maybe even sit and read. Enough preamble; here's my favorite. When I was 12 or 13, around 1995 or 1996, a new…

considering starting dune or neuromancer but after some more suggestions. thanks

Recommend some books for me please

I’ll start. I recently read Ruby’s Palace by Kerry Barnes. It’s actually the second part of a trilogy (I didn’t know this before I started reading) about a fearsome family of east end gangsters that are trying to go straight. It’s poorly written, characters are introduced and built up only to…

I am at page 100 and am simply not getting this book. Its just not coherent enough for me to enjoy it. The author jumps from thing to thing and honestly I don't know what's going on half the time. I know that this book is non-chronologically narrated but I still feel that its too confusing. And…

My grandma passed away on Thursday after a lengthy battle with Alzheimer's. I miss her terribly because she and I were so close. When they announced she didn't have long to live, I got the idea to buy her favorite book, Tom Sawyer, and try to read it to her. I had never read the book before, but…

For example, I loved 'A fine balance' and 'A little life'. But both of them handle themes which might be a little too much for some to handle. Likewise, please recommend books which you are generally wary about before recommending.

Full disclosure, I've never read the bible cover to cover. But I do work at a Christian summer camp and have for the past 7 years. We do daily bible lessons and will often read several passages a day. This year I decided to pay a little more attention to the actual writing and translation and I…

Alot of articles say to read for 30 minutes a day or maybe an hour a day or a certain amount of pages ... Maybe before bed or in the morning ,etc... But when do you read each day and how much do you read. Whether it's in time or pages it doesn't matter! Just wondering what your habits and routines…

I don't know if it's just me but I have prejudices over books that are rated lower than 4 in Goodreads. I tend to be wary of picking up books that do not have an average rating of at least 4. I know the high rating does not really determine my enjoyment with the book. I have read books that have…

I went to a book club yesterday as the only guy. It was fun. We talked about the book and the pros and cons of the book and it was what I wanted. It just felt odd that the stereotype of a book club, that's its dominated by women members came to be true. I know men read, but I have no idea why the…

Been reading the book during my lunch breaks at work over the past couple years, finally finished it now. Truly a beautiful book, one of the few books to make me feel, see and even hear everything within the book. It feels like the journey Dante undertakes is one that the reader takes himself. The…

Milk and Honey is the worst thing I have ever read. Am I missing something? Am I too stupid to comprehend? Do I not understand poetry? It's litterally just fragmented sentences. "I was hungry." "I opened the fridge." "It was empty." "I am strong." I must say though I am not the biggest fan of…

I love to read but I recently realized that sometimes I avoid reading because it screws up my sleep. Not just staying up late to read “one more chapter,” but also not being able to fall asleep because I’m thinking about the plot or characters, and all my dreams seem be vividly related to whatever…

Admittedly, aside from obvious books like Harry Potter, I've read some others like Percy Jackson and Miss Peregrines Home for Peculiar Children and enjoyed them. Sometimes I enjoy YA books because they are easy and not long winded like some books can be. Does anyone else do this? What are some good…

Reddit seems to be unanimously excited about Gabriel Garcia Marquez’ 100 years of solitude, which is why I bought it and started reading it, but I’m not so sure yet. The timeline is complicated, family tree is hard to follow (with all the same names) and the lack of dialogues make it difficult to…

This took like 30-40 hours of mind-numbing grunt work, so I really hope some of you enjoy it. It's a really rather interesting list, and it's always fascinated me how despite 4chan's reputation, whenever their book lists come out each year they are always relatively respected and spark meaningful…

What’s the longest book you’ve ever read? Stand-alone, not in a series. How many pages was it? I feel like on average the books I read are 300-400 pages long. To be quiet honest I think one of the longest books I’ve ever read was one from HP. Are longer books preferred? Is there such thing as a book…

Looking to continue my streak. I enjoy most genres My recent favorites include Master and Margarita, cloud Atlas, educated, sapiens, ocean art the end of the Lane

I know he is often (rightly or wrongly) lambasted as ‘airport fiction’ or whatnot, but I’ve just started The Cider House Rules by John Irving this morning and I really do think he is one of the most truly joyful writers to read - at least in his earlier work. The World According To Garp is…

I heard the premise and decided to pick it up because I was intrigued. And I absolutely loved the book! The writing is brilliant. My layman interpretation of the work was that it could mean that there is no ethical consumption in a capitalist society. This is the first time I'm reading her work,…

also: one that is rich in psychology and philosophy. inb4 someone rebukes that the human condition doesn't exist. I can't give a precise definition of it but there's some vague family resemblance cluster of qualities in "the human condition" that we all know of. And novels obviously CAN be more…

How do I do it? It feels like every time I read a book featuring a strong, interesting female protagonist, there’s always a million reviews calling her a Mary Sue. Wikipedia tells me a Mary Sue is “unrealistically free of weaknesses,” but I have trouble understanding how big a weakness has to be…

Hi all! I'm K.B. Wagers, non-binary author of the Indranan and Farian War trilogies from Orbit Books and the NeoG Adventures from Harper Voyager - including the recently released Hold Fast Through the Fire. I write about the Near-Earth Orbital Guard's Interceptor teams as they patrol the space in…

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And boy was it a journey. I decided to pick up this bad boy after the movie announcement because I thought it already looked great. In reality, it was on my list forever having read about how prolific a novel it is and I was not disappointed! Not only did it feel like an insane achievement to read…

Even if you had a day off from work, I can't see how some people have the mental stamina to read 100k words in a day. I remember hearing teenagers in 2007 getting The Deathly Hallows opening day and reading until midnight. Unlike TV shows where it's more of a passive medium to absorb, reading…

So, last month I read this book and I am in awe of Roy's writing. Her writing is so beautiful and expressive, and I'm short of words to explain how I loved the little metaphors spread across the book. The world of Estha and Rahel is so beautifully woven Also, why this book hits home, is because of…

I read Emily St. John Mandel's Station Eleven yesterday. Could not put it down. Cried about a dozen times. For context, I've been in iso on and off since March 2020. I was a student at a foreign university before Covid hit, and I had to leave it all behind and come home. I've mostly been alone…