Fricking loved the book! Took me just three sessions to finish it.Orwell does a great job of depicting a dark, depressing environment.The part after Winstons arrest was very exciting.I found it fascinating how he always saw O’Brien as a friend, even while being tortured by him. I was expecting it to…
Unpopular opinion, but I don't understand why he's considered the king of horror. I've read a dozen or so of his books trying to get to the root of why he's so popular but his campy characters and goofy story arcs don't exactly elicit a sense of dread within me. His stories feel like YA novels with…
No big deal, right? A little about me. I have a degree in literature. I can explicate the hell out of a sonnet, read Chaucer without translation, and was an avid reader for much of my life. Until...I decided to major in it. Being forced to gorge on hundreds of pages a night completely killed one…
Hi guys, For the last few months I have been working on a side project with a friend. It is a AI powered search engine for books called librimood (https://librimood.com/). Basically it's a search engine where you can search freely about what you like to read, just like asking a friend or asking…
My all-time favourite author is Derek Landy, he's Irish and he's hilarious. he started off with a children's fantasy series called Skulduggery Pleasant which I read when I was 9. The 14th book in the series is just about to be released and I highly recommend the series, it gets a lot darker and…
As I delve deeper and deeper into the literary world, I've been fining an overwhelmingly popular consensus that if novels do not have likeable characters people can "connect" with, the reading experience is thus unenjoyable. I would like to challenge this notion. Reading about unlikable characters…
I've finished the first book 'A Wizard of Earthsea' and I'm about to start the second. Seriously loving the writing style so far. It moves quickly and has a wonderful storytelling (word of mouth style) feel to it that makes you feel involved in the tale even as a spectator. I'm also noticing how…
I am not a native English speaker, so sorry for any mistakes. I have always loved books, especially when I was a teenager. I could read almost any type of book in any type of genre. I could not walk past a bookstore without going in, and if there was a sale, you bet I was buying. As I grow older,…
I mean the part about the Imagined Myths being only as strong as the number of people around you co-believing in the same thing. It helped me understand people and culture on another level. Not just mingling with foreigners but also people within our same family but a foreign mindset. Incredible…
I lost all my books (small shelf) in a flood last November and I am having a hard deciding which one to buy first. I am almost done reading the only book that survived and ready to start a new small collection. Here are some titles I am considering, I guess I would like a vote on which is your…
I'm 18 and I've started to read and leave some bad habits of mine, and I'm an artist so I wanted to read fantasy, I've started Harry Potter and I'm planning on reading the Percy Jackson series later, but i wanted to know if Kane Chronicles is worth a shot? Have any of you read it? What are your…
I just discovered Libby. It's amazing! Download the Libby app. Get a Library card. Most places do them online now so you don't have to go in person. Enter your library card info. Boom!!! Free books and audio books. And if your Library doesn't have a certain book, some libraries will give you a card…
I just recently got into reading again and went into a Bookstore not sure what I was really looking for, but one of the employees saw me holding this book and said it was “Excellent” & with that I took his word and got the book. I finished it in two days, & it definitely deserves that title…
Hey Reddit and /r/books. I'm using a throwaway account so I don't fully dox myself, but I was really hoping that a giant community of book enthusiasts might be able to help me. Since you're fans of stories, I'll let you hear mine. My mother is a wonderful person. She's the most giving, caring,…
I didn't pick up on hardly any of this when I read this one back in school, but reading it now, in the middle of (gestures at everything) this— it hits different. It actually means something. The Joads have just been trampled on by the rich. Literally forced off their own land because someone with…
I work at a secondary school (ages 11-18) and I need some suggestions for books I should be checking out! Both to read myself to get me through my lunch break and what I can be recommending to the kids. I'll put some of my favourites below too: The Edge Chronicles by Paul Stewart and Chris…
So it took me a while to finally pick this book up, I'm normally into thriller, mystery, horror type stories, but I think this book just changed me! The author made me feel as though I was in the marsh with Kya, I can picture her cabin, her beach, her collection, her wood stove! I just absolutely…
I recently picked up Ender's Game again. Ender's Game was that book for me. It was assigned in my sixth grade reading class, and although the first chapter was assigned, I read the whole thing the first weekend. It introduced me to science fiction, but beyond that it completely engrossed me. Looking…
(Anthony Briggs Penguin Translation) Before starting reading, I was expecting that I'd need to take a break in between each of the four volumes. I had heard Tolstoy's opus described as a slog, with one friend stating that "It's a fine book, so long as you don't mind endless pages describing a…
Organizing the library in my room at my parent's place, I think I now understand better why I stopped reading from ages 18 to 26 after being a voracious reader before that. I felt like sharing this story because I believe it might not be that uncommon, and I'm interested in getting other people's…
My wife, on the other hand, LOVES Stephen King and has read all his books. I’ve never been a fan, although I’ve liked movies that I didn’t know were based on King novels at the time (Shawshank, Green Mile). I’ve never really liked his writing. I’m not saying there’s anything wrong with it but I’m…
This has bothered me for years, but I never thought to actually discuss it until now. As a kid, I definitely noticed that the female main characters in my favourite books never seemed to menstruate (or even mention/think about it) despite being of an age where it would almost definitely be on your…
I'll be taking a law exam in four months from now and it has sections like Reading Comprehension and Critical Reasoning. Besides solving actual problems for my test, what are some good books I can read that'll help me sharpen my Critical thinking area of brain and help me with proficiency…
Spotify has released [https://www.mobilemarketingreads.com/spotify-adds-9-public-domain-audiobooks-with-exclusive-recordings/] 9 public domain classics including Frankenstein, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, The Awakening, Jane Eyre and more to boost its new audiobooks section.
Back in 2009 I had an English teacher read us a book everyday before lunch. It was about a mad scientist, who kidnapped two kids... and was doing some sort of Frankenstein type science experiment on them... he made one kid into a bird, and one kid into a fish. I've had an ongoing bet for years…
Why does everyone say that they "read" a certain book when they "listened" to it. I know it's just semantics, but language is here to provide clarity to our experiences, why do we make this so confusing. What's wrong with the word "listening"? One is not better than the other. Nobody cares. But…
I recently finished The Book Thief by Markus Zusak (I may be a little late to the party), and it really left quite the impression on me. I spent the last fifty or so pages bawling my eyes out even though there are giveaways to the ending from the outset. However, the thing I found most enveloping…
I was always an action/adventure/scifi fan, and had never explored King until the second half of 2020 I’ve been ripping through his books, and came across 11/22/63, which sucked me in. I had it on audiobook and went out of my way to drive, just to listen to it. I listened to it before I slept. I…
I'll preface this by saying that I think I'm pretty well-read. I think that compared to the general population, I have an above-average vocabulary. But Gnomon by Nick Harkaway is making me feel illiterate. The guy's word choices are so foreign to me, and used with such frequency that if I were to…
I ask because I read And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie when I was in high school, but I skipped the epilogue because I guess I thought it was boring? Anyway, for years I always assumed that the last character alive had been the murderer - until two weeks ago when someone mentioned here…
Hey Reddit! I'm Hafsah Faizal, award-winning and bestselling author of WE HUNT THE FLAME and WE FREE THE STARS, which released last week, and the upcoming A TEMPEST OF TEA. I write fantasy for upper young adult, though I do like to consider my work to be good crossover material for those in search…
Given the current state of events with QAnon, Flat Earthers, Sovereign Citizens, 9-11 Truthers, Holocaust Deniers, Moon Landing Deniers, and people who believe Bill Gates is trying to Microchip them...I'm looking for books about the psychology of conspiracy theorists. I've only found one book just…
Ok. I know that this post is going to be downvoted to hell, although I never understood why people downvote a post that has a different opinion to theirs, but I will say it anyways.. Reading DUNE did not turn out the way I thought it would. I liked science fiction ideas in general ever since I was…
The big ones coming out of copyright tomorrow include The Great Gatsby (Fitzgerald), Mrs. Dalloway (Woolf), In Our Time (Hemingway) and An American Tragedy (Dreiser). Other authors with books coming out of copyright include Kafka, Christie, Huxley, Lewis, Dos Passos, Wharton and Maugham. Longer…
Just finished ‘and then there were none’. That has to be the most ingenious and best mystery book I’ve ever read. I have been sitting here for half an hour trying to compute what I just read. I cannot express in words how bloody amazing it was. You all must read it! Christie really is the queen of…
I was doing some reading about the history of Shrek [https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a7/Shrekcover.jpg] (long story), and learned that it was a children’s book written ten years before the movie came out. Not only that, but it was written by William Steig--who you might recognize as 1.…
Part of my New Years resolution is to read more. I continually set this goal for myself but never follow through as I find I get bored pretty easily and need to switch my focus. Because of this, it’s been hard for me to get through a book entirely. On January 1st, I picked up one of the books I got…
I qualify as a Constant Reader. I've read (almost) every Stephen King novel, novella, short story, and non-fiction under his name - I'm missing the Gwendy works, the book about the 2004 Red Sox season, and when he puts out a short story as a part of a multi-author anthology. What I have come across…
I started the year on a fantasy-romance high with 'The Shadows Between Us' and after looking for suggestions from r/suggestmeabook [/r/suggestmeabook] I followed it up with Uprooted. Turns out the romance is basically a side plot and I've been dragging myself to read through it so I can get to the…
Can you imagine people reading something you've enjoyed now, say 200 years later. The thought is so fascinating to me. Which recent book do you think will stand the test of time :) Note: just added 20 years as reference point, let me know if there's something written slightly earlier that you think…
I think that in my case it depends on the quality of the rest of the story. If I'm reading a book and hating every minute of it when I get to the bad ending it would just become one more thing to complain about later on, like a cherry on top of a pile of garbage. It's a lot worse when the book is…
I've just realised that I won't be able to read most of the new books - because I'm not ready to read about people wearing maska, people isolating etc. Not yet, at least. Maybe one day in the future. But I hate this reality and I don't cope with it well. I just hate the thought of reading about it,…
Probably going to get downvoted for this, but I seriously dislike when authors jump between different characters storylines in each chapter. I don’t have a great memory so I spend a lot of the time trying to remember where they left off. Also, sometimes I don’t like the character or their storyline,…
Sorry if gushy posts about how a book made me cry aren't allowed, but Jesus Christ man. I knew what Lolita was before I read it. I knew it was about a sick, evil man "falling in love" with a little girl and taking advantage of her after her mother dies. But I think going into the book with this…
Hi! Creating a 2021 reading list and curious to hear your favourite read in 2020 and why! (Ideally something I can also find in a local UK bookstore so I don't give Amazon more money!) Edit 1: Welp! Did not expect this response at all! Thank you so much for all your recommendations, I am thrilled…
Context: I'm well-versed in the classic authors writing in English, but frankly pretty ignorant when it comes to classics from Asia, or Africa, or any of the European countries in which English isn't the first language, even. I'm hoping to change that and would appreciate any help on where to…
Sorry for the long-ish post :( Remember we all had a kid in our high school who used to gobble up books after books. Yeah. I was that kid. And then came college. I read 38 books last year. Not great, not terrible. Then came lockdown of 2020. I thought "hmm I have all the time in the world and I'll…
Hi everyone, the last 10 years or so I've done nothing but studying and working to get to where I am today, I get paid well and work for my dream company but I'm still not happy with my life and don't really know where to go or what to do next. Any book recommendations for people that feel really…
Basically as the title says. Looking for books that involve serial killers and detectives or police solving the crime. I really love the darkness of the atmosphere in Se7en and the disturbing vibes of it (I don’t want anything too disturbing though). I also love the mystery and feelings of unease in…
Hi all, I know it's not a book suggestion per se, though I've been getting into audiobooks again to listen to at the gym/while I commute to my new job (its a bit of a drive). Thing is, I'm really not wanting to support Jeff Bezos. He's filthy rich, and I'd rather not make him richer, especially…
I need to unload life stress right now and want to throw myself into some page-turners. I really liked Hunger Games, Catching Fire, Divergent, Insurgent...but wanted something a little more grown up in the romance department. Not asking for 50 Shades graphic at all...but more "climactic" than YA…
I would love to learn more about the first civilizations (Sumerian, Minoan, Egyptian...), but I do not know where to start to get a general idea about them before diving deep into a specific one. I have read some books about Universal History, and I think it is time to take one more step and go just…
A series with thousands of pages seems a little overwhelming, currently. Is there a book to introduce one to Fantasy? One that would suggest if Fantasy genre is ones cup of tea? Like I said, I’m brand new to reading and have only finished 3 books, popular ones (where the crawdads sing, A Million…
I’m searching for books about the lives of women in their 30s that isn’t a romance story or a ‘I was a white picket fence soccer mum and then went wild’ tale. Being in my 30s, I can’t really relate to the “enjoy your 20s!” Or “young singles!” anymore and I’m not quite at the ‘older women being…
Hello everyone, I was wondering if anyone had some good go-to recommendations for books which focus on Black history and some of the most important events and figures within that time. I realised that I have no real in-depth knowledge of black people's history and their struggle during and since…
Hi everyone, I am fairly new to Reddit, still trying to figure out how it really works. But, I came across this sub Reddit and I thought to myself, give it a try, it might be helpful. So here goes nothing. When I was little, I grew up reading books. My parents read to me before bedtime and…
I’ve read We Have Always Lived in the Castle and really enjoyed the elements of not knowing what’s real due to the main character. The way you can’t tell if she’s mad or magical and her descriptions of what’s happened slowly evolve is really interesting to me. I also just read Piranesi and…