Looking for Book Recommendations! 📚
Hey everyone! I’m in the mood for some fresh reads and would love your recommendations. I’m open to any genre; fiction, non-fiction, fantasy, thrillers, mystery, you name it!
What’s a book you’ve read recently that you couldn’t put down? Or an all-time favorite that you think everyone should read?
Bonus: Any book you recommend that gives fall vibes?
@Jenna
It is one of the popular ones but I read it a little too late in life it seems hehe~ The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini, it might (definitely) have a potential triggers though, so please do get an overview if it may help.
Something else is another popular one~ Atomic Habits by James Clear, as one of the most practical handbooks I've come across! :D
Have you read either of them or would like to consider? <3
@Sunisshiningandsoareyou. @Jenna. I love The Kite Runner! Trigger warnings as Sun mentioned. I can also recommend another book by Khaled Hosseini called A Thousand Splendid Suns. This one is great also but comes with trigger warnings as well
@adventurousBranch3786
Ooh this is in my to-read list also but I wanted to take time to recover after The Kite Runner.😅 Thanks for the recommendation, Branch!
@adventurousBranch3786
Thanks for sharing your recommendation! I'm excited to check all of these out.
@Sunisshiningandsoareyou
Omg special choices wow
Especially the kite runner
But yeah it's really TW
@Tulipsmile
Hehe I see so many fans of this book and for the right reasons, the TWs can be a barrier but definitely recommend reading this one, if one can and wants to.💖
@Sunisshiningandsoareyou
I have not read those. Thank you for your recommendation. I will check it out!
@Jenna the shadow within us
@inventiveCamp9724
Do you know who the author is?
@Jenna
Maybe this book
@Tulipsmile
Thank you.
- The Lucifer Principle - Howard Bloom (dated but sheds light on human affairs in general)
- The Human Zoo - Desmond Morris (classic anthropological tome on urbanization)
- Debunking the 1619 Project - Mary Grabar
- White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America - Nancy Isenberg
- The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Edward Gibbon (Abridged ed. A must-read!)
- All Rivers Run to the Sea - Elie Wiesel
- Alas, Babylon - Pat Frank (classic post-apoc)
- The Passage - Justin Cronin (quasi-literary post-apoc)
- The Shallows - Nicholas Carr (every Internet/social media addict should read it)
- Nostromo - Joseph Conrad
Note: Some of the books in the above list may be triggering to varying degrees.
@slowdecline48
Wow, thank you for sharing all of these!
Anytime...I could've made the list more than twice as long but that would've been ridiculous. 😄
I would recommend the first Septimus Heap book entitled Magyk by Angie Sage. it's got wizards, a princess, and - you guessed it - magyk!
There are many short stories in various genres posted online on the site https://www.eastoftheweb.com/
@Jenna
I would heartily recommend
"Darius the Great Is Not Okay"
Novel by Adib Khorram
Triggering warning.
Very nice book though.
@Jenna
There is a novelties by 2024 Nobel Prize winner Han Kang that you can read free online:
https://granta.com/the-fruit-of-my-woman/
It's triggering and rather painful (as, I hear, most of Han's writing is) but exquisitely beautiful at the same time.
@belami2024
Novelties not novelties
@belami2024
Novelette not novelties.
@Jenna
A Song of Ice and Fire by George R. R. Martin 📚❄️🔥
I've read lots of novels! Harry Potter by J.K. Rowlings ✨, The Mortal Instruments by Cassandra Clare (which is where I got my username! 😄), Percy Jackson by Rick Riordan (and all his other series) 🧙♂️⚡, and some other novel series. All of which are masterpieces that I would pay a lot to read again for the first time 🥲
Game Of Thrones, in comparison, is very, very detailed🧐, has unimaginable plot twists that will have you punching air 😤💥, and wars that will have you jumping and cheering 💣⚔️.
It's enigmatic and gripping, with complex characters and morally gray decisions that will leave you questioning everything 🤯📖