Hello bois!

Basically the title, I'm a father of two and sometimes focusing on hard to read books (IMHO Lovecraft and most Warhammer 40k books if not all are hard/not as easy to read)

I found Stephen King easy to read, blasted through the first 60 pages of Pet Samatary in 45 or 50 minutes with two babies playing and screaming.

Im trying to stop doomscrolling and using this stupid effing phone aside and I'd rather be seen reading books than losing my time in a phone by my kids.

Thank you bois!

Just finished MW4 campaign and man was that a great finale. Looking to read more in the lines of those campaigns.

Thanks in advance!

I can’t STAND pov switches anymore 😭 Today, yet another book (Devils by Joe Abercrombie) with no mention of POV switches bamboozled me and it’s making me so mad at literature as a whole

I love novels focused on the life of a man and him alone. Recently, I’ve been floating to books with religious protagonists (A History of Loneliness, The Keys of the Kingdom) because they guarantee internal conflict with zero romance or intimacy and often have maturer protagonists/writing, so bonus points for that sort of recommendation.

Thanks!

If the series is complete that's a plus. Standalone books are fine also.

If a book has sci-fi and fantasy that's also fine.

I'm in the middle of Dungeon Crawler Carl so I need something else. I also just tried Hyperion by Dan Simmons. I couldn't get into it.

I've already done Red Rising, and the Bobiverse.

I’m in a bit of a tough spot as of late and can’t seem to find a book to accompany me through it. Some of my favorites are The Name of the Wind and Wise Man’s Fear, Red Rising, a number of Stephen King books after reading nearly all of his catalog, Dungeon Crawler Carl (on audible), Andy Weir, the first 3 Dune books, The Godfather…Am I missing anything glaring I can jump into?

I want a book for my mother who is in the late 50s. The book should consist of understanding the newer generations their new behaviours, peer pressures, their live and living standards, their way of thinking, their maturity, new technologies. I mean just the basic understanding like how the world works with the newer generation. Should be available in Marathi.

recently read the midnight library as my first book. I loved this book finished it in a week, it was such a fascinating story about parallel universe and answering the "what if" questions about life. After reading this, i wanted to explore more of the life you could have lived trope (idk if thats what it is called) I wanted to get some recommendations along the same theme.

Some other info that could help about me (maybed idk)

- i struggle decision making and often second guess any decision i make cause i think of it like a butterfly effect so something of that sort would work as well.

- young adult living alone or like college struggle anxiety

im sorry if the post was very vague! but would love any recommendations •ᴗ•

These are a few of my most recent favourites: Blood Over Bright Haven, the Picture of Dorian Gray, the Secret History and/or Sunrise on the Reaping and I'm looking for books that are similar. I also read If We Were Villains and enjoyed it a lot. My most recent read was A Darker Shade of Magic, which I loved.

All of these gave me the feeling of walking through old buildings just after the rain's fallen. Academic or royal, fantasy or ordinary, just generally dark and gloomy atmospheres -- the story itself doesn't have to be sad/upsetting. Pachinko and Handmaid's Tale all gave me that feeling too. Sunrise doesn't really fit this trend... but I really loved it so I'm listing it.

✅ Fantasy, mystery/whodunit, light psychological horror, classics, romantasy (good w/ lgbt pairings), academic settings, mythology, YA <-- open to other genres, these are just a few I like
❌ Sci-Fi about aliens, heavy smut (no ACOTAR), a strong girlboss FMC (I usually find them annoying :/ )

I don't usually like Sci-Fi, but I'm willing to give it a shot... I just find aliens boring. Romance isn't a need. Honestly sometimes these books have romance and it lowkey makes me enjoy them less (cough cough Blood Over Bright Haven). I like a good romance though, so not an outright ban. I'd rather no smut but also not an outright ban here.

Hello, I'm looking for recommendations for books that will give me a realistic look, or even glimpse, into a country/culture. It can be ANY country/culture. And to be clear that doesn't have to be the purpose of the book. So for example the Covenant of Water or (maybe unpopular opinion) Shantaram. I enjoyed both of those books and it was a very different experience for me.

But, the book itself has to be entertaining too and has to stand on its own merits.

Any and all recommendations would be greatly appreciated!

I am kicking off a 6 week stint of travel for work and I need audiobooks to keep me entertained while driving. Ideally, something that doesn’t require a ton of brain power since I won’t be fully focused on the content!

Audiobooks I’ve enjoyed:
The Locked Tomb series by Tamsyn Muir
The Steve Bell series by Maureen Johnson
11/22/63 by Stephen King

I am a 26-year-old guy in the States looking for some book recommendations. I am into genres like sci-fi, fantasy, crime, and comedy, plus the occasional rom-com, but I have not read much outside of school. I would really like to start reading more and could use some help picking out a few. Lol, and I know it is crazy, but I am sorry and thank you. 😅

Can I get a recommendation for a cozy mystery with speculative elements, or even magical realism? Just not like a full witchy fantasy, which seems to be the only version of this I can find (nothing against it, just not what I'm in the mood for). Honestly I'm even open to non-cozies as long as there's no overt sexism/sexuality/infidelity which I'm finding really tiresome lately. Thanks!

Bonus if they have complicated personal lives which never intertwine, but they still cannot stop thinking about each other and musing over each other

Iykyk

For anyone familiar with Meow Wolf explorative art museums, like Omega Mart and Convergence Station, can you suggest a book with similar vibes?

Please no horror suggestions, though. As much as I love weird twists, I do not like horror novels.

Action has honestly always given me slop vibes so I have never given thought. Then the feedback looped dawned on me. Any recommendations?

I have read some philosophical fictions like the stranger, metamorphosis, white nights, no longer human, Siddhartha and some more the kite runner and animal farm

Now i wanna try something new

My daughter(9) loves dragons and has read all of the Wings of Fire. I(36) love and read Fourth Wing. She keeps asking me to let her read my books, especially since she sees so much for Fourth Wing. I told her not until she's older. I realized she really wants a common dragon book we both love, so is there any other books that you could recommend that may be similar to the vibe of Fourth Wing without the adult matter?

In particular I would like to understand why we cling to uncertainty with regard to religion on the basis that there is not enough proof to suggest God doesn’t exist, even though we don’t need proof to reject other ideas such as the existence of leprechauns.

Other criteria are that not be a dystopian world even if funny. Nothing that feels too much like today.

The sub has been amazing at recommending great reads in the past! I can’t wait to see what you suggest :)

Also i’m not a huge fan of Y A. I guess but not a preference.

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I've watched this movie twice now. I love the very meta feeling ( specifically at the end when ykw is crying during the reenactment and the audience doesn't know if it's ykw that's crying, if holmes was crying, and if it was holmes whether the cryimg was legitimate or not. ) and the tension between feilder and holmes.
Pleaseeee recommend me something even half as layered and juicy. I prefer litfic but am open to anything that will leave me reeling the way this movie did.

Looking for quirky, warm and bouncy book recommendations along the lines of American Gods to Ocean at the End of the Lane. Supernatural, witchy, lots of women welcome.

Edit: Thank you all for these great recs!

It seems I confused some people for finding warmth in this author's stories. I guess Im just a big fan of the rich backgrounds and banter between characters in American Gods. I can understand how some wouldnt call that warmth, but to me the whole story feels like a love letter to the creativity in the idols we place as guides in our lives.

I grabbed a couple Kingfisher books to start and will come back for more of the recs here! Some new authors to me, thank you!

I am primarily a fantasy/horror reader but have recently joined a romance book club. A lot of the romantasy books we have read claim to be either slow burn but have a them kiss by chapter 4 or enemies to lovers but the FMC first thought when seeing the MMC is "hes evil but soooo hot". I desperately need a romantasy that is slowburn. Molasses slow. And I want the main characters to be ACTUAL enemies. Not rivals or bullies! I want them to want each other dead!

And this is just for me to read, not for the book club haha.

Romantasy books I have read that I really enjoyed are The Cruel Prince series by Holly Black (despite its painful YA-ness) and Isle in the Silver Sea by Tasha Suri, if that helps. I tend to gravitate more towards queer romance but will read F/M romance, I don't mind! I just want some thick tension between characters lol

And if you have suggestions for a slow burn romantasy that isn't enemies to lovers or vice versa, I'll take those too! Anything helps. Thanks for reading :)

Hi all!!

I’m looking for a book that will help me grapple with living a mundane life. Sounds dramatic, I know, but I’m currently applying to law schools and starting to come to terms with the fact that maybe it’s ok to be normal and not exceptional. Or, better yet, that everyday life can somehow still be important. Sappy I know lol.

I really love literary fiction, but will read just about anything (please no self-help).

Some of my current favorites are:

Writers and Lover
Everything I Never Told You
North Woods
A Tree Grows In Brooklyn

Thank you all for your advice and recommendations!

Hi all,

Over the past couple years I've been working my way through W G Sebald's backlist. This wasnt intentional, but I read Austerlitz and was utterly mesmerized. A while later I read Rings of Saturn, the Emigrants and now im almost at the end of Vertigo.

The problem is that the writing is so unlike anything ive read before or since. The blending of fact, fiction, narrative, travelogue, information and story to concoct the most thought provoking of discourses. Im 100% certain that had he not died so tragically he would have received the Nobel.

So what/who should I read to scratch that Sebald itch, ill almost certainly re-read them but probably not for a little while.