I'm looking for book recommendations for a monthly reading blog I am starting. Unfortunately, I don't know what books are good versus what ones have an extremely loud following. Please, send me some that you like or have heard are good!
I'm looking for published books only, so please no (web)comics/manga, fan-fictions, or anything of the like. No hate at all to that stuff. I just want to focus on traditional books for this. if you want, you can DM me any comic/manga recommendations you have!
I welcome both fiction and non-fiction. Interests include:
- Realism
- Philosophy
- Comedy, including dark humor
- Mystery
- Coming-of-age novels, both for young adults and adults
- Chemistry, astronomy, and history
- Dystopias
- Queer representation
- Literally anything focused on hope and belief in humanity/community, despite the horrors
Honestly, these are off the top of my head. Got a favourite book that doesn't fit? Send it my way! All I ask is that there is no explicit sexual content.
Thank you!!
I'm looking for published books only, so please no (web)comics/manga, fan-fictions, or anything of the like. No hate at all to that stuff. I just want to focus on traditional books for this. if you want, you can DM me any comic/manga recommendations you have!
I welcome both fiction and non-fiction. Interests include:
- Realism
- Philosophy
- Comedy, including dark humor
- Mystery
- Coming-of-age novels, both for young adults and adults
- Chemistry, astronomy, and history
- Dystopias
- Queer representation
- Literally anything focused on hope and belief in humanity/community, despite the horrors
Honestly, these are off the top of my head. Got a favourite book that doesn't fit? Send it my way! All I ask is that there is no explicit sexual content.
Thank you!!
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Warning: Some of these books I have not read in a while, so I've attached an asterisk (*) at potential mention of such content (though I found most of these books to be rather tame and tasteful in it's content).
(^^^) Book I have not read, but have been praised by friends.
(###) Title may contain extreme content, proceed with caution.
(Marissa Meyer)
Heartless, Instant Karma
(Jon Krakauer)
Into the Wild
(Mitch Albom)
Tuesdays with Morrie
(S. E. Hinton)
Outsiders
(F. Scott Fitzgerald)
The Great Gatsby*
(R.F Kuang)
Babel, Yellowface
(Suzzanne Collins)
Gregor the Overlander, Hunger Games
(Louisa May Alcott)
Little Women
(Madeline Miller)
Galatea*, The Song of Achilles*, Circe*
(Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie)
Purple Hibiscus
(Jesmyn Ward)
Sing, Unburied, Sing
(Philip Gourevitch)
### We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families
(Mark Z. Danielewski)
^^^House of Leaves
AND some poetry for the road...
(Ocean Vuong)
### Night Sky With Exit Wounds*
(Edgar Lee Masters)
Spoon River Anthology*
(Omar Khayyam)
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
Feel free to let me know if you have any questions with any of the titles in my list.
- katabasis [R.F Kuang] philosphy ~ fiction
- Babel; or The Necessity of Violence [R.F Kuang] philosophy ~ fiction
- The secret history [Donna tart] philosophy ~ fiction
- If we were villains [M.L Rio] philosophy, mystery ~ fiction
- Don't let the forest in [C.G Drewa] plant body horror, queer rep ~ fiction
- Howls Moving Castle (BOOK) [Diana Wynn Jones] comedy, mystery, body horror if you squint, romance, fantasy/magic ~ fiction
- project hail mary (BOOK) [Andy Weir] sci-fi, HOPE AND HUMANITY ~ fiction
- The vampire chronicles/interview with the vampire [Anne Rice] supernatural, horror, queer representation ~ fiction
i probably have more but uhhh yeah !!! hope this helps >.<