Was watching Inuyasha & loved the ghost of a past love keeping him from his current love and how it’s executed. Not looking for that exact trope but just any books that aren’t necessarily romance but have conceptual and creative plays on love / struggles in love.

Hey everyone! I'm looking for horror/thriller recs from perspective of a male? (I've read a lot of horror books recently that have female main characters and would like to see how gender varies the tropes ect). I have mainly been listening on audible while I am working. I have really enjoyed the novels hide and clown in a cornfield.

Hi!! I'm looking for books similar to the All our hidden gifts series by Caroline O'Donoghue, but I can barely find any books that are similar, because this is a criminally underrated series. I want a book with LGBTQ+ characters, magic, witches, romance and fantasy. If you know any books similar to the series written above or any books along those lines, please feel free to list them below. Thank you!

Can you recommend for me any books that you feel everyone should have in their libraries that focus on first aid, general medical information, or survival. Think, if there wasn't a medical community to guide us, what would we need to know? Not just knot tying, but wound care, etc. I would like to build my library in this area.

Christmas is nearing and I wish to add books to my wish list. The last year and a half, I have started to read more and use audiobooks rather than podcasts. For Christmas I would like to add books to my reading list for 2025.

Do you have any suggestions based on my current list?

Stoner by John Williams (currently reading)Germania: the myths, history and language by Tore Janson (currently reading) Heroin chic by Maria Kjos Fonn (currently reading)Kinderwhore by Maria Kjos FonnGilgamesjThe faithful executioner by Joel F. HarringtonSvendsens catering av Kyrre Andreassen Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell (DNF) 1984 by George OrwellAnimal Farm by George OrwellAmerican psycho av Bret Easton Ellis Nuclear war by Annie Jacobsen The Prince by Niccolò MachiavelliConqueror by Conn IgguldenEmpire of SilverBones of the HillsLords of the BowWolf of the Plains

Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir The Martian by Andy Weir

Anxious people by Fredrik BackmanDoppler by Erlend LoeThe Persian Expedition [Anabasis] by . Xenophon The diary of a young girl by Anne Frank (DNF) Frankenstein by Mary ShelleyDracula by Bram StokerLolita by Vladimir Nabokov (DNF) The Stranger by Albert Camus A Christmas carol by Charles Dickens

With the kids: The Magican’s Nephew by C. S. Lewis The Brothers Lionheart by Astrid Lindgren

Ronja Robber’s daughter

Mio, my son

Definitely soft cover for me. It's flexibility is much more ergodynamic. Easier to read with one hand. Because it's cheaper, I'm less stressed about keeping it in perfect condition. I'll bend the pages, tear a corner, use highlighters and make notes which I'd never do to a Hard cover. I feel bad everytime I open one because I feel like I'm comprising it's integrity.

I will say Hard covers are much more beautiful, and display very neatly whilst soft covers can look cluttered.

So i'be bought this book midnight library by matt haig after listening great stuff about it... If anyone has read this please give me a review and like what this book is about

I'm rewatching Once Upon A Time and Belle sucks so much. Is there any adaption where she has more of a backbone than a wet toad?

I'm looking for an engrossing and enchanting read. In the past I've loved Uprooted, Spinning Silver, Circe, The Song of Achilles, Galatea, everything by Louise Erdrich, and everything by Kazuo Ishiguro (especially the Buried Giant).

I don't like gratuitous violence, but I can tolerate some violence.

Does anyone have any recommendations for stories involving an afterlife?

I saw a similar thread on here a while back, but the suggestions looked really depressing... e.g. stories about people who died before their time and are on some heartbreaking quest to get back to their loved ones or some shit.

I'd rather read stories that are more trippy and mind-expanding instead.

Looking for some book suggestions to get a 17 yo guy interested in reading. He loved Diary of a Wimpy Kid and the Percy Jackson books when he was younger but is not interested in the romantasy stuff that’s so popular in YA novels. He likes math and science in school so I got him Project Hail Mary and Astrophysics for People in a Hurry, but he hasn’t started them yet. I think he’d also prefer something that, if his friends saw him reading it, would make him look extra cool

I am finishing up Purgatorio and would love a recommendation for an after-read to really go through the content. A textbook is okay too, just something not so rare that I can't find in my library system.

Thank you!

I enjoy really easy to read books. However recommendations that come up online have been hit or miss for me.

I'm after books that aren't too long (around 300 pages or less)

Examples of book suggestions that I enjoyed

- Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow

- Flowers for algernon

- Animal Farm (was a re-read)

- Where the forest meets the stars

Books that I read that I hated / were disappointed by

- Yellowface

- Seven husbands of Evelyn Hugo

- The Housemaid

- The Teacher

Thanks in advance!

I like books that flesh out characters or go in depth into their internal thoughts / motivations, or plot driven ones that don't have an absurd storyline. No fantasy as I'm not a fan of that genre, thank you!

In the last few Months I read:

• The Brothers Karamazov
• Lonesome Dove
• The Count of Monte Cristo
• East of Eden

Any suggestions that are an a similiar level as these great ones?

No russians though

Most recently I've loved:

"Earthlings" by Sayaka Murata "The Pillars of the Earth" by Ken Follett "Lonesome Dove" by Larry Mcmurtry "Annihilation" by Jeff Vandermeer

The following books are what I have next up on my Kindle. From what I've just been reading, which of the following do you think should be next?:

"The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern "Station Eleven" by Emily Mandel "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt "Bunny" by Mona Awad "The Son" by Phillip Myer "Lamb" by Christopher Moore "Notes on an Execution" by Kukafka "Pretty Girls" by Karin Slaughter

Thank you!!!

I'm looking for folks' favorite books in a given genre. I've read a fair bit of Sci-Fi, and I'm an English teacher so I've read a lot of the classics and modern literary fiction (though there's so much that I've missed a lot, too).

In 2025, I'm hoping to do deep dives in genres I don't normally read. So if you love a specific kind of book, will you tell me what that is and maybe your favorite 3-5 books in that genre.

Thanks in advance; I'm looking forward to your suggestions!

Suggest your favourite book by a Chinese author. It must a book from Chinese literature. It can be a novel, online novel (in English), short story, a classic or a contemporary book. It can even be poetry. If you want, you can tell me why you chose to suggest me the particular title :)

Hello book people. I'm looking for a book with a friendship between a lesbian and a gay man. That's basically it. Thanks!

I'm looking for a new series to read for the Fall/Winter but fear that I may be too picky. I'm a 22 y/o female who just finished the Harry Potter series for the first time. I really liked the length of books, the world-building, the themes of friendship, and the sense of danger throughout. I'd like to find a new series with longer books that feel like fall/winter. It doesn't have to be a kids' book but I don't want it to be set in the present with mentions of modern technology. What I really liked about the HP books was that they felt like a true escape from my reality. I have Scythe in my library and feel like it may be good to read next (lmk if you've read it and liked it) but I'm also open to a new book.

Something for someone that enjoyed The Tattooist of Auschwitz, Where the Crawdads Sing, My Sister’s Keeper.

The sort of book that you can’t put down and then can’t keep (because it’s so good you have to pass it on).

Like the title says I’m starting a book club with quite a few different groups of friends and I’m looking for some suggestions to go off on for the first couple months. Everyone says “I’m okay with anything!” So I’m open to any and all suggestions, I just appreciate the help! Thanks in advance :)

Books:

Crazy-Rich Asians-Kevin Kwan

An Absolutely Remarkable Thing-Hank Green

The Golem And The Jinni-Helene Wecker

Daisy Jones And The Six-Taylor Jenkins-Reid

Bloody Rose-Nicholas Eames

Comic Books:

Y: The Last Man and The Runaways-Brian K. Vaughn

Wicked And Divine-Kieron Gillen

Fables-Bill Willingham

Hello, this is my second post regarding this, because I haven’t found the right book yet. You can check out my profile if you would like to see the previous post.

My 9-year-old niece and I have a book club. We read one book at the same time and meet to discuss it at a cafe over tea or museum.

So far, we read In Grandma’s Attic by Arleta Richardson, which she loved.

She has requested that we read a book for the holidays. She specifically said something Christmas or winter themed. My niece is very intelligent and sensitive. She loves historical fiction, and I have not known her to enjoy fantasy. She loves reading about real things that actually happened and learning.

Some of the books she’s also loved:

A Cricket in Times Square

Anything on the Titanic

Little House on the Prairie series

Anne of Green Gables

The more famous classics I am reserving for her to read with her mother so that they can enjoy those together. Books that I am considering for our December pick: Treasures of the Snow by Patricia St. John and Miracles on Maple Hill.

Her favourite movies and shows, which might be helpful also:

I Love Lucy

The Sound of Music

Little Women

i loved anxious people but also books like fight club would itch that scratch ya know

Hello there. Recently, I have been very into bodyguard romance, and I really want to read about bodyguard/president's daughter. I don't want it to be a smut centered book, however. Sex scenes are fine, but I don't want that to be the main focus of the plot. Another thing I don't really like is when the bodyguard is acting super unprofessional and flirting with the girl from the beginning. I want it to be more of the slow burn "we shouldn't be doing this" type of thing where the girl is the one to try to get him to give in. He can like her, of course, and be aware that he likes her but tries to restrain his feelings for the sake of his duty. I know this is maybe too specific, so even if you know a book with that trope that doesn't fit everything exactly but is still good, I would appreciate it!

hello, I am looking for book(s) that have statistics on very very long term economic data. preferably for many countries and nations in the world. thank you my friend ,

I’m kind of thinking, mystery/romcom ? i don’t care if it’s a super long book or not, i’m just looking for a book that is a little more light than the rest of what i read. I’m very new to romance as the closest thing i’ve read to that genre is interview with a vampire, lol.

edit: I also love regency era romance

I remember loving the manga/ novel Ghost hunt when I was younger and I'm looking for something similar.

It's about a girl who somehow ends up joining a detective agency that investigates paranormal activities/ ghosts/ haunted houses in Japan. Each volume of the novel is them investigating a different case. I really loved the mix of loveable characters (and a little bit of romance), interesting cases they were investigating and actual horror I felt when some of the cases were unfolding.

So if anyone has a recommendation for something similar/ just something that has follows a group of people investigating paranormal activities, working on different cases (like any detective tv show but with paranormal)

Maybe I'm being too generic with the question, but I have only read Harry Potter series and Isaac Asimov's works. There are sooo much books out there that I'm not even sure what to read. I would like it to be a good experience so I can keep it as a hobby. Sorry if my English is not good, it's no my native language Thanks

Looking for ideas on the most historically accurate rundowns on the rise and fall of the USSR and what happened after that led up to how things are today. It's fascinating to me and also sorta relevant in this day and age. Looking mainly for historical/non-fiction, but if there is any 20th century fiction novels that symbolically reflect the Russian condition from a certain period a la "We" or "Generation P" I would be open to that as well...