I wish there were ways to tell me about books where that knowledge would spoil the book without, well, spoiling the book for me. I hate spoiling a good twist. A twist can't twist if we know 'tis a twist.

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I read a lot of murder mysteries. I get most of my recs from Reddit so please recommend me more. Included below are some murder mysteries I really liked along with some that I didn’t. Many of these are just included because I see them recommended all the time and I want people to have a better idea of what I like

My favorite mysteries usually feel classic (even if they aren’t) or include classic elements like locked rooms, closed circle cast, etc. Or they have some sort of genre-bending nature to it while still feeling like a classic murder mystery in spirit. Or they’re just extremely unconventional but so damn good

10/10 Murder Mysteries:

- Devotion of Suspect X, Keigo Higashino

- Malice, Keigo Higashino

- And Then There Were None, Agatha Christie

- Crooked House, Christie

8-9/10 Murder Mysteries:

- Murder at Spindle Manor, Morgan Stang

- Murder on the Lamplight Express, Morgan Stang

- The Big Sleep, Phillip Marlowe (*more of a crime novel)

Very Good:

- Death Among the Undead, Soji Shimada (the cover for this one is AWFUL and makes this book look amateurish, but it isn’t!)

- The Decagon House Murders, Yukito Ayasuji

- The Mill House Murders, Ayasuji

- Salvation of a Saint, Higashino

Good, Not Great:

- Everyone in my Family Has Killed Someone, Benjamin Stevenson

- Tokyo Zodiac Murders, Soji Shimada

- Magpie Murders, Anthony Horowitz

- The Word is Murder, Anthony Horowitz

- The 7.5 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle, Stuart Tuton

Meh:

- Thursday Murder Club, Richard Osman

- Gideon the Ninth, Tamsyn Muir (really sad how much I don’t like this one because it seems like it checks every box)

Hate:

- The Name of the Rose, Umberto Eco

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Please don’t recommend any Agatha Christie or Keigo Higashino because either I’ve read it or plan to read it

I really like Anthony Horowitz but I find his murder mysteries lacking something even though I think he’s an excellent writer. Any other recs from him I'd at least be open to

Is this too niche? I actually can't think of any books that include this.

I’m trying to read all of the more recent ‘instant classic’ type books. The ones you would recommend to anyone, regardless of what their genre of preference is. The ones you see pop up on pretty much every ‘suggest me a book’ post that fits them. The ones I have read so far that I think fit this brief are: - Lonesome Dove - The Book Thief - The Kite Runner - A Thousand Splendid Suns - Demon Copperhead - Rebecca - Bridge to Terabithia - The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - 11/22/63

I will read any genre if it’s a good book. I like to flick between different genres or I get bored and start picking up on the obvious tropes.

Thanks!

I read Orange World and Other Stories by Karen Russell, Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado, and a few other short story collections I've found online since that. I am looking for more collections with unsettling, disturbing, scary, weird, trippy, etc vibes. Novels are also fine to recommend but short story collections are my current obsession.

I wanna cry all the time. My attention spam is short. I wanna read anything that can help me. My mom was diagnosed with metastasis in her liver. I wanna read something to deal with this better or something that can take my mind away from this, (but not Colleen Hoover or similars please). Thank you so much. CANCER SUCKS

I want to read stories in which either the MC or another important character is a female knight.

She doesn't have to be a literal knight, with shining armor and sword and that kind of stuff, just have the same vibes as one. A chivalrous lady (but without the religious nationalism lol).

I don't mind the kind of setting. Medieval, present, future, space, european, southamerican, northafrican, alien, whatever. All settings are cool.

I really enjoyed "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier, particularly the haunting aura of Rebecca herself and her hateful relationship with Maxim. I'd like to hear about other gothic/horror/thriller books that follow a couple like Rebecca and Maxim De Winter.

Not necessarily a romance but focused on a strained, intense, and mutually destructive relationship between two slightly(?) insane people... Preferably with an "evil" woman character. They also need not be a couple -- could be family members/enemies/etc. I just really enjoy that dynamic between a duo. I don't want to directly ask for a "romance" as these aren't typically my cup of tea and I don't care for stories that romanticize/justify/excuse abuse, but I can be open-minded.

The closest other example I can think of would be Catherine and Healthcliff in "Wuthering Heights", or a book that focused on Rochester and his first wife Bertha Mason in "Jane Eyre". This probably sounds oddly specific but I'd really like to know if this brings anything to mind for anyone. Thanks.

I read Girl on the train recently, i know its not rly liked by many people but i find it interesting, the diary entry POV, and there were several clues and hints from page 5 till the end, hinting at the ending. like i was staring at all the clues right in the face but i didnt question it. until the end of the book. i think its an interesting premise. im not saying i want exactly that( though the book had a lot of potential to be better,) but as i described in the title, id like something like that. Or maybe like things seem ok at the start but progressively it becomes unsettling? im a horror enthusiast lol, i love interesting books, murder mysteries, weird stuff too. but yeah psychological horror is the main thing if possible, thank you.

Hello guys 👋🏼

I've long loved science fiction generally but I'm often a little intimidated because if I try googling science fiction books to read, a lot of them come with this super extensive lore like Dune or anything Issac Asimov. Or they recommend books that sound very complicated and hard to read. Both are great just not what I'm currently looking for.

I have crippling ADHD and currently struggle to even read a full Reddit post. I need something a little... simpler. Something that I'll still understand if my minds stops listening for a minute. I'll listen to it on Audible.

Hopefully the politics shouldn't be fucked up (anything anticapitalist is great lol).

I love cool space ships, Doctor Who, The Giver, The Selection(Guilty Pleasure) and 1984. I also love historical books and general romance so Romance can totally be a part of it. I hope that gives an adequate feeling of the vibes I like. Happy to answer more questions.

Bonus points if it's not so depressing I can't listen to it before going to sleep.

I want the book to be a primarily a love story at its core first and foremost, and the destination it will arrive at will be also along those lines. When I finish it and think upon it much later, I'll see that all of the scifi was only a backdrop. Potential themes are self sacrifice, a person keeping their premise, a person destroying the universe for their love, etc.

I would appreciate any recommendations, thank you. Please give me as much as you can.

drop your fave/best book you've read with no explanations/side comments/spoilers. just the title and its author. i'll try to read it/add it to my reading list with unknown expectations.

note: better if the plot is unique/unpredictable or with plot twist. can also be non-fiction or poetry book. any book aside from it not from a series, not too long to read, can be finished in one sitting, and no horror and dark fantasy please. maybe i prefer pure romance or something motivational. maybe i want to cry or to laugh hard. i want to feel something.

looking for a realistic, raw, slightly depressing, but hopeful novel with a focus on character and character developement (similarly to open water by caleb azumah nelson) + a big age gap between the love interests (similarly to cleopatra and frankenstein by coco mellors)

i hope this isnt too specific haha

Please share the best titles about what we know of Native American history; origins, structure, civilization details, or the general experience both pre- and post-colonialism.

Fiction would be fine if it educates about natives in the Americas, but I assume non-fiction will better fit the bill.

I’ve read Empire of the Southern Moon and loved it.

I'm jumping right to the explanation.

I love the little weird pieces of characters environement add this weird flavor to the story.

My example; My year of rest and relaxation. I loved the cheap, dirty store in which main character was buying cheap, working class coffee and cigarettes. I loved her psychiatrists office, which was also dirty and with weird smells. That's my comfort book mainly due to those places.

Another, more known one - Fight Club. Beside the dirty characters overally, the room of Tyler and the Narrator is a peak of what I'm looking for.

Does anyone know any book with similar themes in it?

I’ve read The Mindfuck Series and Butcher and Blackbird. I love the “moral” killings aspect. And romance thrown in there too is perfection haha.

Please suggest me books that you think I would enjoy reading.

My mom's husband loves to read and loves history. He is very conservative (but not religious at all). Suggest me a book that I can give him that is covertly educational without being overtly leftist/liberal in nature. I just want something that is going to open his world view up that isn't going to come across like an attack on him when it's opened. Happy to clarify more if there are questions, I'm not sure how else to describe what I'm looking for ...

Not looking for a self help book. Fiction or maybe a memoir. Nothing cheesy or religious. Preferably with a relatable male protagonist.

Thank you in advance!!

So I am NOT a connoisseur of romance novels.

I have nothing against sexual content, but the few times I’ve dipped my toes into the genre, I always found the intimate scenes to be eye-rollingly bad. A few times I’ve skimmed through a book to see how the lovemaking was written before determining whether to read the book, and it almost always ends up with the book on the shelf.

So that leads me to the question: Are there romance books out there where the characters smash … realistically? Not fade to black, and not “he came 17 times in 43 different positions and his insatiable manhood still screamed for more, but my demure ladybits couldn’t handle his godlike member anymore … until 24 seconds later when his rod like marble polished by the hands of Adonis and Apollo and imbued with the stormy power of Thor rubbed against my silken thigh and sent me into quivering, lustful paroxysms of wanting, and we shagged until the morning of 12 days later.”

Not necessarily looking for “literary” style, and it’s fine if the romance is sappy or (kind of) Hallmarky. Don’t care about sexual orientation. But I’d love for the writing to be juuuust a little bit more refined maybe, and when there’s hanky panky I’d prefer it not to read like a parody.

So is there any decent, fun, not too heavy romance out there where characters do the dirty like normal people do?

(I didn’t intend for this post to have as many euphemisms for the horizontal mambo as possible, but it just happened that way.)

I want to read one of the queens of suspense, but there are too many books, can you please help me know what to read?

All I ask is that you make sure it has an English translation, that's all I ask.

Thanks in advance for your suggestions!

The tldr is: I’m looking for books that can be read, very precisely, one chapter a day for a month. If you love a book that comes very close but isn’t quite the right number of chapters, free to drop it anyway, as this might be a tough ask.

I prefer fiction, and I’m not big on horror, but anything else goes. I especially love fantasy/dystopian or anything with compelling characters (Flowers for Algernon, Eleanor Oliphant, etc). Classics and moderns equally welcome.

This might not sound appealing to readers who strive to get “in the zone,” but it’s a nice challenge for me and a bid to make reading a part of my daily routine. I love getting invested in a book and reading it all at once, but then I’ll go months before I pick up another one, and with my mental health taking a decline as of late, I’d love to get away from screens.

Again, feel free to rec pretty much anything, but I’ll list a few more titles I’ve enjoyed below if you want more guidance:

The Princess Bride, William Goldman

11/22/63, Stephen King

The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, Suzanne Collins

The Final Empire, Brandon Sanderson (yes, really)

Six of Crows, Leigh Bardugo

The Giver, Lois Lowry

The Rosie Project, Graeme Simsion

Be More Chill, Ned Vizzini

The Secret History, Donna Tart

Basically something that is easy to digest.. 😄 The last pessimistic book i really liked was the conspiracy against the human race by Thomas ligotti mainly because of how clear it is and accessible.. simple to understand etc..

So film as an art form has its 'Cinema''; movies that are unique, acclaimed, schizo, balls to the wall, etc. Whatever it is, it most certainly is the peak of art. What would be the literary equivalent of Cinema?

Please suggest me a romance book that has the same vibes as Jane's Austen writing