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36 books

What are the must-read LGBTQ fantasy books?

Few genres have embraced sexuality like Fantasy. Whether it's friends to lovers, forbidden relationships, or happily ever after – LGBTQ+ storylines can explore cultures and societies in a way that ...

#1
The Priory of the Orange Tree
#2
Legends & Lattes
#3
A Marvellous Light
Witchmark
Cemetery Boys
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
Gideon the Ninth
My Real Children
Magic's Pawn
She Who Became the Sun
Malice
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

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36 books

What are some books that messed with your mind?

Collecting books that disturbed you, made you think, or haunted you long after you were done reading.

amyt
Amy
#1
Flowers for Algernon
#2
We Have Always Lived in the Castle
#3
Parable of the Sower
The Three-Body Problem
The Lathe of Heaven
The Girl Next Door
Pines
The Sparrow
Tender Is the Flesh
House of Leaves
Three
All Tomorrows: A Billion Year Chronicle of the Myriad Species and Mixed Fortunes of Man

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37 books

What are your favorite books about climate change and the environment?

April is Earth Month! 🌎 What fiction or nonfiction books would you recommend to readers who want to learn more about environmental issues, climate crisis, and protecting our planet?

#1
The Ministry for the Future
#2
Oryx and Crake
#3
The Secret Wisdom of Nature : Trees, Animals, and the Extraordinary Balance of All Living Things --- Stories from Science and Observation
New York 2140
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
The Nature Fix: Why Nature Makes Us Happier, Healthier, and More Creative
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate
The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times
Doing Good Better
The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming
This Changes Everything
How High We Go in the Dark

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21 books

In honour of Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, what are the best dieselpunk and/or post-apocalyptic books?

We've been truly blessed to have such a strong prequel to one of the greatest post-apocalyptic action films of all time, Mad Max: Fury Road. With that in mind, what are some books that evoke simila...

rosshardy
Ross HardySupporter

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19 books

What books brought you out of a reading slump?

We've all been there—it's easy to get distracted and go for a while without reading anything. But what books brought you out of that place?

rosshardy
Ross HardySupporter
#1
Mistborn: The Final Empire
#2
Legends & Lattes
#3
The Martian
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
This Is How You Lose the Time War
Dune
The Books of Earthsea
Homeland
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
The City of Brass
The Painted Man

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24 books

What are your favorite adventure biographies?

Even before fantasy and science fiction were genres we had adventure biographies. Travelers would journey into the unknown and share their heroic tale with the world (or someone else would in some ...

adam
AdamFounder
#1
Into Thin Air
#2
Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia
#3
A Walk in the Woods
Seven Years in Tibet
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
Into the Wild
The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon
To Shake the Sleeping Self: A Journey from Oregon to Patagonia, and a Quest for a Life with No Regret
Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life
Touching the Void
Man-Eaters of Kumaon
The histories

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22 books

What inspired you to get into reading?

Tell us what got you into reading,

drewsbookreviews
drewsSupporter

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22 books

What is the scariest horror book you have ever read?

I love horror books but am not scared the easiest! What are some books that had you locking your doors and checking under the bed?

#1
'Salem's Lot
#2
Misery
#3
Slewfoot: A Tale of Bewitchery
The Exorcist
The Troop
Rosemary's Baby
The Stand
Intensity
Haunted
We Need to Talk About Kevin
Exquisite Corpse
Let the Right One In

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30 books

What books did you read at the perfect moment in your life and ended up being exactly what you needed?

Reading the right book at the right time can change the way you see the world. What are some books they you happened to read at just that moment that they resonated with you in a way they wouldn't ...

adam
AdamFounder
#1
I Am the Messenger
#2
The Night Circus
#3
This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life
Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration
Ender's Game
Left Behind
The Remains of the Day
Heartstopper: Volume One
Mindset
The Bogleheads' Guide to Investing
The Pragmatic Programmer
Normal People

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28 books

What is the book in your library you love the most that the least people have probably heard of?

My favorite recommendations are the passionate and personal ones that aren’t a contest to see who’s read the most Great Books, but who have a story of stumbling into something they treasure.

#1
Replay
#2
The Memory Police
#3
The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
Fierce Fairytales: Poems and Stories to Stir Your Soul
Seven Life Lessons of Chaos: Timeless Wisdom from the Science of Change
A Curious Beginning
Serendipity Market
The Library of the Unwritten
Bird By Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
Castle Waiting
The Bookish Life of Nina Hill
Longbourn

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19 books

What are the best books to read in your 20s?

You're out of school and starting your own life in whatever shape that takes. What books are essential reading for someone entering this stage of life to be successful in life? This could mean non-...

#1
The Bogleheads' Guide to Investing
#2
The Simple Path to Wealth
#3
A Short History of Nearly Everything
The Midnight Library
Your Money or Your Life
Ishmael
The Happiness Project
Everything I Know About Love
Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity
Moby-Dick or, the Whale
The Great Adventure Catholic Bible

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22 books

What are your favorite horror novels?

Share your favorite horror novels and recommendations here!

mynamespaghetti
Alli GSupporter
#1
The Shining
#2
Tender Is the Flesh
#3
World War Z
The Road
It
American Psycho
Carrie
Cujo
The Vegetarian
The Girl Next Door
A Head Full of Ghosts
The Final Girl Support Group

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21 books

What are your favorite short story collections?

Short story collections, by one author or multiple, where you liked most or even all of the stories included.

trelinarch
Sen
#1
Stories of Your Life and Others
#2
Exhalation
#3
The Fifth Head of Cerberus
The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories
The Monster's Corner
The Lifecycle of Software Objects
Axiomatic
You Think It, I'll Say It
Difficult Women
The Office of Historical Corrections
Wody głębokie jak niebo
From a Certain Point of View: The Empire Strikes Back

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11 books

What books had the worst film adaptations?

Not all films based on books should have been made. A bad film can turn off new readers to the source material. What are some books you enjoyed that had underwhelming movie adaptations?

#1
Eragon
#2
The Giver
#3
The Lightning Thief
The Golden Compass
City of Bones
Stormbreaker
The Neverending Story
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
The Dark Tower
Eragon & Eldest

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13 books

What are the best books to learn about investing?

Investing can be daunting. Mistakes have real and immediate consequences. Financial scams are rampant and scammers can be found both online and in "respected" financial institutions. What books st...

#1
The Bogleheads' Guide to Investing
#2
The Psychology of Money
#3
Rich Dad, Poor Dad
The Intelligent Investor
The Richest Man in Babylon
Choose FI
One Up On Wall Street
Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits and Other Writings
I Will Teach You to Be Rich
Richer, Wiser, Happier
Wallet Activism
Coffee Can Investing

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15 books

What are some of your favorite dystopian era books?

Dystopian era means “An imagined world or society in which people lead wretched, dehumanized, fearful lives.”

#1
The Handmaid's Tale
#2
The Road
#3
The Hunger Games
Station Eleven
The Time Machine
The Stand
The Girl with All the Gifts
The One
There Will Come Soft Rains
Parable of the Sower
The Maze Runner
Dry

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12 books

What are your favorite books that are inspired by fairy tales?

Looking for both old and new. Things like The Crane Husband, A Study in Drowning, In the House in the Dark of the Woods, and all the Tolkien ouevre.

EsmeWeatherwax
EsmeSupporter
#1
Spinning Silver
#2
Cinder
#3
Uprooted
A Spindle Splintered
A Mirror Mended
Sisters Red
Spindle's End
Stain
The Sleeper and the Spindle
Stardust
Splintered
Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister

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18 books

What is the funniest book you have ever read?

What book has made you laugh out loud?

#1
Lamb
#2
Small Gods
#3
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
Redshirts
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
The ingenious hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha
Fool
A Short History of Nearly Everything
The Last Black Unicorn
I Want to Be Where the Normal People Are
The Portable Door

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10 books

What is your favorite dark academia book?

Dark academia has taken the world by storm over the past few years with books such as Novik’s Scholomance series giving us new, darker-tinged magical worlds to fall into. Which is your favorite?

mercenator
MercerSupporter
#1
Babel, or The Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution
#2
If We Were Villains
#3
The Secret History
A Deadly Education
The Will of the Many
The Atlas Six
A Study in Drowning
The Starless Sea
Blood Over Bright Haven
Ninth House

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11 books

What's the most overrated book you've ever read?

What's the most overrated book you've ever read?

#1
The Fellowship of the Ring
#2
The Da Vinci Code
#3
The Midnight Library
Fourth Wing
Wolves of the Calla
Piranesi
The Silent Patient
Night Film
A Little Life
The Alchemist
We Hunt the Flame

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10 books

What are your favourite Fantasy standalone?

Tired of long series and in the mood for a standalone? What do you go for?

#1
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
#2
The Princess Bride
#3
The Last Unicorn
Spinning Silver
Uprooted
Stardust
Blood Over Bright Haven
Warbreaker
The Sword of Kaigen
Swordheart

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13 books

What book has your favorite opening line?

There has to be one book you read that got your attention when reading the opening line.

#1
Neuromancer
#2
One Hundred Years of Solitude
#3
The Great Gatsby
Fahrenheit 451
Rebecca
A Tale of Two Cities
Chronicle of a Death Foretold
Pride and Prejudice
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Eternal Life
My Struggle: Book One
Finding Me

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10 books

What book had you eventually rooting for a character you initially despised?

Have you ever found yourself unexpectedly cheering for a character you initially couldn't stand? Whether they started as an arrogant villain, a selfish anti-hero, or just someone totally normal who...

JustCakie
CakieSupporter
#1
The Blade Itself
#2
Vicious
#3
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
The Traitor Baru Cormorant
The Lost Metal
A Conjuring of Light
Ship of Destiny
Queen of Shadows
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
Jade City

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16 books

Book reccomendations where characters struggle with their mental health but work to heal?

These books have characters who struggle with any kind of mental health such as depression, anxiety, mental disorders, self esteem, body image, self acceptance, etc. and who either begin to heal th...

worthyofareread
KatherineSupporter
#1
A Court of Mist and Fury
#2
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
#3
Normal People
Fight Club
The Magicians
The Way of Kings
The War of Two Queens
A Shadow in the Ember
Are You Listening?
Holding
A Lady for a Duke
Demon Copperhead

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17 books

What mystery books are perfect for young adults?

The mystery genre favors bringing the truth to light. That focus on revealing a story slowly over time knows no age, yet many stories are too serious for young adults. Which mysteries do you think ...

#1
These Violent Delights
#2
The Westing Game
#3
Stormbreaker
Paper Towns
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
A Good Girl's Guide to Murder
Six Wakes
The Forest of Stolen Girls
For the Wolf
Truly Devious
Monday's Not Coming
Half a Soul