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88 books

What books did you learn most from?

Whether it's a course textbook or a fictional romance, we remember books that impact us deeply. Which books do you remember being forever changed by due to learning something new – either about you...

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Night
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Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
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Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
The Diary of a Young Girl
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Head First Design Patterns

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2 books

What are some books that break the 4th wall?

An example would be when a character recognizes they are in a book.

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The Eyre Affair
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The Dark Tower

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2 books

What's Your Favorite Clean YA Book?

A book that does not have any explicit scenes, severe language, or gory violence.

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Raiders from the Sea
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Wishing Stars

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1 book

What are your favorite non-supernatural horror books?

I often find it difficult to weed out supernatural books when browsing through some good horror, so hoping the community here has some good ones!

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True Crime

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Do have books to read

I thought I will find the book

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

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

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Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas
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The Manuscript Found in Saragossa

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2 books

Relatable antagonists?

Looking for books with relatable antagonists. Any genre. Relatable as in, spoilers for avengers, you might agree with Thanos that the world is over populated or something

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The Outlaw Demon Wails
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Persepolis Rising

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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?

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The Fellowship of the Ring
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The Da Vinci Code
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The Midnight Library
Fourth Wing
Wolves of the Calla
Piranesi

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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
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Mistborn: The Final Empire
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Legends & Lattes
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The Martian
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
This Is How You Lose the Time War

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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
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I Am the Messenger
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The Night Circus
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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

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12 books

What are your favourite fiction audiobooks?

Looking for new audiobook recommendations which seems to capture the listener!

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La magia muerde
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Sabriel
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The Fellowship of the Ring
Six of Crows
The Blade Itself
Lilac Girls

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Write a creative piece of content that promotes a ghostwriting service?

This prompt invites you to write a genuine and engaging article that discusses the benefits of using a <a href="https://writercosmos.com">ghostwriting service</a>. The focus should be on how such s...

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15 books

Best magical Realism on your shelf

Magical realism is a genre I love and I dont see enough people talking about it. Lets create our small space here!

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Chocolat
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Like Water for Chocolate
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Practical Magic
Aura
Ficciones
Garden Spells

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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.

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Replay
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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

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What’s your favorite fiction book about entrepreneurship?

In the mood for a rags to riches story but with a bit more focus on entrepreneurship/detail on the business side of things. Similar to Rise of a Merchant Prince by Raymond E Feist.

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Tai Pan
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Noble House

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64 books

What 2024 releases are you excited to read?

add all the books being released in 2024!

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Wind and Truth
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We Solve Murders
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The Phoenix Keeper
When the Arkirlasse Blooms
A Ruse of Shadows
The Cemetery of Untold Stories

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2 books

What is a book that has rivals to enemies?

Enemies to lovers was yesterday and has never interested me nearly as much as this. I have read it once and saw it a few times in movies/animes and I am all here for it! :D

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Vicious
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Divine Rivals

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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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6 books

What are the darkest, most disturbing thrillers of all time?

Really dark, disturbing, vile, crime- or psycho-thrillers, with a very bleak and unsettling vibe.

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Pretty Girls
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Jar of Hearts
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The Last Child
The Girl Next Door
O Grande Deus Pã
Monster

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7 books

What books have you read where you thought 'this is sooo wrong' but you enjoyed anyway?

So, I read Under the Skin by Michel Faber and Perfume by Patrick Susskind and I really enjoyed them but all the time I was thinking 'this is soo weird and rather sick'. I'm looking for other books ...

Juggernaut
JulieSupporter
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When Rabbit howls
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Shock
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Under the Skin
American Psycho
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
Meet Me in the Future: Stories

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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?

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Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
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The Princess Bride
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The Last Unicorn
Spinning Silver
Uprooted
Stardust

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10 books

Best historical fiction not set in a war?

I just finished The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon and it was a 5 star for me. Looking for something similar.

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Mexican Gothic
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Wolf Hall
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Burial Rites
I Was Anastasia
The Historian
Hamnet

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Books with Asexual Rep

Hi! I'm looking for book with Ace rep. I'm interested in anything from Demi-Sexuality to AroAce rep.

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The World We Make