I just finished Night Road by Kristin Hannah and am looking for my next book. Before this I read The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah and both books have left me in a slump. They were absolutely brilliant and I loved them but it took me MONTHS to pick up another book after the nightingale. I finished night road this morning and I don’t want to be in a reading slump for another few months 😭 help.

Here are just a few titles I have previously read and really enjoyed (genres kind of all over the place)

- throne of glass
- fourth wing
-The nightingale
-night road
-the deal
-things we never got over
-king of wrath

Hi, I am looking for fictional book recs that have a similar vibe to the t.v program the bear but with nicer characters. Anything that is about the passion of a chef with interesting food details and recipes. Please and thank you.

Yesterday I realized that the worse part of the day without this person is the night, but reading can help to get my mind off a bit from everything. My breakup happened cause my now ed boyfriend had (has) a gambling addiction and I had to set boundaries, cause he got himself into trouble with a debt and hid it from me. It’s been hard cause it’s not that I don’t have feelings still anymore, and it’s been really hard to let go of what ifs or guilt.

I think reading and feeling understood and heard while I do could help, so maybe if anyone knows some books that tackle maybe that sort of grieving a person who’s still there but you shouldn’t be with, grieve of a future that can never be, maybe an exploration of the family or loved ones of someone with this kind of issue, maybe even something about savior complex, cause I’m probably falling into this category without much thought.

I’m looking for fiction but, if someone knows even non-fiction books that can help me during this time, I would greatly appreciate it and thank you if you red till here.

hi. I have a big ol bookshelf that I unfortunately read everything on at least twice, and i crave new content, and i refuse to ask AI for reccomendations. below i will list the books/genres i have enjoyed, as well as themes i absolutely dont want. anyone got anything?

genres i like:

- romance (including dark romance)

- fantasy

- horror

- mystery

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books I love:

- The Stars are Dying

- Lights Out

- A Place for Vanishing

- A Multitude of Dreams

- The Drowned Woods

- Divine Rivals

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themes i would rather die than read:

- CSAM or just excessive child abuse in general (eg: playground)

- 🍇, but CNC is okay

- anything where the FMC is basically just a baby that needs to be saved by a strong man

- anything too religious

- incest (I read Flowers in the Attic and almost threw up)

I read them about 20 years ago. I don't know if these scenarios are from the same book, or 3 different books:

1. There's a terrorist organization that is using nanomachines. They spread really quickly, and when you get infected, your flesh melts into goo. I think in this book there was a famous question, something like "if a virus doubles in number every 24 hours, and the Earth is 50% covered in 52 weeks, how long would it take for the Earth to be 100% covered in virus?" or something like that. The nanomachines are airborne and it takes a while before symptoms appear so it's very easy to spread.
2. There's an antagonist, I think he's an African warlord or something. He's known as a mad dog or mad butcher or something. But he made his fortune through poaching tusks of bull elephants. He makes a big minefield in the savanna, then using multiple helicopters with machine guns, he and his men will direct the bull elephants into the minefield where their legs will get blown off. Then they'll get down into the carnage and hack the tusks off the still-living bull-elephants.
3. I think the setting is in Angkor Wat. Something about a virus. The only thing I remember about it now is that in the end, the female protagonist was infected by the virus but she's not harmed. Instead, her brain was rewired to go into a cave or ruin, where she saw the bodies of other infected people. Some of these people have been there for hundreds of years I think, since the virus epidemic comes and goes every hundred years I think? But these very old infected people are still alive, but they're no longer moving. Just statues.. with translucent skin and glowing skin? And our protagonist will now join them in their vigil while they wait for.. something. This ending is very mysterious for me and maybe if I read it now, I'll understand it better.

I really just want to read those books again. If it helps, the authors I remember reading back then were James Patterson, Robert Ludlum, Josh Grisham, Dan Brown, Clive Cussler, Jeffrey Deaver, Tom Clancy, and maybe Dean Koontz and Michael Chrichton.

Something like the red dead games and blood meridian I have the Roving Party, one about Ned Kelly and I know about Queensland Ringer and Keep Him My Country, but are there others?

Im looking for books with this dynamic.Would love paranormal romance books

I've no idea when I looked this up on the library website and checked it out, must have been going down a list of recommended books from someone or somewhere. It is not something I normally would have selected but I am weirdly glad I did take it in. It's a great look into autism and ADHD minds wrapped nicely with a compelling romantic novel. I won't give anything away but the twist in this story was 120% not anything I ever would have even started to guess. Being an adult who suffers from both of these, it was both uncomfortable and too close to home for comfort. On a scale from 1 to 10 with 10 being the best, I'd give it a solid 9.5 because if you go with the audiobook of this like I did, it was read kind of slow. But I increased the reading speed and got through the whole book in a single night's drive.

1984,Kako je ubijen Ivo Pukanić (basically about politics in late 1990s early 2000s and a murder of a journalist), What does this button do

Basically I like books about history politics or something educational like that

I’m coming out of a classics binge (James Baldwin, Flannery O’Connor, etc) and really am looking for something fun and cute and definitely some fantasy. unfortunately my standards are way too high as a) ig im used to the classic writing level and b) i can’t stand helpless female protagonists that don’t know how to use their brains. the feminist jn me will be more triggered by that bullshit than being able to enjoy the book.

thank you sooo much!! (i realise this is probably a difficult task)

Loved the isolation, the slow-reveal mystery, the gentle writing despite the unsettling premise. Want more of that: dreamlike settings, unreliable narrators, slow-burn, mood over plot. Already loved The Ocean at the End of the Lane and Never Let Me Go. Recs?

I'm on a revolutionary reading kick, and I'm thirsty for more. So far I've read Shut It Down: Stories From a Fierce, Loving Resistance, by Lisa Fithian; and Be a Revolution: How Everyday People Are Fighting Oppression and Changing the World - And How You Can Too, by Ijeoma Oluo. I also recently enjoyed How to Survive a Plague: The Inside Story of How Citizens and Science Tamed AIDS, by David France.

My favorite aspect of these books is how they demonstrate exactly how you can participate in and drive grassroots organizing to take big actions and create significant change. I would like to find more books that highlight effective modern resistance movements, especially books that are not only informative, but also instructional.

Please suggest some beginners friendly thriller books or just books

I like the whimsy vibes but I also like morally gray characters, female main characters, rivals to lovers (not really enemies, I don't really like when they stab eachother lol) or friends to lovers not slow burn.

The requests above are optional but there is something I need is a book trilogy or duology that has an actual ending to each book, I need that in order to not feel anxious while reading, it would be very good to have a semi ending, a temporary ending, like "all it's good for now but we're not done" rather than a "we are lost and now the book is gonna end and we're only going to find ourselves on the half of the next book" get what I mean?

I get this is quite specific, but if anyone has anything slightly similar to that, please tell me. I cannot start another book and binge all of the series at once and not be able to do anything else before I finish it. It's not good for me.

Hi Friends,

I'm getting back into reading. I was an avid reader until college got too busy. I'm looking for some fun, engaging books that I can't easily add to my pit of DNF books; some romance is okay, but not the main plot. I haven't read much in the past three years, so recent books might be a good recommendation. Overall, I like historical fiction, period romances, some sci-fi, and some fantasy.

Some of my favorite books are: The Book Thief, Emma, Man's Search for Meaning, Pride and Prejudice, The Great Gatsby

Some recent reads I actually finished: Remarkably Bright Creatures, Sunrise on the Reaping, The Three-Body Problem (ok)

I always have a main, physical book to read at home/park/etc but I like to have a second book that I read casually on my phone on my commute to and from work, where pulling out a book is too much with how often i’m either standing or transferring.

for example, my last combos were last of the wine by mary renault main/ sunrise on the reaping by suzanne collins 2nd. then priory of the orange tree by Samantha shannon main/song of achilles by madeline miller 2nd. Something that isnt super hard to pick up and start reading where you left off, if that makes sense.

it can be almost any genre, but leaning towards fiction. despite the examples, i’m not huge on sci-fi usually, but would take recs similar!

I’m looking for books or authors that expand more on profiling people and putting manipulation tactics into use. I’m not really interested in books that fall under the self-help genre or books that go into detail about how to combat dark triad personalities. I’m more interested in hidden gems that delve into how people develop these behaviors and think first-hand, as if I wanted to develop these traits within myself. TIA!

Just wondering if anyone uses a good website to recommend books.

I cannot find anything good generators that will give me a long list or actually work based on past books I've read.

I'm 17 and I just got into reading with the Alchemist (yes I know I'm late and I'm trying to remedy that). Now I really enjoyed the Alchemist as it is a more simple, cliche story. I just started The Great Gatsby and I don't understand anything that's happening which is probably because it's an older book in an older dialect that I'm barely understanding. Other books I impulsively bought cuz they're classics are Pride and Prejudice, Wuthering Heights and 1984. So I think I'm kinda screwed cuz the former 2 are WAY older than TGG and 1984 is still significantly older than the Alchemist. Should I get myself a new collection of books to get into before staring these just to improve my literary skills? Because I don't want to brute force my way through these and not get anything out of them. Idk is there a book | listed that you think I would like (maybe 1984?) or should I try something else for now?

Hello everyone, I was looking for something to read. It’s been a hot minute since I really sat down to read something. The last books I read were “At night all blood is black” by David Diopp, “A little life” by Hanya Yanagihara, “Call me by your name” by André Aciman, and “The stranger” by Albert Camus. I’ve read several others but the ones I’ve mentioned are the most recent ones before my reading slump.

Anyways, I am not sensitive to triggering topics, I don’t care if the books are gay or straight or anything like that, in other words I’m an open book (no pun intended). I will say no YA books, I think I’ve reached that age where I’m mature for some books, because I’ve already learned the lesson they’re often trying to teach. I’m specifically looking for books that will stick with you emotionally whether that’s from the characters or perhaps the atmosphere. As a reader I tend to focus on the atmosphere rather than the plot or the characters because that’s what sticks with me the most when I finished a book or have neared the end.

Any audiobook suggestions similar to God of fury by Rina Kent? Absolutely loved the level of spice, that it was duet narrated, and both voice narrators. Also open to a single narrator, extreme preference for male voice narration. I listened to For the fans by Nyla K, but I couldn’t get behind one of the narrators. Also not the biggest fan of the “guy hating that he is gay/ likes guys” trope. Loved the male narration in Bad bishop by LJ Shen but the woman narration made me want to gouge my eyes out. Also liked the male narration in Mate by Ali Hazelwood, the woman narration in this one was tolerable. Anyway, feeling desperate, hopefully same spice level as God of fury, but open in general. Thanks in advance!

I got into horror only a few months ago and I really enjoyed monstrilio and trad wife by Schaeffer.

I don't mind gore but please no explicit rape or torture scenes.

Monsters I can route for is always a bonus.

Thanks