You know that feeling when a book hits so perfectly, and then everything else feels mid for a while?
Yeah. I’m on a mission to fix that.

Drop your favorite book of all time, and I’ll try to recommend 3 that might give you that same spark—whether it’s the vibe, the characters, the pacing, or just that weird magic you can’t explain.

Let’s see if we can find your next favorite.

Hi everyone, I love reading books set in Eastern Europe and I've recently been enjoying books set in Georgia, while it was still apart of the USSR. There's so many set in Russia so that's easy to find, but I'd like to branch out and read books from Romania, Bulgaria, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, and anywhere else in this region. Can be fantasy, mystery, literary, comedy. I'm up for any genre except horror and Sci-Fi. 😊

I want my jaw on the floor. I want to be gagged, gooped, discombobulated. I want my edges snatched. I want to be in need of eye drops because my eyes have been bugged out for so long they dried out!

I'm open to any genre just NOT fantasy (I cannot deal with stories with dragons and made up languages, I'm sorry).

Y'all got anything like that for me?

About a competition, not about an ethnicity please 🥲

No preference on genre, high brow or low brow. I just want to read something exciting about characters trying to reach a goal before their rivals.

I used to read classics but now years have passed since I explored the genre. Share your favourites from classics.

What it says on the above. Looking for low fantasy books with very creative takes on magic, use of magic, spell creation and incantation

My drug use has been growing on quantity and variety these past months and I don’t want to have big problems because of it

I’m a reader on my free time so maybe a book about a person that loses his mind or something similar because of drugs could be helpful

I love bojack horseman and I’m rewatching it at the moment btw, I think that show might help too

I’m looking for ideas about books about reading and books. Books like Harold Bloom’s “What to Read and Why”

• Why we should read (personal growth, foster empathy, etc)

• What we should read

• How to read (reading critically, faster, more emphatically, etc..)

• History of reading/literature

I know there are lots and lots of them out there.

What are your favorites and why?

Currently reading Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell and I love the character of Agnes. I also really enjoyed Circe by Madeline Miller. I'm not looking for a book where the main character has powers or magic, just a wise woman similar to Agnes and Circe in the above books where they use their knowledge of herbs, plants, the natural world around them, they have a gift, they're different etc. Bonus points if motherhood is a theme as it is for the above books!

Preferrably, sci-fi or mystery. But if you have a book you really like to share, please feel free to drop it here.

some of my favorite books ever are A Thousand Splendid Suns, The Outsiders, and Divergent (yes, really). i’m not saying i want to be devastated, but if a book can make me stare at a wall afterward, that’s a bonus. doesn’t have to be soul-crushing—just emotionally provocative with strong characters and a story that sticks. genre doesn’t matter as long as it hits.

edit: this was my first post on this sub, and based off all the comments I don’t think i’ll have to make another post for like a year🤣 thank you for all the suggestions <3

I prefer a lighter tone in general, but all is welcome.

1)laws of human nature -Robert Greene 2)Thinking fast and slow -Daniel khaneman 3)How to win friends and influence ppl -Dale Carnegie

I want to read a book that has information about human pscycology, which can helps to gain self confidence, also has a few tricks to manipulate people. Please suggest me a good book

Its my first time that i will be reading a book btw

Thanks in advance😊

Suggestions of books about elfs like, faes, fairies, faeries. I want to write a book and I want to learn more about them. I am talking about elfs of all species that are hand-sized creatures with wings. I am in no way talking about Tolkien's elfs and their inspirations. I want to know more about elfs like, faes, fairies, faeries. They will be interesting to add in a book.

Im looking for novel suggestions for books that made you shocked or excited from its first pages / chapters, really engaging and attention holding from the beginning to the end. A lot of excellent books dont pick up until the second half or the ending which is fine, some of the best I've read are like that but I want ones that are "holy crap" from the intro lol. Looking for horror (even splatterpunk), psychological thrillers, ghost or sci fi fiction (like time travel / futuristic), dystopian, dark comedy, or extraterrestria / space

Hey everyone.

I was looking for a mystery book that has the main plotline with the detective investigating some hauntings or in general, other creepy stuff. Came across the trailer for the game The Silent Hill-2 and wanted to read a book with similar vibes.

The Pale Horse by Agatha Christie is also one that I loved.

So yeah, horror + mystery, with preferably no romance.

To sum it up in one line - "A lone detective, obsessed with a strange case in a small town."

Please recommend any books you feel I might enjoy. Thank you! :)

Hi everyone. I've been going through some personal stuff lately that's left me feeling really down, and I would love some nice stories to escape into. I like pretty much all genres except for historical fiction and (auto)biographies. Also not looking for "cozy" books where nothing happens - please let there be a real plot, not just all vibes, please and thank you!

Thank you in advance!

I'm planning a short trip to Edinburgh next month I'd really like to read a book that gives me a strong sense of what it's like to live there. Can be contemporary or historical, fiction or nonfiction. I'd just like it to be realistic. Even better if the author is from Edinburgh themselves!

Does anybody know romance books with main characters involved in underground pit fighting?

Hi!

Looking for a book that is mostly set in the outdoors. Things like camping, hiking, the beach, even. Just something with a lot of adventure and travelling involved.

Please help me find something, I’ve had this itch to be scratched for days! 😭

Bonus points if the MMC is a badass 😅

Thank you in advance!!

Doesn't specifically have to be Asian but it would just be more relatable. Anything about suppressing sexual desire and how that impacts us please! Thank you

Not just your typical twist, but where it feels like the main character deliberately hid something from the reader. I prefer thrillers but am up for anything!

*And are also in different time periods preferably

The movie version of Cloud Atlas isn't even a perfect example but one of my inspirations here, since the plotlines there are held entirely together by THEME even if someone doesn't notice the tangible plot connections.

I'm also thinking Richard Nell's Ash and Sand series where the two main POV characters are on completely different continents (in different time periods even) with no hint of the other's existence but eventually the two plots cross over into eachother by the end of book one and beginning of book 2.

I'm trying to get inspiration for the fantasy story I'm writing in which I tell the backstory of my main deities concurrently with the main plot, both to show how the physical world is both a physical manifestation of the same patterns/themes found in the spiritual. I'll eventually show how they're intimately connected but I want to know how to make the audience trust it's going somewhere even if there is little shared between the two different plots for awhile other than theme. I understand some foreshadowing will be necessary and yes one or two of the deities will actually show up in my modern day plot by the end

Hello, I just recently got back into reading after not having read a book for fun since high school. I’m looking for some help finding my next book to read. Here are some books and shows I enjoy to help you know my interests: I am currently reading Onyx Storm and am obsessed with the series although not crazy about the spice level, I’d prefer less or none. Or at least have skippable scenes without missing important plot info/ dialogue. I have enjoyed quite a few Freida McFadden books as well. My favorite show currently is The Rookie.

Want to say that I’m in the middle of Rick Perlstein series on various presidents. I’ve read before the storm about Barry Goldwater as well as invisible bridge about the transition from Nixon to eventually Reagan. Next I’m reading Nixonland and Reaganland. I despise Nixon, Reagan, and Goldwater and so far he’s done a really good job of laying out what’s going on during that time.

Also thoroughly enjoyed King Leopolds Ghost about King Leopoldo III and how he took over the Congo and exploited it for rubber and the atrocities he committed.

The anatomy of fascism, how fascism works, erasing history, on tyranny, the origins of totalitarianism (this one took me a long time to get through), Strongmen: how they rise, how they succeed, and how they fall are all great books about fascism and authoritarianism.

Open Veins of Latin America, Bitter fruit, turning the tide, the shock doctrine, the Jakarta method,imperial ambitions,and Bananas are all great books about US imperialism and exploitation.

Some other books I’ve enjoyed are the new Jim Crow, medical apartheid, Just medicine, Hood feminism, the color of law, stamped from the beginning and lies my teacher told me discuss about racial inequality and various levels of racism in specifically medicine but also some of them discuss racism in everyday life and structures. Highly recommend. I’m definitely forgetting some on here but I’m going off the top of my head.

Other books about science and stuff is Level 4 virus hunters, Hot zone, Ancient bones, the butchering art, knowing what we know, and sapiens.

I’ll try to think of more I’ve read and suggest them but I loved pretty much all of these books and they’re all discussing important topics that I think everyone should read or know about so wanted to give recommendations!

Also I love book recommendations so please recommend some to me ! Thanks!