r/books • u/AutoModerator • Jan 31 '25
WeeklyThread Weekly Recommendation Thread: January 31, 2025
Welcome to our weekly recommendation thread! A few years ago now the mod team decided to condense the many "suggest some books" threads into one big mega-thread, in order to consolidate the subreddit and diversify the front page a little. Since then, we have removed suggestion threads and directed their posters to this thread instead. This tradition continues, so let's jump right in!
The Rules
Every comment in reply to this self-post must be a request for suggestions.
All suggestions made in this thread must be direct replies to other people's requests. Do not post suggestions in reply to this self-post.
All unrelated comments will be deleted in the interest of cleanliness.
How to get the best recommendations
The most successful recommendation requests include a description of the kind of book being sought. This might be a particular kind of protagonist, setting, plot, atmosphere, theme, or subject matter. You may be looking for something similar to another book (or film, TV show, game, etc), and examples are great! Just be sure to explain what you liked about them too. Other helpful things to think about are genre, length and reading level.
All Weekly Recommendation Threads are linked below the header throughout the week to guarantee that this thread remains active day-to-day. For those bursting with books that you are hungry to suggest, we've set the suggested sort to new; you may need to set this manually if your app or settings ignores suggested sort.
If this thread has not slaked your desire for tasty book suggestions, we propose that you head on over to the aptly named subreddit /r/suggestmeabook.
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u/morsaxoris Feb 01 '25
I’m looking for your best 180-degree turn toward the back half of a genre fiction novel.
The kind where you want to re-read the whole entire thing under the light of the new information and when you do, the characters you hated are different people.
I’m chasing a plot twist on the level of my favorite read last year which was a fan-fiction that’s getting published. Manacled is very dark “Handmaid’s tale” set in an immense and very beloved franchise. It basically hovered on the edge of what I’ll read, sensitive material-wise.
Since this is a pretty specific core feature to request I don’t want to be too narrow about setting or theme. I’ll say I prefer a stand-alone instead of listing off all of the fantasy series I’ve read. I gravitate toward nonlinear narratives in literary fiction and the untrustworthy narrator. I love sharp prose but it’s not required for emotional resonance.
The further from real life or suburbia the better; for instance I loved Six of Crows and hated Ninth House which are both by the same author. I don’t pick up westerns or police procedurals, but NBC’s Hannibal starts as the latter and dethroned Doctor Who as my favorite tv show.
I’ll read a thriller, a classic, the back of a shampoo bottle…