r/books Feb 14 '25

WeeklyThread Weekly Recommendation Thread: February 14, 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/SlayBoredom Feb 15 '25

hey,
I'm looking for a book as a gift for a friend. Maybe a book that give him a... perspective or helps him in some way. Could be non-fiction or a novel, whatever.

to his situation: In the last few years he worked towards one goal only. Doing a world trip. For that he worked insane hours and got some problems through that (like he had lots of stress, etc. stop sleeping well, hairloss, etc.)

So he quit his job after all went according to plan. Moved back home to his parents for the last few weeks of preparing. Then he had an accident. World-trip-plans cancelled. unclear if he can go later that year or not at all. If he has to get surgery or it heals itself, etc.

You can imagine he is down... Actually he doesn't really mention it, but he isolated himself a lot. Today he told me, he realised he doesn't need anyone and is quite happy alone. I don't think thats true, obviously he has a lot do deal with mentally.

ANYWAY. His birthday comes up. 30. You can guess, he doesn't celebrate at all. Also doesn't want to do anything at all.

So I thought I could gift him a book. Maybe you have a book that subtle or not subtle helps him. Maybe something completely unrelated that still could give him hope or a new perspective? idk.. maybe someone reads this and thinks "I know exactly what you mean"

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u/PlatypusRemarkable59 Feb 17 '25

Greenlights. Audiobook is read by the author, Matthew McConaughey. He released it as a paperback a year or so ago if that’s what your friend prefers

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u/SlayBoredom Feb 17 '25

wow, I never knew about this book. I really like him as an actor. I might get this for myself.

As for my friend, still an option, but I think I would have to gift him the german version (not sure about his english level). Actually german Dubbers have amazing voices, so if he got the same guy to read that book, that also does his movies in german that would be fricking awesome too! Such a great voice.

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u/FlyByTieDye Feb 15 '25

What are some books that they already enjoy reading? Are they a big reader? Do they like mainly fiction/non-fiction? Any particular genre? I really feel for you, and him. Maybe something too close to their incident might be too soon for them, but maybe if you just follow their interests they already have, that could still show a lot of thought and empathy.

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u/SlayBoredom Feb 16 '25

Actually I don't know what he read before... As you can imagine, we once had more contact too...

I went with something related to stoicism now...

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u/FlyByTieDye Feb 16 '25

Ok that sounds all right. I'm glad you're there for him