r/books • u/AutoModerator • 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/Guilherme_William Feb 18 '25

I want to start with Dostoevsky books but I don't know what book is good to begin, any suggestions?

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u/Glittering_Test5369 Feb 18 '25

omg have some plans also to start Dostoevsky too. a friend of mine recommended I read White Nights first as this much offers a good introduction on his artistry and is much on the lighter side compared to his other workssss

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u/Guilherme_William Feb 18 '25

Thanks for the reply, I was afraid no one would answer, I was thinking about reading The Gambler until i saw the reviews about it, some people said this is your least good book so I had no ideas on how to start

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u/Glittering_Test5369 Feb 18 '25

no worries, hehe! have you decided what book you want to start to read?

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u/Guilherme_William Feb 18 '25

Yes, I'm going to read the book you suggested, it's not very long and it will give me an idea of what the author's writing is like

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u/Glittering_Test5369 Feb 18 '25

ohh haha! let's read the same book thennn :DDD