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Please tell me about your favorite books, in list form
I want to buy a whole fuck off stack of books to just pull from and read.
Please give me a list of books you've enjoyed.
Preferably fiction, no other genre restrictions.
Preferably released within the last 5 years, but I'm not going to stop you from telling me about older books you've really loved.tout comprendre c'est tout pardonner-
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i think the only book i have ever read from after january 1st 2018 isi'm glad my mom diedwhich is jennette mccurdy's memoir (familiarly sam from icarly). the cover photo is brilliant even though it doesn't really capture the tone of the book. in rare form i gulped this down earlier this year. the writing has this character where the general use of language is sort of in line with a comedic delivery but the content of the book often doesn't match it (except for when it does). i would say it did really well to put me in the headspace of a kid that doesn't really understand what's going on as well as an adult that often still didn't have the language for it (the book is about the abusiveness of the child acting industry and her mom that put her into it).
oh there has to be more than one book for it to be a list. my favorite book is beloved by toni morrison. so you get to choose between recent and fiction.-
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I've read beloved and it is good.tout comprendre c'est tout pardonner-
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Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin - like Ready Player One but not shit. (TW basically everything)
Circe by Madeleine Miller - an adaptation of the Odyssey but from the perspective of Circe the witch.
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers - good ole space ship fun
The Good Immigrant by Nikesh Shulka - a collection of essays from immigrants to the UK about their experiences
The Trigger: Hunting the Assassin who brought the World to War - a story of a historian following the life of Gavrilo Princip, the assassin of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Leviathan Wakes by James S.A. Corey - the first Expanse book. Space opera
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and his Years of Pilgrimage by Haruki Murakami - a bachelor who is unlucky in love. However, does contain a terrible sex scene
American Gods by Neil Gaiman - the Gods live on Earth.
Lirael by Garth Nix - a good fantasy book
Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman - the end of the world is coming
Assassin's Apprentice by Robin Hobb - the first in the Farseer Trilogy - an excellent fantasy book
Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer - a teenage criminal upsets the natural orderTrans rights are human rights.-
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I'll emphasise the "whole fuck off stack" bit, over the "last 5 years" part.
- The Discworld series by Terry Pratchett. In particular the following books: Mort, Sourcery, Wyrd Sisters, Men at Arms, Interesting Times, Feet of Clay, Jingo, Monstrous Regiment, Going Postal, Making Money. (But really, all 40 are good.)
- Agatha Christie books. Especially the Poirot ones (but really all of them).
I have a bunch of books in grabbing distance from my bed right now, but they're either non-fiction (maths and Marxism), or in Greek. The only exception is Star Warped by A3R Roberts (Adam Roberts), which is a parody of the original and prequel Star Wars trilogies. So, if that sounds like something you'd like, there you go.You don't have ambiguity; you haveoptions.-
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Circe by Madeline Miller - Seconding this because it was good!
The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman - Fairytale with Coraline vibes
Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir - necromantic sci-fi murder mystery in a haunted mansion
Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata - a woman works at a convenience store-
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Best fantasy book i’ve ever read is called "The 13½ Lives of Captain Bluebear" by Walter Moers.
"His Dark Materials" trilogy by Philip Pullman is also up there.Norwe is spontaneous, has a stream-of-consciouness posting style, usually posts on catch-ups by commenting on past pages posts, gets rather fired up in certain moments in games, is relatively as playful as me in games and likes casual shitposting
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I've definitely read every poirot and I don't particularly care for terry pratchett unfortunately.In post 4, Mitillos wrote: I'll emphasise the "whole fuck off stack" bit, over the "last 5 years" part.
- The Discworld series by Terry Pratchett. In particular the following books: Mort, Sourcery, Wyrd Sisters, Men at Arms, Interesting Times, Feet of Clay, Jingo, Monstrous Regiment, Going Postal, Making Money. (But really, all 40 are good.)
- Agatha Christie books. Especially the Poirot ones (but really all of them).
I have a bunch of books in grabbing distance from my bed right now, but they're either non-fiction (maths and Marxism), or in Greek. The only exception is Star Warped by A3R Roberts (Adam Roberts), which is a parody of the original and prequel Star Wars trilogies. So, if that sounds like something you'd like, there you go.tout comprendre c'est tout pardonner-
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Bonus points now awarded for anything that is not in the fantasy genre you god damned nerds.tout comprendre c'est tout pardonner-
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Thank you for your contributions to my first acquisition.tout comprendre c'est tout pardonner-
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Rising Out of Hatred by Eli Zaslow - non fiction account of Derek Black, a man born into a white nationalist family and raised by the leader of the KKK. story about how he eventually breaks free of those beliefs
The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga - darkly humorous book that examines class struggle in India
The Little Friend by Donna Tartt - literary fiction about a child murder in a small Mississippi town and the girl who sets out to find the killer-
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The Dispossessed by Ursula Le Guin is fantastic if you're into sci-fi/theoretical explorations of leftist politics. Anarchists got tired of the whole communism vs capitalism thing and fled to the moon; now someone from the moon is returning to the planet 200 years later as part of an anthropology/science exchange thing.-
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I've definitely read most of Le Guin's work before including the dispossessed.tout comprendre c'est tout pardonner-
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1: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams
2: The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul by Douglas Adams
there books are a lot better than his more popular Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series. similarly silly but a lot easier to engage (after a few chapters of hitchhikers guide it just feels like you are reading a collection of jokes, dirk gently actually feels like a story sometimes)-
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the southern reach trilogy - jeff vandermeer. speculative fiction and my favorite books probably ever.
the locked tomb series - tamsyn muir. runs circles around genre writers atm and i like to write a lot of words about her ideas. speculative fiction again. neceomancy. women. a lot of stuff. top tier
tender is the flesh - augustina bazterrica a lot of warnings here but i reread it recently. what if a virus got into animal meat. it’s a lot but i enjoyed it-
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I finished Poppy War by R F Kuang and it is phenomenal.Trans rights are human rights.-
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I wasn't a huge fan.
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I described it that way to my wife (the first half), and I kinda agree with you, but I like the way Rin is written.
Trans rights are human rights.-
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To the general population: I am receiving that previously posted screenshot of books today. What should I read first?tout comprendre c'est tout pardonner-
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I have read infinite jest.tout comprendre c'est tout pardonner-
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I'd say tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow but it's very heavyTrans rights are human rights.-
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why start at the ninth?
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