Just finished reading “Diary of a void by Emi Yagi- great read.
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Iron John by Robert Bly. The Big Bang of the mythopoetic men’s movement. It may not have a wide audience but for men struggling to define their masculinity in a positive way, and possibly also deal with addiction issues, it is absolutely life changing.
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I never see anyone else recommend Cidney Swanson books, which is a dman shame. Her Saving Mars series is amazing, and I have also really enjoyed her other books, which range from fantasy to time travel.
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I never see Marcovaldo by Italo Calvino recommended, which I’m actually kind of surprised by. They’re such funny, absurd little stories. They remind me a lot of the new style of Mickey Mouse shorts, oddly enough.
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72 Hour Hold by Bebe Moore Campbell. The author based this novel on her own struggles with trying to get help for her adult daughter, who was diagnosed as bipolar. My own mom was bipolar so I really related with this. Plus Campbell is a brilliant writer. I liked all her other books as well.
leanhsi on
Elias Canetti’s Auto da Fe
gardener3851 on
“Restless” by William Boyd (or anything by Boyd). They are spy novels.
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David Mitchell books. Occasionally I see cloud atlas, but his other books are wonderful and many I’ve found more engaging, entertaining, just as well written, while perhaps not as original. Everyone I’ve recommended Bone Clocks to has loved it.
Former_Objective_924 on
The Indigo Girl by Natasha Boyd
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I feel like I’m the only one with the favorite book “My Grandmother Asked me to Tell you She’s Sorry” by Fredrik Backman but I think I say it every day lol.
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Anything by William Boyd
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Just want to comment that part of these getting recommended again and again are that the requests/questions are often the same again and again.
thisthatmeandmycat on
The nevernight chronicles by Jay kristoff if you’re into fantasy
Manmademonkey22 on
Power of the Dog by Don Winslow. A brilliant novel about the war on drugs in America. Really brutal but just incredible.
Beerguy26 on
Not books, but authors.
Julio Cortazar, Leonid Andreyev, Roberto Bolaño (not frequently enough, in any case), Nikolai Gogol
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Shadow of the Wind
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Cry to Heaven was so enrapturing to me I could practically hear music. The Fat and the Thin–very old, descriptions are fabulous. Fingersmith, the first twist had me shocked–its like reading Dickens. God of Small Things– love the unique word choices.
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Just finished reading “Diary of a void by Emi Yagi- great read.
Iron John by Robert Bly. The Big Bang of the mythopoetic men’s movement. It may not have a wide audience but for men struggling to define their masculinity in a positive way, and possibly also deal with addiction issues, it is absolutely life changing.
I never see anyone else recommend Cidney Swanson books, which is a dman shame. Her Saving Mars series is amazing, and I have also really enjoyed her other books, which range from fantasy to time travel.
I never see Marcovaldo by Italo Calvino recommended, which I’m actually kind of surprised by. They’re such funny, absurd little stories. They remind me a lot of the new style of Mickey Mouse shorts, oddly enough.
72 Hour Hold by Bebe Moore Campbell. The author based this novel on her own struggles with trying to get help for her adult daughter, who was diagnosed as bipolar. My own mom was bipolar so I really related with this. Plus Campbell is a brilliant writer. I liked all her other books as well.
Elias Canetti’s Auto da Fe
“Restless” by William Boyd (or anything by Boyd). They are spy novels.
David Mitchell books. Occasionally I see cloud atlas, but his other books are wonderful and many I’ve found more engaging, entertaining, just as well written, while perhaps not as original. Everyone I’ve recommended Bone Clocks to has loved it.
The Indigo Girl by Natasha Boyd
I feel like I’m the only one with the favorite book “My Grandmother Asked me to Tell you She’s Sorry” by Fredrik Backman but I think I say it every day lol.
Anything by William Boyd
Just want to comment that part of these getting recommended again and again are that the requests/questions are often the same again and again.
The nevernight chronicles by Jay kristoff if you’re into fantasy
Power of the Dog by Don Winslow. A brilliant novel about the war on drugs in America. Really brutal but just incredible.
Not books, but authors.
Julio Cortazar, Leonid Andreyev, Roberto Bolaño (not frequently enough, in any case), Nikolai Gogol
Shadow of the Wind
Cry to Heaven was so enrapturing to me I could practically hear music. The Fat and the Thin–very old, descriptions are fabulous. Fingersmith, the first twist had me shocked–its like reading Dickens. God of Small Things– love the unique word choices.