Suggest me a book that has lingered with you the entire time since you read it or you randomly think about it, but that you rarely, if ever, get a chance to recommend it.
Feel like this is a unique take to try. For me this is Blindness by José Saramago. That book has moments that have stuck with me for a long time, and I've never found the right opportunity to recommend it to someone.
I think for me, bookish communities lean towards fiction- so I don’t get to give a lot of love for my nonfiction reads.
Tell Me How It Ends, by Valeria Luiselli is a short book about refugees that fundamentally changed my whole outlook on the situation.
and Zen Wisdom for the Anxious, by Shinsuke Hosokawa. it has a bunch of short advice that i love skimming over every once in a while to reset myself mentally
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tender is the flesh. i think of it often and it disturbs me, though it’s really not something i could easily recommend to just anyone if they’re not looking for something specific it might fall under
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Mondays Not coming
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The Man Who Planted Trees by Jean Giono
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The Kingdoms by Natasha Pulley. Had a book hangover for weeks after that one.
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The religion by Timothy willocks or the passage by Justin Cronin
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We Need New Names by NoViolet Bulawayo
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Lolita.
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Thinking fast and slow by Daniel Kahnmen
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*Blindness* was brilliant! For me right now, it’s *Prophet Song* by Paul Lynch. Worst possible time to read dystopian fiction about a country (Ireland) sliding into totalitarianism. I can’t get it out of my head…. I’ve been recommending it here, but not to my friends.
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Earthlings by Sayaka Murata
I think for me, bookish communities lean towards fiction- so I don’t get to give a lot of love for my nonfiction reads.
Tell Me How It Ends, by Valeria Luiselli is a short book about refugees that fundamentally changed my whole outlook on the situation.
and Zen Wisdom for the Anxious, by Shinsuke Hosokawa. it has a bunch of short advice that i love skimming over every once in a while to reset myself mentally
tender is the flesh. i think of it often and it disturbs me, though it’s really not something i could easily recommend to just anyone if they’re not looking for something specific it might fall under
Mondays Not coming
The Man Who Planted Trees by Jean Giono
The Kingdoms by Natasha Pulley. Had a book hangover for weeks after that one.
The religion by Timothy willocks or the passage by Justin Cronin
We Need New Names by NoViolet Bulawayo
Lolita.
Thinking fast and slow by Daniel Kahnmen
*Blindness* was brilliant! For me right now, it’s *Prophet Song* by Paul Lynch. Worst possible time to read dystopian fiction about a country (Ireland) sliding into totalitarianism. I can’t get it out of my head…. I’ve been recommending it here, but not to my friends.
Behold the Man – Michael Moorcock
Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro
Under the Banner of Heaven – Jon Krakauer
Killers of the Flower Moon – David Grann