All Alone in the World: Children of the Incarcerated, by Nell Bernstein
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Man’s Search for Meaning
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The Grass Arena – John Healy
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Well, there are different reasons one can find that shock quality in books…IMO.
I just finished Glorious Exploits by Ferdia Lennon which is stunning for the novelty. He pairs two seemingly impossible times – modern Irish and the era of the Spartans – into an excellent witty read. (This might be a poorly received thought but the audio version is even better due to the skill of the narrator.) Not life changing but …
Then there is a nerdy non-fiction type. In Pirates, Prisoner & Lepers – you get introduced to all these situations akin to Lord of the Flies, but real life, and it left me really thinking about what we humans are. A bit more fun but also a bit academic is Love at Goon Park. That book is written about animal experiments in the 1970’s but it also offers some serious insight into how we humans work.
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Not sure if what you want is something full of total horror and gore…or just a stunning book of any genre.
Tell us, and we’ll tailor our suggestions to your request.
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Geek Love
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The Girl in the Mirror by Rose Carlyle
The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware
The Next Mrs. Parrish by Liv Constantine
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides
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The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks. Can’t guarantee it will change your life, but you will remember it for a long time.
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*The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth* –Zoe Schlanger
*The Vital Question: Energy, Evolution and the Origins of Life* –Nick Lane
*I Contain Multitudes* –Ed Yong
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**Black Pill** by Elle Reeve. 100% the best-written book on this thread. And it’s absolutely eye-opening and so important that everyone read it right now.
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The Gashlycrumb Tinies by Edward Gorey — page turner, pure death and murder.
The Communist Manifesto
Bible
Mine by Robert McCammon.
In case you’re not a fan of horror, Anxious People by Frederick Backman.
A Little Life
Ending Aging by Aubrey de Grey. The Open Library page is [here](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL12284524W/Ending_Aging?edition=key%3A/books/OL17932740M).
Just Mercy by Brian Stevenson
Executed on a Technicality by David Dow
American Gulag, by Mark Dow and David Dow
The New Jim Crow, by Michelle Alexander
All Alone in the World: Children of the Incarcerated, by Nell Bernstein
Man’s Search for Meaning
The Grass Arena – John Healy
Well, there are different reasons one can find that shock quality in books…IMO.
I just finished Glorious Exploits by Ferdia Lennon which is stunning for the novelty. He pairs two seemingly impossible times – modern Irish and the era of the Spartans – into an excellent witty read. (This might be a poorly received thought but the audio version is even better due to the skill of the narrator.) Not life changing but …
Then there is a nerdy non-fiction type. In Pirates, Prisoner & Lepers – you get introduced to all these situations akin to Lord of the Flies, but real life, and it left me really thinking about what we humans are. A bit more fun but also a bit academic is Love at Goon Park. That book is written about animal experiments in the 1970’s but it also offers some serious insight into how we humans work.
We don’t know enough about you to make a solid suggestion.
Not sure if what you want is something full of total horror and gore…or just a stunning book of any genre.
Tell us, and we’ll tailor our suggestions to your request.
Geek Love
The Girl in the Mirror by Rose Carlyle
The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware
The Next Mrs. Parrish by Liv Constantine
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides
The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks. Can’t guarantee it will change your life, but you will remember it for a long time.
*The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth* –Zoe Schlanger
*The Vital Question: Energy, Evolution and the Origins of Life* –Nick Lane
*I Contain Multitudes* –Ed Yong
**Black Pill** by Elle Reeve. 100% the best-written book on this thread. And it’s absolutely eye-opening and so important that everyone read it right now.