I'm looking for something that isn't on all the standard lists. A book that feels like it was written just for you, the kind you want to press into a friend's hands and say "read this, trust me."
For me, it was The Tartar Steppe by Dino Buzzati. It's this haunting, quiet novel about waiting for something that never comes. It doesn't shout; it whispers, and you can't forget it.
What's your "secret" book? The one you feel is uniquely yours?
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Minus the self-focus, The Gods Are Bastards and The Wandering Inn.
Long Live the Tribe of Fathers Girls by Madden
It’s not uniquely mine or just for me, but *Red star over the third world* by Vijay Prashad satisfies the rest of your requirements.
*The Serviceberry* —Robin Wall Kimmerer
I resonated with the books “Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow”, as well as “A Dimmed Devotion”.
The Goat Brothers By Larry Colton
You’re welcome
The Secret (pun intended) History by Donna Tartt. One of my absolute favorites, so exquisitely written.
The Brothers K by David James Duncan
Shadow of the wind, a book full of secrets and none of them are for you, but beautiful none the less
The Coral Bones by EJ Swift, I’m an ocean lover and this is beautiful
It’s a romance story called: one percent of you
It’s so good!!! It’s not talked about but it’s really good!
From the Wreck by Jane Rawson
Amrita
What I Loved by Siri Hustvedt
‘They’ by Kay Dick
Summer in Orcus. My mother has ocd and I felt so much that summer was me. And the story really scratched the narnia and Harry Potter itch that I used to have when I was a child, too, but this time it held up even to my adult eyes.
(T Kingfishers books at every popular but that one is less so.)
Steppenwolf by Herman Hesse
Arcadia by Lauren Groff
World Affinity The Radiant Traveler Series.