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    I'll take any suggestions. Some of my favorite books/works include:

    Frankenstein, The Life of Pi, Fahrenheit 451, The Phantom of the Opera, Dracula,The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, The Outsiders, Kafka's Metamorphosis, I Robot, Beowulf, Shakespeare's Hamlet, A Mid Summer Night's Dream, anything by Edgar Allan Poe, Treasure Island (haven't finished).

    I also enjoy manga, my favorite being Trigun/Trigun Maximum and 3gatsu no Lion.

    Please give me some recommendations similar to any of these.

    by apparent_alien718

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    1. The Hunchback of Notre Dame/ Notre Dame de Paris – Victor Hugo (this is not the Disney version – it’s a gothic tragedy)

      A Canticle for Lebowitz – Walter Miller – classic scifi – about the rebuilding of society after collapse (kind of)

      If We Were Villians – M J Roi (for something lighter – this is The Secret History lite, but with Shakespeare rather than greek classics. You may have fun recognizing the Shakespeare quotes throughout the book).

    2. > Frankenstein, The Life of Pi, Fahrenheit 451, The Phantom of the Opera, Dracula,The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, The Outsiders, Kafka’s Metamorphosis, I Robot, Beowulf, Shakespeare’s Hamlet, A Mid Summer Night’s Dream, anything by Edgar Allan Poe, Treasure Island (haven’t finished).

      I have read Frankenstein, Fahrenheit 451, Dracula, The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit, I Robot, the complete works of Edgar Allen Poe, and probably both Shakepeare plays, at least a graphic novel of Beowulf, and I’m at least familiar with Treasure Island and might have read it in school.

      > Frankenstein, Dracula, Edgar Allen Poe, Treasure Island

      * The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
      * Wagner the Werewolf by George W. M. Reynolds
      * The Island of Doctor Moreau by H. G. Wells
      * Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
      * The works of H. P. Lovecraft
      * Hidden Pictures by Jason Rekulak
      * Fraulein Frankenstein by Stephen Woodworth

      > Fahrenheit 451

      * 1984 by George Orwell
      * Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
      * The Unwind Dystology by Neal Shusterman, beginning with Unwind

      > The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit, Beowulf, Shakespeare

      * The whole Discworld series by Terry Pratchett, beginning with The Colour of Magic. I think a couple books in this series do parody the two Shakespeare plays you mentioned.
      * The Swords, Spells & Stealth series by Drew Hayes, beginning with NPCs.

      > I, Robot

      * Tik-Tok by John Sladek
      * The Cyberiad by Stanislaw Lem
      * The Bobiverse series by Dennis E. Taylor, beginning with We are Legion (We are Bob)
      * The Robot Galaxy series by Adeena Mignogna, starting with Crazy Foolish Robots

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