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    Hi everyone! I like to put books on my TBR and then just forget why I put them there, which is usually how I avoid spoilers- for example I’ll put a bunch of books in those ‘suggest me a book with an insane twist’ threads in hopes that by the time I read them I’ll forget where they came from. Sometimes works, sometimes doesn’t.

    Anyways- I’m hoping that all of you can suggest me books from one of the following categories but DONT TELL ME WHICH OF THE CATEGORIES YOU’RE RECOMMENDING.

    • a book with an insane twist you don’t see coming (ie nickel boys, the movie the sixth sense, etc) OR a book where there is light twist that you figure out yourself as you read but is not confirmed til later (station eleven, klara and the sun)

    • a book where something revealed at or near the end of the book retroactively informs the story and makes you want to re-read immediately knowing that information (ie Perks of being a wallflower)

    • a book where parts of the story take place in different timelines but it’s not revealed until the timelines converge (ie Chain Gang All Stars)

    • a book with a bittersweet wholesome ending or an ending that will ruin me (so many of these- Project Hail Mary, these silent woods, Feed)

    • a well known story told from a different perspective (ie James)

    • Any book where there are chapters about different characters that intersect later or that do not intersect but are related (like Rejection, which I didn’t actually like)

    • a good mystery from the 21st century that isn’t a ‘book tok’ book

    My favorite recent reads have been:
    – Dungeon Crawler Carl series
    – A gentleman in Moscow
    – Chain Gang All Stars
    – City of Thieves
    – Piranesi
    – 11/22/63

    Here are some of my recent DNFs or books I didn’t like:
    – Rebecca (dnf- I really wanted to read this one but it’s hard for me to read old books)
    – comfort me with apples (good concept bad execution imo)
    – Verity (I finished it but please don’t recommend Colleen Hoover or anything similar)
    – James (LOVED the concept and really liked it at first but by the end I was like ‘ok- we get it’)

    Hopefully I can take some books from this post without it spoiling the book, and hopefully others can as well! TIA!

    by water_light_show

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    1. yourlittlebirdie on

      A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World by Charlie Fletcher

      Good Morning, Midnight by Lily Brooks Dalton

      March by Geraldine Brooks

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