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    Hey everyone! I’m looking to get my bookworm wife some good reads for her birthday. I’m very much not a bookworm. From what I know, she likes cerebral stuff, thrillers, dystopian, some fantasy, and classics, but dislikes gratuitous writing and historical stuff. What are some books you’d recommend based on some of the books she went through in 2025? Here are some of them below for her taste profile:

    Parable of the Talents – Octavia Butler

    Parable of the Sower – Octavia Butler

    A Short Stay in Hell – Stephen Peck

    The Memory Police – Yoko Ogawa

    The Boy, the Mole, the Fox & the Horse – Charlie Mackesy

    Always Remember – Charlie Mackesy

    Einstein’s Dreams – Alan Lightman

    A Little Life – Hanya Yanagihara

    I Who Have Never Known Men – Jacqueline Harpman

    Tender is the Flesh – Agustina Bazterrica

    Sharp Objects – Gillian Flynn

    The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood

    Fahrenheit 451 – Ray Bradbury

    Blood Meridian – Cormac McCarthy

    My Year of Rest and Relaxation – Ottessa Moshfegh

    Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro

    If Cats Disappeared from the Word – Genki Kawamura

    Almond – Won-Pyung Sohn

    Battle Royale: Remastered – Koushun Takami

    Anything would help! Thank you tons.

    by bean_the_fiend

    1 Comment

    1. The Maddaddam trilogy by Margaret Atwood

      The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi

      American War by Omar El Akkad

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