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.
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The Maddaddam trilogy by Margaret Atwood
The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi
American War by Omar El Akkad