Looking for suggestions of those books where you finished reading it and then felt compelled to go recommend it to all your friends, or the books where you wanted to discuss it with someone else afterward because you *needed* to sort through the character’s actions or a plot twist or something that left you hanging.
by absentmindedlurking
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Ways of Seeing by John Berger!
The Inheritance by Nora Roberts. THAT ENDING!!!!!
Lord of Emperors. The Sartarine Mosaic duology by Guy Gravial Kay was just so well done.
Eternal Gods Die too Soon by Beka M
Murder in the Family by Cara Hunter
Shame by Salman Rushdie. I wanted to tell everyone about it during the whole book. Loved Rushdie
Babel. I immediately had to recommend it.
Take what you can carry – Gian Sardar
Keep it in the family – John Marrs
Evidence of the affair – Taylor Jenkins Reid
Each of these from totally different genres, but all of them extraordinary
Why we sleep by Matthew walker.
I literally bring it up in almost every conversation. First dates, family dinners, work, fwbs etc.
Everybody’s talking about political conspiracies . I think the real conspiracies against. Our culture has such a cavalier attitude toward it.
I’m really considering buying the book for everyone in my life. I think it’s that important of read.
This Tender Land and Demon Copperhead are my two lately!
The Overstory – Richard Powers
Mad Honey – Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Finney Boylan
The Meister of Decimen City – mad scientist MFC with dinos!
The Bandit Queens by Parini Shroff – revenge story set in contemporary rural India, very fast paced and funny but also dark (content warnings for domestic violence, physical and attempted sexual assault)
Excavations by Kate Meyer – felt like listening to a really funny gossip story from a friend.
11/22/63
The Women by Kristin Hannah
I had an advanced copy and had to wait for everyone else to read it. Now it’s like the biggest book out there.
Bear town
I know this book is posted here daily but Lonesome Dove, finished it this month and got my partner into it 😆
Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner
Blood Over Bright Haven by ML Wang
Absolutely masterful as a standalone fantasy novel, and social commentary; in my opinion it’s a much more polished and we. It’s a self-published novel that’s getting traditional published in October, so I can’t wait for it to be easier for people I recommend it to to get a hold of.
Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
Can I cooment on a book I would NOT recommend to any one? Ever!
Thistlefoot! A modern Baba Yaga retelling
Infinite Jest. But beware- you may be labeled an insufferable hipster if you admit to reading it.
The Last One by Will Dean. I still don’t even know if I liked it, but I’m still dying to discuss it.
The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells. (I created my Reddit account because of it!)
The Passenger by Cormac McCarthy
Banyan Moon by Thao Thai
Life of Pi. I love love love it!!! Thank you to one of you who recommended to me!
After putting it off for years, I finally started and just finished Know My Name by Chanel Miller and feel like every Gina. Ships read this book!