Convince me to read your favourite book in one sentence.
I need more recommendations, but I'm having a hard time finding books with a very interesting premise. I am fine with any genre as long as it was well written.
Between Two Fires – Wanna read an epic set in the Middle Ages in France where Heaven and Hell fight, low key cause the Black Death, so a knight, a priest, and a young girl have to cross the country to fight monsters and save the world?
A wonderful sense of time and place, overcoming incredible odds in a world in which even love is a luxury that few can afford.
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Never let me go by kazuo Ishiguro – completely heartbreaking but impossible to put down; possibly life changing!
GabrielleArcha on
Mary Manifests $100,000
Mary is on a mission to unalive herself, but instead loses her virginity & ends up receiving $100,000 in cash from an unexpected source.
panpopticon on
THE BRIDGE OF SAN LUIS REY is the shortest novel you will ever read, and the most beautiful.
Gregorrito on
Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie
A ship AI inside a human body sets out to get revenge on the person that blew it up.
Super_Rando_Man on
Rick and morty did an episode on it …. needful things
emilylouise221 on
Les Miserables: love conquers all.
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Slaughterhouse V by Kurt Vonnegut
A book to understand the futility of war, told in the style of alien race Tralfamadorians who can see time all at once (ie they look at you and see your birth, middle of life, and death) so they arrange their books not chronologically but by juxtaposing important moments.
pdxpmk on
The Selfish Gene
You are a biological robot built by your genes to ensure their transmission into the next generation.
That is all.
Ok_Law_5141 on
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell: I was a different person by the time I reached the end.
_byetony_ on
Understand why you’re alive: “Man’s Search for Meaning”
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World war and sisters – The Nightingale
Between Two Fires – Wanna read an epic set in the Middle Ages in France where Heaven and Hell fight, low key cause the Black Death, so a knight, a priest, and a young girl have to cross the country to fight monsters and save the world?
[The Hands of the Emperor](https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/af2bba9c-8f41-4a3e-b87a-8532a44ccb67) by Victoria Goddard! It’s a (very long) beautifully written slice-of-life book about the personal secretary to the emperor of the world, with a heavy focus on platonic relationships.
Water For Elephants:
A wonderful sense of time and place, overcoming incredible odds in a world in which even love is a luxury that few can afford.
Never let me go by kazuo Ishiguro – completely heartbreaking but impossible to put down; possibly life changing!
Mary Manifests $100,000
Mary is on a mission to unalive herself, but instead loses her virginity & ends up receiving $100,000 in cash from an unexpected source.
THE BRIDGE OF SAN LUIS REY is the shortest novel you will ever read, and the most beautiful.
Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie
A ship AI inside a human body sets out to get revenge on the person that blew it up.
Rick and morty did an episode on it …. needful things
Les Miserables: love conquers all.
Slaughterhouse V by Kurt Vonnegut
A book to understand the futility of war, told in the style of alien race Tralfamadorians who can see time all at once (ie they look at you and see your birth, middle of life, and death) so they arrange their books not chronologically but by juxtaposing important moments.
The Selfish Gene
You are a biological robot built by your genes to ensure their transmission into the next generation.
That is all.
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell: I was a different person by the time I reached the end.
Understand why you’re alive: “Man’s Search for Meaning”