What books would you recommend me based on some of my favorite books?
- The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kunder
- Love In The Time of Cholera & 100 Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Marquez
- The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy I-III by Adam Douglas
- Demian by Hermann Hesse
- The Master and Margarita by Mihail Bulgakov
- Quo Vadis by Henryk Syenkiewicz
- Norwegian Wood by Murakami Haruki
- East of Eden by John Steinbeck
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
- Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children I-III
by thought-wanderer
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Have you ever read: *On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous* by Ocean Vuong
If you like Hitchhiker’s Guide you’ll probably like Terry Pratchett. I recommend Wyrd Sisters or Guards! Guards! to start
Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks. I recommend it to everyone.
Heart of a Dog. Bulgakov’s lesser known but equally bonkers book about an experiment involving dogs and humans gone wrong.
Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman (recommend because of “Hitchhiker’s” and “Master and Margarita”; maybe buy the book used or get it from the library because of what’s surfaced about the latter author)
The House in the Cerulean Sea by T. J. Klune (because of “Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children” and also if you end up liking “Good Omens”)
The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende (because of your magical realism books)
Demon Copperhead and Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver.
Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Four Winds, by Kristin Hannah (dust bowl)
The Invention of Wings, by Sue Monk Kidd (slavery, abolitionists)
The Dog Stars, by Peter Heller (dystopian)
Angle of Repose, by Wallace Stegner (family history set in the American West)
The Living by Annie Dillard (historical fiction set in Washington state in the 19th century, European settlers, Indigenous people)
The Antelope Wife, by Louise Erdrich (mysticism, legend, and family history of Native American characters, Ojibwe, in Minnesota)
Love Medicine, Tracks, The Beet Queen, by Louise Erdrich (linked novels about Native American characters, Ojibwe, over time in Minnesota and North Dakota)
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
The Tin Drum by Gunter Grass
* The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
* No Longer Human / The Setting Sun by Osamu Dazai
* Nada by Carmen Laforet (translated by Edith Grossman)
* Jesus’ Son: Stories by Denis Johnson
* Tenth of December: Stories by George Saunders
* The Street of Crocodiles and Other Stories by Bruno Schulz
If you liked Gabriel Garcia Marquez, you’ll like anything by Isabel Allende. Highly recommend Japanese Lover, Violeta, House of Spirits (strong SA trigger warning in that), and her newest one, My Name is Emilia Del Valle