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    Hello! I'm looking to expand my literary horizons and what better place than reddit. What book/author is a giant YES 100% of the time for you?

    by Almond_cutebanana

    12 Comments

    1. hmmwhatsoverhere on

      For nonfiction, Vijay Prashad and Domenico Losurdo both have a perfect hit rate for me so far.

      For fiction, Adrian Tchaikovsky ranges from alright to incredible. He’s so prolific I’m not even close to completing his catalogue, but I’ve read over a dozen so far and while some have been much weaker than others, none have been bad.

    2. Guilty-Coconut8908 on

      Cuba Libre by Elmore Leonard

      A Drink Before The War by Dennis Lehane

      The Lincoln Lawyer by Michael Connelly

      Sharpe’s Tiger by Bernard Cornwell

      Burr by Gore Vidal

      Journeyer by Gary Jennings

    3. BernardFerguson1944 on

      Barbara Tuchman

      Cornelius Ryan

      Carlo D’Este

      John Toland

      Walter Lord

      Bruce Catton

    4. Cannot go wrong with any of these imo:

      * Piranesi by Susannah Clark
      * Beartown by Frederick Backman
      * Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar
      * To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
      * Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
      * 1984 by George Orwell
      * The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

    5. NK Jemisin’s broken earth trilogy (got me into fantasy, first author to win the Hugo award three years in a row, and for all three books in a series. She’s also the first black woman to have won the award. Phenomenal series)

    6. readsalot-thinksalil on

      Romance: Emergency Contact by Mary HK Choi

      Fantasy: Strange The Dreamer by Laini Taylor

      Historical supernatural fiction (spooky): Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V. E. Schwab

      Sci-fi: All Systems Red by Martha Wells

      Speculative fiction: The Beautiful Ones by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

      Contemporary fiction: Normal People by Sally Rooney

      Dystopian: The Road by Cormac McCarthy

      Horror: Diavola by Jennifer Thorne

      Comedy: Assistant to the Villain by Hannah Nicole Maehrer

      Classic: Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

      Satire: Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk

      Non-fiction memoir: Born a Crime by Trevor Noah

      Non-fiction language: The Elements of Eloquence by Mark Forsyth

      Non-fiction social/political: The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander

      Non-fiction history: The Hundred Years War on Palestine by Rashid Khalidi

      Adventure – Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo

      American fiction: The Color Purple by Alice Walker

      The library and indie bookstores are amazing places to find great book recommendations. Librarians and bookstore staff love talking about their favorites. Best of luck! ❤️

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