Hi everyone! I like to put books on my TBR and then just forget why I put them there, which is usually how I avoid spoilers- for example I’ll put a bunch of books in those ‘suggest me a book with an insane twist’ threads in hopes that by the time I read them I’ll forget where they came from. Sometimes works, sometimes doesn’t.
Anyways- I’m hoping that all of you can suggest me books from one of the following categories but DONT TELL ME WHICH OF THE CATEGORIES YOU’RE RECOMMENDING.
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a book with an insane twist you don’t see coming (ie nickel boys, the movie the sixth sense, etc) OR a book where there is light twist that you figure out yourself as you read but is not confirmed til later (station eleven, klara and the sun)
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a book where something revealed at or near the end of the book retroactively informs the story and makes you want to re-read immediately knowing that information (ie Perks of being a wallflower)
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a book where parts of the story take place in different timelines but it’s not revealed until the timelines converge (ie Chain Gang All Stars)
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a book with a bittersweet wholesome ending or an ending that will ruin me (so many of these- Project Hail Mary, these silent woods, Feed)
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a well known story told from a different perspective (ie James)
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Any book where there are chapters about different characters that intersect later or that do not intersect but are related (like Rejection, which I didn’t actually like)
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a good mystery from the 21st century that isn’t a ‘book tok’ book
My favorite recent reads have been:
– Dungeon Crawler Carl series
– A gentleman in Moscow
– Chain Gang All Stars
– City of Thieves
– Piranesi
– 11/22/63
Here are some of my recent DNFs or books I didn’t like:
– Rebecca (dnf- I really wanted to read this one but it’s hard for me to read old books)
– comfort me with apples (good concept bad execution imo)
– Verity (I finished it but please don’t recommend Colleen Hoover or anything similar)
– James (LOVED the concept and really liked it at first but by the end I was like ‘ok- we get it’)
Hopefully I can take some books from this post without it spoiling the book, and hopefully others can as well! TIA!
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