As long as its not sad feel free to give me a recommendation. I am not picky (at least I am trying not to be. I have been trying to give every genre a shot)
This changes all of the time, but that’s my list for now 🙂
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1) Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
2) The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoey by David Mitchell
3) Shades of Grey by Jasper Fforde
4) Ishmael/My Ishmael by Daniel Quinn
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Tell the Wolves Im Home by Carol Rifka Brunt
Night Circus by Erin Morganstern
Shotgun Lovesongs by Nickolas Butler
The Anatomy of Dreams by Chloe Benjamin
cocoamonster523 on
Neuromancer – William Gibson
Annihilation – Jeff Vandermeer
Wolf Hall – Hilary Mantel
A Distant Mirror – Barbara Tuchman
Aitoroketto on
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
The House of Leaves by Mark Danielewski
Watership Down by Richard Adams
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
KnightMarauder1424 on
The End of Your Life Book Club – Will Schwalbe
The girl with the dragon tattoo – Steig Larsson
The Right Stuff – Tom Wolfe
The Thursday Murder Club – Richard Osman
Good-Variation-6588 on
This list changes depending on the day:
Possession-AS Byatt
Gilead- Marilynne Robinson
The Blind Assassin- Margaret Atwood
A Room With a View- EM Forster
laurenlau1 on
Zodiac Academy
ACOTAR
Fourth Wing
From Blood and Ash
jayner3410 on
House of Echoes by Barbara Erskine (1996)
Paradise by Judith McNaught (1991)
Me before you by Jo Jo Moyes (2012)
The Hour of the Knife by Sharon Zukowski (1991)
The Mystery at Hunting’s End by Mignon Good Eberhart (1930)
Sorry I listed 5 books.
niftynandering on
1. how to start a fire- lisa lutz
2. we could be rats
3. man called ove
4. djinn patrol on the purple line
love this question for making me realise that we could be rats as taken over as second on my list
NoEquivalent7478 on
Breathe by James Nestor life changing
Key_Major2871 on
The Pillars of the Earth
The Way of Kings
The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
(The Kite Runner) – Sad though
Straight-Chemist6079 on
1) The Windup Bird Chronicle
2) Oblivion: A Memoir by Hector Abad
3) Wolf Hunt by Ivailo Petrov
4) Collected Stories of Stefan Zwieg
Those are some of my favs from 2025, except Windup Bird which is an all time fav that Idk if anything can top for me.
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Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
The Mists of Avalon, Marion Zimmer Bradley
City of Glass, Paul Auster
Oryx and Crake, Margaret Attwood*
*I’m not certain this is my top #4 but I’m failing to think of anything else right now.
Remarkable-Top326 on
in no order:
– Jurassic Park
– Project Hail Mary
– Bud Not Buddy
– Let the Great World Spin
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The Princess Bride
Anxious People
CapitalDry709 on
She’s a Lamb by Meredith Hambrock
Little Weirds by Jenny Slate
Discontent By Beatriz Serrano
Stella Descending by Linn Ullman
lovelylexicon on
In no particular order: Infinite Jest, The Count of Monte Cristo, The Brothers Karamazov, Pale Fire
jazzynoise on
At this moment:
*Anna Karenina*, Leo Tolstoy
*Invisible Man*, Ralph Ellison
*The Bell Jar,* Sylvia Plath
*Human Acts*, Han Kang
*God Bless You, Mr Rosewater,* Kurt Vonnegut
*The Complete Calvin and Hobbes*, Bill Watterson
Okay, so more than four, but I want to add many more. But all these books greatly increased my understanding in different ways.
dmantee on
The Dying Earth by Jack Vance
Shagduk by J.B. Jackson
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
Conjure Wife by Fritz Leiber
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The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
I Am Malala by Malala Yousafzai
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
Not Without My Daughter by Betty Mahmoody
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The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
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h{{Lamb by Christopher Moore}}
h{{Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk}}
h{{The Rapture of Canaan by Sheri Reynolds}}
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Story of Your Life by Ted Chiang
Slaughter-House Five by Kurt Vonnegut
The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
This changes all of the time, but that’s my list for now 🙂
1) Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
2) The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoey by David Mitchell
3) Shades of Grey by Jasper Fforde
4) Ishmael/My Ishmael by Daniel Quinn
Tell the Wolves Im Home by Carol Rifka Brunt
Night Circus by Erin Morganstern
Shotgun Lovesongs by Nickolas Butler
The Anatomy of Dreams by Chloe Benjamin
Neuromancer – William Gibson
Annihilation – Jeff Vandermeer
Wolf Hall – Hilary Mantel
A Distant Mirror – Barbara Tuchman
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
The House of Leaves by Mark Danielewski
Watership Down by Richard Adams
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
The End of Your Life Book Club – Will Schwalbe
The girl with the dragon tattoo – Steig Larsson
The Right Stuff – Tom Wolfe
The Thursday Murder Club – Richard Osman
This list changes depending on the day:
Possession-AS Byatt
Gilead- Marilynne Robinson
The Blind Assassin- Margaret Atwood
A Room With a View- EM Forster
Zodiac Academy
ACOTAR
Fourth Wing
From Blood and Ash
House of Echoes by Barbara Erskine (1996)
Paradise by Judith McNaught (1991)
Me before you by Jo Jo Moyes (2012)
The Hour of the Knife by Sharon Zukowski (1991)
The Mystery at Hunting’s End by Mignon Good Eberhart (1930)
Sorry I listed 5 books.
1. how to start a fire- lisa lutz
2. we could be rats
3. man called ove
4. djinn patrol on the purple line
love this question for making me realise that we could be rats as taken over as second on my list
Breathe by James Nestor life changing
The Pillars of the Earth
The Way of Kings
The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
(The Kite Runner) – Sad though
1) The Windup Bird Chronicle
2) Oblivion: A Memoir by Hector Abad
3) Wolf Hunt by Ivailo Petrov
4) Collected Stories of Stefan Zwieg
Those are some of my favs from 2025, except Windup Bird which is an all time fav that Idk if anything can top for me.
Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
The Mists of Avalon, Marion Zimmer Bradley
City of Glass, Paul Auster
Oryx and Crake, Margaret Attwood*
*I’m not certain this is my top #4 but I’m failing to think of anything else right now.
in no order:
– Jurassic Park
– Project Hail Mary
– Bud Not Buddy
– Let the Great World Spin
The Princess Bride
Anxious People
She’s a Lamb by Meredith Hambrock
Little Weirds by Jenny Slate
Discontent By Beatriz Serrano
Stella Descending by Linn Ullman
In no particular order: Infinite Jest, The Count of Monte Cristo, The Brothers Karamazov, Pale Fire
At this moment:
*Anna Karenina*, Leo Tolstoy
*Invisible Man*, Ralph Ellison
*The Bell Jar,* Sylvia Plath
*Human Acts*, Han Kang
*God Bless You, Mr Rosewater,* Kurt Vonnegut
*The Complete Calvin and Hobbes*, Bill Watterson
Okay, so more than four, but I want to add many more. But all these books greatly increased my understanding in different ways.
The Dying Earth by Jack Vance
Shagduk by J.B. Jackson
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
Conjure Wife by Fritz Leiber
The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
I Am Malala by Malala Yousafzai
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
Not Without My Daughter by Betty Mahmoody
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir (audiobook)