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40 books

What are the must-read LGBTQ fantasy books?

Few genres have embraced sexuality like Fantasy. Whether it's friends to lovers, forbidden relationships, or happily ever after – LGBTQ+ storylines can explore cultures and societies in a way that ...

#1
Legends & Lattes
#2
The Priory of the Orange Tree
#3
A Marvellous Light
Witchmark
Cemetery Boys
Gideon the Ninth
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
The House in the Cerulean Sea
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
My Real Children
Magic's Pawn
The Left Hand of Darkness

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64 books

What 2024 releases are you excited to read?

add all the books being released in 2024!

#1
Wind and Truth
#2
We Solve Murders
#3
A Ruse of Shadows
When the Arkirlasse Blooms
The Phoenix Keeper
The Cemetery of Untold Stories
The Familiar
Gogmagog: The First Chronicle of Ludwich
Middle of the Night
Dead Girls Don't Dream
The Trouble With Mrs Montgomery Hurst
The Gilded Crown

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31 books

What Lighthearted Beach, Poolside or Park Reads Did You Get Lost In?

With summer here, many of us are taking the opportunity to get outside and read. That could mean finding a cozy spot in a park, stretching out on a chair poolside or on a blanket on the beach – or ...

#1
Project Hail Mary
#2
The Martian
#3
Skyward
Tress of the Emerald Sea
The Princess Bride
Guards! Guards!
Off to Be the Wizard
Happy Place
Beach Read
Malibu Rising
Six Wakes
The Rosie Project

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42 books

What are your favorite books by Indigenous Authors?

Books written by authors who identify as First Nations, Alaskan Native, Native American, Indígena, First Peoples, Aboriginal, and other Indigenous peoples of North and South America.

#1
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
#2
The Only Good Indians
#3
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
There There
Firekeeper's Daughter
As We Have Always Done: Indigenous Freedom through Radical Resistance
Bad Cree
Ceremony
Lakota Woman
Trail of Lightning
Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses
My Heart Is a Chainsaw

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52 books

Which books had characters you resonated with the most?

Memorable characters can leave an impression as long as the story or plot. What characters stand out to you the most? These could be characters who you were able to identify with, ones that inspire...

#1
The Way of Kings
#2
Anne of Green Gables
#3
A ​Court of Silver Flames
The Martian
Circe
A Court of Mist and Fury
The Name of the Wind
Blood Song
Fangirl
The Knife of Never Letting Go
A Closed and Common Orbit
S.

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38 books

What are your favorite books about climate change and the environment?

April is Earth Month! 🌎 What fiction or nonfiction books would you recommend to readers who want to learn more about environmental issues, climate crisis, and protecting our planet?

#1
The Ministry for the Future
#2
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
#3
Oryx and Crake
New York 2140
The Secret Wisdom of Nature : Trees, Animals, and the Extraordinary Balance of All Living Things --- Stories from Science and Observation
The Nature Fix: Why Nature Makes Us Happier, Healthier, and More Creative
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate
The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times
Doing Good Better
The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate
How High We Go in the Dark

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21 books

In honour of Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, what are the best dieselpunk and/or post-apocalyptic books?

We've been truly blessed to have such a strong prequel to one of the greatest post-apocalyptic action films of all time, Mad Max: Fury Road. With that in mind, what are some books that evoke simila...

rosshardy
Ross HardySupporter
#1
The Road
#2
The Stand
#3
Station Eleven
Ten Low
A Boy and His Dog
The Man in the High Castle
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, Vol. 1
The Sunlit Man
Metro 2033
The Postman
Perilous Times
Battle Angel Alita, Vol. 1

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28 books

Non-fiction books that expanded your understanding of the world

Any non-fiction books that taught you something that made you understand the world better

#1
A Short History of Nearly Everything
#2
How To Win Friends and Influence People
#3
The Selfish Gene
Inventing Reality
The God Delusion
Cosmos
Ishmael
Deaf World
Peopleware
Debt: The First 5,000 Years
The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
Finite and Infinite Games

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25 books

What inspired you to get into reading?

Tell us what got you into reading,

drewsbookreviews
drewsSupporter

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22 books

What books brought you out of a reading slump?

We've all been there—it's easy to get distracted and go for a while without reading anything. But what books brought you out of that place?

rosshardy
Ross HardySupporter
#1
Mistborn: The Final Empire
#2
The Martian
#3
Legends & Lattes
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Homeland
This Is How You Lose the Time War
Robot Visions
The Books of Earthsea
Dune
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
The Will of the Many

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18 books

What book had you eventually rooting for a character you initially despised?

Have you ever found yourself unexpectedly cheering for a character you initially couldn't stand? Whether they started as an arrogant villain, a selfish anti-hero, or just someone totally normal who...

JustCakie
CakieSupporter
#1
The Blade Itself
#2
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
#3
Vicious
A Conjuring of Light
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
Jade City
A ​Court of Silver Flames
Queen of Shadows
The Lost Metal
House of Chains
Good Girl, Bad Blood
Styxx (Dark-Hunter, #22)

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25 books

What are your favorite adventure biographies?

Even before fantasy and science fiction were genres we had adventure biographies. Travelers would journey into the unknown and share their heroic tale with the world (or someone else would in some ...

adam
AdamSupporter
#1
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster
#2
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America Along the Appalachian Trail
#3
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia
Seven Years in Tibet
Into the Wild
Magellan
Phenomenal
To Shake the Sleeping Self: A Journey from Oregon to Patagonia, and a Quest for a Life with No Regret
Life of Pi
The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage

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37 books

Which books have you read multiple times?

Either because they're so good, or maybe you didn't understand the first time, or perhaps they symbolise something to you.

#1
Animal Farm
#2
1984
#3
Shōgun
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
The Hunger Games
What If? Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
The Metamorphosis
Ender's Game
Leviathan
Scythe
Dune
The Eye of the World

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29 books

What book are you still thinking about?

What’s a book that left a lasting impression on you - one you found yourself thinking about long after you finished reading?

#1
Blindsight
#2
Recursion
#3
Ubik
Dune
The Fifth Season
No Country for Old Men
My Year of Rest and Relaxation
Stories of Your Life and Others
On Dialogue
Stoner
The Odyssey
All My Puny Sorrows

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32 books

What books did you read at the perfect moment in your life and ended up being exactly what you needed?

Reading the right book at the right time can change the way you see the world. What are some books they you happened to read at just that moment that they resonated with you in a way they wouldn't ...

adam
AdamSupporter
#1
I Am the Messenger
#2
The Night Circus
#3
A Psalm for the Wild-Built
This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life
Ender's Game
Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration
Left Behind
The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy
Heartstopper: Volume One
Mindset:The New Psychology of Success
The Bogleheads' Guide to Investing
The Remains of the Day

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24 books

What are your favorite standalone Sci-Fi novels?

Sometimes you just want a complete story where everything's cleaned up at the end and there's no need to read the next 2 or 3 or sometimes more books. They could be classic or modern, but I'm looki...

tsparr
Tyler SparrSupporter
#1
Childhood's End
#2
The Martian
#3
Recursion
Some Desperate Glory
Seveneves
Alien Clay
The Stars My Destination
Lock In
Project Hail Mary
The Vanished Birds
The Employees: A workplace novel of the 22nd century
Dead Silence

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22 books

What are the best books to read in your 20s?

You're out of school and starting your own life in whatever shape that takes. What books are essential reading for someone entering this stage of life to be successful in life? This could mean non-...

#1
The Bogleheads' Guide to Investing
#2
The Midnight Library
#3
The Simple Path to Wealth
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Your Money or Your Life
The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter--And How to Make the Most of Them Now
Ishmael
The Education of an Idealist
The Happiness Project
Everything I Know About Love
Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity

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22 books

What is the no. 1 classic EVERYONE should read?

We all have read that one Classic that left a mark SO deep that we think everyone else should read it and wonder why it isn’t the most famous book in the world. What’s that for you?

#1
Pride and Prejudice
#2
Dune
#3
Frankenstein
Dracula
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Hamlet
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Little Women
Fahrenheit 451
The Secret Garden
Charlotte's Web

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24 books

What are your favorite short story collections?

Short story collections, by one author or multiple, where you liked most or even all of the stories included.

trelinarch
Sen
#1
Stories of Your Life and Others
#2
Exhalation
#3
The Fifth Head of Cerberus
Mirrorshades
The Monster's Corner
The Lifecycle of Software Objects
The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories
The Elephant Vanishes
Axiomatic
You Think It, I'll Say It
Difficult Women
The Office of Historical Corrections

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28 books

What is the book in your library you love the most that the least people have probably heard of?

My favorite recommendations are the passionate and personal ones that aren’t a contest to see who’s read the most Great Books, but who have a story of stumbling into something they treasure.

#1
Replay
#2
The Memory Police
#3
The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
Fierce Fairytales: Poems and Stories to Stir Your Soul
Seven Life Lessons of Chaos: Timeless Wisdom from the Science of Change
A Curious Beginning
Serendipity Market
The Library of the Unwritten
Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
Castle Waiting, Vol. 1
The Bookish Life of Nina Hill
Longbourn

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15 books

What are your favourite Fantasy standalone?

Tired of long series and in the mood for a standalone? What do you go for?

#1
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
#2
The Princess Bride
#3
Warbreaker
Spinning Silver
The Sword of Kaigen
The Last Unicorn
Stardust
Uprooted
Blood Over Bright Haven
The Priory of the Orange Tree
Middlegame
Princess Floralinda and the Forty-Flight Tower

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22 books

What are your favorite horror novels?

Share your favorite horror novels and recommendations here!

mynamespaghetti
Alli GSupporter
#1
The Shining
#2
Tender Is the Flesh
#3
World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
The Road
It
American Psycho
Carrie
Cujo
The Vegetarian
The Girl Next Door
A Head Full of Ghosts
The Final Girl Support Group

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11 books

What books had the worst film adaptations?

Not all films based on books should have been made. A bad film can turn off new readers to the source material. What are some books you enjoyed that had underwhelming movie adaptations?

#1
Eragon
#2
The Giver
#3
The Lightning Thief
City of Bones
The Golden Compass
Eragon & Eldest
Artemis Fowl
The Dark Tower
The Neverending Story
Stormbreaker
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

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16 books

What are some of your favorite dystopian era books?

Dystopian era means “An imagined world or society in which people lead wretched, dehumanized, fearful lives.”

#1
The Handmaid's Tale
#2
The Road
#3
The Time Machine
Station Eleven
The Hunger Games
The Stand
The Windup Girl
The Girl with All the Gifts
The One
There Will Come Soft Rains
Parable of the Sower
The Maze Runner

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12 books

What is your favorite dark academia book?

Dark academia has taken the world by storm over the past few years with books such as Novik’s Scholomance series giving us new, darker-tinged magical worlds to fall into. Which is your favorite?

mercenator
MercerSupporter
#1
Babel, or The Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution
#2
The Secret History
#3
If We Were Villains
A Deadly Education
The Atlas Six
A Study in Drowning
The Will of the Many
The Starless Sea
Origins of an Academy Bully
Blood Over Bright Haven
Zodiac Academy: The Awakening
Ninth House