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10 books

Which books are key to decolonizing and cycle-breaking within parenting?

Books that help parents decolonize their parenting approach, break various generational cycles of harm, and challenge various aspects of dominant culture which has adversely affected both parenting...

#1
Raising Antiracist Children
#2
Raising Good Humans: A Mindful Guide to Breaking the Cycle of Reactive Parenting and Raising Kind, Confident Kids
#3
Free to Learn
Screamfree Parenting: The Revolutionary Approach to Raising Your Kids by Keeping Your Cool
No Bad Kids
Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future
Social Justice Parenting
Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents
Raising Anti-Racist Kids
The Self-Driven Child: The Science and Sense of Giving Your Kids More Control Over Their Lives

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9 books

Science Fiction where humanity comes together to build something massive or ambitious?

Science Fiction where humanity comes together to build something massive - a colossal structure, a world-changing projects, or a civilization defining collaboration? This could be for any reason - ...

adam
AdamSupporter
#1
Seveneves
#2
Project Hail Mary
#3
The Three-Body Problem
The Ministry for the Future
Saturn Run
The Deep Sky
Contact
The Book of the Short Sun
Foundation

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12 books

What are your favourite fiction audiobooks?

Looking for new audiobook recommendations which seems to capture the listener!

#1
Magic Bites
#2
Sabriel
#3
The Fellowship of the Ring
Six of Crows
The Blade Itself
Lilac Girls
Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
Paladin's Grace
Dungeon Crawler Carl
Dune: House Harkonnen
Hologrammatica
Tom Lake

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10 books

What is your favorite book that has a rich vocabulary?

Recommendations of books for the reader who loves to learn new or unique vocabulary words. Books that use Advanced English or revive archaic language.

goldenedges
Eri
#1
The Inheritance Trilogy
#2
Ficciones
#3
Hamlet
Lolita
The Night Circus
The Norton Shakespeare
The Bards of Bone Plain
Henry IV, Part 1
The Salt Grows Heavy
Finnegans Wake

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11 books

Which books feature really good banter, especially with secondary characters?

The back-and-forth that's kinda snarky with an undercurrent of real affection, whether it's romantic in nature or not, and especially when it involves secondary characters, is one of the elements t...

#1
The Lies of Locke Lamora
#2
The Martian
#3
Six of Crows
Red Rising
Big Little Lies
In the Wild Light
The Prophecy Con
The Palace Job
The Paladin Caper
Best Served Cold
Sunrise Nights

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8 books

What are your favorite Horror books?

Wanted to read some more horror books and would love to know your recommendations. Any kind of horror would do, the scarier the better!

#1
Slewfoot: A Tale of Bewitchery
#2
The Shining
#3
The Terror
Dracula
A Head Full of Ghosts
Between Two Fires
The Keep
It

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10 books

What are the thriller books you have read with the best plot twists?

In this question, I am asking for recommendations of thriller books that feature the most surprising and well-executed plot twists. I am interested in knowing which books within the thriller genre...

#1
Gone Girl
#2
The Silent Patient
#3
Behind Her Eyes
The Last Child
My Lovely Wife
Three
The Only One Left
The Night House
Pretty Girls
How to Commit the Perfect Murder in Ten Easy Steps

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8 books

What is your favourite Magic Realism novel?

"Magical realism" is a literary style where fantastical or magical elements are presented as normal parts of an otherwise realistic world, often used to explore deeper themes about human life and s...

#1
Like Water for Chocolate
#2
One Hundred Years of Solitude
#3
Midnight's Children
The Night Circus
A Prayer For Owen Meany
The House of the Spirits
Solomon Gursky Was Here
Aura

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9 books

What is your favourite lesbian romance or romantic literary fiction?

I'm looking for something beautifully written with well-rounded characters and a serious tone.

#1
This Is How You Lose the Time War
#2
Fingersmith
#3
Fried green tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
Alone
Last Night at the Telegraph Club
Even Though I Knew the End
Requiem for Immortals
Tipping The Velvet

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10 books

Best historical fiction not set in a war?

I just finished The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon and it was a 5 star for me. Looking for something similar.

#1
Mexican Gothic
#2
Wolf Hall
#3
Burial Rites
I Was Anastasia
The Historian
Hamnet
Glow
The Marriage Portrait
The Crystal Cave
The Other Side of Midnight

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8 books

What are some books that remind you of films by the Coen Brothers?

Everyone loves a Coen Brothers film, but what are some books that gave you that same feeling? I'm looking for dark humour, wholesome (and not-so-wholesome) characters, fantastic plots, unexpected t...

rosshardy
Ross HardySupporter
#1
The Blade Itself
#2
The Lies of Locke Lamora
#3
The Library at Mount Char
Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
Priest of Bones
Catch-22
The Crown Jewels
As I Lay Dying

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9 books

Give me survival fiction book recommendations.

After reading The Revenant, I need more survival fiction books.

#1
Dawn
#2
Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse
#3
Non-Stop
Papillon
Lord of the Flies
Station Eleven
Winter Road
Hatchet
A Boy and His Dog

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9 books

What is your least favorite book?

Even the people who like every book have a least favorite, share your opinion and why.

#1
Lord of the Flies
#2
Clockwork Prince
#3
Clockwork Angel
Ethan Frome
1984
Ta deuxième vie commence quand tu comprends que tu n'en as qu'une
Long Chills and Case Dough
The Cruel Prince
Five Broken Blades

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9 books

What biographical stories of growth inspired you?

Within biographies there's a sub-genre of stories focused on personal growth and self improvement. These often focus on the change the author went through, what motivated that action and how it imp...

adam
AdamSupporter
#1
In the Footsteps of the Prophet: Lessons from the Life of Muhammad
#2
Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia
#3
The Year of Living Danishly: My Twelve Months Unearthing the Secrets of the World's Happiest Country
I Am Malala
The Year of Less: How I Stopped Shopping, Gave Away My Belongings, and Discovered Life Is Worth More Than Anything You Can Buy in a Store
Adventures in Opting Out: A Field Guide to Leading an Intentional Life
Cork Dork: A Wine-Fueled Adventure Among the Obsessive Sommeliers, Big Bottle Hunters, and Rogue Scientists Who Taught Me to Live for Taste
The Year of Living Biblically
The Happiness Project

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9 books

What book have you read in one or two sessions?

Interested to see other people’s experiences

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5 books

What are your favorite Cyberpunk books of all time?

The Cyberpunk genre is a Science Fiction subgenre centered around dystopian futures where advanced technology, cybernetics, and artificial intelligence coexist with societal decay, corporate domina...

#1
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
#2
Neuromancer
#3
Ghost in the Shell
Count Zero
Mirrorshades

Featured Prompt

8 books

Which 2025 debut author are you looking forward to reading?

Anything by an author whose first book is being published in 2025.

trelinarch
Sen
#1
Bochica
#2
Mistress of Bones
#3
Poets Square
Nesting
Silver Elite
Minority Rule: Adventures in the Culture War
Water Moon
Always on My Mind

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8 books

What books have you read where you thought 'this is sooo wrong' but you enjoyed anyway?

So, I read Under the Skin by Michel Faber and Perfume by Patrick Susskind and I really enjoyed them but all the time I was thinking 'this is soo weird and rather sick'. I'm looking for other books ...

#1
American Psycho
#2
Shock
#3
Under the Skin
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
Meet Me in the Future: Stories
The Black Farm
When Rabbit howls
What Good Girls Do

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8 books

What is the worst book you have ever read?

Something you completed but never will return to.

#1
Gideon the Ninth
#2
Clockwork Prince
#3
The Princess Bride
The Da Vinci Code
A Prayer For Owen Meany
Ariadne
Ta deuxième vie commence quand tu comprends que tu n'en as qu'une
Sams Wal

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7 books

What’s a book you enjoy but hesitate to recommend?

Is there a book you thoroughly enjoyed reading yourself but can’t, or won’t, recommend to others? Why?

cOborski
Catherine Supporter
#1
Trainspotting
#2
David Starr, Space Ranger
#3
The Poppy War
The Three Theban Plays: Antigone, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus
Swann's Way - Remembrance of Things Past (À la recherche du temps perdu) - Book 1
Dark Instincts
No Longer Human

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7 books

What books do you own but haven't read yet?

So many books, not enough time.

#1
Never Let Me Go
#2
The Ringworld Engineers
#3
The Sellout
Dark Money
Babel, or The Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution
Sapiens
Hamlet

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8 books

What book made you cry uncontrollably?

What book have you read that you thought you mentally prepared yourself for (or maybe you didn't) that once you read *that part* made you sob for 15 mins straight? Can be a book from your childhood...

#1
My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry
#2
Where the Red Fern Grows
#3
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
Metro 2035
Crank Palace
Blood Over Bright Haven
Moon of the Turning Leaves
Sunrise on the Reaping

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7 books

Best books you read in school?

What did you pick up at the Scholastic book fair that you still have on your shelf? Did any stories assigned to you in class still stick with you?

#1
The Book Thief
#2
The Thief Lord
#3
Haroun and the Sea of Stories
Pride and Prejudice
The Wars
Ferdydurke
Cassandra: A Novel and Four Essays

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6 books

What 2025 releases are you excited to read?

Add all the 2025 book releases!

#1
Of Empires and Dust
#2
The Tomb of Dragons
#3
The Sovereign
Unending
Katabasis
Onyx Storm