Prompts

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6 books

What book can you not recommend enough?!

This book you mention at any opportunity you can. MUST reads because of how great the book is.

#1
1984
#2
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
#3
Firekeeper's Daughter
A Psalm for the Wild-Built
Blood Over Bright Haven
La storia infinita

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6 books

What are the darkest, most disturbing thrillers of all time?

Really dark, disturbing, vile, crime- or psycho-thrillers, with a very bleak and unsettling vibe.

#1
Pretty Girls
#2
Jar of Hearts
#3
The Last Child
The Girl Next Door
O Grande Deus Pã
Monster

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7 books

What nonfiction book turned out to be way better than you expected?

Please no (auto)biographies. Those are great but imo kind of their own genre and shouldn't be lumped with more strictly informative nonfiction.

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5 books

What are the most interesting cozy books to read during winter?

Winter is coming, somewhere it is already here and somewhere it is already summer.. somewhere the cold never got away...

#1
Legends & Lattes
#2
The Secret Garden
#3
The Midnight Library
The Galaxy, and the Ground Within
A Psalm for the Wild-Built

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5 books

What's your guilty pleasure read?

Whether it's a fond book from your childhood that you don't really identify with anymore but you still enjoy it, or it's just that one really good book from a genre you normally don't like - tell u...

SKEleton
SK

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6 books

What are your favorite winter books?

When trying to get into the holiday season, books are a portal. What are some of your favorite books that cause you to feel more in the holiday spirit.

#1
Shiver
#2
How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
#3
The Great Alone
Les Fiancés de l'hiver
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
The Dark Is Rising Sequence

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5 books

Which scifi books do not have sexual or romantic themes

No sexual or relationship themes books

#1
Ender's Game
#2
A Canticle for Leibowitz
#3
Starship Troopers
The Icarus Hunt
The Immortality Thief

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6 books

What are your favourite tropes and the best examples of it?

Not all tropes are created equal, but perhaps they all have a good story that came out of them?

#1
Artificial Condition
#2
Burn
#3
Boyfriend Material
Book Lovers
Dead Silence
Gone Girl

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6 books

What book surprised you with how much you liked it?

Is there a book you thought were weren't going to like as much as you did, or the blurb turned you off on it, only to realize it was really good?

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5 books

Which translated books originally written in a language other than English have you enjoyed the most?

This promot invites you to share your favourite books that were originally written in a language other than English. The purpose is to give others inspiration to explore books written from a differ...

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6 books

What are some books with similar feel to Dostoevsky but that are situated in a different place and period?

Books that explore characters in a similar way as Dostoevsky in his books

#1
Life and Fate
#2
And Quiet Flows the Don
#3
Dead Souls
The Belly Of Paris
Cancer Ward
Fathers and Sons

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5 books

What a good mystery thriller ?

A fast pace good mistery thriller that will get you hooked from the dirt page

#1
The Silent Patient
#2
The House Across the Lake
#3
The Only One Left
First Lie Wins
The Boyfriend

Prompt

4 books

What is your favorite History Book?

I am not looking for historical fiction, instead, I am looking for books that reveal true, yet fascinating stories from world history (bonus if it is from US history as I am a US History teacher)

#1
Console Wars: Sega, Nintendo, and the Battle that Defined a Generation
#2
The Half Has Never Been Told
#3
A Short History of Nearly Everything
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women

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4 books

What are your favorite books to read during the winter?

warm and cozy, or cold and bleak– any mood you like to read during the winter/associate with winter!

#1
Hogfather
#2
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants

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4 books

Which book invigorated your love for reading?

These are books that reminded you why you love reading in the first place, and renewed your love for books.

#1
Out of My Mind
#2
The Family Upstairs
#3
The Name of the Wind
The Goldfinch

Prompt

4 books

What is a book that you think others would enjoy?

Winter readathon challenge

Bookwormemerson
ChristinaSupporter
#1
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
#2
The Art of Racing in the Rain
#3
A Psalm for the Wild-Built
The Wishing Game

Prompt

4 books

Informative books with hard concepts made very simple

Any books that broke down informative concepts well so it is easy to understand

#1
Thinking, Fast and Slow
#2
Seven Life Lessons of Chaos: Timeless Wisdom from the Science of Change
#3
Atomic Habits: An Easy and Proven Way to Build Good Habits and Break Bad Ones
The Web of Life

Prompt

3 books

Some Cyberpunk book for explaining what are we going into?

The world is changing and some book are showing what is happening. Answer with one or more of the book which you think show the future

#1
Scythe
#2
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
#3
1984

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3 books

What is your favorite book with a cozy or heartwarming atmosphere?

winter readathon challenge

Bookwormemerson
ChristinaSupporter
#1
Legends & Lattes
#2
A Psalm for the Wild-Built
#3
The Little Match Girl

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4 books

What are your favorite summer reads?

Anything that takes place in the summer and has that feel of the season. Can include general fiction, romance, thriller, horror, etc.

#1
Later
#2
Upgrade
#3
A Strangeness in My Mind
Tress of the Emerald Sea

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4 books

What books do you wish you could recommend?

What books do you really, really like but do to a problematic element you find hard to recommend?

#1
1984
#2
Ringworld
#3
The Sirens of Titan
The Heart of the Matter

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4 books

What are your favourite non-fiction books about visual art, artists, or artworld?

These could be artist biographies, books about the history of an artwork(s), stories about the artworld, etc.

Samantha
SamanthaSupporter
#1
Leonardo da Vinci
#2
Stealing the Mystic Lamb
#3
Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling
Get the Picture: A Mind-Bending Journey Among the Inspired Artists and Obsessive Art Fiends Who Taught Me How to See

Prompt

2 books

What's the most underrated book you've ever read?

What's the most underrated book you've ever read?

#1
Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas
#2
The Manuscript Found in Saragossa

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2 books

What is a book that has rivals to enemies?

Enemies to lovers was yesterday and has never interested me nearly as much as this. I have read it once and saw it a few times in movies/animes and I am all here for it! :D

#1
Vicious
#2
Divine Rivals