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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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0 books

What a good mystery thriller ?

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

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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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3 books

Favorite horror books from the 80s and 90s?

Why not dig deep and see if there's anything from the 80s and 90s that's worth pulling up from the grave and reading today

Cim
Cim
#1
Blood Music
#2
The Shining
#3
It

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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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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

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3 books

Which books have strengthened your Christian faith & walk?

Which books have inspired you to trust Jesus and love others?

hootskerdu
JoeSupporter
#1
The Gospel in Brief
#2
Provocations: Spiritual Writings of Kierkegaard
#3
Martin Luther's Commentary on St. Paul's Epistle to the Galatians

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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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14 books

What audiobooks did the Narrator absolutely ace the assignment?

I'm looking for audiobooks where the narrator just completely nails the assignment with a 10/10 no notes.

argash
ArgashSupporter
#1
Project Hail Mary
#2
Columbus Day
#3
Paradise
SpecOps
Carl's Doomsday Scenario
Dungeon Crawler Carl
The Gate of the Feral Gods
The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook
Black Ops
Zero Hour
The Butcher's Masquerade
The Eye of the Bedlam Bride

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1 book

what are the books that made you feel witchy and powerful?

from cosy to fantasy, mythology, historical or contemporary to horror and non-fiction what books about witches made you feel strong and powerful

#1
The Witches of Vardø

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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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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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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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1 book

Fantasy (or scifi) books similar in concept and feeling to Witcher?

Similar either to the books, or the game universes (not the tv series). Also, not the Hussite trilogy, please.

#1
Dracula

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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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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

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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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15 books

Your favourite speculative fiction romantic partners – NOT romantasy?

Something light for Valentine’s Day – your favourite couples, triads, polycules, etc. depicted in science fiction, fantasy and related genres, but to make it a bit harder let’s not include the roma...

Spriggana
SprigganaSupporter
#1
Legends & Lattes
#2
This Is How You Lose the Time War
#3
Nettle & Bone
Shades Of Grey
Caliban's War
Beguilement
Red Side Story
Mi perfecto sapo azul
Lady Isabella's Scandalous Marriage
The Undead Pool
Ten Things That Never Happened
The Road to Roswell

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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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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

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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 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

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
Water Moon
Nesting
Minority Rule: Adventures in the Culture War
Always on My Mind
Poets Square

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73 books

Which books made you think deeply about freedom, truth, and society?

Books have the power to challenge our perspectives, reveal hidden truths, and inspire us to think critically about the world around us. Stories—both real and imagined—can illustrate the importance ...

#1
1984
#2
Fahrenheit 451
#3
Animal Farm
The Handmaid's Tale
Brave New World
Night
We
The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood
On Tyranny
The Left Hand of Darkness
Kindred