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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

Relatable antagonists?

Looking for books with relatable antagonists. Any genre. Relatable as in, spoilers for avengers, you might agree with Thanos that the world is over populated or something

#1
The Outlaw Demon Wails
#2
Persepolis Rising

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11 books

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

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

#1
The Da Vinci Code
#2
The Fellowship of the Ring
#3
The Midnight Library
Fourth Wing
Wolves of the Calla
The Alchemist
Piranesi
The Silent Patient
We Hunt the Flame
A Little Life
Night Film

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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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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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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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0 books

Write a creative piece of content that promotes a ghostwriting service?

This prompt invites you to write a genuine and engaging article that discusses the benefits of using a <a href="https://writercosmos.com">ghostwriting service</a>. The focus should be on how such s...

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15 books

Best magical Realism on your shelf

Magical realism is a genre I love and I dont see enough people talking about it. Lets create our small space here!

#1
One Hundred Years of Solitude
#2
Like Water for Chocolate
#3
Practical Magic
Aura
Ficciones
Garden Spells
Magic Lessons
Chocolat
The Book Charmer
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Love in the Time of Cholera
Como Água para Chocolate

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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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2 books

What’s your favorite fiction book about entrepreneurship?

In the mood for a rags to riches story but with a bit more focus on entrepreneurship/detail on the business side of things. Similar to Rise of a Merchant Prince by Raymond E Feist.

#1
Tai Pan
#2
Noble House

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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

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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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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

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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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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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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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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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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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1 book

Books with Asexual Rep

Hi! I'm looking for book with Ace rep. I'm interested in anything from Demi-Sexuality to AroAce rep.

#1
The World We Make

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1 book

Romance books with a cozy Sci-Fi premise

On the hunt for books with similar vibes to the following movies. I would describe them as romances with low/cozy sci-fi premises. Your Name (Anime) About Time (2012) Ruby Sparks (2013) Eternal Su...

Jae
Jae
#1
How Long 'til Black Future Month?

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81 books

What texts can you *fondly* recall studying during high/secondary school?

Help a midwestern US English teacher select books for students age 13-19.

zane
Mr. Zane HardingSupporter
#1
To Kill a Mockingbird
#2
The Great Gatsby
#3
Romeo and Juliet
The Raven
Of Mice and Men
The Odyssey
1984
Macbeth
Lord of the Flies
The Diary of a Young Girl
The Count of Monte Cristo
Fahrenheit 451

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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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6 books

What are the most fun science fiction series?

There are many great stand-alone fun science fiction books, but what about series? Connected stories that stay lighthearted while tackling serious situations. What’s the first book in that series p...

adam
AdamSupporter
#1
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
#2
All Systems Red
#3
Young Miles
We Are Legion
Just One Damned Thing After Another
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet

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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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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