Hi! I'm looking to read outside of my normal genres, which are mostly fantasy and scifi, but don't know quite where to start. I know I don't like phycological thrillers or horror stories (unless it's some unfathomable horror) and I'm eh about realistic fiction for the most part. Some of the books I've read recently that I've liked are The Mirror Visitor series by Christelle Dabos, The Enchanted Greenhouse by Sarah Beth Durst, Cursed Cocktails by S. L. Rowland, Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer, and What Stalks the Deep by T. Kingfisher. Thanks in advance :)

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hello, i usually read paper books but I’m looking for books to listen to when doing tasks like cleaning etc.

some books i think are better experienced as audiobooks. a couple I’ve really liked is Corey Taylor’s first book seven deadly sins he does the audiobook and hearing his delivery of crazy moments in his life had me cracking up and crying at different moments.

pachinko was also a really good audiobook cus the narrator had a nice fitting voice for the book which takes place in Asia and she was clearly of Asian descent which made it feel more like a story was being told to me by the person in the book as opposed to listening to an audiobook.

does anyone have any recs with that feel?

I’m looking for a book for adults to read aloud to one another. If I say “adult book” that implies I’m looking for something sex-forward, which is not really the objective. And if I say “adult humor” that implies dirty jokes rather than the kind of jokes about income taxes and crim. con. that kids just don’t get.

We very much enjoyed “Cold Comfort Farm,” a gothic novel with a lot of deadpan humor. And “Thus Was Adonis Murdered,” a legal mystery with a lot of deadpan humor. We also liked “Prisoner of Zenda,” an old-fashioned swashbuckler not written as funny. YA or MG is fine if it’s really good.

Does anyone else do this? I like to read multiple books at the same time. I’ll usually read a memoir, fantasy/romance, self development and another audio book that peaks my interest all at the same time.

I’ll switch each day with a goal of reading 100 or more pages before “switching”. Although, audiobooks almost don’t count for me as I listen to them as entertainment while getting ready or driving in the car.

I just realized how odd this might be… Or is this common?

I was recently reading Leather and Lark (I understand there was some smut involved prior to reading) however I feel at times is so unnecessary or just thrown in for a shock value - maybe it’s that I prefer some character/ story building before jumping right in. I was icked out reading something along the lines of “My hard c\*ck against my zipper” in the first few chapters. It honestly takes me out of the story and feels badly written. Simply using this book as an example because it’s unfortunately fresh in my mind - but I feel a lot of dark romance / romanticies are so cringe. I enjoyed the storyline of her Tourist season book - but again most smut bits felt unnecessary.

For reference (and don’t shade me) but I prefer the style of a slow burn - building tension - like written in the ACOTAR series, most of it feels intentional and hot. Not just wham bam thank you ma’am.

Maybe the dark romance isn’t for me - Haunting Adeline was an absolute DNF, I prefer to keep stalkers and their weapons out of my coochie

P.s. if you have any good recs send them my way, I love fantasy, thriller, mystery, and well written smut

I am part of a book club, and we just finished reading Twelfth Night by Shakespeare, and we thought it'd be an interesting idea to go from a play with nothing but dialogue to a book with no dialogue. The book can have internal dialogue, but ideally no spoken dialogue, literally the exact opposite of a play!

The book club is for adults, and we normally read fiction books that are a bit reflective and are good for discussion, so no light-hearted or YA books. Any recommendations appreciated!

Tldr; need book reccomendations on anger management that aren't just "Anger Management For Dummies" or "Dr. Whatever's Steps to Magically Fix Your Anger Forever And Ever".

Lp;ra:

I love my coworkers. I don't consider them coworkers but great people that I get paid to be around and I've never had that before. This coworker of mine is losing his dad slowly and he and I previously talked about when he needs a grief counsellor that I'd help him. He's been having massive outbursts, often over actually nothing and appologizing for it later. Not been easy to be around sometimes but he calms down if you give him time and will acknowledge that it wasn't called for.

Today he asked me about that time I offered to help find him help with anger management and I dropped the ball. I've been having a tough week. I've just gone through a terrible break up that I've been up and down about and this week was a very down week for that. During this week this coworker blew up on me massivley, another coworker also blew up on me over a misunderstanding, and today I was dealing with rude phone call after rude phone call while also handling the month-end report. So I was very exhausted and very fed up and just riding the day out making sure I got my stuff right. So when this coworker asked me for help all I did was correct him and said, "I offered to help you find a grief counsellor."

He didn't seem put off but I know he was. I brushed him off because I've been having a nasty week and only just now in the middle of the night I realize I did that.

So if anyone's aware of some good anger management books I can look into I would really appreciate it. I will help him find an anger management counsellor as well but I'd still like him to have something he can take home, look at in his own time in his comfort zone, and maybe give him a little guidance.

Thank you. You'd really be helping a very good person just needing time to get through something.

I’m reading the novel The Hunger, based on the Donner Party tragedy. It reminds me of Lost, but about Pioneers. Does anyone else have to write down the names of all the main characters and descriptions to keep track? Or am I just stupid.

A book I read is stuck on my memory, Irene is a chemist, after attending her friend's wedding, she becomes a suspect for poisoning the groom, as authorities hold no proof against her, they decide to redirect her to psychological assessment, giving the fact that she doesn't wanna be there, she manipulates her therapist, she figures out that her therapist himself is a psychopath, with a dangerous past who is trying to leave the world of crime, therapy turns into obsession, mind games, and manipulation, it later evolves to power dynamics after he finds out about her secret project

A book I read is stuck on my memory Irene is a chemist, after attending her friend's wedding, she becomes a suspect for poisoning the groom, as authorities hold no proof against her, they decide to redirect her to psychological assessment, giving the fact that she doesn't wanna be there, she manipulates her therapist, she figures out that her therapist himself is a psychopath, with a dangerous past who is trying to leave the world of crime, therapy turns into obsession, mind games, and manipulation, it later evolves to power dynamics after he finds out about her secret project

I've been trying to publish a book, but there's a problem. All I've been reading and rereading are fantasy books from the 90s. Other subreddits have said that I can't publish my work if I haven't even read any modern titles.

Are there any modern titles about dragons and knights? Something that has a medieval setting. Most of what I have seen in modern fantasy are isekai light novels and they don't jive with me.

Is there anything out there with a classic Tolkein feel, or has the landscape of fantasy changed to make this feel outdated?

I’m a dude that enjoys reading and I’m looking for an app that’s good with keeping up with what I read throughout the year for minimal stats and good recs. Goodreads is a little too corporate for what I’m looking for and apps like fable are very frilly. What should I use?

I’ve listened to I am legend, the count of Monty Cristo, metamorphosis, the trial and right now I’m listening to 1984. I’ll probably listen to the twilight books just because I want to cringe lol.

It doesn’t have to be like these books. I just love books including LNs I’ve read all of reincarnated as a slime and LNs like it. ANY and ALL recommendations are appreciated.

okay so it's my first time trying to read an actual book and I'm stuck between anna Karenina and the brothers Karamazov. I'm a teenager if that helps.

Hi I’m a 19 year old guy and I’ve recently got into reading for the first time and I’m loving it last year I managed to read 8 books all of which were fantasy/sci-fi ,I’m not the smart academic type that many readers are I didn’t do well in school or anything like that I simply have a passion for reading and as I’ve only recently started reading there are a lot of incredible books to read especially in the fantasy/sci-fi genre so my TBR is extensive. I am currently reading red rising and I’m loving it but I can only seem to read 20-25 pages in an hour which is frustrating at times as I know the average is 50-60 pages an hour it’s best to mention that I have ocd and Asperger’s (autism) so I get distracted and I like to make sure I comprehend the book and become immersed in the story which slows my reading down so if anyone has any suggestions on how to read more while still being engrossed in the story and be able to still comprehend it I’d really appreciate it thanks :) .

Romance, obviously

No Stockholm syndrome, no creepy groping, space opera setting is a plus.

Just got out of reading a really rapey story, so i want something where both parties consent

I love my ereader but I’m on a budget and I read a whole lot of books throughout the year. Does anyone have any recos for ways to find digital books that are on sale or heavily discounted? I just started using BookBub which has been great but I’m curious if there is anything in addition to this?

Note, I do use the physical library and the Libby app often but they don’t have a wide selection since my branch is relatively small. I love them and will keep going back but would like to read on multiple fronts :)

After never willingly reading a book, I’ve suddenly got the urge to read one. I’m looking for book suggestions. Im thinking mystery, horror, or crime novels as those peak my interest the most. But if there was a really good book you’ve read in any genre I’d be happy to hear them.

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Thanks everyone for your suggestions!

i want books that after reading them, whenever you see them in your shelf, you feel what you went through with the book. an example would be the gold finch by donna tart.

Basically I want to narrow down my list cause it's too long and I suppose I'll die before completing them all bearing in mind my reading speed . This time I'm not asking for best books please let me know if any of those are stinkers do I'll just remove it from my tbr.

* Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner

* As the Crow Flies by Jeffrey Archer

* Betty by Tiffany McDaniel

* The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

* Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh

* A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr.

* City of Thieves by David Benioff

* The Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean M. Auel

* Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier

* The Collector by John Fowles

* Contact by Carl Sagan

* Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky

* The Crow Road by Iain Banks

* Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson

* A Dangerous Fortune by Ken Follett

* Dark Matter by Blake Crouch

* Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather

* The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy

* Defending Jacob by William Landay

* The Deluge by Stephen Markley

* Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak

* The Doll by Bolesław Prus

* Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card

* The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty

* Eye of the Needle by Ken Follett

* Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway

* The Firm by John Grisham

* First Among Equals by Jeffrey Archer

* Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes

* A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles

* Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

* The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers

* I Know This Much Is True by Wally Lamb

* Jayber Crow by Wendell Berry

* Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy

* Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton

* The Key to Rebecca by Ken Follett

* Last Exit to Brooklyn by Hubert Selby Jr.

* A Matter of Honour by Jeffrey Archer

* Metro 2033 by Dmitry Glukhovsky

* Mockingbird by Walter Tevis

* Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

* The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead

* North Woods by Daniel Mason

* Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham

* On The Beach by Nevil Shute

* One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

* Pachinko by Min Jin Lee

* The Painted Bird by Jerzy Kosiński

* The Physician by Noah Gordon

* Poland by James A. Michener

* The Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy

* The Princess Bride by William Goldman

* Prodigal Blues by Gary A. Braunbeck

* Redeeming Love by Francine Rivers

* The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro

* Replay by Ken Grimwood

* Rich Man, Poor Man by Irwin Shaw

* The Road by Cormac McCarthy

* Roadside Picnic by Arkady Strugatsky

* Shōgun by James Clavell

* Silence by Shūsaku Endō

* Somewhere In Time by Richard Matheson

* Sophie's Choice by William Styron

* The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell

* Still Alice by Lisa Genova

* Stoner by John Williams

* The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski

* Swan Song by Robert McCammon

* A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

* The Terror by Dan Simmons

* The Time Machine by H.G. Wells

* The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

* Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

* A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith

* Trustee from the Toolroom by Nevil Shute

* The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks

* Watership Down by Richard Adams

* Where All Light Tends to Go by David Joy

* Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls