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Book Club 3w
I’m 21 and only now realizing how great reading truly is. I’d really like to get into it, so I’ll take as many book recs as possible just lmk the genre as well pls!
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Anonymous 3w

This was me two years ago, although my kick off was The Expanse and Dune. I cannot recommend The Hunger Games or the Mistborn Trilogy enough. Mistborn is thicker but it’s *good*. I’ve also been wanting to go reread YA books that have been made into shows/movies, specifically His Dark Materials and The Fifth Wave

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Anonymous 3w

Anxious People is fantastic lit fic revolving around a hilarious failed bank robbery. It’ll make you laugh and cry pages apart and is also a super fast and easy read!

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Anonymous 3w

The adventures of sherlock holmes, best series of short stories ever! Enjoy your reading bro, it seems like youve got a good list here🫡

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Anonymous 3w

the Powerless series by Lauren Roberts - YA fantasy/romance and any of the novels by Alice Oseman - realistic fiction

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Anonymous 3w

I love T. Kingfisher! She writes in a lot of different genres, but I'll recommend A House with Good Bones here! It's Southern Gothic

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Anonymous 3w

Slaughterhouse Five and Wuthering Heights, Kurt Vonnegut is a very cool writer and Wuthering Heights is just a lot

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Anonymous 3w

i read a lot of the classics and some foreign classics, but i’ve got to say my favorite is southern fiction. if you’re wanting philosophy, really question life stuff, go for the classics. if you’re looking for a good time, equivalent to watching a tv show and having fun, go for a more commercial story. they’re both great and great to switch between!

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Anonymous 3w

I know everyone knows the classics, but I am so serious, Frankenstein is so, so good.

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Anonymous 3w

I LOVE Stephanie Garber’s books (caraval and once upon a broken heart) bc they’re so whimsical and fairytale-esque

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Anonymous 3w

My favorite book is The Words We Keep by Erin Stewart. It’s a YA contemporary fiction novel that discusses mental health🫶🏻

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Anonymous 3w

My dark Vanessa (classified as psychological fiction) and tender is the flesh (horror fiction/science fiction), and a YA series of Mrs Peregrine’s home (that’s what got me into reading)

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Anonymous 3w

This is a YA romantasy, but I love it, it's called Once Upon A Broken Heart. Read it in high school, and it's had a special place in my heart ever since

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Anonymous 3w

And nothing like House of Leaves, I’m not ready for that at all yet 🧍

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Anonymous 3w

Any specific genres?

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 3w

I don’t remember any of these being particularly dense and off putting as a rediscovery point, although Dune is definitely daunting

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 3w

Gotcha, I’ll start off with THG & Mistborn then move on to your other recs. Thanks!

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 3w

Oh also because I missed it: Mistborn is Fantasy, The Expanse is SciFi. Idk what the technical genre of THG, His Dark Materials and The Fifth Wave are tbh

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 3w

I’m open to any genre, even poetry. Idk if I’d want to start off with any romance just yet though.

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 3w

I’m your girl when it comes to romance. I honestly love this book called “Milk and Honey”. I forget who the author is but it’s poetry

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 3w

Mmm by Rupi Kaur? If so I’d love to read it. I like seeing books with unique formatting and styles.

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 3w

Yes i believe so. Its really good

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 3w

Ou okay that sounds interesting, wonder if I’ll have the same emotional roller coaster

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Anonymous replying to -> #6 3w

I adore Slaughterhouse 5

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 3w

ooo the fifth wave is good but the rest of the series not so much

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