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I've noticed that the frequency with which I fall into reading slumps has been increasing lately. I've always believed the worst books are the best to get you out of a reading slump, but reading suggestions these days are just so terrible, i need to get recs outside of tiktok. Any advice/recs?

The only time I read for fun is

-visual novels

-story games

-manga

-comics

Am no novel reader

So I wanted to start reading novels:)

I’m thinking about starting simple with

-white night by Dostoevsky

-metamorphosis by Kafka

after that I’ll try to read something in the 200-300 page range

So I could get used to reading books

So I could read the idiot and divine comedy

Ofc saying it IF i liked it idk tho……

English ain’t my first language but ima read them in it for lots of reasons

Do you have your books 📚 lined up and ready for your next read? Or, is you next book picked on how you are feeling after you finish one? A plan 📊 or vibes ✨ ?

Also, just finished East of Eden.
I enjoy classics, mystery, supernatural, etc.
What should be next for me?

Do you have any favorite book u like, to release stress

I am looking for some direction and hoping you all can help. Our neighbour who is a 66 yr old retired English teacher has been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. It has progressed fairly aggressively and it is hard to witness. We have lived next to this couple for 35 years. They have no children, but have become adopted grandparents to our three grown boys.
Tom has always loved to read, but in the last ten years really fell in love with nonfiction and said he wanted to learn so much about so many subjects he just never had time for before. He has amassed an extensive collection of reference books on science, mathematics, history, travel, self help, honestly I couldn’t list all the actual topics. He always had a book in his hand. Recently he has not been able to focus for any length of time in his lucid periods. He can have great days and then 3 bad days in a row.

I am trying to compile a list of books that are not as in depth as the ones on his shelves, about a variety of topics. I teach 6th grade and have found that books by DK on many topics have bite sized pieces of information that don’t look super juvenile, and also have great diagrams and illustrations. I just purchased a DK book on Sherlock Holmes that he is really enjoying, and one on the Occult, as he just decided he is interested in witches and wizards.

It would be great to hear suggestions on any excellent nonfiction you may have come across with bite sized sections. Politics stress Tom out so I would like to stay away from that subject but anything else is great!

Thanks!

Hello everyone, as tittle says, I am basically a total beginner.

I am 22 and recently, through instagram, I have kinda wanted to start reading more as more videos come up about “you should read this” or “what did you think about this book”.

Idk what it is but something I’ve developed is an interest in how it all goes down. How do you pick a good book that isn’t too long but also not boring/super informative yk?

Books seem like they are meant to be fun so If anyone can recommend me some love story, or heartbreaking story, or entertaining story, I’d very much appreciate it. I will try to reply (if anyone replies) but if I don’t, thank you in advance

I've been in a years long reading slump and I've tried to get myself out many times with Bye, Baby or The Cartographers something or other.

When it comes to classics I loved Catcher in the Rye and Tender is the Night. Otherwise, as a teen, I really enjoyed Meg Cabot and books like Nick and Norahs Infinite Playlist. In general, I enjoy a good twist.

Can anyone help reccomend something really gripping, that could get me out of my slump? I'll take any suggestions at this point.

No idea how I got here, but if you could give a minute of your time to read the above I would appreciate it, she is a 4 year old but is done with Peppa Pig, she wants real adventure. Peppa is too haughty.

Book reccomendation on Bengali literature on nationalism, patriarchy, religion, freedom, class struggle, identity

Dear Reddit, please help me pick my next fantasy or sci-fi read!

Some of the books that I loved or liked: DCC, Dune, Lord of the Rings trilogy, Combat Codes, RJB Ana and Din series + City of Stairs, the Culture books (Use of Weapons and Player of Games the most), The Works of Vermin, N.K. Jemisin books, Roger Zelazny, R.J. Barker books, Arkady Martine: A Memory Called Empire & A Desolation Called Peace, Ann Leckie Imperial Radch series, Rebecca Roanhorse: Black Sun trilogy, Blindsight by Peter Watts, Name of the Wind, Blacktongue Thief + Thrice Bound Fool (but not Daughter’s War), Gideon the Ninth, Ursula K. Le Guin’s works, Murderbot, Terry Pratchett, Adrian Tchaikovsky, Stanisław Lem, Slow Gods, Steerswoman series, Stephen King, The Raven Scholar.

Some of what I did not like and/or DNF’d: Hyperion, Joe Abercrombie (except The Devils, which I loved), Brandon Sanderson, Malazan, Wheel of Time, Gideon’s sequels, Baru Cormorant, Octavia Butler, Throne of Glass, Neuromancer, Babel, Piranesi, Red Rising, The Expanse, Asimov, Dresden Files, Farseer.

I seem to like competent protagonists, who do not make too many emotional and illogical decisions. No K.J. Parker for me, though. It would be great if the protagonist wasn’t a teenager. Minimal to no romance and no historical fiction, preferably. I am also usually not that keen on stories where the protagonist starts as a simple person and ends with godlike powers or turns out to be a lost child of god, etc.

That said, shower me with your recommendations, please!

Hi! So my friends and I have done Secret Santa almost every year since we were about 14 and this year I have gotten my oldest friend. We’ve known each other since we were 8 and now we are 25 and we are both big readers. For Secret Santa this year I wanted to get a book per year since we have known each other, and preferably the book came out in that year(im not die hard set on this)so 2009-2026. I also (hopefully) plan to read all these books before we do the gift exchange and write a blurb for it with my thoughts.

To describe her type of reading, I’ll use her own words “i love a dominant female in a realistic fiction overcoming something hard like either for her family or herself. not a huge romance girly personally but i love it as a growing point for the lead but not as the main focus “ (do yall think remarkable bright creatures fits this?) Also to give a little background info on her, shes in her final year of law school at USC.

I will say the only book I’m slightly set on is the hunger games but only because it was a big part of our childhood and was one of the first movies we say together as a friend group. And the book can be fiction or nonfiction

I would really appreciate everyone’s help!! Thank you!!

Hey! As the title says: Which are your favorite books that have a third-person omniscient narrator? I came to learn that I love this type of narration and I wanna read more books that feature it.

My favorite example so far was "Perfume: The Story of a Murderer" by Patrick Suskind. It has a great all-knowing narrator that can always give small insights into other characters' lives.