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What’s your all-time favorite novel? I’m...
What’s your all-time favorite novel? I’m just looking for the GOAT; I’m tired of reading books that lots of people like but no one really loves.
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Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
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Spectacularly beautiful primary character, particularly their relationship to the concept of home and the more than human world. I have re-read and listened to this novel so many times and have never found another book that nourishes me as deeply as this one.
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S.A.V.
4w
The Book I Read (reading recs)
Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
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In my top 5 books of all time. Maybe the best book I have ever read.
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Allie
20w
The Library
still life book
$14.67
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This book has everything you need of a great story.
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Catherine Davis
13d
The Arts
The Goldfinch
$13.99
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Exceptional writing and a story that sucks you in and won’t let go.
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gerund
13d
books
The Dispossessed by Ursula K Le Guin
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troubled physicist raised on a moon colonized by anarchists travels to the decadent planet of the capitalists to advance his personal theories and learns about himself and his culture in the process
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Brigid
5w
Short books
Kate
the friend by sigrid nunez
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It’s my favorite book
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Charley
20d
East of Eden
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the great American epic. I have underlined so many lines and think of them often. So good at the sentence level and big plot level
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Jeanine Nault
4w
Books that make me feel ALIVE
Burger’s Daughter
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Nobel Prize winner Nadine Gordimer’s historical and political portrait of an anti-apartheid family’s legacy in South Africa
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Shellie Gossling
19w
Books
castle of water
$11.99
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One of my favorites of all time, I come back to this again and again. The castaway but a love story. I love it.
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Ellen
4w
books
The Poisonwood Bible
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Pick anything by Barbara Kingsolver and I’ll agree. The Poisonwood Bible passes the re-read test: high school me got one thing, me in my 20s yet another, and so on.
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Anne Glass
4w
The Heart's Invisible Furies (John Boyne)
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This book captured my attention for days. I wanted to wake up early to read before my day started. I fell so far into the characters I could smell one of them smoking, and the description of her smoking made me want to start smoking, I’m not a smoker.
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Renzo
7w
Lonesome Dove - Larry McMurty
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Who didn’t want to be a cowboy growing up? This tickles that fantasy. Heart-wrenching, hilarious, an epic adventure. This book gets a lot of love and it’s totally justified.
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Hannah
7w
things i find incredibly chic
A Certain Hunger (Chelsea Summers)
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Deliciously funny, disgustingly addictive. This is a rec for the weird freak girls. I have read this book 4 times and every time I love it more and more. A food critic, sociopath, decides she's ready for new flavors and decides to eat her boyfriends. Written as if it's her memoir from prison she tells the story of her crimes and her unlikely downfall.
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ellie jones
8w
fiction reads
the possessed by fyodor dostoyevsky
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a masterpiece!! more recent translations are titled “demons” but i recommend this edition if you can find it! (try thriftbooks) 700 pages & i read in 12 days (not normal for me) because i couldn’t put it down!
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Dana Vance
8w
Book titles
My most favorite book in the entire universe is A Stolen Past by John Knowles. Everyone knows and reads A Separate Peace but this is so much better.
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He's a brilliant author - also read The Private Life of Axie Reed. This book has longing, academia, atmosphere, coming of age, looking back on choices made and regretted - it's all there.
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Dr. Klara
8w
A love of Books
On Earth We Are Briefly Gorgeous
$8.99
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This book is one of the most exquisite pieces of fiction I’ve ever read. It lives and breathes with such lust and abandon, and is just brimful of tenderness - I had to read it slowly because I was constantly disarmed by so many beautiful moments.
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Dr J
10w
Writing
I’m not sure it’s my absolute favorite but near the top is All the Light We Cannot See
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Maddie Weinstein
11w
Books
Howards End (E. M. Forster)
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I have a lot of favorite books, but this is the only book that has been beloved by every person I've recommended it to. It's beautifully written. It's politically prescient. It's perfect.
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Tim
11w
My Absolute Darling
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I could not put this book down. I don't normally compare books to films as they engage my brain in different ways, but this book was as enrapturing and vivid as an A24 piece. Just writing this makes me want to reread it.
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Ksteg
12w
The Secret History (Donna Tartt)
$19.57
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"The snow in the mountains was melting and Bunny had been dead for several weeks before we came to understand the gravity of our situation.” I am always trying to chase the intense pleasure of my first reading of this book. An absolutely perfect murder mystery set at an elite northeastern college, where our outsider protagonist gets seduced by a charismatic Classics professor into a strange secret society. So atmospheric, so perverse, such unforgettable characters. Whenever the air starts getting crispy, I reach for her.
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Emily
12w
Watchin’ and Readin’
Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
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An absurd premise: a chorus of ghosts are present for Abe Lincoln’s son’s interment. At times poignant, at times hilarious, always profound. Several moments had me downright sobbing.
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Katie Elfering
12w
The Immortalists
$18.64
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Beautifully written and spanning all the human emotions. Answers the question of “what would you do if you knew exactly when you would die” in so many different ways and makes you consider your own life deeply.
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Sara Quinn
12w
Books for grown ups
The House of the Spirits (Isabel Allende)
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this is one of my favorite books I’ve ever read. It’s an intergenerational epic. It’s really beautiful and engrossing and very funny and shows the sweep of time and human life and politics and it’s really stayed with me. Allende channeled something wild with this book.
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Lauren
12w
Girls I Want to be When I Gr...
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
$17.70
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A perennial classic for a reason. I’ve secretly harbored a fantasy of naming my daughter Francie after the lead character.
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Yaymie Jamie
12w
My Brilliant Friend: Elena Ferrante
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This is my favorite as of late. Reading the second in the series now. I forgot that a book could make you feel like this…it’s been a hot minute!
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Carly
12w
The Magicians: A Novel (Magicians Trilogy): Grossman, Lev: 8601400956939: Amazon.com: Books
$12.99
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My favorite fantasy book. A reductive summary: Harry Potter for grownups.
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Lyla
12w
I LOVE TO READ
Disgrace by JM Coetzee
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This is my favorite book of all time. It might be the best book ever written? It’s completely powerful and incredible and genius. I get chills just thinking about it.
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Christina Danaee
13w
My Year of Rest and Relaxation
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Why address your problems and process trauma when you can just sleep?!
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Shahzaib Umer
13w
of human bondage
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my favorite book of all time. Each line a cool rill to my heart; it has all the multitudes of life
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Kelly G
13w
east of eden
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jessica 🧸
13w
feeling curious
jitterbug perfume by tom robbins
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silly sexy real mythical irreverent grounded non-linear and immortal . Just like me 🫶 tom puts respect on beets, an extraordinary root vegetable . And more stories need genies fr
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Andrew Magadia
14w
Scene stealer
RED RISING SAGA
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Loved the Red Rising series. Currently waiting for the next/last book (looking at you Pierce Brown). It makes me want to charge into battle and hold the line as my friends escape the a lost battle to reclaim the fight. Hail Reaper!
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Byrdie
14w
The Fifth Season
$18.63
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Storytelling at its very best
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Willy Huber
14w
A is for Alibi
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This novel changed my life. 24 more books after it, and an amazing female protagonist. The book is so detailed and everything about those details is important for the storyline. No spoilers of the ending here!
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Maribeth
14w
Books I Love 📖
Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli
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Because you rightfully have been recommended an incredible list of recent (and wonderful) bestsellers as well as many (deservedly) classics, I dare you to go out on a limb and read a young adult novel called Stargirl. It’s YA! It’s short, quick—you have nothing to lose! It’s a coming of age story about being your own person, staying true to yourself, kindness, and how that impacts the people around you. I read it in my youth and every few years I read it again. It’s a treasure. Update: I have not seen (and didn’t know) there was a movie but I also dare you NOT to watch that because there’s no way it will be better than whatever you come up with in your head.
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Aya C
18w
My 5–star Books
Homegoing (Yaa Gyasi)
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