books

I’ve recently started a job driving a shuttle van across the city for the general public. I’ve got a wide amount of leeway, but the audiobooks I’ve been listening to have been… not hitting right. I started with “The Name of the Wind” which was extremely well reviewed. I liked it a lot for the most part, and for the...

Hello, I’m trying to find a book that I read a long time ago about a man who turned invisible because cosmic radiation hit his electric blanket while he was asleep. I’ve tried googling and chat GPT and neither of them turned up any results. Does this book sound familiar to anyone?

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I’m not sure how useful this’ll be to people, but on the off-chance that like me, you like to track your pages read daily (into something like Storygraph or Goodreads) and you happen to have an ereader, I’ve created a spreadsheet that may be useful....

I heard a lot of praise for Bulgakov’s oeuvre in the past, so I decided to give it a go....

I’m trying to read some more books (canon) set in the Metro universe. The books don’t have to be written by Dmitry Glukhovsky, I’m just looking for some recommendations to expand my knowledge of the lore. Bonus points for chronological ordering! Ty

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I’ve basically been ordered to pick up any fiction book and read, after a friend discovered I’ve not read anything but non-fiction for a decade....

ETA: I have read and downloaded many of your recommendations and have had lots of fun reading them! You are such a welcoming enthusiastic bunch. Thanks a lot! Still looking for more suggestions in case someone wants to add to the ever growing list. So far this year I have read twenty seven books....

Recently there was kind of a discussion, with one user being a bit mean towards the other regarding the latter posting a link to Amazon....

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I really like the lore behind the vaults in the Fallout games. The only book I know that’s somewhat similar is Wool, are there any others?

For me, the first time this happened was with The Royal Assassin Saga from Robin Hobb, and then Metro 2033....

The book starts out with a girl with magic eye on a flying ship to catch magic sand only she can see. She has no memory of how she grew up. At the start of the journey a man destroys the ship, but safes her. During the book(s) it is reveled that the man and she herself are basically here to destroy humanity because humanity...

I do not read books as often as I watch movies, but I am willing to create a habit of reading by taking a suggestion for a book from this community, and I want to start from this genre....

I’ve been feeling really lonely lately so I’ve been trying to find any romance books to distract me....

Any recommendations for left wing reads. Preferably something not depressing. Thanks!

At the start of the book, there’s an acknowledgement by the author, that goes something like:...

I’m starting to read after a very long time - it has been decades, since I’ve “read” anything properly. Can I get a good recommendation?

Hopefully I’m in the right place....

Could I get a few suggestions? I am looking for a sci-fi dystopian future from the perspective of a corpo.

hi, i recently wanted to look for the best psychology books in [www.goodreads.com] and website doesn’t allow me to sort them by ratings. is there any way to do this? i don’t want to end up searching “best psychology books” on web and look for ai generated blogs. thanks.

I am looking for some neat book reading apps. Bonus points if it lets me know if a sequel is released.