TW: loss of parent, death.

Looking for a fiction read, no self help or anything. Would love a book about a father daughter complicated relationship after the father’s death. Would love for it to not resolve in the daughter finding redeeming qualities and figuring out how to love him after death.

I don’t really know what to do or how to feel right now.

I am interested in any fiction genre. I don't want non-fiction and i'm not looking for any self help type book. What I am envisioning is a novel where the protagonist confronts this reality or such!

Hello! I’m a teen girl who hasn’t read books outside of the ones required for my school. I want to start reading but I fear my reading comprehension isn’t that good. Please reco some books that are good for total beginners. Preferably no romance

I’ve seen a lot of people recommending me to go to libraries but unfortunately, we really don't have a lot of libraries in our country. The closest one to me is my school library but it doesn’t really have a good selection and the process of borrowing a book is actually quite difficult unfortunately

craving some cool spy stuff. any era works!

Hey y'all

My local library updated their fall prompts for their adult reading challenge and I'm looking for suggestions to fit them. Any genre is good to suggest!

1. A book with annotations or end notes

2. A book published in 2026

3. A book with a cover including or based on a painting

4. A locked room mystery

5. A book you can read in one sitting - currently doing "Godzilla and Godzilla Raids Again" for this

6. A book with the words "pumpkin spice" or "latte" in the title

7. A collection of horror stories

8. A book set in a national Park, Forest, or wildlife area

9. A book that features a character with chronic pain or mental illness - considering The Shining for this

10. A book containing magical creatures

I just finished "Small Game" by Blair Braverman, and I'm craving more like it. I'm looking for a gripping/thrilling/suspenseful fiction story about character(s)' unexpectedly needing to survive in nature. Please don't recommend the classics like Hatchet, or My Side of the Mountain - I've read those. I also just finished The Dog Stars, which I loved.

I want descriptions of nature and resourcefulness of the main character(s). It can be dystopian, or not. I'd prefer the main struggle to be between the characters and nature itself, rather than something like zombies or monsters. I would also love a female protagonist but that's not mandatory!

I've just spent hours doomscrolling and having seen the state of the world, I can't help but be in a sour mood. The economy, politics, the climate crisis, war... It's all been stressing me out tremendously.

I'd just like a break from it all, or better yet, an opportunity to see the good in humanity even despite all its flaws. I'd be happy with any genre and tone, whether it's something cozy and lighthearted or something that emphasises the indomitable human spirit. I just want to feel any sort of hope for the future.

The last few years I've become really interested in the depiction of faeries or fairies in speculative fiction. I've read the following books which contain some faerie characters I've liked:

* The Bloody Chamber, Angela Carter

* Some Kind of Fairy Tale, Graham Joyce

* Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, Susanna Clarke

* Fearie Tales: Stories of the Grimm and Gruesome, (edited by) Stephen Jones

I guess I like them as characters because of their mysterious, inhuman and manipulative nature.

I'm curious whether someone knows more fiction that contains them, either modern speculative fiction (fantasy, horror, scifi etcetera) or older folkloric tales. I hope it's clear that I'm not looking for romantasy or faeries as ideal love interests. I like the image of them as elusive and amoral. Apart from that, I'm open to inventive interpretations.

Thank you for reading!

I am a sucker for a really good setting, which can be dangerous because I end up watching awful movies with great settings.

I am looking for a Mystery/Thriller that has maybe a ski lodge or mountain town setting with an isolated trapped feeling, not The Shining however. (think the isolation factor of the Thing, Firewatch or Voices of the Void meets Scooby Doo or Murder on the Orient Express.) There was a hardy boys book I read growing up in which they got snowed into a ski lodge that was my favorite. I also just finished Plum Island and enjoyed the mystery that unfolded in that just not a huge fan of John Corey. In my adult life I have not read very many adult books as college was all required reading so I apologize all my reference material is Young Adult. Also a big fan of Colson Whiteheads writing style if that contributed anything.

i tried gothic horror books, and even though i love the atmospheric macabre of it, i don't like the romantic/sexual aspects it tends to bring.

i like horror that has a a more cosmic and eldritch vibe. incomprehensible. horror focused more on solving the mystery of it and detailing danger that is just out of sight, not so much focused on characters themselves (i don't really care to get invested in individual characters, just the story and the worldbuilding and the concept). i like magical realism, haunting, xenofiction, and the occult, too (i am an occultist lol). weirdcore and soft/subtle comedy is good too in modest amounts!

i do NOT like mentions of romance or sex at all, especially third party situations, seduction, and coercive stuff. it's okay if a character who happens to be married kisses their spouse one time with nothing else or two characters like each other but the romance is not elaborated on or detailed at all, but those are exceptions. i'm a monogamous hopeless romantic, sure, but i don't find other people's love lives interesting and sex is generally repulsive to me. i also HATE excessive gore.

some media that has the vibe i'm looking for: House of Echoes (book), Still Wakes the Deep (video game), The Burn Line (book) Home Safety Hotline (video game), Static Dread: Lighthouse and No, I'm Not A Human (video games)

thank you so much in advance 😭💔

Looking for some novels with dragons!!! Let me know what yall recommend! Not picky on genres, just want to read stuff with dragons in it.

Is there any interesting War series in a High Fantasy Setting with lots of magic and badass normal soldiers plus different races and smart tactics from both the protag and antag sides?

I found an old copy of Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann (which I first read in the 1980s!) started reading from halfway through and am riveted! Is there anything else out there that's anything like as good? (Aside from Jackie Collins.) I read The Love Machine and Once is Not Enough also by Jacqueline Susann but they're not as good as Valley of the Dolls. I heard that Howard Robbins' The Carpet Baggers was about old Hollywood, but I never read that one. I'm primarily thinking of trash fiction but it doesn't have to be trash. Just riveting!

Hi, in the mood to read a damsel in distress trope. I need angst, distress, fainting, people getting hurt; that type of drama. I’m open to any genre. My preferred genres are fantasy, sci-fi, and historical fiction. I’m open to straight or bl. I just need something to make me feel something. I need to cry and feel pain tbh. I prefer plot over smut. Standalones only, if not, up to a trilogy is fine. Thank you for your help. Ps, it doesn’t have to be books only. I also reads mangas, manhwas, and manhuas. Also anything from novelupdates that’s completed. Or even wattpad.

I've watched Shutter Island, Inception, and The Prestige a bunch of times and want to try getting that same feeling from a book, but I've barely read fiction before, so I don't know where to start or what's actually "beginner friendly" in this genre.

What I like specifically: not just a surprise ending, but stories where you genuinely can't trust what's happening as you're reading it — unreliable narrators, timelines that don't add up, stuff that makes you go back and reread earlier chapters once you know the truth.

I'd rather start with one really good, accessible pick than a long list I won't get through. Bonus if it's not too long or dense for a first-timer.

This is one of the mangas i really enjoyed, it’s just really fucking hard to ignore the author’s obvious fetishes. The thing I really liked about this is the world building and I hope to read a book similar to it. Preferably no romance (,; ⩌ ;,)

I have always loveeeed reading years ago when I was in high school, i can actually finish a book each week. Growing up I have read a bit here and there, but lately I really want to get back into actually enjoying reading again (plus replace my scrolling habit ughhhhh!)

Books that I love
- The Hunger Games trilogy
- Sunrise on the Reaping (LOVEEEE this), I haven’t read Ballads of Songbirds and Snakes tho.
- Kafka on the Shore
- Wind Up Bird Chronicle -> didn’t manage to finish this one as i feel it’s soooooo long

Other than that, I also love:
- The Alchemist
- The Little Prince
- Sweet Bean Paste
- How Do You Live?

I remember trying to read few other fictions here and there too but these are all that I really remember.

Perhaps anyone has a good suggestion for me to pick up a book and start again? I have heard that Project Hail Mary is good and thinking if I should give it a try (watched the movie and loved it!).

Thank youuuu and i’m sorry if this feels.. like just another mundane problem 🥲

So basically, I bought The Crying of Lot 49 to read during my shifts (I don’t have shit to do bro) and thought this would be a good pickup as my second novel EVER due to the length and reverence for the author.

Long story short, I somehow got my ass kicked by a book, any suggestions for a reader like me who wants to get into postmodern fiction but is a bit too dim for Pynchon and Nabokov?

Hi all,
I run a book club for my university where we discuss books that are generally related to climate and society, but very flexible in general. I’ve had requests to read some books about AI but I’m having trouble finding books that are realistic, but aren’t heavily biased one way or another. I’ve been looking through book reviews but can only seem to find tons from AI tech bros who swear that these books prove AI is the future. Happy to read either fiction or non fiction, but just looking for some suggestions. Thanks!

last year I read the Alice Vega trilogy by Louisa Luna, and just this week I finished reading "Brimstone Hollow" by Archer Sullivan, the second book in the Annie G*re series (I censored her name because it was flagging my post nsfw otherwise).

I'm on a big mystery/thriller kick right now, so to keep digging into it I'm looking for:

- lady detective/PI (or similar)

- modern setting

- small town case, or case that feels personal to the MC.

I will mention that I also read the Gillian Flynn books over the summer, and Sharp Objects and Dark Places scratch this same itch even though they only kind of meet the criteria. So books in a similar vein that don't quite meet the criteria could work too!

thanks in advance for any suggestions.

I am looking for books that feel like Mike Flanagan's adaptation of Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House. I am not asking for a particular setting like a haunted mansion, supernatural entities or any specific kind of horror. I am looking for a specific narrative alchemy: a story where a highly unusual, intense, bleak external premise is perfectly balanced against a hyper-focused human relationship, so that the two forces constantly fuel each other. If you took away the strange premise, the relationship drama wouldn't work, and if you took away the emotional human dynamic, the premise would be empty. Also, I loved how the supernatural horror was terrifying because I cared so deeply about whether the family survives each other, and not just the ghosts.

Would love your recommendations for this and a short note on why you think it would fit well for what I am looking for.

Thanks.

I finished the Knives Out trilogy and I need to read more murder mystery novels,at the moment I've only read a lot of the novels by Agatha Christie (Murder on The Orient Express,And Then There were None,Murder on the Nile and a lot more) and A Study in Red by A.C.Doyle.

I specifically want something with similar vibes of the movies like a group of suspects,a genius detective and good plotwists.

Hey guys, I’m working on an internship and wanted to find Good books to compliment my research on homelessness. The class I’m in is about race relations, and I wanted to see what books would tackle homelessness for minority populations that you would recommend.

Thanks!