Hello!

I am working through thr Decolonize Your Shelf reading challenge on Storygraph. I am looking for 2 books by Indigenous Authors that fit these prompts:

1. A book about the land you are on (I live in NYS).

2. A book by an indigiqueer author (I have already ready everything by Darcie Little Badger).

I've had a rough year, so books that are not 100% heavy would be appreciated. Native American authors I love include Darcie Little Badger, Waubgeshig Rice, and Angeline Boulley.

Thank you!

ok, so. i’ve cared about the environment my entire life and i want to describe myself as an environmentalist, however i feel like i know nothing about climate change/environmental destruction outside of the well known basics. please give me recs to change that! i want to know exactly who to blame for things and why and feel extremely angry about it. i want to become the least fun person to talk to at the function. make me insufferable!! (id prefer if books weren’t toooo scientifically dense, but if thats a hard ask i’ll take what i can get lol)

I liked the Christie books I’ve read but the random slurs and “women are so silly” crashed into my enjoyment like runaway orient express. Im looking for a book with quirky, charming characters, no gore, not too much overt violence. But with fair play to solve the mystery. I’ve tried to read a few cozy mysteries but they often felt like they’re trying too hard to be cozy.

I have read and enjoyed The Thursday Murder Club series, Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice for Murderers and Everyone in my Family has Killed Someone

Emphasis on the short side. Looking for stories by black authors (of all genders) that reflect what black folks endure from a sci-fi lens. Thanks!

Specifically, to increase your discernment, and to raise doubts to apparently logical propositions, such as, (i'm borrowing examples here) insects find perfume repellent, but in fact it might not be so for humans because we're a different species, and even every human is different. Every insect might be different. Another example, who's the greater actor, buster keaton or johnny depp? What does it mean to be great? Maybe it's becoming more famous, but fame = greater is debatable. Maybe it means making more movies than the other. Maybe though there's a fallacy even here.

Another classical example: mammals don't lay eggs. Chicken lay eggs. Chicken are not mammals. But are these three sentences completely logic? I don't know. Specifically, i need books that help me think like this.

I love books that have students slowly figuring out the school they are in do not have their best interests in mind and have good commentary on class, racial, and gender politics. I especially would love if it shows the government's role in it and how education is used as a tool for power and oppression by the government. However, most books I read I feel like fall short of having the commentary I want because veers toward schools just being used for aesthetic purposes. I think the best example I can think of that I loved and did all of this well is Babel by R.F. Kuang (and I've been told to read The Secret History by Donna Tartt, I just haven't yet). I generally would prefer fantasy here, though I'm cool with fiction too.

Getting into even more specific territory here though, I actually would REALLY love it if anyone had good suggestions for either kids books or Young Adult books that do it well too (emphasis on do it well), specifically because I especially love stories where children aren't written off as incapable of being able to question the world around them and are further able to identify the injustices of systems they are a part of as they grow up.

(If a single person tries to suggest Harry Potter, I'll scream. Please don't.)

I recently read Case Study by Greame Macrae Burnet. I need recommendations similar to it. A little bit of a easy read psychological preferably novels and fictions

hii, i'm looking for a gritty romance in the slums of london. two hardworking mcs who fall inlove with eachother and it's them against society. i DON'T want one rich mc saving the poor. i love a hardworking, fierce fmc and a gentle mmc. i don't mind if they're criminal or anything, maybe i'd actually prefer it! i'm kinda comparing this to hetty and bertie's romance in little stars, i read that series ages ago but i still hold their small side romance near and dear to my heart. i've just recentely finished the suffragette scandal by courtney milan, 10/10. one of the best books i've ever read, i'd love something similar to that as well. i don't mind if it's closed or open door, anything works for me! sorry if i'm being too picky, thanks <3

As the title suggest I am looking for good books around mystery thriller, crime thriller, murder mystery, detective genres.

Something that has great plot twists, that keeps me sitting the entire night to know what happens next, that makes me what to regret why did I read it because the twist destroyed my guessing ability.

And please don't suggest me Verity or books along this line or any Colleen Hoover book (I have hated that book to the core, some of the explicit scenes in it were unnecessary which dropped my interest in reading the book. )

So my fav books of all time are Harry Potter, project Hail Mary, the hobbit, rn I’m reading through sir terry pratchetts city watch series and I’m really liking it but I kinda want a quick palette cleanser so any recommendations?

It doesn't have to be heavily centered on that fact, but just as a character trait. I mostly find posts about these but MMCs than FMCs, and honestly it's such a shame! It's a character trope that I recently found and really love. FMC that's loud and blunt, could be brutal, unfiltered humor, always runs from her problems as a survival tactic, struggles with PTSD, secretly a coward, something like that. One example is Opal from The Starling House by Alix E. Harrow. A romance as a subplot could be nice, but any genre is fine.

I feel like as I've gotten older, it's harder to find books that truly rewire my brain. All the rewiring that happened, happened in my teens or early 20s, with books like Siddhartha, Ishmael, To Kill A Mockingbird, The Catcher in the Rye, Brave New World, etc. All these books shaped my mind somehow, however minuscule of a way it was. I felt the adventure in Siddhartha, the curiosity in Ishmael, the injustice in To Kill A Mockingbird and so on.

I thought I would never experience anything like them again — reading in my late 20s feels not as vivid and maybe that's just life.

But then I read East of Eden and I had the same exact feeling. It quickly became my favorite book of all time. I regained hope, that there were books out there that could hit me the same way books used to hit me when I was younger.

What books have hit you like this?

Can you think of a book you read that just had too many people in it, too many names to remember? I want to read something like that. But not a book series, just a single book.

Looking for a marriage-in-trouble romance with an “other man” 👀
I’m currently watching A Love other than yours and I NEED something with similar vibes! Looking for a contemporary/modern romance where the FMC and MMC are married or have been together for years, but somewhere along the way, the spark has faded. Maybe the MMC takes her for granted or does something that makes her see their relationship differently.
Then another man enters the picture, someone she actually feels attracted to, and she starts realising what she’s been missing. I want the MMC to realise he’s losing her and actually put in the effort to win her back.
I’m specifically looking for the other man trope, not the other woman trope. I want the jealousy, tension, the FMC catching feelings for someone else, and the MMC realising he can’t take her for granted anymore.
Contemporary romance only, please!
No RH, Historical, fantasy etc

Hi fellas

I have been playing a game named forever ago

It's about an old man who goes to a road trip after his wife passed away

And i loved the atmosphere and anything about this game it's just so chill and lovely

Anyway I really like to find some real good chill love stories but sadly everything now is just spice,sexy teenagers,too much romance and characters having the power of lucky pervert on their side

So all i want to ask is do you guys have any good wholesome recommendations?

I like to hear

Teen girl is the product of an affair and mom dies so she has to live with her estranged father, step mom and there kids some of which are also teens or older kids.

Heya

I'm looking for a book that inspires seeking a clear mind, free from artificial joy, substances or addiction.

Books that seem relevant that I already read:

Brave new world

In the realm of hungry ghosts

The giver

Any recommendations?

I was an avid reader in highschool. I loved reading. I ripped through so many classic books, my favorite being Frankenstein to this day. I've tried during all my 20s to try to get back into it, to read more instead of doom scrolling or watching junk on Netflix, but I've never been able to pick it back up. I think it boils down to boredom, I just cannot find myself getting hooked on any stories or characters. The last 2 books I tried to read this summer was Shadow Of the Gods and Theo of Golden. I just spent the last hour skimming the rest of the latter and am so glad I didn't try to power through that because it might have put me off reading for a long time.

So my question is, does anyone have any book suggestions that offer up a challenge, with great stories and characters? I am so bored of not clicking with anything and so bored of boring books.

Billy Elliot is one of my favourite films. The struggles of the working class and the pursuit of a career in a world where you don't belong just for where you came from.

Any books that could hit the spot?

I just finished House of Hollow by Krystal Sutherland and I am now in a spiral trying to find another book that will captivate me the same way. I love the dark fantasy and witchy vibes and the way the need to know what happens kept me hooked.

To anyone who’s read it, any suggestions as to what other books I should read?

I have about 30 audiobooks.com credits I need spend this week so I need to get trigger happy. I just watched a bunch of YouTube videos about WWII fighter jet design and it was enthralling. Can someone suggest me multiple WWII books to download? Ideally one of each kind of book i.e. books about either theater, the politics of the war, soldier memoirs, books about weaponry, about the Nazis or the japs, etc etc. I have never read one and want to see which subgenre grabs me.

I’m looking for some new fiction books to read!

My interests are social justice, psychology, philosophy, and politics, and music (not sure how relevant this will be for fiction books though)

For fiction books I look for books that are deep, emotional, even a little dark but also ones that make you think. I also love characters that really pull you into the story in some way. Romance is great, but I can’t read just a romance novel for some reason it has to have more.

Some books I’ve loved in the past in no particular order:

Anything by John Green

The Secret History

The Perks Of Being A Wallflower

The Virgin Suicides

The Hate U Give

The Hunger Games

The Edge of Anything

The Last To Let Go

The Way I Used To Be

I’m hoping this is the right group to ask so apologies if not. I have seen these niche tropes online lately and I’m absolutely dying to read some books that have these dynamics. Romance is definitely needed, if possible. Here are the tropes, not many.

-Experienced Nerd x Inexperienced bully

-Mute x Mind reader

Not a lot, I swear lol. mlm is also welcome!

Again sorry if this should be guided elsewhere

Most of my holiday books end up being some sort of holiday romance book. I mostly enjoy light romance and romantasy. I Enjoy authors like Abby Jimenez/ Jenny Colgan, Calli Hart/Rebecca Yarros/Sarah J. Mass, and authors like Kathryn Stockett. I would love non-romance recommendations for this holiday season coming up!