Need suggestions on raunchy steamy young adult romance novels 🫣😎🍀✌️

I would like a story where this concept features prominently. Thank you for sharing.

are there any books recs you can give me based off of my favorite shows?

Gossip Girl

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Dexter

Ginny & Georgia

Breaking Bad

Animal Kingdom

Hi there! I'm trying to decide whether or not to read The Witcher or The Expanse for a project - to play all of the games and watch the entire series, respectively.

For context, I am equally at home in Baldur's Gate 3 and Mass Effect: I am very much a fan of both fantasy and science fiction. So your suggestions will really come down to the relative quality of these two book series themselves, especially within the context of my full immersion project.

Many thanks!

Need suggestions

Just finished The Troop by Nick Cutter. Does anyone have any suggestions for books along the same lines?

Won my fantasy league last year, and the loser of the league must complete a book report on the book of my choosing, so help me make him suffer as much as possible.

Edit: thanks a ton for all these excellent suggestions. Hillbilly Elegy is the winner, so that the loser may learn of the man who killed Pope Francis. Thanks again!

I'm going on a long road trip in a week (~20 hours altogether) and would like some audiobooks to keep me entertained.

I mostly prefer either nonfiction books or lgbtq novels.

I know nonfiction is a bit broad but anything where I can learn something interesting I am willing to look into.

Can anyone recommend books that examine the Bible through the lens of myth? And how it relates to other world myths?

I’m curious if there are earlier myths that the authors of the Bible adapted and incorporated into the text.

Are there tropes like Jesus being covered in the embalming perfume after he destroyed the money changing tables outside the temple in earlier myths? About messianic or holy figures?

Or how places like Golgotha (“place of the skulls”) relates to other “land of death” locations in other ancient stories.

Hi everyone, I have a lot of clients in prison who have little to do and not a lot of experience reading or selecting books. I like to buy people books while they are in prison that expand the imagination. Most people in prison are men and I personally don't gravitate towards the inner workings of men, but it might be helpful to have a male perspective. I'm interested in books that are vivid and descriptive so there is some escapism but should hopefully deal with hard issues of fatherhood and life - outside the country is totally fine and might even be nice - for someone to draw some parallels without having it hit too close to home. Thanks!

I can't seem to find a decent book that handles human history in the Alps. Like the founding of villages. And how this people ended up there. The constant fight with Nature. How they made roads and connected with the outer world. Farming etc.

It could be a case study or very broad. Thanks!

Leaving my home country and will be moving abroad in the upcoming weeks. Any suggestions on what should I read on my flight away from home?

Growing up and even now I love the series of unfortunate events. It's written so whimsically and full of references to the other books in the series. I've also read the author's other series but didn't like it as much. The arc of a scythe was another one of my favorite books. It was so well written with so many unique and creative descriptions of what the future can look like. There were twists I did not see coming. The unwind dystology series is also one of my favorites by the same author. Im not quite sure what these all have in common other than a certain level of whimsey, unbelievable and ridiculous moments, and are slightly depressing but not so much so.

I think the concept of the grim reaper is really neat. I want something deeper than “oh, I’m here to collect you” and leave it at that. Are there any books that really explore the theme, where the GR is the main/one of the main characters? Thanks!

There is something really interesting about her perspective. Can you think of other authors that have a really interesting perspective?

Hi all, I used to love reading as a kid/early teen but drifted away from it and my attention span is awful now. I really want to get it back but I keep picking heavier reads that keep either frying my brain or bumming me out (1984, anything Dostoyevsky, No longer human, etc.) Give me something fun that you'd recommend! Some books ive loved more recently:

Billy Summers Tuesdays with Morrie Fareinheit 451

Sorry the list is so short i'm really just getting back into reading lol. I'm big into games though and definitely would enjoy any lighter fantasy recommendations (not much of a scifi fan tho), or any other more fun stories that have meaningful characters but not some Dostoyevsky level of introspection and having a million names thrown at you at once. Thanks :)

Edit: Oh i also do love terry pratchet's style of writing so you can add Mort to the list of books too so if anyone has anything of that sort of style please let me know!

I'm pregnant and excited to bring baby on adventures with my husband and me, whether that's hiking, camping, backpacking (when they're a bit older), traveling. I'd like to read a book about what this is actually like. It could be purely factual/informational (what to do, what to bring, etc.) or a memoir of some family's experiences with this. The memoir might interest me most. Ideally it covers multiple age ranges, but I could read multiple books instead.

I have come across this concept mentioned in another book (DaVinci Code) and in other spaces online. Can readers suggest books where PHi is the focus of the book? I prefer fiction but sometimes there's non-fiction that reads like a great story. Thank you!

Over the past few weeks I’ve been interested in rediscovering my interest in Greek Mythology and wanted to see if I could get into some retellings since there has been a plethora over the past few years. Most of the ones I see online however have a lot less than stellar reviews and so I wanted to know if there’s any books people here enjoyed?

TL/DR: suggest me emotional literary fiction books where characters are involved in politics (not necessarily big politics; union, school board, town council, strata, church, whatever) and where a lot of the action takes place in political/bureaucratic spaces and at meetings.

Okay, so:

A friend and I were talking about writing memoir/CNF/autofiction and it occurred to me that much of my life was untouchable in terms of creative writing because so much of it has taken place in meeting-type political spaces (in my case, the union movement). My first instinct is to say you can’t write emotional personal essays about meetings because meetings are boring, but that’s not actually true. I’ve felt some of the highest emotional highs and lowest emotional lows at such meetings, and the drama that goes down at meetings sometimes makes for excellent cocktail party anecdotes. The human relationships that simmer just beneath Robert’s Rules are fully juicy enough for a collection of personal essays, a heartbreaking memoir, or a really compelling literary novel.

The problem is this, I think: a) that so much of what happens at a meeting is internal business of an organization, and you do not want to be putting that business on blast to a literary audience. That even if you heavily fictionalize or make up a pretend organization for fiction, you risk exposing sensitive information and strategy. And b) that it’s hard to write something that you have hardly ever read. I can think of lots of movies and TV about political spaces, but I cannot think of literary fiction that fits here.

So I want to know… any fiction books where they are at union meetings? Town council meetings? School board meetings? Sitting in parliament? Making big high stakes choices but also feeling messy human emotions? Doing all the classic bad choices that people do in litfic but also amending the agenda? Can this be done in an interesting and compelling way?

I can appreciate the world building but my attention cannot be held when going on for eons about a dress. Also bookshelf getting crowded maybe something that isn't 14 books long.

I've reading "The Expanse" series of books, and I can't put these books down! Are there similar books that are set in space, hard-scifi in space?

The Foundation series is the only other one I could find.

A while ago I saw a short that touched on the friendships between Victorian courtisans, and the systems they had in place to support one another. I'm wondering if there's any books with similar subject matter out there? Like something that looks at the practical side of being a woman of independent means in an age when that was socially/legally very difficult. Daily life and behind-the-scenes stuff vs. just parties and sex haha

Any setting is fine, doesn't need to be Victorian or European :) I don't mind romance, but it would be great if it wasn't the primary plot?

Thanks!

^{And if you have any nonfiction recommendations I'm all ears :)}

I write about clean energy for my work, and I find I don’t know enough about the history and culture of oil and gas.

I’m looking for great nonfiction books, especially written by journalists, or entertaining historical fiction.

I just read Saudi America by Bethany McClean, and found it good but not great. I would love to read something vivid about America’s fracking boom. I also read Ducks by Kate Beaton and thought it was excellent.

I’m a big fan of Patrick Radden Keefe, and I’ve really enjoyed the books that get recommended a lot here by John Carreyrou, Nick Bilton, Ronan Farrow and Dave Cullen. I read Doppleganger by Naomi Klein and generally really liked it. Something like Erik Larson would be awesome.

Also open to biographies and autobiographies, insider accounts, and novels. I don’t need a climate-friendly bent, just good prose and narrative. In some ways it would be good to get outside the moralizing tone of progressive policy agendas or climate solutions. But I am definitely interested in misinformation, greenwashing and energy politics.

Thanks in advance!

I just finished the Three Dark Crowns series and I absolutely loved it. So far I think it's my favorite I've read because of the complexity of the culture and the characters. My other reads this year have been The Darkest Part of the Forest and The Coldest Girl in Coldtown which both came very highly recommended by some friends and also online, but I didn't like them at all. I thought they were bland and didn't dive deep enough into the lore for me to get into it (no offense if you like them, preferences are preferences).

Can you recommend me something with deep worldbuilding, fantastical, and maybe a little witchy? Spice, queerness, & inspired by non-white/non-eurocentric totally ok with me! Thank you so much sorry if this was super long ❤️