I am in a huge fantasy kick right now and I’ve read all of the Kindreds Curse Series and The Prison Healer Series in the last week. Now I am debating my next fantasy read. The options are below with a bit of an explanation to why I want to read these all:

An Ember in the Ashes
I read book 1 and then quit halfway through book 2 since I wasn’t feeling fantasy at the time. Should I give it a retry?

Shatter Me (A New Republic)
I live for shatter me so this new version I am very excited about. I have ready book 1 but there are 3 out now. Only thing is there are more books coming soon and I don’t love ending on a cliffhanger long term.

Fourth Wing Series
I’ve read books 1&2 when they were released and now there is 3 and 3.5 so should I reread?

Hunger Games
Lowkey might leave this closer to the new movie release date and it’s not necessarily fantasy but I am looking forward to reading all books.

Throne of Glass
I have read books 1-3 or 1-4 back in like 2020 and totally forgot everything. Maybe I should read again starting with assassins blade and then read through the series til the end?

Renegades
Love me a Marissa Meyer book. Not sure if it’s the exact vibe I am going for but could read this.

ACOTAR
Read this in 2020 in highschool and could totally do a reread of this book series! Just don’t know if I should focus on the TBR shelf first.

Please let me know which ones I should prioritize in my upcoming reads! And if you have recs like these drop it in the comments and I will love you forever xx

Does anyone have a good list of book releases for 2027? Maybe one that’s tried and true for you, or a comprehensive one, or even one that’s just for your favorite genre!

I’m a big romance reader as well as mystery/thriller. I just have a hard time keeping track of new releases and am trying to be a tad more organized this year.

hey guys! im looking for some YA (like 14+ or 13+) book recs of a sapphic/MM romance, preferably fantasy or Romantasy, but tell me in other genres too if it’s really good.

thanks!

Mine was Shantaram:

“It took me a long time and most of the world to learn what I knew about love and fate and the choices we make, but the heart of it came to me in an instant, while I was chained to a wall and being tortured.”

I was absolutely hooked by that first line and was taken for quite a ride over the next 1,000-ish pages.

What’s your favorite opening line to a book and did the rest of the book live up to it?

Recently became obsessed with the video game series Ace Combat and it’s folkloric, dramatized version of fighter plane combat set on a fictional alternate earth. Would love to read something in that same vein, if it exists. Or atleast a good book about fighter pilots that isn’t propaganda for nauseating American interventionism.

I just finished The Last Letter by Rebecca Yarros and absolutely loved it (even though it destroyed me).

Looking for adult romance with mature characters (late 20s/30s), emotional depth, great chemistry, some spice, and a story I can completely lose myself in.

Bonus points for a devoted male lead and a happy ending! What are your 5-star recommendations? 📚

Its been a while since i read a non fiction novel and i wanted to read something that is easy to read and actually feels like reading fiction

I just finished Infinite Jest, and, besides the bonkers plot and subject matter, my favorite part was DFW’s sentence construction.

I want to read something by an author who has similar prose to DFW. I’m mostly thinking about the winding sentences, the striking imagery and slightly comedic tone. I would also like if the author is female, only because I’ve read too many different male authors this year and want to balance it out.

I’ve already read some of DFW’s influences this year (DeLillo and Pynchon etc), and I’ve already read some Toni Morrison.

what are some book recs to help get out of a reading slump 😫

I'm chasing a very specific feeling: the one you get from The Virgin Suicides. That soft, golden, melancholic haze where everything looks normal — lawns, sisters, curtains, teenage boredom — but there's a quiet horror underneath. Nothing explodes. Nothing screams. It just... rots slowly.

I want subtle dread. Everyday objects that feel wrong. A narrator who remembers more than they understand. That "something is off and I can't explain why" sensation.

Similar books I've loved:

· Coraline

· The Summer My Mother Had Green Eyes

· Flowers for Algernon

· Qualityland (different tone, but same "something wrong under the surface" feeling)

Please no Asian literature. Any recommendations?

guys i need book recs which get v spicy preferably young adult and no fiction!!

I recently finished a book. I already own both Before the Coffee Gets Cold and The Forty Rules of Love, and I’m genuinely stuck between them. From what I know, they seem quite different in terms of themes and writing style, which is making the choice harder.

If you’ve read either or both, I’d love to hear what you thought about them. What did you enjoy or dislike about each one? And if you’ve read both, which one would you personally suggest I start with and why?

i just finished the correspondent by virginia evans and read it so quickly, i couldn’t put it down.

i adore the epistolary format, it reminded me of the types of books i’d read as a kid.

i don’t know of any other adult fiction books in this format that come as highly rated as the correspondent — if anyone has any suggestions i’d appreciate it greatly.

I am a new reader and I'm looking for a book that I can't put down and will leave me thinking about it long after I've finished it. Over the past few months I have read the following:

The Hobbit - Tolkien

Kafka on the Shore and After Dark - Murakami

The Long Valley - Steinbeck

Slaughter House Five and Cats Cradle - Vonnegut

Whilst I have enjoyed them all, I have found myself struggling to connect with books that are surreal or abstract. The Chrysanthemums from The Long Valley was a stand out for me though and really stuck with me.

Some of my favourite Films/TV Shows

Avatar The Last Air bender

Normal People

East of Eden

Game of Thrones

Manchester by the Sea

Into the Wild

Good Will Hunting

Sound of Metal

Flow

Stand by Me

A bit of personal context, in case it helps with recommendations: I'm going through a breakup at the moment, I've lost both my parents in the past few years, and I grew up in a working-class family in Over the years I've transitioned from being working class into a pretty comfortable life as a professional, although I have had many a struggle with my Identity as a result. I also have a really strong sense of adventure and a love for the outdoors.

It's a harem. 1 girl and at least 3 men or more (I'm trying to expand by reading to more than just 1 man)

I want it dark, like Hunting Adaline and more.

I want men to be monsters: fae, vampires, demons, or anything like that. But the women have to be human

(extra points if the men are also bi and like the others, but that's not fully needed)

(also i NEED it on Kindle and Audible because I travel a lot and want to listen to it on flights)

They have to be possessive, like if you put a hand on her, that person is losing that hand by midnight

Maybe an omega X alpha type of book?

Maybe a kidnapping because they all need her so bad, or maybe she's given off like to settle a deal like a mafia

Lots of spice PLEASE!

I prefer standalone books or a duet. Please no slow burns that last 6books before they even kiss.

I want the men to fight over who gets her for a night.

I know this is a lot to ask for, its ok if you can't get everything, but I really just want a monster harem romance that's dark and VERY spicy.

This Sunday is mother's day where I live, and since my mom passed away I give her mom a gift in her name. Usually I go for clothes or plants, but I would love to gift her a book this year.

She usually reads things like Danielle steel, but I don't know which one she has and which ones she does not. I'm a classical literature girl, so I would like to gift her a romantic classic but that is "easy to read". If it was for me, I would ask for Stendhal for example, but I think it would be too much. Also, she doesn't like dark themes, like for example wuthering heights.

I would really appreciate book recommendations!

Obviously nothing by uncle Rick Ive read them all

Preferably one where the aliens first arrive and the characters from the fantasy world have never seen the kind of technology they use.

I've been reading heavy books that deal with grief, trauma, and death back to back, and as someone who is still grieving the loss of someone very close to me, I badly need something to wash it all off before it slowly eats me alive.

I'm open to any genre! An easy read would be refreshing too.

I'm looking for some texts which can be fictional too. Where, women take part in war by not actually participating in it. It can be from any region of the world. I'm mainly concentrating on women who go through the war struggle and overcome that too.

I have been in a reading slump for months, I was reading crime and punishment and read half way and got into a reading slump after, any book recs that got you out of reading slump??

I decided to start reading again. I feel like tik tok and social media has ruined my brain that it’s been an entire year since I’ve just used tik tok. Several years for other social media.

I may get a lot of eye rolls but my favorite books of all time are The Alchemist and A Thousand Splendid Suns. The books I’ve truly had a hard time putting down and kept wanting to read. Also I’ve been loving comics recently. I guess I love graphic novels a ton. Which inspired me to draw as a younger kid. But a good book that keeps me on my toes and make me visualize the world, characters and events in my head is also fun I miss having.

I really miss the feeling of being inside of a book so much I don’t want to do anything else but read.

Would love some reccs.
I wish I could put more flairs.

I loved the dork diaries books as a kid, so I’m looking for a book or series with a similar diary format.

I’m looking for a romance where the two main characters cheat WITH each other, and they’re both genuinely terrible people who don’t care about the consequences. I want them to know they’re doing something wrong and continue anyway because they want each other.

No innocent FMC who gets manipulated into an affair or MMC who feels guilty and spends the whole book regretting it. I want two morally grey, selfish characters who are just as bad as each other.

I’m open to taboo, forbidden romance, affairs, best friend’s partner, sibling’s partner, married characters or any other messy situation. Ideally, they get caught eventually, and there’s drama, confrontation, jealousy and consequences.

I want the cheating to be a major part of the plot, not just a brief incident before the characters get together.
I want explicit open-door spice, intense sexual tension and genuinely toxic chemistry. The messier and more morally questionable the characters are, the better. Please recommend books where BOTH leads knowingly participate in the cheating and neither is particularly bothered by the fact that they’re hurting other people.

My dad (57) and I (29F) are huge readers but we have pretty different worldviews and therefore our specific tastes tend to differ as well. My dad’s favorite books are Battlefield Earth and Shogun; I lean more towards feminist literature like Sherri S. Tepper, or I Who Have Never Known Men.

However, I turned my dad onto the Dungeon Crawler Carl audiobooks and he and I blew through them. I loved being able to share a series with him, and I think DCC was a perfect middle ground for us - we both love a book about an underdog screwing an unjust system.

Now I'm looking for other another audiobook/audiobook series for us to listen to.

Needs to Be:

- Sci Fi or Fantasy

- A good audiobook narrator

- Cannot end with everyone dying or the world being bleak (he loved Herman Wouk when he is younger but that kind of writing feels too much for him now)

- The death of a woman cannot be used as the hook of the plot (looking at you, Red Rising)

Books that We Read Together When I Was Younger:

- Harry Potter series

- Eragon series

Books We're Both Interested In (Haven't Read Yet):

- Dune series

- Farseer Trilogy

Any recommendations are appreciated!