The Perks Of Being A Book Addict discussion

Who doesn't have that one book they just absolutely love and which they could talk about to everyone willing to listen, sometimes even years after reading it.

Or maybe it's an entire series you simply cannot get enough of.

Yes, yes, you all know what I'm talking about!



So here's the idea:

Each and everyone one of you is going to recommend three (3) of their favourites and if you really cannot decide, you can recommend a maximum of five (5) books. But no more than that!

If you want to recommend a series, please list the first book of the series.

If at all possible, I would love seeing as many different recommendations as possible, so it would be awesome if there were as few doubles as possible. If you see that someone has already recommended one of your favourite books/series, please choose a different one. There are so many wonderful books out there, I'm sure it will not be a hardship for you :-)

When you're posting your recommendations, please state which planet, star or galaxy you are hailing from!

I would also love to read why you enjoy these particular recommendations so much.

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What a great idea! :)

It's always hard to choose from my more then 100 favourite books, but here is a pick from Team Neptune:


The Goblin Emperor - This is a perfect mixture of fantasy/coming-of-age/political whodunit. I could have re-read it as soon as I finished.


Troubled Waters- In case you love fantasy with superb world-building, political intrigue & understated romance (rather then doom/gloom/armageddon) and you haven't read anything by Sharon Shinn, you should try this book (though pretty much all her books are awesome).


Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day - A recently discovered new favourite. It's like reading a story by a female P.G. Wodehouse. Set in 1938 it's light, funny and entertaining.

Member of Team Pluto here!
Here are the first 3 i could think of:

One of the best series I have ever read, extremely well written. Beautiful, awesome and brutal!

Randomly discovered this series, but it's turned out to be one of the best fantasy I've read in a while!

This is so funny and well written, and has a gay unicorn named Gary :D

The Dark Tower series is amazing!! If you like fantasy and haven't read this yet I would definitely recommend it!

Team Haumea

Gah!!! You can't expect only 3, there are hundreds if not thousands. Okay here are three of my faves that I think need a bit more love:

- not as "adult" as it sounds (it's PG at most), it's really a story of friendship. So funny and so sad it broke my heart.

- there's an imaginary/guardian angel talking horse called Thomas, need I say any more?

- okay this one is a little more adult but if you're looking for a book that pokes fun (in the nicest possible way) at the superhero thing I definitely recommend.

This is hard! Lol. Okay, I've got three that haven't been books of the month before.
Team Sculptor:
Lightbringer Series--love the world building, epic fantasy
All For The Game Series--I'm not even sure how to describe this, just amazing-GR tags say: sports, LGBT, YA
PsyCops Series--Paranormal, MM

I’m from Team Kuiper and I loved .

I don’t know if there is an English version of but it is so good, that there must be one!

Kind of a classic .

I know I already said three, but I cannot leave without saying how much I want to reread the whole series of Harry Potter this year .

Hi! I’m from Team Musca. How did you guys got those tiny pictures of the books??

Three of my favorites are Firefly Lane by Kristin Hannah, The Book Thief by Markus Zusak and an amazing historical fiction series entitled Red River of the North, that starts with an Untamed Land.

Team Haumea

it's as magically amazing as Lucky Charms are magically delicious.

I love Kate Daniels and with the last book in the series coming out this year, if you haven't jumped on this bandwagon yet, now is a perfect time. Or honestly any Ilona Andrews, at this point I just fling my money at them and say 'gimme'.

I mainly read this because it was a BOM last year and sounded interesting. Maybe also it allowed me to justify buying the book, seriously that cover needed to be on my bookshelf. But it was great to read a YA with a tough heroine who isn't a special snowflake. Refreshing actually.

Angelique wrote: "Hi! I’m from Team Musca. How did you guys got those tiny pictures of the books??

Three of my favorites are Firefly Lane by Kristin Hannah, The Book Thief by Markus Zusak and an amazing historical ..."

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Team Venus

I don't really know how to describe this book other than that it's amazing and one of the best books I've ever read. It's a fantasy-horror novel that's kinda bizarre, but absolutely fantastic.

This is a really fun historical-mystery series I absolutely love and one of those series that just makes me happy. Also, the two MC's are natural historians and I found myself visiting Natural History museums after each book because I'm so caught up in the enthusiasm the characters have for the subject. Also great on audio.

By the same author (and world) of Assassin's Apprentice series. I liked this a lot more and is simply a great high fantasy novel a lot of which is set on the high seas. Has a great story and family arc and great, complex characters with some of the best character developments I've ever read.

The Autobiography of Malcolm X

Tropic of Cancer

Here are my absolute favorites:

Fiction:
The Book Thief
Ready Player One
The Nightingale

Nonfiction:
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End

On team Betelgeuse!

Laura from Team Eris here!

Only 3-5? OK, that's tough! My favorite books become favorites because they pull me into another time and place making me want to read rather than do anything else.

The first book that fits that description was from my childhood.
Little Women This is the first time I remember being drawn into a book and "living" there. It is a classic, and therefore, many people turn their nose up at it, calling it quaint. But I loved the language, and as a an only child, I could not get enough of the group of sisters.

My second recommendation is The Zookeeper's Wife The story was heartbreaking and uplifting. The amount of research that the author conducted to write this book is astounding. Zookeepers in Warsaw, Poland hide Jews in their now empty zoo after the Germans invade Poland. I could not put it down.

The Sweetness at the Bottom of the PieThis is the first book of the Flavia de Luce mystery series about a young girl who lives in her prominent family's crumbling British estate. She uses science, mostly chemistry, to solve murder mysteries. I spent an entire Christmas vacation devouring these books when I discovered them. I started t read up on Chemistry because it was so fascinating.

I see Ready Player One was *just* written about - so close!

I wonder how these will be used in the challenge! Will we have a mini challenge in our first month?

Judith wrote: "Angelique wrote: "Hi! I’m from Team Musca. How did you guys got those tiny pictures of the books??

Three of my favorites are Firefly Lane by Kristin Hannah, The Book Thief by Markus Zusak and an a..."

Just to add to that you have to be on the web browser version you can’t do it on the app if someone does it from the app please explain how.

Team Mensa


Hard to pick, but as I love series, these are some of my favourite series, book #1 in each posted.


Love these series and could reread over and over again. Love the characters and love the relationships of each series. I also like the worlds they are written in.

- Cut & Run series
- Psy/Changeling series
- Study series
- Black Jewels series

Suzanne from team Venus here!

Three of my favorites are:

- I LOVE this book - it makes me want to write witty, intelligent letters.

- this is the start (or *a* start of the Miles Vorkosigan series, and is a fun book in its own right

made me feel so many things

Hi All!! I’m Alissa and I am on Team Betelgeuse.

To make this easy I’m going with my favorite from last year because there are just to many favorites.

My top 3 favorite books from last year are:
— this is a great non-fiction that talks about where we are right now in America with race relations and offering easy solutions on how to make things better without being to heavy.

— this is a YA that is so well written and had me laugh, cry, and go through every other important emotion. Definitely worth reading and you probably won’t be bothered by it being YA if that is not your genre.

— this is a Fiction book that again was so well written that you go through all the emotions and you still think about later.

Some way this will be used for one of the mini challenges 😉. So excited for February to get here!!

hello, Christina from Team Eris here! :)

some books which definitely stuck with me are

1 - which completely broke me last year
2 - some people may not like this about the book, but I love that it's so hard to figure out who you can actually trust and if the mc is even legit
3 - a beautiful, heart-warming story <3

Laura from team Mensa

I 'll follow suit with teamie Danielle and pick series

= Mercy Thompson series

= Harry Dresden series

( I have a tiny book crush on Jack Reacher!) Jack Reacher series

= Fatal series

*Its too hard only picking maximum of 5. ( though I 'm guessing you want a cutoff point!)

Annalisa from Team Jupiter

I thought this would be easy to do but as others would pick my favorite books and then I wouldn't miss one of them. However, only one author (Robin Hobb) I would recommend has been picked. Maybe I pick obscure books as favorites.

1. This book is written in second person. It takes a bit of getting used to but I loved it because of that. The second in the series, set over a 100 years later, is also amazing. I'd probably say The Chronicle of Secret Riven is the one I enjoyed more. It is a more traditional story in writing style. I can't wait to read the third in the series.

2. This book was devastating in so many ways, but also beautiful in a life will continue way.

3. This was one of the first fantasy novels I read as a young adult and I fell in love. I love this series, and recently found out there was another book I had not read so I'm really looking forward to reading that.

4. by Meagan Spooner is a retelling of Beauty and the Beast. I did not expect to be surprised by a story I was already familiar with, but this story added a bit of fairytale and made it a new story. I really loved this book, and I wish I could have the cape from the book cover as well.
(This has been recommended by Elena from team Jupiter. We have similar taste and I'm going to replace it with a book that I think deserves mention but has not been mentioned yet. The Imperial Radch series which starts with Ancillary Justice might be the only series were every single book in the series was a five start rating for me. It has amazing world building.)

5. This is nonfiction and I remember it reading like fiction. It was a difficult read because the topic was closer to home. I think this book is still relevant today even though it was published in 1991.

Hayes from Team Venus
Raised by Wolves A human girl raised by werewolves. The courage to fight, even when scared.
Shatter Me A girl with a deadly touch, held captive for years to be used as a weapon.
The Darkest Minds Kids living in a world terrified of them. A fight for equality. Proof that age does not mean you know more than those younger than you.

Catie from Team Saturn
There are so many great books here already, but my top 3, that haven't already been mentioned by someone else, are:

- Some of the best unreliable narration I've ever seen (bonus: the author won the nobel prize for literature this year)
- Definitely my favorite children's (/YA?) book. Lois Lowry has a beautiful writing style and the message is important. I think this is probably the most realistic dystopian novel I've ever read--and I've read a lot of them.
- This is by far the best mystery novel I've ever read. I can usually see endings coming, but I definitely didn't see this one, it absolutely blew me away.

Team Milky Way

I am going to give some not so common recommendations! (And one of mine was already listed above!)

~ Fantasy ~ Review

~ Thriller/SciFi

~ Horror ~ Review

~ Erotica Series

~ Mystery/Thriller Series (book #2 is even better than #1!!)

Kaley here from Team Saturn!

Lots of good recommendations here! Here are some of my favorites that I haven't seen yet.

- City of Bones by Cassandra Clare. I absolutely love this whole series.

-Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins. This author has two other companion books to this too -- you don't have to read Anna to understand the other two, but it's a little more special if you read them in order because characters from the first make appearances in the second, and characters from the first and second make appearances in the third. (The third, Isla and the Happily Ever After, is actually my favorite, but I'm going with Anna since it's the first, even though it's not technically a series.

- Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell.

Team Mensa

I love Nordic crime, and these are the first books in 3 of my favourite series:

The Hypnotist by Lars Kepler

Unwanted by Kristina Ohlsson

The Ice Princess by Camilla Läckberg

Wow!! So many good recommendations already! And some of my favourites already as well :-)

Keep them coming!!

I'll be by again a little later with my recommendations.

maria helena wrote: "Team Mensa

I love Nordic crime, and these are the first books in 3 of my favourite series:"

You know, I enjoy Nordic crime more and more! And haven't read any of these. I already put on my TBR as per your recommendation (found it in your team thread when I was doing a little stalking hehe).

Team Hydrus here...

If you love humor, chick=lit and romance you should try

- this series is hilarious

One of my favorite books last year was Mr. Mercedes by Stephen King. It's the first book in the Bill Hodges trilogy. Loved it.

I also loved and - excellent thrillers and unexpected plot twists.

Team Eris ..

- I adore this book

- This series got me into reading

- read this one over 5 times. Still crying every time

Alissa wrote: "Judith wrote: "Angelique wrote: "Hi! I’m from Team Musca. How did you guys got those tiny pictures of the books??

Three of my favorites are Firefly Lane by Kristin Hannah, The Book Thief by Markus..."

Thank you!!

Eldarwen wrote: "You know, I enjoy Nordic crime more and more! "

Yay, I'm so happy to hear that! I saw that you added Snowblind. Looking forward to hearing what you think of it.

Team Neptune

I couldn't possibly pick favourites, so I've picked out some of last year's 5 star reads.

Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
This blew me away. The long wait for the library hold was worth it.

Wool Omnibus Edition
I gave the final book in the series 5 stars, but the beginning is also amazing.

Anne of Green Gables
My first reread in many years, I'd forgotten just how good it is. Rereading as an adult I think I found it funnier than when I read it as a child.

Elen from Team Neptune

Couldn't pick favourites ones (just too many), but here are books that are worth reading and 5 stars from me :D

- Benedict-Savant Series by Joss Stirling
- The Devouring Series by Simon Holt
- Vampire Academy Series by Richelle Mead
- The Czar's Madman / Keisri hull by Jaan Kross (Estonian author - one of the favourite compulsory read in school)
- We Were Liars by E. Lockhart

Hailing from Team Pyxis
These are some of my favorite 5 star books



Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
I first read this one in middle school. It has been one of my favorites ever since.

Night Shifts Black by Alyson Santos
I read this one last year. It is sad and sweet and not what I was expecting.

The Host by Stephenie Meyer
Aliens are taking over the world, say what you want to about Stephenie Meyer but I love this book. Wanderer is one of my favorite characters.

Oh this is hard!

Here are some of my five star reads (Team Sculptor)

- best fictionalised account of North Korea I've read

- I've read it twice and watched the TV show. One of my all time favourites

- I love all things Moriarty, but this was my first book from her so has that special place

- oh and works perfectly for yellow. I'll have to re-read. LOL

- a surprise hit for me. I got it from NetGalley last year and absolutely loved it

Hi,
I am from team Eris, and as hard as it is to only choose three books, here goes...

Just a Couple of Days, by Tony Vigorito, is one of those books that you want everyone to read once you have discovered that it exists. I have bought so many copies of this to give to different people that it is almost shameful.


Sleeping in Flame, by Jonathan Carroll, is another book that I keep buying over and over again so others can hopefully experience the wonder of Carroll's writing.


The Summer That Melted Everything, by Tiffany McDaniel, took my breath away. It is this author's first book, and I can't wait to read what she does next.

Team Hydrus.

I come bearing recommendations for the absolutely stunning Ursula K. Le Guin who sadly passed away last week. I can't recommend her enough. Everyone should pick up at least one of her brilliant, genre-defying novels as she is one of the most distinctive literary voices of our time and is not to be missed

A Wizard of Earthsea for fantasy unlike any other. Honestly the whole series is amazing - 2, 4, and 6 were my favorites.

The Left Hand of Darkness if you ever thought "if you take away gender what is left?" Which is the question she was wanted to explore when she wrote it

The Birthday of the World and Other Stories for some of her best short stories.

Or if you want something lighter, but just as good, I recommend the How to Train Your Dragon series. It's one of my all time favorites for both character development and plot. The books start cute and fun, but then every little thing is brilliantly brought together in the end. I read them all last year for UNO and can't wait go do so again this year. The audiobook version, read by David Tennant, is especially good.

Last, but not least, Guards! Guards! by Sir Terry Prattchet. Fantasy satire at its best and an excellent starting point if you're looking to finally break into Discworld.

You have me intrigued Caroline. I’ll definitely check her out!

Picking 3-5 books is so hard. I love so many books, but I will list some special ones below. I'm from Team Neptune!


It's Kind of a Funny Story - Ned Vizzini

This is a book I've read a couple of times now and it will always be one to hold a special place in my heart. I get pretty emotional about it, since the writer took his own life a couple of years ago and this book is based on his life when he was a teen, which makes this book have such a heavy load and importance.

The Help - Kathryn Stockett

Another amazing book. It's funny, because when I bought this, it was on my shelf for maybe three years before I actually read it and I honestly wish I did sooner. This book has such an important topic that needs to be talked about and people should be aware of, always, and I was hooked from start to finish.

The Martian - Andy Weir

I love this book so much. It's not only funny, but the writing style is so pleasant and while the book gets extremely technical about space and everything in it, it's explained in a way that makes you think you perfectly understand what's going on even though you clearly don't haha. I couldn't put this book down, it kept me so curious about the next chapter and the next and the next and so on.

Denise from team Pluto

All of mine seem to be series.

Enchanted, Inc.
The Hunger Games
Cinder

Ricka from Team Hydrus

My favorite book is always the one I'm reading at the moment.

I started the year rereading my old Terry Brooks books because I watched the Chronicles of Shannara TV series . The books are just so much beter and Terry Brooks such a wonderful writer. The first fantasy book I've ever read was his Magic Kingdom For Sale/Sold. Needless to say I was hooked on fantasy for ever after that.

I always though Kevin J Anderson's The Saga of Seven Suns was amazing and therefore my second book would be Hidden Empire

And who can forget Jean M. Auel's Earth's Children series. My third book would be The Clan of the Cave Bear

Everyone should have heard of these books, but here's my two cents:

1: Gone With The Wind (my absolute favourite book ever). It's an amazing historical fiction about the American Civil War- full of romance, snarky grins, and heartbreak!

2: Ender's Game (another favourite). A sci-fi novel about a boy named Ender, who was chosen to attend battle school in order to learn skills to defeat the buggers (aliens).

3: Perfume: The Story of a Murderer: A wacky tale about creating the best perfume ever- using the scents of adolescent virgin girls.

I’m from Team Venus. So many great books already posted, but here are my 3. Some are oldies but goodies and others more recent.
1. Pope Joan-historical fiction
2. The Kitchen House by Kathleen Grissom
3. Yellow Crocus-historical fiction.

Camilla from Team Neptune here. Choosing all-time favorites is impossible, so I'll just list some of the more recent reads that were five stars, trying to avoid anything that has already been mentioned. I'm very thrifty with my stars, so usually only a couple of books per year get five stars.

by Juliet Marillier
Absolutely brilliant fantasy short stories. I chose the book because of a challenge (needed a book with a hedgehog on the cover), but this was definitely a pleasant surprise.

by Jasper Fforde
Excellent start to a science fiction/dystopia series, I just hope the author would get on with the next book, it's been almost 10 years since this one was published.

by Justin Cronin
The whole series was very good, although the second book was a bit weaker than the first and third, IMHO. Intriguing mix of horror/scifi.

by Blake Crouch
Again, a very good thriller/horror series. I admit that when I started the first book, I hadn't a clue about where the story was going to end.

And finally by Neil Gaiman. I'm not a devoted fan of Mr. Gaiman, I e.g. was utterly bored by American Gods, but this was just super. I usually love books that make me cry.

I’m with you on that Fforde book Camilla, but I’ve really lost hope. Apparently it wasn’t a great commercial success so that’s why he has prioritised other books. Such a shame as I thought it was a fantastic book!

I love Jasper Fforde, especially the Thursday Next series, but I have this book on my TBR shelf too. :)

Caroline wrote: "Team Hydrus.

I come bearing recommendations for the absolutely stunning Ursula K. Le Guin who sadly passed away last week. I can't recommend her enough. Everyone should pick up at least one of he..."

The City Watch series is my favourite among the Discworld books. :)

Melindam wrote: "I love Jasper Fforde, especially the Thursday Next series, but I have this book on my TBR shelf too. :)"

Not read the Thursday Next series, but this one has been on my shelf for ages. I even started reading the first pages at some point, and I agree with Camilla and Karen, such a great start!! I need to get back to it and actually read it some time soon.