Sharing Thoughts about Books with Others (STBO) discussion

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I'd recommend William Shakespeare's tragedies. (Macbeth, Hamlet, Othello, Julius Caesar, and Romeo & Juliet.

Also, the graphic novels, Saga by Brian K Vaughan, Y The Last Man by Brian K Vaughan, Criminal by Ed Brubaker, and 100 Bullets by Brian Azzarello.

Hi!! I have no idea your to use this but I guess here we recommend books. I would definitely recommend The Goldfinch and The Catcher in the Rye. Whenever people ask me for recommendations those are the two that come easily to my mind.

I always recommend the Illuminae files to friends even when I know they won't read it.

Tess of the D'Urbervilles, Bromance Book Club (romance series), Salt to the Sea

I also recommend The Picture of Dorian Grey

I'm Thinking Of Ending Things and the Perks Of Being A Wallflower
I hesitate to recommend this because of the contents in the book but A Little Life is a very well written novel - heartbreaking is the only word I can think of to discribe it.

Hey! I feel like I haven't read enough yet to be able to recommend books even though my reading list suggests otherwise, haha. But my fantasy favorites are The Infernal Devices, Throne of Glass and Percy Jackson. When it comes to historical fiction, any book that is about the Medici Dynasty, the Tudors, the Borgia. Some cool titles to check out would be All the lights we cannot see, The Last Kingdom... Biographies to check out are Nikola Tesla, Alan Turing, Tolkien,

Hey! I feel like I haven't read enough yet to be able to recommend books even though my reading list suggests otherwise, haha. But my fantasy favorites are The Infernal Devices, Throne of Glass and Percy Jackson. When it comes to historical fiction, any book that is about the Medici Dynasty, the Tudors, the Borgia. Some cool titles to check out would be All the lights we cannot see, The Last Kingdom... Biographies to check out are Nikola Tesla, Alan Turing, Tolkien...

Hi guys! I’ll recommend two books from the Horror genre I’ve recently read that I found really cool. The Haunting of Hill and We Have Always Lived in the Castle, both by Shirley Jackson. Beautifully written and with very interesting plots that will give you the chills.

I'd recommend:
Memoirs of a Geisha
There, There
The graphic novel Persepolis
And the Ocean Was Our Sky (Moby Dick retelling from the whale's POV)
Severance
Chosen Ones
Mistborn trilogy (or anything by Brandon Sanderson)
The Murmur of Bees
American Gods
If We Were Villains
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
Seven Daughters and Seven Sons
Circe
Vicious
Battle Royale

For those who love to write stories, poems, music, or journal writing. I would recommend the following books:

On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King
The 3 A.M. Epiphany by Brian Kiteley
The Writer's Idea Book by Jack Heffron
Stein on Writing: A Master Editor of Some of the Most Successful Writers of Our Century Shares His Craft Techniques and Strategies by Sol Stein
Bullies, Bastards and Bitches: How to Write the Bad Guys of Fiction by Jessica Page Morrell
The Anatomy of Story: 22 Steps to Becoming a Master Storyteller by John Truby
The Way in: Journal Writing for Self-Discovery by Rita D. Jacobs

I’d reccomend:

* The picture of Dorian Gray
* The Folk of the Air
* Romeo and Juliet
* Hamlet
* The lord of the rings
* The hobbit
* Kitchen
* 1Q84
* Milk and Honey
* Sherlock Holmes
* The murder of Roger Ackroyd
* Murder on the Orient Express
* Hagoromo
* The scarlet pimpernel
* Breakfast at Tiffany’s
* Little Women
* The name of the Rose

These are my recommendations that you should definitely read if you haven't already!

Wuthering Heights
Oryx and Crake
The book thief
Six of Crows
The Hobbit
A Thousand Splendid suns

I’d recommend
- Shades of Magic Trilogy by V. E. Schwab
- The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
- Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
- A Song of ice and Fire series by GRRM
- And then there were none by Agatha Christie

I recommend:
Donna Tartt - The Secret History
M.L. Rio - If we were villains
Cheryl Strayed - Wild
Jeffrey Eugenides- The Virgin Suicides
Richard Yates - Revolutionary Road
All Louise Penny books
Stephen King - The Stand
Harper Lee - To Kill a mockingbird

Some favs I’d like to recommend:

- Frankenstein - Mary Shelley (a classic, the first science fiction novel, and gorgeously written)
- Good Omens - Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett (the funniest book you’ll ever read about the apocalypse)
- In A Glass Darkly - Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (gothic lit short stories, my fav in this collection is Carmilla)
- Picnic at Hanging Rock - Joan Lindsay (mystery)
- The Heart is a Lonely Hunter - Carson McCullers (southern gothic)
- The Man Who Was Thursday, A Nightmare - GK Chesterton (weird but very funny)
- The Loved One - Evelyn Waugh (also weird and funny)
- Piranesi- Susanna Collins (mystery/fantasy/sci fi)
- His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman (fantasy series)
- Annihilation- Jeff Vandermeer (science fiction)

We are the ants!

I would totally recommend All The Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr, and A Ladder To The Sky by John Boyne. Two of my alltime favorite books!

For fantasy and dystopian lovers, I recommend Three Dark Crowns, the Selection, Divergent, and Hunger Games.
If you need a good cry and are into YA, I would tell you to read any John Green book.
Science Fiction: Lunar Chronicles
Classics: Pride and Prejudice, Tom Sawyer, Little Women, any Shakespeare, Gilligan's Travels, To Kill a Mockingbird, Hobbit/Lotr, and I know this one isn't a classic (yet) but it should be, The Giver.

These are my current recommendations :)
- Demian by Herman Hesse (classic)
- Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller (Historical fiction)
- Howl's Moving Castle by Dianna Wynne Jones (YA and Fantasy)
- House of Many Ways by Dianna Wynne Jones (YA and Fantasy)

bibliophilia_____ wrote: "Hi!! I have no idea your to use this but I guess here we recommend books. I would definitely recommend The Goldfinch and The Catcher in the Rye. Whenever people ask me for recommendations those are..."

Absolutely loved both of these. I think they were very similar and I enjoyed reading The Goldfinch so much.

My recommendations are:
1. Resurrection by Tolstoy
2. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer
3. The Solitaire Mystery by Jostein Gaarder
4. If We Were Villains by M.L. Rio

(If you like Shakespeare, you'll probably enjoy If We Were Villains a lot.)

I'd recommend : And Then There Were None, East of eden, The Kite Runner, The Da Vinci Code and Letter to a Child Never Born for now;)

No matter what, I always always recommend A Song of Achilles to people! It's about the Trojan war, but more focused on Achilles' life both before and during the war; it's incredible! Still fiction though, and it doesn't feel as academic (I don't know what to use here hehe) as reading the Iliad.

The books I recommend are: The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho, The hate you give by Angie Thomas, Simonverse #1 by Becky Albertalli, The Darkest minds #1, Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse and The Infernal devices series (3 part series). Thank you everyone above for the recommendations :)

Recommendations at this moment : Cormac McCarthy's No Country For Old Men, as an excellent crime thriller, if anyone is seeking something in that genre. (The film adaptation was excellent too). In reverse, I watched his bleak but brilliant and heart-rending dystopia The Road, and have that on my shelf to read, but only when I feel sufficiently fortified - very dark, very unsettling.

To those who love reading historical novels I suggest Gore Vidal's:

Lincoln
Burr
Julian

I am currently reading Lovely War by: Julie Berry and it is so beautifully written, and narrated in a way I have never seen before, but it fits so well in the plot line, so I love it!

I’d recommend the books that made me weep at the gym lol

East of Eden
Crime and Punishment
The Brothers Karamazov
Samuel Beckett’s Trilogy (Molloy, Malone Dies, and The Unnameable”

I recently read Pride and Prejudice and was pleasantly surprised at how streamlined the romance was. It truly deserves to be called a classic.

I recommend three great books I read recently:
Where the crawdad sings by Delia Owens
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara

I'd recommend some of my favorites books:
- Frankenstein by Mary Shalley
- Demian by Hermann Hesse
- Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
- The butterfly garden by Dot Hutchison
- The Flowers of Evil by Charles P. Baudelaire
- The Hum of Bees by Sofia Segovia
-The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

Alejandra wrote: "I'd recommend some of my favorites books:
- Frankenstein by Mary Shalley
- Demian by Hermann Hesse
- Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
- The butterfly garden by Dot Hutchison
- The Flowers ..."
Oh my gosh I love The Murmur of Bees (or The Hum of Bees--I'm not sure which is correct, but probably both)! I kind of thought no one else had really read it!

I am currently reading a book called Sky in the Deep by Adrienne Young and it is incredible. It actually forces you to read every single word but it is in the most amazing way! This book has me hooked, but not necessarily consuming me. It is perfect for those of you who need a book that hooks you and you look to read 117 chapters in one sitting, but also good for bookworms who need to sit a book down for a minute and get some things done.

The Sonchai Jitpleecheep Series by John Burdett:

Bangkok 8
Bangkok Tattoo
Bangkok Haunts
The Godfather of Kathmandu
Vulture Peak
The Bangkok Asset

All off the books in John Burdett’s detective series are primarily set in Thailand and featuring the Buddhist detective Sonchai Jitpleecheep, but also in different settings in the world like Dubai, United Arab Emirates, United States, Germany, etc.

This is a cultural fiction of Thailand by a London, England born British lawyer who lived for decades in Hong Kong practicing law there before becoming a full time author. He lives between southern France and Bangkok, Thailand every year.

Why did it appeal to me as a reader? The characters and supporting characters have emotional depth. There's revealing and surprising portrayals of different types of eye-opening industries in Thailand. For crime fiction aficionados, you will like how the law is portrayed and enforced in the culturally Eastern Buddhist land of Thailand. If you are culturally a Westerner like me, then what we consider law enforcement is very different than the way law-enforcement is handled there. Also, culturally what we are accustomed to is not the same as over there, like the way people greet each other, different types of meals, public transportation, etc.

Some good books to read are Brideshead revisited, Tuesdays with Morrie, and the hate you give.

All amazing books and written very differently! If you read any let me know so we can talk about them!