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Harry potter

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Ooh I’ve read Harry Potter, it was great. I’m a hufflepuff, what’s your house?

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a brief history of time by Stephen hawking might be a bit confusing but its good

or any robin hobb books
also rick riordan , Derek Landy and scarlet Thomas

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Ok! I’ve only read one Rick Riordan book, and it was really good. So I’ll have to try another! Also a brief history of time sounds very interesting, so I will definitely read it.

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#3

Prey by Michael Crichton. Airframe. Same author. Yes I’m a fan.

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#4

Read Dune if you want to get ahead of the movies

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yes! I love dune, and am so excited for the movie! Everything looks exactly as I pictured it, which is more than I can say for a lot of movie adaptations

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Tell Me Three Things by Julie Buxbaum
Hunger Games Trilogy by Suzanne Collins
Keeper of the Lost Cities series by Shannon Messanger
Harry Potter by JK Rowling
Tweet Cute by Emma Lord
The Giver by Lois Lowry
Any book by Stuart Gibbs or Gordon Korman
The Inheritance Cycle by Christopher Paolini

I could go on for ages. Any specific genre that you're interested in? I could just give you more from that area.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Well I particularly like Fantasy though any book with a LGBTQ main character is always good

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The diary of Anne Frank

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I was really surprised at how much fun it was to read Jane Austen and how funny she is. “Sense and Sensibility” and “Pride and Prejudice” are musts!

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#8

1. Catcher in the Rye. If it wasn't recommended in school, I still think you should read it. It is a lovely story and once understood shows the perils of adolescence.

2. Axioms End. If you like sci-fi stuff. Written by a Youtuber and is actually really good. So is her channel.

3. Fahrenheit 451. Might be a bit confusing but it is totally worth it.

4. Leaving Time. Easy to read, easy to follow, will really surprise you.

5. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Solider. A bit on the darker side but it is worth a read to see it from their eyes.

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#9

City in the Lake
Catla and the Vikings
Night of the Fifth Moon
Diamond Willow
Black Rabbit Hall- Eve Chase
The Night Circus- Erin Morgenstern
The Clockwork Dynasty- Daniel H. Wilson
Magruder’s Curiosity Cabinet- H.P. Wood
Saving Fish from Drowning- Amy Tan

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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

also Because I Am Furniture, A Crooked Kind of Perfect by Linda Urban, Emma-Jean Lazarus Fell Out of a Tree by Lauren Tarshis, Esperanza Rising by Pam Muñoz Ryan, A Mango-Shaped Space by Wendy J. Maas, The Graveyard Book or Coraline by Neil Gaiman, Smith by Leon Garfield, Winner of the National Book Award, The Devil and His Boy by Anthony Horowitz, The Mysterious Disappearance of Leon (I Mean Noel), The Monument by Gary Paulsen, The Family Nobody Wanted by Helen Doss, The 89th Kitten, Just Tell Me When We’re Dead! by Eth Clifford, Meet the Austins, Arnie, the Darling Starling by Marguerite Sigl Corbo, or Loser by Jerry Spinelli

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Prey by Michael Crichton. Airframe. Same author. Yes I’m a fan.

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Don’t know if it’s translated in other languages yet, but if you can read Spanish don’t miss “Bilbao en Mauthausen” by Etxahun Galparsoro. Great description of the horrors of Mauthausen camp helping you to realize what a camp was.

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#12

Fantasy:
The Realm of the Elderlings by Robin Hobb
Cosmere series by Brandon Sanderson
Memory Sorrow and Thorn By Tad Williams

Detectives:
Falco series by Lindsey Davis
Anything from PDJames
The alphabet series by Sue Grafton

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#13

For young readers:

Harry Potter (obviously)
Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer
Bartimaeus saga Johnatan Stroud
His Dark Materials Phillip Pullman

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#14

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
The Shadowhunter Chronicles series by Cassandra Clare
anything John Green writes

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#15

*runs to go grab graphic novel to read title and author* Jo: An Adaptation of Little Women by Kathleen Gros

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott in and of itself is a winner.

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#16

Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut. It's funny, dark, crazy. It changed me. I didn't know a book could be like that.

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#17

Better with butter. Super cute book about an anxious girl and a baby goay

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#18

I guess it could be called a kids book, but it's still really great. It's called The Wolf Wilder by Katherine Rundell.
Some other great books are the My Side of the Mountain trilogy. (My side of the mountain, The far side of the mountain, Frightful's mountain)

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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Ooh I like trilogies. And “kids” books can turn out to be good. I’ll definitely look these up.

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#19

The Museum of Mary Child by Cassandra Golds. The strangest and most beautiful book I have ever read on the topic of self-hatred.

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#20

The Outsiders
That Was Then, This is Now
Both by S.E. Hinton
Thank me later

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Is thank me later a book suggestion are you telling me to thank you later?

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#21

frank(Francis) McCourt. life story.
Angela's ashes
Tis
forget 3rd title

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Shadow and bone trilogy by leigh bardugo
Six of crows duology by the same author and King of scars duology again same author it goes in an order btu you can read the separate series' in whatever order you want you just might not understand whats happening at some parts

Also A dangerous education

Blood heir

The false Prince

Anything by Terry pratchett

Earthsea

Eragon

The far pavilions

Desperaux

His dark materials

A pinch of magic

Lore by Alexandra Bracken



I am a complete book nerd and therefore I have 2.5 million books I can recommend

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Another fellow YA fan I see! Also a fellow booknerd, judging by my 209 books (lol I just counted)

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I’ve just finished “The Lost Apothecary “, and liked it so well that I was disappointed when it ended.

“The Choice”, by Dr. Edith Eger, an Auschwitz survivor and much lauded psychologist, who now lives in the US. She discusses how she survived her horrifying treatment during (and even after) the Holocaust. She then goes on to tell us that we’re able to make “The Choice” about how we can process our traumas, to be able to move forward to live life as fully as possible. She’s very compassionate, and explains why we should never diminish our own suffering by comparing it to another’s. Not even hers. As a person with complex PTSD, it changed my life!

“The Girl With the Louding Voice”. Set in contemporary Africa, a young teenage girl is sold into marriage, and has many terrible trials throughout her young life. She is very intelligent, and all she wants in life is the chance for an education. A window is given into the horrible conditions in which destitute people living in third-world countries suffer. Despite my description, it is a tale of perseverance, survival, and strength.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That sounds fascinating! I hope my library or one of the other public libraries in our tri-county area carries it.

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#24

Wings of Fire by This T Sutherland

The Red Queen series by Victoria Aveyard

Keeper of the Lost Cities by Shannon Messenger

Land of Stories by Chris Culfer

Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

Harry Potter by JK Rowling

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I have read Wings of Fire, Keeper of the Lost Cities, land of stories, and Harry Potter, and they were great!

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The Barbarian Nurseries by Hector Tobar

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#26

1. the bible of ur choice;
2. weaveworld clive barker
c. two years before the mast richard dana jr.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Tried the first. Inconsistent, contradicts itself (apostles), full of violence towards women, minorities, other nations, approval of incest and the like. Sick.

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A Court of Thornes and Roses by Sarah J. Maas (PLEASE READ! YOU WILL NOT REGRET IT)

Throne of Glass Series by Sarah J. Maas (ONCE AGAIN, PLEASE READ)

The Naturals Series by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

The Inheritance Games by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

The Renegades Series by Marissa Meyer (Great enemies to lovers/sci-fi)

The Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins

Serpent and Dove series by Shelby Mahurin (ANOTHER MUST-READ)

Shatter Me series by Taherah Mafi (YOU WILL NOT REGRET READING THIS, JUST GET THROUGH THE FIRST BOOK)

I'm keeping these as YA books since I know there's quite a few teens on here, enjoy! :D

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#28

East Of Eden by John Steinbeck

May be considered a bit of a classic but it's very easy reading and practically unputdownable. Gripping.

Also as a modern page turner I would go for:

The Catch by T. M. Logan

Twisty and very, very hard to put down. You'll want to read it in one sitting.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

"East of Eden" is in my top 3. The magnificence of his writing is damn near perfection. It was the writing aesthetic itself that made me love it, more so than the story (which was fantastic as well). My current copy is paperback and I use it to press delicate blossoms, I underline my favorite passages, (which I will read over and over) and I have notes in the margins. This is MY book and I love it and the novel means so much to me.

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The Thickety series by J.A. White
The Secret of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel series by Michael Scott
The Name of this Book is Secret series by Pseudonymous Bosch
The Chronicles of Prydain series by Lloyd Alexander

Sorry for all the series but they’re all so good.

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James Herriot "All Things Great and Small" series - delightful
"The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls - amazing memoir
"Bitter Blood" by Jerry Bledsoe - one of the best true crime book written
"Over the Edge of the World" by Laurence Bergreen - you did not learn the full story of Magellan in school
"The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot
Currently reading "The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War" by Craig Whitlock

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#31

Everything by the Brontë sisters and also Jules Verne I started reading their books when I was 12 and I've been obsessed since.

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#32

I enjoyed the quartets of books by Tamora Pierce. Characters from earlier quartets appear in later ones so it all threads together

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#33

The Fairyland series by Catherynne Valente.

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#34

Inherit The Wind
Of Mice and Men
I separated them so it wouldn’t read “inherit the wind of mice and men” - this way it’s not a breeze (oh see what I did) subtitled. The big book of Farts - it’s a gas!

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This big book of farts? That’s a thing? Well if it’s recommended by a fellow panda I will have to try it.

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#35

Almost anything by Farley Mowat: People of the Deer, Never Cry Wolf, The boat who wouldn't float.

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Anything by Anne McCaffrey
The Deeds of Paksenarion also Paladins Legacy- Elizabeth Moon
Time Enough for Love - Robert Heinlein
Pandora Sequence - Frank Herbert
Earth's Children - Jean Auel
EarthCent Ambassador - E M Foner
Uglies series - Scott Westerfeld

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#37

Drown Her Sorrows by Melinda Leigh. I had to read it last year for a group project

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#38

Keeper of the Lost Cities - Shannon Messenger
Harry Potter -Jk Rowling
Percy Jackson -Rick Riordan
Any series by Rick Riordan really.
The Lunar Chronicles - Marissa Meyer
Because You'll Never Meet Me - Leah Thomas
Fablehaven- Brandon Mull
The War That Saved My Life- L
Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

That's all I got :)

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#39

The MacAuslan stories by George MacDonald Fraser.
A series of humorous short stories from the author of the Flashman Papers, tall tales *very* loosely based upon his own experiences as a newly minted 2nd Lieutenant in a Scottish infantry regiment in the immediate aftermath of WWII.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Utterly brilliant. The kind of book you are afraid to read on public transport for fear of being looked at, but the history is real. Also The Pyrates.

#40

The girl with the louding voice, Abi Daré
One, Sarah Crossan
Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier

Manga (if you like manga)

Eniale & Dewiela, Kamome Shirahama
Princess Jellyfish, Akiko Higashimura
Naruto, Masashi Kishimoto

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#41

You should read The Hot Zone by Richard Preston. It's about the Ebola outbreak that first appeared in 1976. Not for the faint of heart!

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#42

matt ruff - fool on the hill

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#43

The Road by Cormac McCarthy

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Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

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#45

Hi I’d love to help you find a few books to read
Please try sapians the graphic history by Yuvan Noah harrai
And murder on the orient express by agatha Kristy

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#46

Columbus Day - Craig Alanson-

The first book of a series but first book will get you hooked

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Day of the Jackal Frederick Forsythe The purest of crime novels
Pritzi's Honor Series Richard Condon Delightful Mafioso
Guns, Germs and Steel Jared Diamond A history of us
Long Haul Finn Unusual Biography with lots of smiles
Anything by Barbara Tuchman Guns of August, etc. She puts humanity into history
James Clavell's Asian Saga Start with Tai Pan
Devil in the White City Erik Larson True Crime and history
The Fatal Shore Hughes Founding of Australia, the hardest book I have ever read.

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#48

*The Eight - Katherine Neville
*The Mists of Avalon - Zimmerman
*Dear Mad’m - Stella Walthall Patterson
*Night People - Jack Finny
*The Dog Who Spoke with Gods - Dianne Jessup
*Cosmic Banditos - A.C. Weisbecker
*The Invention of Nature: Alexander Von Humboldt's Andrea Wulf
* Tides: The Science and Spirit of the Ocean...
by Jonathan White
*Indian Country AND In the Spirit of Crazy Horse - Peter Matthiessen
*Silent Spring - Rachel Carson
*Sea of Cortez, Grapes of Wrath - Steinbeck
*Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants - Robin Wall Kimmerer
*Island of the Blue Dolphin - Scott O'Dell
*any book by Irving Stone, John McPhee, Wallace Stegner

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#49

Most of mine have already been mentioned, but if you like "pre-teen" and fantasy books, then the Nevermoor series would be good for you. the three books so far are Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow, Wundersmith: The Calling of Morrigan Crow, and Hollowpox: The Hunt for Morrigan Crow. It is a currently on-going series, and is really good so far. Hollowpox and it's ending is by far my favorite book.

Also the Wizards of Once quadrilogy(four books)the series finished not that long ago, and it is really good, in the same genre as the Nevermoor series, it also has a good mystery and world building.

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Like sci-fi? Try any of the Vorkosigan Saga by Lois McMaster Bujold. Or Bobiverse books by Dennis E. Taylor. They are both great series, character driven, written by authors that are interested in their characters as much as the setting.

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A few more:
The Hinges of History series by Thomas Cahill. He describes eras that if they hadn't happened the way they did, we would not be the way we are now. The first title he wrote is "How the Irish Saved Civilization- It's no joke, they really did.

Also, Exodus by Leon Uris. I almost flunked out of college the semester I read it, instead of doing homework

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#52

Some of my personal favourites:

LOTR + The Hobbit
Nevermoor series
Discworld
His Dark Materials + The Book of Dust

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#53

All of the Stephen King books …

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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I wouldnt recommend them, he tends to write very sexualized and weird female characrers specially girls

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