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Hey Pandas, Give Reading Recommendations, What Should We Be Reading?
Fiction or non-fiction, it does not matter, just go ahead and recommend a great book!
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#2
The Divergent Series by Veronica Roth. It's a dystopian series about a world in which society is split into factions: Amity (peaceful), Abnegation (selfless), Erudite (smart), Candor (honest), and Dauntless (brave). The main character, Beatrice (Tris) was born and raised in Abnegation but feels like she doesn't quite fit in there. Tris turns 16 and has to make a choice: will she stay or will she move?
Final score:
8points
#3
Genuine reccomandation: Most "banned" books you can get your hands on. The Hate U Give and All American Boys are particularly good.
Joke reccomendation: Homestuck. Good luck ever finishing this one.
Final score:
7points
and_a_touch_of_the_’tism 1 year ago
All American Boys is amazing, but heartbreaking. Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe is another good one.
#4
The house in the cerulean sea
Witch king duality if you're trans (it has a pretty positive message about queerness)
Cemetery boys
Six of crows
The raven cycle (not for the actual plot but for the sheer artistry of the writing)
Final score:
6points
crowspectre (he/they) (Submission author) 1 year ago (edited)
S**T I TOTALLY FORGOT TO RECCOMEND THESE REBEL WAVES SORRY edit; also, duology not duality
#5
pretty much any alex cross book though i will mention they are more for adults
Final score:
5points
Onion Patch Petunia 1 year ago
Reading along came a spider right now thanks to this suggestion. Looks like I have a good many hours of pleasurable reading ahead of me!
#6
Salt to the sea, Harry Potter, Guts and Glory.
Final score:
4points
#7
THE SCYTHE SERIES. I am reading it right now, it is futuristic, kinda like Vonnegut but not too apocalyptic.
Final score:
3points
and_a_touch_of_the_’tism 1 year ago
Tbh the ending is really weird. I’m not a fan of the last book.
#8
Keepers of the lost cities great fantasy set still being wrote great series
Final score:
3points
#9
The Silent Patient, A Good Girls Guide to Murder series, 1984 by George Orwell, Win Lose Kill Die by Cynthia Murphy
Final score:
3points
TheWeirdoBean️ 1 year ago
I LOVED the good girls guide to murder series! I did think the ending of the last book kinda sucked :/
#10
Graphic novels. Any kind!
I am a person who likes to read, but my adhd doesn’t let me read for long unless I have pictures to attract my attention. Most regular books don’t have any pictures, and if they do, there aren’t many.
Graphic novels have a special place in my heart
Final score:
3points
#11
A Series Of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket!
Final score:
3points
mysterious 1 year ago
I just finished rereading that, and me and my brother are currently watching the Netflix show.
#12
If you’re a fan of dragons, these are some of the best books you could read: Wings of Fire, The Dragon Waking, The Dragon Rider. My favorite out of these is Wings of Fire, in my opinion, it is the best book series ever.
Final score:
3points
#13
tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow
Final score:
2points
#14
Johnny Got His Gun. Best book I've ever read.
Final score:
2points
Onion Patch Petunia 1 year ago
Disturbingly great! And they wrote a great stage play from it as well.
#15
If you like fantasy: Keeper of the Lost Cities by Shannon Messenger (Warning: The last book had a pretty big cliffhanger, and we're not getting the next one until Nov 2024). If you like Dystopian: Divergent by Veronica Roth (Warning: you will cry). If you like Fairy Tales: The Land of Stories by Chris Colfer, it's more middle-grade, but still one of my favorites. If you like Romance: The Summer of Broken Rules by K.L. Walther (This one might make you cry too, or maybe I'm a little bit of a baby lol). If you like all of the above: The Lunar Chronicles by Marissa Meyer.
Final score:
2points
#16
For anyone who likes fantasy, “Eye of the World” by Robert Jordan and “Dune”, Frank Herbert. I would say you can get away with just reading the first book of both series. Also, “Clan of the Cave Bear” Jean M Auel…bonus of it being a banned book.
If you like YA Fantasy, The Splintered series by AG Howard.
SciFi: Red Rising, Pierce Brown.
Romance: Chesapeake Bay Saga, Nora Roberts
Final score:
1point
#17
My lady Jane
Sososososo good, rewritten history of women to give them better endings to their lives, this one is about Jane grey. The are 6 total, 3 Jane’s and 3 Mary’s. You need to read them: by Cynthia hand, brodi Ashton, and Jodi meadows
Final score:
1point
#18
Here are my top favorite books:
-Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo
-Throne of Glass by Sarah Maas
-Behind Closed Doors by B.A. Paris
-A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah Maas
-Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
-The 5th Wave by Rick Yancey
Final score:
1point
Lesbian Sloth 1 year ago
Ahh I'm about to start Throne of Glass! Very excited to find a new series, I've been reading too many trilogies
#19
Well I just finished the Graceling Realm series… it’s AMAZING, although if you’re triggered by descriptions of torture probably avoid, there’s some heavy stuff from the villain.
Also pretty much anything by Margaret Owen, she’s one of my favorite authors of all time
And A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik. That woman is a genius.
Final score:
1point
#20
My account needs to be approved by staff, again..idk why this keeps happening. Anyways I’d say read the Scythe series. There’s 4 books. Scythe, Thunderhead, The Toll, and Gleanings.
Final score:
0points
#21
Peril by Bob Woodward and Robert Costa. An insiders view of the 2020 election, the difficulty in getting Trump out of the White House, and the threat he continues to pose.
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#22
A trilogy that is completely overlooked is Delirium, by Lauren Oliver. One of the bests I've ever read. It's a dystopic america where love is forbidden, was declared a disease and everybody receives a cure for it at 18yo. The main character is Lena, she is a huge supporter of the cure and can't wait to get the vaccine, until 95 days before she turns 18, she falls for a boy.
Ps: it has nothing to do with the movie with Kristen Stewart!!! The book was released way before the movie, so besides being a terrible film they also clearly plagiarized delirium (or maybe I'm biased as hell lol)
Final score:
0points
#23
Gilded and Cursed, both by Marissa Meyer. It's a really excellent retelling of Rumpelskilstin, although it's sorta dark.
Final score:
0points
#26
Anything by Louis L'Amour
To Tame a Land is one of my favorites
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0points
#27
-The Clockwork Dynasty by Daniel H. Wilson
-The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
-The Thief Lord by Cornelia Funke
-The Devil and His Boy by Anthony Horowitz
-Magruder’s Curiosity Cabinet by H.P. Wood
-Saving Fish From Drowning by Amy Tan
-Conversion by Katherine Howe
-Black Rabbit Hall by Eve Chase
Final score:
0points
#28
The white rabbit chronicles by Gina showalter. Ya zombie series with a completely unique take on zombies
Final score:
0points
#29
If you like to find yourself laughing out loud when sitting alone reading, introduce yourself to John Dortmunder. Here's the hero, I guess that's the word, of 14 books by Donald e Westlake and he is a discouraged pessimistic melancholic thief who is a master planner but believes every caper will fail horribly, and it usually does! Looks like invented the crime caper. The first book, and one of the best, is The Hot Rock. Dortmunder and his gang are hired to steal a valuable drum he comes up with a plan and it works beautifully. Six times. Stealing they're good out, keeping they have problems with. They made a movie of it was Robert Redford and a wonderful performance by Nathan Lane as a crooked lawyer for one of the gang members. The best book in the series, and the best title, What's the Worst That Could Happen? Martin Lawrence plays Dortmunder in the movie and his problem is Danny DeVito as a millionaire. Their fast talk and brilliant one-up-manship is priceless. But the best part of the series is that, like Jack Benny's program, the repetitions get you going each time they meet at their favorite bar to play on a caper.
Final score:
0points
#30
George Orwell's Animal Farm.
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#31
I read a review that said the biography ”Cobb” by Al Stump was like a Stephen King horror novel, and it really is. Ty Cobb was like a demon-possessed baseball player from 1905-1928 on the field and in his tormented personal life. Tommy Lee Jones portrayed him frighteningly well in the movie version
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#32
We Were Liars- E Lockheart
this book had me sobbing. Crazy plot twist. it’s a must.
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#33
"Little Bunny on the Move,"
by Peter McCarty.
"A bunny goes where a bunny must."
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0points
#34
Any disc world novel by Terry Pratchett. The disc world is a fantasy setting which capital is inspired by medieval London. Depending where a book takes place it's a set of changing but reappearing main characters. They all have quirks, thoughts and struggles of their own and keep evolving over time. Like death who appears as the reaper who struggles to understand how to be a person. It's hard to describe what the novels are about, because the themes vary so much. But it's not the typical fantasy story about the outcast who loses his home, wandering through the world, finds his first friend, slays a dragon and marry the princess kind of thing. What you will find is a very smart of humour, things put in different perspectives, popcultural references and critism about society that rather makes you smile and think than makes you depressed. My favorite jokes are a raven named Quoth (... quoth (says) the raven; Edgar Allan Poe) and the tooth fairy who climbs out a window to ask for some change. When she didn't succeed, she climbed back in, mumbling she will leave the bigger bill, but will also have to take more teeth with her.
Final score:
0points
and_a_touch_of_the_’tism 1 year ago
Oh my god yes I totally forgot. Terry Pratchett is the BEST! I particularly like the Tiffany Aching books and The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents.
#35
Coyote sunrise by Dan Gemeinhart is pretty good
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0points
Unproductive Pigeon 1 year ago
Bro no way I thought I was the only one who read that book! I’ve reread it at least four times, and every single time it makes me cry. So glad to see it getting some recognition
#36
Ireland by Frank Delaney
A story about the last travelling story teller. It’s a passage through the history and folklore of the Emerald Isle. written through the eyes of a now grown up young lad who sat by the fire listening to the Seanchai.
Seven Ancient Wonders by Matthew Reilly
How they haven’t turned this book in to a film I don’t know.
Corruption, conspiracy , fantasy and facts all mixed in to one. Greedy power hungry countries race to find the actual sites of the 7 ancient wonders. A team of peacekeepers from neutral backgrounds have to keep one step ahead to stop them gaining the places hidden powers.
Final score:
0points
#38
Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges.
It's a great collection of short stories. He combines certain philosophical and mystical religious ideas to create really surreal stories. It's fascinating and I love it.
Final score:
0points
#39
i love many books but i loved Scythe series by Neal Shusterman, it is my favorite book of all time. its might not be for anyone. the endings were amazing and they're was always action. 5/5 stars highly recommend
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#40
i have a few so give me a minute all of these are in a series btw
divergent
hunger games
and any thing by kasie west ( christian books)
Final score:
0points
and_a_touch_of_the_’tism 1 year ago
I see Divergent EVERYWHERE but honestly it’s not that good. Also, the nerds are the bad guys! What the heck!
#41
Eragon OR an enchantment or ravens those books are amazing SCREW THE MOVIES
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0points
#42
The Greyson Grey series it’s amazing and it’s about a kid that’s like 13 who saves hundreds of thousands of people in every book from terrorisim
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Frappuchino the hedgehog (Submission author) 1 year ago
Btw it will make you cry btw I’m the creator of this post no cap
#43
I’m seeing lots of Marissa Meyer books on here, but for some reason not the Lunar Chronicles! That’s my all time favorite book series. It literally has so much to offer. You’ve got found family, futuristic sci-Fi fairy tale retellings, the best female/male friendship I’ve ever seen in a book, and four ✨amazing✨ ships that literally had me squealing and kicking my feet. There a couple of prequels and short stories, and two graphic novels, to read when you finish the main series. I seriously can’t recommend this enough!
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0points
#44
Any books by Douglas Preston and Douglas Preston https://www.barnesandnoble.com/b/contributor/douglas-preston/_/N-2k80
Jack Reacher books by Lee Child
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#45
I use goodreads.com to see what other readers thought of a book I want to read. Best nonest reviews
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#46
Life as We Knew It by Susan Pfeffer, about an asteroid that hits the moon and pushes it off its course. It's written as journal entries following a family dealing with all the troubles after. So good!
Final score:
0points
#47
The Inheiritance Games by Jennifer Lynn Barnes (Novel)
When Stars Are Scattered by Omar Mohamed and Victoria Jamieson (Graphic Novel)
They Called Us Enemy by George Takei (Graphic Novel)
Bungou Stray Dogs by Kafka Asagiri (Manga)
Final score:
0points
#48
I'm currently reading the late Clive James's translation of Dante's The Divine Comedy. Purists would probably hate it, but what he's done is interpolated a lot of the explanatory footnotes into the text, so you don't lose the momentum of the poem while you find out why some ancient pope or other is wallowing in the s**t river. It works for me.
Final score:
-1point
#49
The Art of the Deal
Final score:
-4points
What do you think ?
jenpholata.writergirlinsofl 1 year ago
If you haven't read it yet- "A Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley (for a thought-provoking Classic--- that they made us read in high school... Science Fiction/ Fantasy- very cool. It's the 1 piece of Literature that's stuck in my mind, especially in the past 4/5 years w/ our Country's problems.... It's a really sort of weird/ very much like our World (if you compare the basic classes of people in the book to the different, naturally-formed groups of our society now.)
jenpholata.writergirlinsofl 1 year ago
If you haven't read it yet- "A Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley (for a thought-provoking Classic--- that they made us read in high school... Science Fiction/ Fantasy- very cool. It's the 1 piece of Literature that's stuck in my mind, especially in the past 4/5 years w/ our Country's problems.... It's a really sort of weird/ very much like our World (if you compare the basic classes of people in the book to the different, naturally-formed groups of our society now.)
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