Reader recommendations
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Underland
Buy this bookJamie says:
This book offers a really varied exploration of different "underland" places, featuring different geographies, geologies and anecdotal reflections from Macfarlane.
Ella Enchanted
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A unique, feminist take on the tale of Cinderella. Its worldbuilding is gorgeous and it is as realistic as it can get when it portrays a healthy romance.
Murder in the Neighborhood
Buy this bookShem says:
Book gives the background information about USA first reported mass shooting with a fine writing and good cause effect relation.
The Da Vinci code
Buy this bookShem says:
I like the book because it gives references from art /paintings while reading excited crime story, solving mystery with twisted end
Great Circle
Buy this booktertia says:
fantastic writing style, unusual, intriguing story very well told. the psychological development of the characters is excellent.
A Little Bit Country
Buy this bookJoe87 says:
A lovely easy ready (only look me 24 hours) of young men who meet by chance and have an instant spark, they face challenges over personal ambition and the classic of coming out and being in love and true to them selves versus the continuing with the status quo and living up to their family values but remaining gut wrenchingly in happy. Lots of funny moments as well as moment one who was a young gay man in the closet and resonate with too… I couldn’t but this book down.
Money
Buy this bookAshleyRosa says:
I really enjoy the unreliable first person narrator - it makes the book flow differently to anything I've ever read before (the narrator has consistent memory problems and lies frequently.) The book paints an incredibly emotional and sympathetic portrait of an incredibly unsympathetic character - it captures the feeling of spiralling out of control in a really vivid way from a first person perspective.
My Year of Rest and Relaxation
Buy this bookLadybird77 says:
Currently reading this after picking it up in a holiday book swap. Not what I was expecting at all but it’s really good. It’s about a young single woman with mental health issues who has a mischievous side and a crazy psychologist. As it progresses you understand why she thinks the way she does…it think it’s going to be a heartbreaker.
Oranges for Christmas
Buy this bookFreja says:
Reading the struggles of a family in the cold war era. The building of the wall between East and West Germany
Kitchen
Buy this bookSofi says:
In just a hundred pages it deeply connects you to the story and characters, allowing you to relate to the story while simultaneously exposing some of the most common feelings for young adults, such as loneliness
Every Summer After
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House of Earth and Blood
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In the Likely Event
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Sophie's World
Buy this bookShug Books14 says:
It manages to convey different philosophical ideas and perspectives. It makes philosophy more accessible by weaving it into a novel.
The Alchemist
Buy this bookOsas says:
What we need in life is almost always within us.
Winter in Madrid
Buy this bookGareth says:
Historical accurate well paced spy thriller with interesting characters set in 1940’s Spain
In the Time of the Butterflies
Buy this bookAlia says:
This is book is so colorful and immersive, so full of smells and textures, yet at the same time so dark. It is a very personal insight into the lives of those who opposed tyranny in Trujillo's Dominican Republic. Both tragic and inspiring.
Foster
Buy this bookGary says:
It speaks in such an Irish voice it brings back such a feeling of home
Blind Faith
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It paints a daunting yet realistic future reality.
Time to Click
Buy this bookSIMON WARD says:
It crosses multiple genres (Thriller, Adventure, Romance, Horror, Comedy) as Ethan struggles with dating and finding his way in the world. He starts the story in a ditch after a horrific encounter but ultimately finds his way to love and personal success.
The Gospel According to Blindboy in 15 Short Stories
Buy this bookPaul G says:
An intelligent, surreal, funny take on life (in Ireland). The stories often take many bizarre turns.
A Court of Thorns and Roses
Buy this bookDive Into The Fantasy World says:
If you are looking for an easy starting point to join the fantasy world, this is your series!
The Blinds
Buy this bookHayleyp says:
This is a great little book and would highly recommend. A local town that is populated only by the most harden criminals or the most vulnerable victims of crime. All of them have had their memories wiped so they do not know which of the two categories they are. Well worth a read
The Salt Path
Buy this bookHayleyp says:
A lovely little book showing a couple with a big moment of misfortune turning it in to their biggest adventure. I like the flow of the book and the emotions it gives