#i dont rlly read that much fiction either i like informational books which is super boring i know

[mintbees]

mr. bees i wanna ask what your favorite book/book you'd recommend bc i just finished mine and i keep finding tiktok books recommend and im losing it

idk what my favorite book is tbh! id probably say the LOTR trilogy. but for recommendations i can can give you some recs based off of categories i like to read. put under a read more cuz i rambled a lot

fantasy/sci-fi:

Lord of the rings: kinda obvious its like The fantasy story but its truly so good. Tthe world tolkien made is like nothing else. If you love worldbuilding LOTR is a must read it literally raised the bar for me when i was a kid.

Dune: currently ive only finished the first book but DAMN. a staple of the sci-fi genre its got the same intricate worldbuilding of LOTR but this one is a little bit more like.....idk how to describe it but you've gotta be a real fucking dork ass nerd to read these books its 500 pages of people fighting over a planet made out of space cocaine. its great.

overall fiction:

Sputnik Sweetheart by haruki murakami: This is a short and atmospheric read about a man looking for his friend who dissapeared after she got in a relationship with a mysterious woman. Its surrealist and open ended. fair warning about murakami though he is pretty weird about women, not too awful in this book but in others....yeah.

Dracula: U already know wtf is going on!!!

Land of the lustrous: .......okay so this one is a manga not a book but it's one of my fave fictional works just in general so ive gotta. It's a beautifully drawn story about gemstone people following the weakest of them as she tries to prove herself, slowly destroying her identity in the process and it starts very cute but it is heartwrenching.

Jane Eyre: This one is a piece of classic english literature so its a bit more difficult to read but this was the one romance book i read that i didnt hate and thats saying something coming from me

Informational (history, educational, philosophical)

Sakura by naoko abe: This book is about the restoration of the cherry tree to japan through the efforts of british collector Collingwood Ingram. Super interesting book about how biodiversity can be destroyed and restored. Also talks of the fascinating history of the cherry trees symbolism in japan.

the secret lives of colors: a fun collection of various colors and their specific histories. each color has a few chapters dedicated to it and i learnt we made a lot of deadly paints! like a lot! wow!

entangled life by merlin sheldrake: about mushrooms and the way they are much more important and powerful than we think written by a mycologist. both informational and philosophical in the way it made me realise that life as we know is so much more than we think.