#send me book recs

[fruitbatfanclub]

welp…..did y’all miss me? i’ve read 7 books in the last 3 weeks. my social media usage has been practically nonexistent, and that’s honestly been such a breath of fresh air. but i still exist….until someone recommends me something good to read.👀

[ay0nha]

It’s payday and I’m going to the library/bookstore to get some books. Right now, on my list to get is:

Beach Read (Emily Henry)

The Lost Apothecary (Sarah Penner)

Tender is the Flesh (Augustina Bazterricia)

I'm trying to widen what genre I read, so please, if you have any recs for good FICTION romance/horror/thriller/etc. Please send them my way!

[themoonunderstoodmydadjokes]

Yush, your blog is still rad!

As for books, well, I'm not exactly reading those genres but here you go anyways:

Lockwood & Co is really nice

Codex Alera

Anything Brandon Sanderson

The Name of the Wind

Department 19

The Legend of Drizzt

The Dark Magicians Guild

The Moontide Quartet

Ravens Shadow

A Dark and Hollow Star

Yeah. Those are some that I personally really like :3

🥹🥹💗💗 thank you friend 💗💗

Ooohhh so many!! I’ll have to check these out 🤗🤗🤗

(Also fun fact, the last person I dated was reading name of the wind and when I saw that in the list, immediately thought of him 😅😅🫣)

[teanderthalrex]

Alien: Romulus Book Recommendations

Dead Silence by S.A. Barnes - A woman and her crew board a decades-lost luxury cruiser and find the wreckage of a nightmare that hasn't yet ended.

This World is Not Yours By Kemi Ashing-Giwa. Three friends on a new colony planet. There’s more than one way to be eaten alive.

Salvation Day by Kali Wallace. A lethal virus is awoken on an abandoned spaceship in this incredibly fast-paced, claustrophobic thriller.

Illuminae by Jay Kristoff and Amie Kaufman. A deadly plague has broken out and is mutating, with terrifying results; the fleet’s AI, which should be protecting them, may actually be their biggest threat; and nobody in charge will say what’s really going on.

Contagion by Erin Bowman. After receiving a distress call from a drill team on a distant planet, a skeleton crew is sent into deep space to perform a standard search-and-rescue mission.

Authors like Mur Lafferty, Tim Pratt, Peter Watts, J.S. Dewes, Caitling Starling, Sue Burton, and R.E. Stearns may have books that fit this theme that I just haven't read.

[bxriles]

I’m sure that this is not a hot take and that a lot of people feel the same way but like…

The question “does it have spice?!🌶️🔥” makes me want to jump off a cliff. I’m out here looking for gothic book recommendations on Reddit, tumblr, and goodreads and WHY is this the first question so many people ask 😭

Look, I love erotica as much as the next person but come on. There have got to be other things that matter when recommending books or choosing to pick one up, my GOD.

[froglover7789]

luke and hans friendship is so fun to me and i wish it was explored a little more in canon. like they absolutely yap about their mutual fear of leia and argue about ships and han teaches luke sabaac and luke teaches han some awful tatooinian game that is like horrifying (still workshopping this part) and they go drinking and are stupid and i wish we got to see more of that.

like anh they were so fun.... yap city.... and in esb they cared about each other but also gave each other shit like true friends... i wouldve liked to see that return more post hans carbonite incident bc lets face it. he would give luke so much shit for being a jedi

[butchhamlet]

are there any shakespeare retellings you recommend? i really enjoy retellings but it's also difficult to find ones that like. actually understand the source material... i've read your novella duodecimal and really liked it btw! excellent take on twelfth night :-)

THANK YOU SO MUCH WAH... yes, i can recommend some retellings! i keep intending to make a big post with my recs, actually, but there are so many out there that i haven't read yet... so for now here's an incomplete list:

a thousand acres by jane smiley: the first one that came to my mind seeing this ask. it's a retelling of lear set on an american farmstead, and the adaptation is done beautifully and smoothly--it's just distinct enough from OG Lear that you can judge it as a book on its own but also as a lear retelling. and it's sooooo good. it starts a little slow, but the character work is so excellent and it almost made me cry (i will note that there's a pretty hefty cw on this one but... saying what it is is technically spoilers? but feel free to send another ask or message if you want to know up-front)

the last true poets of the sea by julia drake: books that made me have to turn my camera off in zoom class so i could bawl properly. books written for me specifically. this is a loose YA retelling of twelfth night (looser than some of the other retellings on this list) and it's like. perfect. the teenage dialogue actually sounds like teenagers. every emotional beat clubbed me over the head. the love triangle is present--and done really well; it's not present for drama but because sometimes being a teenager is confusing--but more than that this is a book about the relationship between violet and her sibling, and about mental health, and god it makes me CRAZY. also girls kiss in this one

rosencrantz and guildenstern are dead by tom stoppard: i mean. i think most people into shakespeare know r&gad. but in case you haven't read it yet, it's an absurdist play from the point of view of rosencrantz and guildenstern and it's absolutely fucking brilliant. not sure what else to say about this; you've really just gotta read it

teenage dick by mike lew: another play, this one on the modern side--a retelling of richard iii set in a high school, focusing explicitly on disability issues. kind of more a reimagining than a retelling, honestly, but i really like the exploration of r3's themes and also it's fucking hysterical. although i will say there's a kind of jarring tonal shift in this one near the end, so don't go to it for something 100% comedic

american moor by keith hamilton cobb: okay this isn't exactly a retelling but if you've ever read othello you have to read it. you just have to. please god if you've ever read a shakespeare PLEASE. it's a monologue from the perspective of a black man trying out for the role of othello, half-resigned to being pigeonholed into playing that specific role in a very specific way as directed by a white director, but also half-chafing against that resignation, and also exploring the complexities of loving shakespeare as a black man, and it's soooooo so good

exit, pursued by a bear by e.k. johnston: this one is kind of cheating because it's not really a retelling, in that it has next to nothing to do with the winter's tale except that there is a hermione character and a leontes character and a paulina character. i still think it's a very very well-done YA book, though, and one of the only ones i've read that deals head-on with abortion

foul is fair by hannah capin: okay, i will admit i read this one some years ago when i was more into YA, so i'm not sure i would still go crazy over it now, but the plot of this book is that the modern lady macbeth character gets assaulted by a guy at a party and decides to kill everyone who let that happen. and then she does. and idk i read it in two days it felt like being on crack

the wednesday wars by gary schmidt: this one is DEFINITELY cheating, because this isn't a retelling of anything. but if you like shakespeare and you're open to reading historical fiction about a kid in the 60s using shakespeare as a lens through which to understand the chaos of his life (from the vietnam war to his school crush)... it's so good. it made me nearly sob. beautiful book

i'm also a fan of ryan north's shakespeare choose-your-own-adventure books, but those aren't exactly retellings and also the humor will probably not work for everyone. but i like em <3

and finally, i would be remiss not to shout out the fact that @suits-of-woe wrote an INCREDIBLE retelling of the two gentlemen of verona that, like, redeemed the fact that that play exists. if you've read that play and you thought, "wow, i wish this were explicitly homoerotic, or not a rape apologia, or good in any way," you will LOVE macy's book. unfortunately it isn't fucking published yet but WITH YOUR HELP--

[thereadingchallengechallenge]

Question for the horror fans in the room

where are you finding new horror books to read or getting recommendations?

I get a couple of newsletters from horror publishers but they never seem to spark my interest and most of my favourite writers seem to be taking breaks (or have very recently published books) and I'm feeling that horror itch but I'm having trouble finding new things that intrigue me

moving these tags to the body of the post: feel free to send queer or women-focused recs to my askbox. don’t recommend me Stephen King, I’ll cry

edit - June 26th 2024: I’ve got enough horror recs for now ^.^ thank you to everyone for your help <3

[catter-bug]

Just finished reading Legends and Lattes and it was an absolute delight!

[hella1975]

does anyone have any book recs hiiiii i will honestly take any category if u give me a lil review/description to go with it but specifically i want to start reading fantasy again

[slightlyrebelliouswriter23]

tragic that when i type in 'love theoretically' into the search bar on tumblr dot wtf, i just get a bunch of posts about theories, and nothing about the tooth-rotting hand-warming cup-of-tea book that is Love, Theoretically by Ali Hazelwood :(

[aspiring-hobbit]

I’m drowning in a sea of audio dramas and I put 95% of the blame on Mr. Alexander J. Newall

[rosies-riveters]

Darlings, I got a library card. It’s been at least 20 years since I’ve had one. I’m so excited. 🤩

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[mediocrearistophanes]

me searching the internet for scraps of Elorcan

[linecoveredinjellyfish]

keep google searching for increasingly specific book recommendations and the more i do this the more i realize that it's just hello from the hallowoods. i'm just crushed by the knowledge that nothing else will ever be hello from the hallowoods.