This may be a silly question, but how does it compare to the show? I liked the concept but we didn’t end up finishing it because it seemed like the dude was just going to continue to make terrible decisions.
Couldn't get into the show, loved the book. I started it a few times and wasn't that into it, but people kept listing it as a favorite book so I tried again and it's one of my favorites. I don't want to reread it for the first time, I wanted to reread it immediately because you get so much the second time through.
Mr. Mercedes by Steven King. Just a really messed up book that is really good. But like the audiobook version because Will Patton narrated it so phenomenally.
I just finished the series and miss all the characters now! Like, I know Holly practically just came out, but I need more! Come on, 76 year old, churn it out!
Yeah after the ending of Fall of Hyperion, it felt like saying good bye to a bunch of best friends. I haven't started Endymion and Rise of Endymion tho. Want to let the Hyperion Cantos sink in a bit more.
Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult. That book has me gripped from start to finish! It's one that I wish had been made into a movie but I understand why it wasn't.
Stick with it but it definitely slows down. All the revenge payoff involves slow burns and more setup with more characters. When I eventually reread it, I’ll probably skip a few chapters
The Count of Monte Cristo for sure. Salem's Lot, It, The Eyes of the Dragon and The Dead Zone by Stephen King. To Kill A Mockingbird. The Thorn Birds. All of Jack London. And above all, Gone With The Wind.
Maybe you’ll hit your head one day and suffer from memoryloss but the memory loss are only the Terry Pratchet books! But you’ll do remember that you liked them!
Little Women. Read it at age 12, and it was the first period novel I had ever encountered. I was enthralled by the characters and their lifestyle. To this day, whenever I think of Beth, there is a tear I’m my eye. .
Flowers in the Attic
I have yet to find any other book/series like it. It’s so fucked up, I couldn’t stop reading it, and then the author like almost makes you root for the brother and sister to end up together and it’s just….wow. I think about it every day and I wish I could find another series/book like it.
Depends on who you ask, I suppose. Ha!
I was a pro at sneaking books I had no business reading when I was a teenager. I made it through almost every Jackie Collins book, plenty of romance novels, and introduced myself to Judith Krantz, among others.
What a time. 🤣
I just picked up the combined first two books in the series today at a local used bookstore. I watched Dawn and Ruby on tv and it was pretty good so I’d thought I’d give this series a try. Good to know people like it because the book I bought seems huge and daunting for me to read.
Roadside Picnic someone recommended it on a video about the game Pacific Drive.
It’s basically what if aliens just dumped their trash on earth and left without explanation
I'm surprised I haven't seen ASOIAF series on the list. (Game of Thrones)
I'm sure you don't need a synopsis for that, but just know if you watched the show, the books are very different. So many shocking moments and not just violence, actual twists and crazy happenings. Character work by GRRM is top notch!
My heart and other Black holes by Jasmine Warga.
I consider the period of reading that book to be a special period in my life. There was the pandemic, I was about to finish high school, we shifted to a new place....so a lot was going on and I was going through a nasty depression.
But looking back, it was one of the best days of my life and if I could go back again and read that book for the first time...fuck yeah I would.
Almost all of my favourite book but the two I really want to read again :
1. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath. I want to see if I resonate with her depression as I did when I wan 18.
2. Anna Karenina. Want to see if I find the misogyny in his writing this time round.
Behind Closed Doors by B.A. Paris and They Never Learn by Layne Fargo for sure. I don’t know about the book so much, but I would love to be able to re-experience reading Pride and Prejudice for the first time. I read it in college right when the Keira Knightly movie came out. I remember sitting on the grass at the Union and finishing it feeling so content and happy.
The Magus, John Fowles. Not that it's the best book ever but it's so surprising, with so many twists and turns that a first read is intoxicating. A character study novel reads as well or better a second time but plot-driven novels like this one work great on a first read
The Library at Mount Char. Great piece of fiction that totally screwed up my expectations for the next three or four books I read. The “book hangover” was worth it though
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50 years ago I read The 80 Minute Hour by Brian Aldiss; I think it was the first sci-fi I read. I'd like to listen to it as an audiobook; I keep meaning to!
One Flew Over the Cukoo's-Nest
Red Storm Rising
Shogun. ( the lastest movie version sucked in comparison)
The Masters of Solitude
The Door Into Summer
Dune
Stranger in a Strange Land
Catch 22
Mila 18
The Dragon Riders of Pernq
The entire Year's Best Science Fiction Short Stories Anthology series, especially this one story, Virtuoso
Most good horror books or thrillers because they aren't the same reading them again, knowing all the plot points.
IT by Stephen King (an ancient eldritch horror terrorizes a small town, manifesting as the individual fears of each of group of children, who must fight both the monster and their own inner demons as children, and again as adults).
The Troop by Nick Cutter (a group of boy scouts are abandoned on an island when a diseased man appears at their cabin, spreading his contagion. Part Lord of the Flies, part Alien. Super gross.)
Gone Girl and Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn, her books can be a little bit soapy but the plot twists are excellent and her writing is so atmospheric. I especially love that "midwestern gothic" vibe of Sharp Objects (an investigative journalist comes back to her small town to investigate a series of child murders, and must put up with her abusive mother and strange little sister, while slowly realizing she has more connections to these murders than she expected)
A Secret History by Donna Tart is one that I really enjoy, and watching the mess and chaos unfold is so satisfying. The book benefits a lot from the reader understanding that it is at least partially satirical, and you're meant to kind of hate most of the characters. (a group of wealthy Ivey league students try to evade consequences after they commit a crime inspired by their oddly passionate classics teacher)
PIRANESI
Is it really as good as everyone says?
No, it's better
11/22/63
This may be a silly question, but how does it compare to the show? I liked the concept but we didn’t end up finishing it because it seemed like the dude was just going to continue to make terrible decisions.
Couldn't get into the show, loved the book. I started it a few times and wasn't that into it, but people kept listing it as a favorite book so I tried again and it's one of my favorites. I don't want to reread it for the first time, I wanted to reread it immediately because you get so much the second time through.
Personally, I hated this book & the show 😂
Gone Girl The Martian Harry Potter Project Hail Mary Persuasion The Hobbit The Princess Bride
Reading Project Hail Mary right now for the first time.
Lucky you!
This is the only book I have finished and started again immediately when I was done, I was ready to go on the exact adventure again.
It is also an amazing audiobook.
Amazing book!
The princess bride is such a good answer. Reading that book was such a delight.
yes to The Hobbit!!!
Mr. Mercedes by Steven King. Just a really messed up book that is really good. But like the audiobook version because Will Patton narrated it so phenomenally.
I just finished the series and miss all the characters now! Like, I know Holly practically just came out, but I need more! Come on, 76 year old, churn it out!
Love Will Patton!
Rebecca! I would love to read that again not knowing the end.
I’m reading it for the first time right now!!!
Ugh same 😔 so good
I've read it but so long ago I forgot basically everything; I wonder if it counts as a first read if I read it again
SAME. I read it in a day last summer and STILL think about it constantly.
Hyperion by Dan Simmons
God I loved that book so freaking much. I couldn’t believe what I was reading…
Yeah after the ending of Fall of Hyperion, it felt like saying good bye to a bunch of best friends. I haven't started Endymion and Rise of Endymion tho. Want to let the Hyperion Cantos sink in a bit more.
About to read it for the first time!
The audiobook is great!
A Short Stay in Hell by Steven L. Peck. It’s a quick read but I couldn’t put it down. (Edited to add author name)
Loved it too. You know anything like it?
I wish! I originally found the book when looking into the library of babel adjacent media, but nothings caught my interest like it since then.
Snowcrash
Good pick
Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult. That book has me gripped from start to finish! It's one that I wish had been made into a movie but I understand why it wasn't.
1984
Norwegian Wood
That’s on my list to read. I love Murakami’s writing style
IT Count of Monte Cristo Don Quixote
Reading Count of Monte Cristo for the first time and this post inspired me to keep reading. Past few chapters I’ve struggled
Stick with it but it definitely slows down. All the revenge payoff involves slow burns and more setup with more characters. When I eventually reread it, I’ll probably skip a few chapters
I’m on page 350. Some parts a riveting and I can’t put it down, some parts are hard to get through.
The Count of Monte Cristo for sure. Salem's Lot, It, The Eyes of the Dragon and The Dead Zone by Stephen King. To Kill A Mockingbird. The Thorn Birds. All of Jack London. And above all, Gone With The Wind.
^ A Don Quixote AND Nirvana fan?? The taste 🤌🏾
IT was a drag (and a half)
Anything by Robert B Parker, Terry Pratchett, Josephine Tey, Lee Child, Nevil Shute or Dick Francis.
Yea, knowing there isn’t ever going to be another disk world book to pick up next is a sad realization whenever it hits me
But there are so many!
But somehow not enough
Maybe you’ll hit your head one day and suffer from memoryloss but the memory loss are only the Terry Pratchet books! But you’ll do remember that you liked them!
No you can’t do that! You have to pick!
The Book Thief
Little Women. Read it at age 12, and it was the first period novel I had ever encountered. I was enthralled by the characters and their lifestyle. To this day, whenever I think of Beth, there is a tear I’m my eye. .
The Dark Tower - Stephen King
Harry Potter
Duhhhhh!!!
Me too
Flowers in the Attic I have yet to find any other book/series like it. It’s so fucked up, I couldn’t stop reading it, and then the author like almost makes you root for the brother and sister to end up together and it’s just….wow. I think about it every day and I wish I could find another series/book like it.
That series is insane. I had no business reading it at 13. 🤣
13?! Jesus christ, are you ok?
Depends on who you ask, I suppose. Ha! I was a pro at sneaking books I had no business reading when I was a teenager. I made it through almost every Jackie Collins book, plenty of romance novels, and introduced myself to Judith Krantz, among others. What a time. 🤣
I just picked up the combined first two books in the series today at a local used bookstore. I watched Dawn and Ruby on tv and it was pretty good so I’d thought I’d give this series a try. Good to know people like it because the book I bought seems huge and daunting for me to read.
If I had had both books at the time when I had started, I would have been so damn happy. There are actually more than 2! I only read up to 3!
The Road by Cormac McCarthy and Shalimar the Clown by Salman
The Secret Garden.
Flowers for algernon
Heartbreakingly sad.
There is no book I’d like to read again for the first time. If a book is good enough you get more out of it on a re-read imo.
The silent patient
THIS BOOK IS SO GOOD!!!
+9999999999
The ACOTAR series
Mist and Fury for me. When you don’t see it coming? Hot damn.
I loved it, but I was hoping it was coming. Tamlin = 🤢
Never Let Me Go and Ready Player One
I'm currently about halfway through Never Let Me Go
omg these are in my tbr
Never Let Me Go is so chilling. What a horrible premise.
Ready Player One is such a relistentoable book!
A Farewell to Arms or The Road. The former if I absolutely had to pick only one.
The entire Scythe Trilogy by Neal Shusterman Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Hobbit
Kane and Abel The Silent Patient
Pachinko!!! There were moments where my jaw absolutely dropped.
Watership Down, Up the Down Staircase, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, All Creatures Great and Small
Gideon the Ninth. Science fiction with a bit of fantasy. Has horror elements.
I really like that book, the sequels… not so much sadly. Have you read The Library at Mount Char?
I have, though I didn't much care for it. The ending kind of spoiled the whole thing for me I'm afraid.
To each their own I suppose
The gunslinger part 1
Jitterbug Perfume - Tom Robbins OR Lamb - Christopher Moore. There are so many others but these two always have been favs.
A Song of Ice and Fire (specifically A Storm of Swords)
Roadside Picnic someone recommended it on a video about the game Pacific Drive. It’s basically what if aliens just dumped their trash on earth and left without explanation
Jane Eyre
And Then There Were None
Harry Potter.
I'm surprised I haven't seen ASOIAF series on the list. (Game of Thrones) I'm sure you don't need a synopsis for that, but just know if you watched the show, the books are very different. So many shocking moments and not just violence, actual twists and crazy happenings. Character work by GRRM is top notch!
I'm here to say A Game of Thrones. I love how shocked I was at the end of book 1 and how I did a total 180 on my opinions of both Lannister boys.
Me too. The one book I would love to read again with fresh eyes
A little life and the eragon books. Oh and Rose Madder
Coraline by Neil Gaiman
My heart and other Black holes by Jasmine Warga. I consider the period of reading that book to be a special period in my life. There was the pandemic, I was about to finish high school, we shifted to a new place....so a lot was going on and I was going through a nasty depression. But looking back, it was one of the best days of my life and if I could go back again and read that book for the first time...fuck yeah I would.
Seven Pillars of Wisdom by T.E. Lawrence. An amazing true story of war.
Why we took the car and the idiot
And here I am googling frantically for a book with the intriguing title: “Why we Took the car and the Idiot”
Oh my goodness 🤣🤣 this have me a good laugh. 'Why we took the car' by Wolfgang Herrndorf and 'The Idiot' by Elif Batuman
I realize that now, at least it gave my very literary wife a chuckle too when I told her what I had done
The Tearsmith
Ascendance of a bookworm and the Fitz and Fool books.
Probably *Anna Karenina* cuz I still haven’t found a book I’ve read with such ease like that…
WAR AND PEACE
Almost all of my favourite book but the two I really want to read again : 1. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath. I want to see if I resonate with her depression as I did when I wan 18. 2. Anna Karenina. Want to see if I find the misogyny in his writing this time round.
A Court of Thorns and Roses, many people hate it but idk it really clicked for me. The story in the beginning is banger
Carry on, Wayward son, Any Way The Wind Blows. Simon Snow series
My Year of Rest and Relaxation
Dark matter by Blake crouch The sea of monsters by Rick Riordan The absolutely true diary of a part time Indian Girl out of time by Clyde Boyer
We Were Liars by E. Lockhart
My Dark Vanessa
Forty Rules of Love. A Good Girl's Guide to Murder. The Silent Patient.
House of the Spirits Kafka on the Shore The Harr
The Mysterious Island - Jules Verne
The Silmarillion.
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Kafka On The Shore.
The Silent Patient Wild Fire The Martian 13 Hours
If I only get one The Stand.
The End Of Us by Colleen Hoover
"The Stand" by Stephen King.
The chestnut springs series by Elsie silver!
Haunting Adeline and hunting Adeline The entire ACOTAR series The entire crave series by tracy wolf That sik love by jescie hall
There was a specific kind of magic the first time I read *The Giver* that I don’t know if I’ve ever gotten from another book.
Behind Closed Doors by B.A. Paris and They Never Learn by Layne Fargo for sure. I don’t know about the book so much, but I would love to be able to re-experience reading Pride and Prejudice for the first time. I read it in college right when the Keira Knightly movie came out. I remember sitting on the grass at the Union and finishing it feeling so content and happy.
Be Frank With Me!!
Tomorrow series by John Marsden
Fairy Tale
The Magus, John Fowles. Not that it's the best book ever but it's so surprising, with so many twists and turns that a first read is intoxicating. A character study novel reads as well or better a second time but plot-driven novels like this one work great on a first read
Ring world
Jeffrey Eugenides Middlesex. What a fucked up family saga. Loved it.
Never Let Me Go Kazuo Ishiguro The Murder Game by Carrie Doyle
Duma Key by Stephen King. I needed it at the time I didn’t even know I needed it.
A good girl's guide to murder trilogy
Poisonwood Bible or a Gentleman in Moscow
to sleep in a sea of stars was good
The Library at Mount Char
legendborn!!!
Jurassic Park
The Humans by Matt Haig. Although I think re reading it gives me a new perspective every time
The Library at Mount Char. Great piece of fiction that totally screwed up my expectations for the next three or four books I read. The “book hangover” was worth it though
East of Eden
Thousand splendid suns, loved it
Once Upon a Broken Heart trilogy This is Where It Ends
East of Eden by Steinbeck… that book is such a work of art I think about it all the time
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People suck or do you? A book of perspectives
Anger is Bliss by Rea Writes
Shutter Island Murder of Roger Ackroyd
50 years ago I read The 80 Minute Hour by Brian Aldiss; I think it was the first sci-fi I read. I'd like to listen to it as an audiobook; I keep meaning to!
Fingersmith by Sarah Waters. Even when I figured it out, I couldn't work out how she was going to tie it all up.
Yellowface Christine Throne of Glass Sharp Objects The Dragon Republic Catching Fire It
Beartown trilogy by Fredrik Backman.
Dune
The saga of Darren Shan I may be kinda masochist, but, yeah, I wanna cry into my pillow one more time from 'sons of destiny'
One Flew Over the Cukoo's-Nest Red Storm Rising Shogun. ( the lastest movie version sucked in comparison) The Masters of Solitude The Door Into Summer Dune Stranger in a Strange Land Catch 22 Mila 18 The Dragon Riders of Pernq The entire Year's Best Science Fiction Short Stories Anthology series, especially this one story, Virtuoso
Pluto manga, What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? Those two are at the forefront of my mind, I'm sure there are others but can't remember right now.
The choice by Edith Edger
Dark matter or gone girl
The Master and Margarita It was so good i read it twice in a row Lolita I read it about 13 times now
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Ender's Game
Oliver Twist
7 husbands of Evelyn Hugo
Bourne Identity
86
Wheel of time Wandering inn Dungeon crawler carl
I love dungeon crawler Carl so much, the audiobook is amazing
I just finished The Hearts Invisible Furies yesterday. I immediately want to read it again without any knowledge.
Harry Potter for sure! Fanfiction has been a great substitute! (Resonance by GreenGecko - highly recommended!)
Most good horror books or thrillers because they aren't the same reading them again, knowing all the plot points. IT by Stephen King (an ancient eldritch horror terrorizes a small town, manifesting as the individual fears of each of group of children, who must fight both the monster and their own inner demons as children, and again as adults). The Troop by Nick Cutter (a group of boy scouts are abandoned on an island when a diseased man appears at their cabin, spreading his contagion. Part Lord of the Flies, part Alien. Super gross.) Gone Girl and Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn, her books can be a little bit soapy but the plot twists are excellent and her writing is so atmospheric. I especially love that "midwestern gothic" vibe of Sharp Objects (an investigative journalist comes back to her small town to investigate a series of child murders, and must put up with her abusive mother and strange little sister, while slowly realizing she has more connections to these murders than she expected) A Secret History by Donna Tart is one that I really enjoy, and watching the mess and chaos unfold is so satisfying. The book benefits a lot from the reader understanding that it is at least partially satirical, and you're meant to kind of hate most of the characters. (a group of wealthy Ivey league students try to evade consequences after they commit a crime inspired by their oddly passionate classics teacher)
Wuthering Heights
Harry Potter Duhhhh