What are you reading?

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Anonymous wrote:My Brilliant Friend

I have never read Ferrante. Will give her a try. Thanks!

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The Mysterious Benedict Society
Yes, I raided my tween's stack!

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Anonymous wrote:I’m get a lot of my reads from the “skip the line” section on Libby. I figure if it’s popular it must be good. I also listen to random great courses books.

Right now I’m reading the Silent Patient, It happened one summer, and listening to a great courses lecture on the cognitive science of learning.

You can also re-read the books you love. I go back to pride and prejudice frequently.

What's that? Is there a way to circumvent loooooong hold times?

I recently read Richard Powers' Bewilderment. I liked it, although the Post didn't. He won the 2018 Pulitzer for The Overstory, and he's good!

Now reading Jodi Piccoult's new novel about being stuck in the Galapagos during the pandemic, Wish You Were Here.

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I like Reese Witherspoon’s book club recommendations. Good ones lately have been Paper Palace, Island of Missing Trees (fabulous!), Northern Spy, Last Thing He Told Me, and if you are ok with short stories, Everything Inside.

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OP I can never relate to people like you who need to ask for recommendations. I have the opposite problem- my want to read list is like 500 books long!
There have been good suggestions here. Goodreads also does a poll for favorites at the end of the year so 2021 recently came out. I always try to read the top 2-3 from the genres I like.

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Anonymous wrote:OP I can never relate to people like you who need to ask for recommendations. I have the opposite problem- my want to read list is like 500 books long!
There have been good suggestions here. Goodreads also does a poll for favorites at the end of the year so 2021 recently came out. I always try to read the top 2-3 from the genres I like.

You don’t have to relate to me I too have a very long TBR list. I like to continually add books to my library reserves because the wait time for ebooks can be so long. I aim to read at least 60 new books a year, plus re-reads.

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Anonymous wrote:I like Reese Witherspoon’s book club recommendations. Good ones lately have been Paper Palace, Island of Missing Trees (fabulous!), Northern Spy, Last Thing He Told Me, and if you are ok with short stories, Everything Inside.

Thanks so much! I have a few of these on hold. I think Roxane Gay may have recommended Island of Missing Trees?

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I am reading Marilla of Green Gables, not sure how I feel about it yet.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m get a lot of my reads from the “skip the line” section on Libby. I figure if it’s popular it must be good. I also listen to random great courses books.

Right now I’m reading the Silent Patient, It happened one summer, and listening to a great courses lecture on the cognitive science of learning.

You can also re-read the books you love. I go back to pride and prejudice frequently.

What's that? Is there a way to circumvent loooooong hold times?

I recently read Richard Powers' Bewilderment. I liked it, although the Post didn't. He won the 2018 Pulitzer for The Overstory, and he's good!

Now reading Jodi Piccoult's new novel about being stuck in the Galapagos during the pandemic, Wish You Were Here.

Yes it’s exactly that. You only get it for two weeks and can’t renew so it gives some extra pressure to finish it.

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Anonymous wrote:The Mysterious Benedict Society
Yes, I raided my tween's stack!

Some Kids and YA novels are so good!

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The Mysterious Benedict Society
Yes, I raided my tween's stack!

Some Kids and YA novels are so good!

Op here, I agree! Adding this one.

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Hour of the Witch - Chris Bojalian
Weather - Jenny Offill
Mexican Gothic - Sylvia Moreno-Garcia
The Love Songs of WEB Dubois - Jeffers
The City We Became - NK Jemisen
The Anthropocene Reviewed - John Green

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A narrow door by Joanne Harris-twisty and well written story that takes place in a boys school in the uk. It’s great.

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Anonymous wrote:OP I can never relate to people like you who need to ask for recommendations. I have the opposite problem- my want to read list is like 500 books long!
There have been good suggestions here. Goodreads also does a poll for favorites at the end of the year so 2021 recently came out. I always try to read the top 2-3 from the genres I like.

OP - if you're looking for ideas on how to pick a next book - my sister sorted her Goodreads to read list by highest rating to pick her next book. I did the same and plan to read The Nightingale soon, as a result