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Mariposa510 t1_ja6uv76 wrote

My favorite book, mostly because after reading every book in the school library, I lost interest in reading for the most part in my tween years. Then one day I stumbled upon a copy in my brother’s room and inhaled it in one day. Fast forward 40 years and I’m a librarian.

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Hmmmm_Meh OP t1_ja7t5ze wrote

that is really cool. Being a librarian, can you give some book suggestions?

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Mariposa510 t1_ja7ywcu wrote

What kinds of books do you like? My taste and yours may be very different.

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Hmmmm_Meh OP t1_ja7znjg wrote

I dont know. I guess I dont have a particular genre that I like, or atleast I haven't found one yet. I'm also back reading after some time. In school I loved percy jackson, inheritance series by christopher paolini, treasure island and all. Now recently I read 1984, metamorphosis, catcher in the rye, animal farm, thousand splendid suns and some others. There is a lot for me out there to explore.

After writing this much I think I'm more into memoirs or harsh but closer to life stories lately.

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Mariposa510 t1_ja82gy3 wrote

Oh cool! I love a good memoir. Some I’ve enjoyed: Dry by Augusten Burroughs, Paula by Isabel Allende, anything by David Sedaris or Anne Lamott, Marbles by Ellen Forney, Fun Home by Allison Bechdel, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers; anything by Bill Bryson or Jon Krakauer; Wild by Cheryl Strayed; anything by JoannDidion, but especially The Year of Magical Thinking

Are you still up for young adult novels? Try anything by John Green, the Divergent and Hunger Games series, Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian…

If you’re up for trying mysteries, try Louise Penny or of course Agatha Christie.

For adult fiction, I like Kate Atkinson, Jennifer Egan, the book Revolutionary Road; Tom Perrotta, Frederick or Donald Barthelme; David Foster Wallace; Watership Down, Gameof Thrones, All the Light We Cannot See, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera; anything by Ocean Vuong or James Baldwin or George Orwell. Black Swan Green by David Mitchell.

FYI many libraries can provide a list of reading suggestions based on your preferences.

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Hmmmm_Meh OP t1_ja82v2r wrote

wow. I'll definitely check atleast some of these out. Also I heard when breath becomes air is a super book. Incase you are looking for something.

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Mariposa510 t1_ja8uefa wrote

Oh, definitely a great one. There’s also one I haven’t read yet called something like A Stroke of Genius that’s written by a brain scientist. Oh yeah, read Farm City too. Tuesdays with Morrie is heartwarming, although a bit cheesy.

EDIT: The Basketball Diaries is a wild ride. It was written by a teenage heroin addict who later was in a band. Their big hit was People Who Died. Give it a listen! ,

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Hmmmm_Meh OP t1_jaaorh8 wrote

thank you for these recommendations. I'll write back here after I read one of them.

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Mariposa510 t1_jabtad1 wrote

Great! I’ll be interested to hear your thoughts. Many more recommendations where those came from.

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