Galatea by Madeline Miller…oh my god! Short story. Took 45 minutes on audio and when I tell you my jaw was on the floor the whole time, I mean it! Best narration I’ve ever heard so worth listening in audio. This is a reimagining of pygmalian’s beautiful statue that was brought to life. Set a bit more modern. Can’t say more. It’s heartbreaking, shocking, gorgeous, poetic, will awaken the feminine rage, and generally left me screaming HOLY SH!!.
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John Steinbeck’s East of Eden. Fantastic American story teller. I read it a year ago and still can’t stop thinking about it. Very accessible and easy to read.
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Stephen King The Stand it’s a really good story of good vs evil!
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Favorite book: Fahrenheit 451. Short book but packs a punch with so many levels to unravel. Gets better each time I read it. Favorite epic book: Lonesome Dove This book will take you for a nerve wracking, breath holding, gut punching ride, and you will get lost in the beauty and devastation
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A Wizard of Earthsea – Ursula K. Le Guin (the most perfect book I’ve ever read—perfect prose, perfect pacing, perfect symbols, perfect wisdom, perfect perfect perfect!) Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell – Susanna Clarke (the most delightful reading experience of my life—I don’t care how long it is, or if anything is tangential, I’m just so mega happy to be reading it!) A Stranger in Olondria – Sofia Samatar (criminally under read, this book is gorgeously written and ultra tender as a story) Galveston – Sean Stewart (everyone should be ashamed of themselves for not reading Stewart’s work. His prose is uniquely perfect balanced, his characterization is sophisticated, and I’ve never read anyone who writes magic better than Stewart—it honestly feels like magic, wondrous and strange and wild, not some overly complicated system) Crime and Punishment; The Idiot – Fyodor Dostoevsky (my favorite author, and a true master of the workings of the human mind) Declare – Tim Powers (a WILD novel, this one deserved to tie with Galveston for the 2001 World Fantasy Award—it’s part spy novel, part Lovecraftian eldritch nightmare, and it’s all remarkable!) Hyperion – Dan Simmons (a book I think about often, and one of the greatest works of science fiction I know)
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I don't know if you had read it, but I LOVE Red Sister by Mark Lawrence. It's about a girl who is brought to a monastery where girls are taught by nuns to be assassins, spies, use magic... It's character driven and the main character, Nona, is a bit unrealiable, so you have the suspense of not knowing what happened to her to reach the convent, why are people trying to kill her, while at the same time you are following her in the present day and what's happening there. It has other characters that end up having their own POVs and it's a lot about friendship. I really really loved it, it's the perfect combination of suspense, characters, plot and magic for me. I hope you enjoy it if you end up giving it a try!
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One of my recent favourites is Habibi by Craig Thompson. It mixes fantasy, history and a lot of wonderfult art. A magical graphic novel i cant stop recommending.
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Every morning the way home gets longer and longer by Frederik Backman. A short little novella, takes about an hour to read - and there is no better way to spend that hour than reading that book. It's about a grandpa suffering from some sort of progressing dementia and the very special relationship to his grandson. We get to see how much he loved his wife, that old love, where they lived a whole extraordinary ordinary life together but it just wasn't enough. We get to see the admiration and love of grandpa and his grandson to each other, they just get each other like nobody else. And in typical Backman fashion it's gutwrenchingly beautiful the whole way with a cry-guarantee. Please do yourself a favor and read it.
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Talion: Revenant by Michael Stackpole is my favorite stand-alone fantasy book.
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The Vorkosigan Saga by Lois McMaster Bujold - The books in the series are each very different. They range from action, to political thriller, to space opera, to quirky romance, to comedy of manners. All the books are clever, witty, have interesting characters and character development, and are page-turners. There is nothing else quite like Bujold on the market.
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I love classics, slower books. So my go to recommandations would be „The Count of Monte Cristo” (ultimate revenge story in my opinion, with an amazing change in perspective for the reader), „1984” (THE dystopian novel that everybody likes to reference, an amazing read) and „Anna Karenina” (very interesting view on society and what it means to be happy with another person)
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My Neapolitan recommendation has 3 flavours of Fantasy/SF... and 4 books. In Conquest Born by CS Friedman The best Character Driven Space Opera I have read. A brilliant rivalry, brutally realised. Echoes of the Great Song by David Gemmell. Traditional Heroic Fantasy with an apocalyptic twist. The Sarantine Mosaic (2 Books) by Guy Gavriel Kay. Historical Fantasy plays host to the most perfect realisation of an Author's artistic premise I have ever read.
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What a fun open ended question, so many categories so many favorites. I'll give you three As a slice of life book I'll say A Man Called Ove by Fredrick Bachman I've been reading for Fifty some years and this is the first book I can remember bringing me to tears. For Americana I would choose the Grapes of Wrath by Steinbeck this story taught me much of surviving with love and dignity. A fantasy favorite that no one talks about The Dancing Gods series by Jack Chalker this is a fun romp of a book that starts in a world very similar to our own and moves to a world of magic and sword play.
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Creo que ya leíste todos mis libros favoritos 🤣. De hecho, gran parte de mi TBR salió de tus videos. Si no lo has leído te puedo recomendar The Book Eaters de Sunyi Dean. Si Entrevista con el Vampiro y El Cuento de la Criada tuvieran un hijo sería algo como The Book Eaters, excepto que los vampiros no son vampiros y en vez de beber sangre, comen libros. Hay algunos se alimentan de cerebros humanos pero son casos especiales😂. Es un concepto extraño pero la historia me pareció fascinante, muy original y muy conmovedora. Uno de mis libros favoritos del año pasad
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How fun! I'd say the book that meant the most to me was "Cloud Atlas" by David Mitchell. I watched the movie first and fell in love with it. Read the book and it was even better. It moved me so much that I wrote my master's thesis on it. ♥️
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Bram stoker's dracula, trust me it's one of the most unique ways to write a novel you'll experience if you haven't read it!
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The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant by Stephen Donaldson and The Empire Trilogy by Janny Wurts and Raymond E Feist.
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The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern and The Broken Earth trilogy by N.K. Jemisin. There is a possibility that you have read these before but they were my two favs of last year. The stories of both are so complex. They unapologetically tell you to figure out what is happening on your own, and I love it. The character building, to the world systems and imagination are top notch, in my opinion. 🤷🏻
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Fun Fantasy Books
Hey! I’m too shy to go out and ask strangers LIVE to recommend their favorite books to me 👀. BUT
I am trying this instead – convince me to read YOUR FAVORITE BOOK through a message, a clip, an audio memo, or whatever works for you.
This is the link to the form, but you can also answer here if it suits you better!: forms.gle/3ir69LeLwnehSVTA8
I just need to know your favorite book and your reasons for convincing me to read it! I will feature this in an upcoming video if I get enough responses
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