r/suggestmeabook

My mom is wanting a cozy mystery series that is not too rough.

She liked the Church Choir Mysteries and the Hope Street Church Mystery series.

What are some similar chill mystery series that she might enjoy?

Just to get an idea of what she likes:

She watches older stuff like Hawaii Five-0, Murder She Wrote, Hart to Hart, CHiPs, and Magnum PI.

Newer stuff she watches Blue Bloods, Hudson and Rex, and Castle.

Hello! I'm visiting Melbourne in September for 3 weeks and I'd like to read a book while over there :)

Preferably local authors, and if not based in Melbourne then Australian authors are okay. My favourite genres are literary fiction and contemporary fiction! I would like the city / suburbs to have an important role in the story!

I mostly read scifi and fantasy in my free time and did not often come into contact with historical novels yet. So if I wanted to start reading them, which books/authors should I look for? Especially something for a typical fantasy fan maybe.

I like books with a music motif

examples:

The Hunger Games

Lord of the Rings

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I LOVE a deep, multi-generational family drama. Please recommend me some more! I'm open to all settings and time periods.

Examples that I've read recently:

East of Eden by John Steinbeck

The Bee Sting by Paul Murray

Pachinko by Min Jin Lee

The Shell Seekers by Rosamunde Pilcher

The Family Izquierdo by Ruben Degollado

I am not a big fan of romance/"spicy" books.

Thank you!!

I'm trying to read more so I can become a better writer. I want to read books about vigilantes that aren't superheroes. As a bonus it would be nice to also read fictious books about crime-ridden cities. Thanks in advance.

I'd still like a read that is un-put down-able but doesn't rely on a crazy plot twist, or perhaps it does have a crazy plot twist but not a thriller/mystery

My son has ADHD and its difficult to get him to read something he's not interested in. His current favorite series is The Last Kids on Earth, and he's liked the Dogman books, books about the show Gravity Falls, a book called Gamer (can't remember who it's by, he didn't finish it), Spider verse books, marvel comics (kid appropriate) and I think that's it. He's tried several other books, the most recent being The City of Ember, but it just hasn't inteterested him enough.

We want to push his reading level and his interests, but it's hard for me to suggest things because we have different tastes. The librarian is also at a loss. He has said no to the Percy Jackson series (or any of Riordons other series), 39 Clues, some others I forget. I'll take any and all suggestions and run them by him. Thanks in advance for any help!

My mom is an older doctor so she doesn’t have a ton of time for reading every day, usually just an hour or less before bed, or for a little while on the weekends. She’s been getting more and more into reading, so I’ve been giving her some books I’ve seen are very popular (or that I read and enjoyed). She doesn’t like anything super crass or raunchy. Books I know she loved:
- Project Hail Mary & The Martian (altho sci-fi isn’t usually her preferred genre, this was just a good fit because of the vibe of the book, if that makes sense. And absolutely no time travel)
- A Man Called Ove
- Uneducated
- Remarkably Bright Creatures
- The Overstory
- Confederates in the Attic
- Braiding Sweetgrass
- The Hidden Life of Trees
- Drive Your Plough Over the Bones of the Dead

As you can see, she kind of reads all genres. She’ll also pick up a John Grisham from time to time. No romance or romantasy please, and no Freida McFadden or Colleen Hoover. Thanks!

I like books told from bad/evil/narcissistic women's perspectives. I want it to be a page turner. I love schadenfreude and shocking endings.

Just thinking a bit about ancient civilizations and how many of them lasted a significant amount of time and had their own rich histories, but we're only able to discover and research them thousands of years later. I think a book about our current era being that kind of "ancient civilization" to a new civilization of people would be really interesting. I know we're not all technically one civilization, but I think there are a lot of things that could happen that would wipe most of the population out (post-apocalyptic stuff lol)

I want escapism but I want to see a positive alternative world for people who are like me!

I have liked Big Swiss, My Year of Rest and Relaxation, and Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine

I'm looking for sharp, almost academic-level funny. Satire especially. Max Barry style of dry+biting humor. Succession with just a touch more warmth/humanity, if possible. A novel akin to Tim Dillon's old-school porch podcasts.

It can be a non-fiction recc too, so long as it's hysterical or reliably chuckle-worthy. Any topic is fine. Any degree of darkness in the humor is fine. Just nothing excessively low-brow or reliant on SNL-style "lol so quirky" normie yucks.

Hi, I would like a book that is just a lot of fun, as trashy as it needs to be, just as long as I have fun reading it. Some books I’ve really liked are anything by jaqueline wilson, high fidelity, this one summer, cannery row, the briefly wondrous life of oscar wao, the colorless world of tsukuru tazaki (?? or something like that) and the harry potters. I’m 21 but immature and like YA too.

I already read all bukowski, Junkie by Burroughs, on the road, most of Fante’ books

Hi everyone! I'm looking for my perfect beach reads but I often find myself hating the way most books in this category are written. I'm looking for a book that still feels fun, engaging, easy enough to read, but that is well-written and doesn't feel like a YA novel. Something edgy, provocative, surprising, or weird would be fab. Though I haven't found many books in this realm that I've liked, I had a great time reading My Year of Rest and Relaxation (not my typical read).

However, I've reallyyyy disliked the way these are written:

1. Bunny
2. Margo's Got Money Problems
3. Eileen
4. Big Swiss

I'm a big non-fiction reader usually, but my favorite recent fictions have been:

1. Demon Copperhead
2. The Corrections
3. Shantaram
4. Lonesome Dove

Thank you!!! :)

EDIT: I was not expecting such a wonderful burst of responses - thank you all so much I can’t wait to look into all of these!! 🥰🥰🥰

I am heading to Berlin, Prague, Vienna and while I know there will be a lot of amazing sights and sounds I find that I enjoy my trip better if I have some historical context for the cities or areas that I am going to.

Examples of books that kind of hit the mark would be the books by Edward Rutherford such as London, Paris, New York.

I am hoping there are some historical fiction books for the three cities or general areas I mentioned above that someone might recommend.

I really want to get into short stories because the novels I've been reading lately just aren't holding my attention and I've been DNF-ing a lot. Buttttt it seems like most short stories have ambiguous open-ended finishes...lie you turn the page and go "wait that's it?" I'm wondering if anyone could recommend a collection of short stories where at least most of them have true resolution and read as a complete story not just a tantalizing slice of someone's life that leaves you hanging. I realize that all the stories in a collection won't be set up the same way but maybe there's an author who's known for that style? Maybe like Stephen King's short stories (but I've read them all). Thank you!

Im in a reading slump but I think I know something I really want to read- I want to know more about the Chernobyl and Fukushima nuclear disasters. I find that googling and research on my phone as I have done just isn't enough to satisfy this craving!

If anyone knows of any non-fiction books that go into detail about how and why these disasters occurred, and the immediate fallout, I would be greatly appreciative!

For a little info why, if you care; one of my older brothers spent several years in the Navy on a nuclear submarine! I've always been so intrigued by nuclear power, and especially how it can go wrong. Because I cannot join the Navy and follow his steps, I'd like to learn what I still can!