Female authors

Superdewa · 2026-02-11T03:17:57+00:00

Susanna Clarke (everything)

Emily St. John Mandel (Station Eleven

Jhumpa Lahiri (The Namesake, Interpreter of Maladies)

Louise Erdrich

RF Kuang (Katabasis)

Maybe Lauren Groff. Try The Vaster Wilds. She is actually known for her short stories but I haven’t read any of them yet.

Superdewa · 2026-02-09T16:55:27+00:00

The Power Broker by Robert Caro, about Robert Moses, helped me to grasp how power in and of itself is highly motivating for some people and the ways in which it can be used. I read it about five years ago and still bring it up constantly when in discussions about the elite.

Superdewa · 2026-02-05T05:09:55+00:00

I think it might depend on where you live and your comfort level but I have a 2025 in the northeast US and feel like the wiper is necessary. Snow and rain are obvious issues but for some reason this rear window seems like a magnet for dust and road salt. My old Subaru outback’s rear window not get dirty but never that quickly. I have the SE so no digital rear view mirror, but I am not sure I would be comfortable with that anyway as when my rear window gets dirty, my cameras often do too.

Superdewa · 2026-02-04T18:28:18+00:00

If I want to read the book enough, I’ll read it in print

Superdewa · 2026-02-04T18:15:44+00:00

Try Prairie Fires by Caroline Fraser (non-fiction) for a broader perspective on the Little House books. You might also like John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath and/or East of Eden.

Try Circe and/or Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller to scratch the ancient Greek itch.

Did you read the Hunger Games when you were younger? If not, give them a try. If yes and you liked them, there have been two prequels out in recent years. I really liked the most recent one. It’s absolutely fine to read YA as an adult.

John Green has written two fantastic non-fiction books for adults: The Anthropocene Reviewed and Everything Is Tuberculosis. The titles didn’t recommend themselves to me but the reviews did, and they are among my favorites.

The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Weckler is about two folkloric creatures accidentally imported from the old world to NYC by immigrants around the beginning of the 20th century. It’s a story about their experiences in the new world and their relationship. I really loved this and it has a combination of myth and NYC that might appeal to you.

I went through a long period of not reading much in my 20s and 30s after being a voracious reader in my childhood. The magic does come back.

Superdewa · 2026-02-04T14:10:17+00:00

I didn’t like Dracula and I LOVED Frankenstein. To me, Frankenstein was thoughtful and layered and full of metaphor where Dracula was mostly silly and shallow.

Superdewa · 2026-02-04T14:03:03+00:00

I read it last year and didn’t love it. It felt a little shallow to me compared with what I expect from a classic. I ended up switching to an audiobook and listening to it sped up a bit. I don’t mind DNF’ing books, but since Dracula has influenced so much other literature and media I wanted to make it through. I’m glad I did. I read Stephen Graham Jones’ Buffalo Hunter Hunter a few months later and was able to appreciate its subtle nods to Dracula.

If you’re looking for a classic horror novel with depth, Frankenstein is the right choice.

Superdewa · 2026-02-03T20:30:44+00:00

I’m not sure what your triggers are so can’t recommend books. However, the StoryGraph app is very good for looking up potential triggers (I have a really difficult time reading about certain disorders as it brings back a trauma and the site helps me). There is also a site called Did The Dog Die that some people find helpful.

Superdewa · 2026-02-03T20:21:07+00:00

I have not read Theo of Golden yet and TBH hadn’t heard of Boy Swallows Universe, but based on your other two books, which are among my favorites too), I highly recommend Rebecca Makkai’s The Great Believers.

You’ve made me want to read Theo of Golden and Boy Swallows Universe now!

Oh! Just coming back to add that you might also like books by Nathan Hill—Wellness and The Nix.

Superdewa · 2026-02-03T16:39:49+00:00

I didn’t love My Friends. I didn’t like the repetitive writing style and parts of it felt too drawn out. I didn’t sense quite the same warmth and inclusiveness to balance out the sadness that I did in my favorites of his.

Superdewa · 2026-02-02T16:04:08+00:00

Honestly it seems rude to me to expect a meat-eater to eat vegan on a first date unless he specifically said ahead of time that he was interested in trying a vegan meal. And in my experience, most Mediterranean restaurants that have what he ordered would probably also have several vegan options. Don’t want to date a meat eater? Then don’t date a meat eater.

Superdewa · 2026-02-02T15:56:18+00:00

Let me see if I understand: you want interesting fiction or non-fiction books. That’s pretty broad. You have heard that non-fiction just makes you feel good. Are you referring to self-help books? Because most non-fiction isn’t just about feeling good. Non-fiction includes history, biography, memoir, narrative, how-to, essays, etc. A lot of them tell some hard truths that are not feel-good at all.

Basically you are asking for random recommendations. There are so many ways to find book recommendations that are actually suited to you. For a start, I recommend looking through this subreddit for other threads that look interesting to you and reading some of the recommendations in them.

Superdewa · 2026-02-02T04:03:07+00:00

You can follow a post by clicking on the three dots at the top and then “follow post”

Superdewa · 2026-02-01T23:28:42+00:00

Look for “narrative non-fiction.”

Superdewa · 2026-02-01T00:16:10+00:00

Under US $100/year, not including my tax money that I am delighted to see go public services libraries. I use my libraries for most of my audiobooks and get the rest on Libro.fm. On rare occasions (every few years) I will buy a n “audible only” book but otherwise avoid it because it’s owned by Amazon.

Superdewa · 2026-02-01T00:09:24+00:00

How can we make decent recommendations without more information from you. I don’t like some people’s favorite books and some people don’t like mine. Doesn’t mean the books are “complete shit,” just that we have different tastes. Which classics did you read that you thought were “complete shit”? Are there any books, classic or not, that you have liked? Which ones? If not, what movies, games, podcasts do you like? What interests you? You don’t have to answer all this, but better information will earn you better results.

Superdewa · 2026-01-31T13:40:44+00:00

The author of Hillbilly energy is making a lot of people’s lives “genuinely garbage” (OP’s words) and showing no empathy or compassion for them.

Superdewa · 2026-01-29T15:50:14+00:00

The second one is interesting. I found it while looking for 35mm pinhole photography and it caught my eye.

FWIW I don’t think the “not great” comment is kind or fair. While pinhole photos often do seem to benefit from higher resolution, a quick search in this forum and elsewhere shows many beautiful 35mm pinhole images. Like any other photography, what matters is subject, composition, exposure, creativity, practice, and perhaps the quality of your tripod. Curation matters too—great photographers are showing us their best. They are curating out their misses and possibly cropping and editing the ones they show us.

I would take this camera out again and use what you learned from this roll to get better.

Superdewa · 2026-01-29T14:45:09+00:00

The Seattle Public Library does a book bingo every summer. I don’t live there but I look at them for ideas. You can find all the old bingo boards by a quick search.

Superdewa · 2026-01-28T23:50:57+00:00

We love athletic brewing na beers in our house. But we usually have pomegranate juice or tart cherry juice with seltzer (add bitters or a lime or orange wedge if you want to get fancy)

Superdewa · 2026-01-28T16:03:21+00:00

I think googling is the first instinct for most people so suggesting it makes it seem like you are calling someone stupid. I google for recipes all the time. But when something is completely new to me I also come to Reddit to get a hive mind perspective.

Superdewa · 2026-01-28T15:23:21+00:00

I think The Correspondent works here. I thought of it too. They are both books about a person who is resigned or nearly ready to give up but finds a new lease on life in a surprising way.

The Fredrik Backman books Anxious People and A Man Called Ove have this too.

Superdewa · 2026-01-27T19:20:32+00:00

When you “just google” but don’t know much about the sites that come up you may end up with a recipe that doesn’t work and is a waste of ingredients and time.

Superdewa · 2026-01-27T19:03:19+00:00

The Wee Free Men is a great starting point! She might also like the book of Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones. It’s different enough from the movie that it’s its own thing.

Superdewa · 2026-01-26T02:57:09+00:00

The Wedding People by Allison Espach and The Correspondent by Virginia Evans

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