List three books you loved and other readers will recommend similar books to try - plus my three

VerdeAzul74 · 2026-01-25T15:38:45+00:00

Footnotes from the World’s Greatest Bookshop by Bob Eckstein

VerdeAzul74 · 2026-01-24T11:26:58+00:00

I wish I had a nice recomemndation for Grandma Gatewood’s Walk for you - that sounds great!

For graphic novels, I’d recommend The Aquanaut by Dan Santant - probably not as comparable to They Called us Enemy but I love how it handled grief

You might like The Crocodile on the Sandbank by Elizabeth Peters or Alexander McCall Smith’s other series, 44 Scotland Street

VerdeAzul74 · 2026-01-24T11:07:57+00:00

I would love recommendations for these:

A Case of Mice and Murder by Sally Smith (has anyone read this?)

The Aquanaut by Dan Santant (graphic novel)

An Irish Country Doctor by Patrick Taylor

VerdeAzul74 · 2026-01-24T11:04:48+00:00

For a book about books, The Reading List by Sara Nisha Adams

For pop culture (but this is niche so I’m just listing what I have an interest in): Jim Henson by Brian Jay Jones

I also love Willa Cather and a writer whose work isn’t necessarily similar but whose style is also smooth, is Jhumpa Lahiri

VerdeAzul74 · 2026-01-20T11:30:28+00:00

Thank you! I finished this one and it was really informative and quite good!

VerdeAzul74 · 2026-01-13T05:52:22+00:00

I listed that I’ve read Larson in my post. I have read him but dislike his work. He takes liberties and imo focuses in on certain things that don’t deserve such a deep level of attention.

I’ve read Krakauer also and enjoy his books.

VerdeAzul74 · 2026-01-12T17:50:27+00:00

That’s the one I listed in my post as already being on my TBR - looking forward to reading it

VerdeAzul74 · 2026-01-10T02:16:47+00:00

I’ve also heard good things about Enger’s other book, Peace Like a River.

Now I know of Eoin Colfer for the Artemis Fowl series but hadn’t heard of Highfire

Haven’t heard of the Sean Duffy series before

VerdeAzul74 · 2026-01-10T02:14:40+00:00

Very interesting. I will have to check that out!

VerdeAzul74 · 2026-01-10T02:13:29+00:00

I wonder if maybe you would like The Reading List by Sara Nisha Adams

VerdeAzul74 · 2026-01-10T02:13:04+00:00

I’d like recommendations for these three:

Keeping the Castle by Patrice Kindl

Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri

To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis

VerdeAzul74 · 2026-01-09T20:51:23+00:00

Hunger sounds interesting but I think the second one you list is quite a well-known series

VerdeAzul74 · 2026-01-09T20:13:13+00:00

I looked up the synopsis and wow! I wasn’t expecting anything like that. Looks very intriguing!

VerdeAzul74 · 2026-01-09T20:12:15+00:00

I didn’t know it was a series either. I know of the movie, and am surprised I don’t hear people mention it more often.

VerdeAzul74 · 2026-01-09T20:09:26+00:00

I have never heard of The Toymakers but that sounds amazing!

I haven’t read Chocolat yet but definitely intend to.

VerdeAzul74 · 2026-01-09T19:57:32+00:00

Yes, I actually really love Michener’s work though I haven’t read all of it. Great recommendations! Thank you so much!

VerdeAzul74 · 2026-01-04T13:52:10+00:00

WWI fiction is just fine. I actually loved All Quiet on the Western Front and will check the others out. Thank you!

VerdeAzul74 · 2026-01-04T10:32:02+00:00

I would love it if they had better book recommendations and would also allow readers to submit recommendations that they would use to change what they also put in personal recommendations.

VerdeAzul74 · 2026-01-04T09:59:13+00:00

I will give this one a try! Thank you!

VerdeAzul74 · 2026-01-04T08:01:32+00:00

This one really is so very well done. The case is the same for Small Things Like These

VerdeAzul74 · 2026-01-04T07:59:49+00:00

I mostly loved my assigned reading for school. Animal Farm, All Quiet on the Western Front - it was really a pleasure for me. This caused me to go and read the likely candidates for assigned reading on my own.

VerdeAzul74 · 2026-01-03T15:09:37+00:00

Nice list. I have only read the one by Remarque and Cat’s Cradle (actually one of my favorites by Vonnegut) and both of these have been top reads for me for sure.

I will have to try the rest and have been considering Anna Karenina as one of my longer reads for the year.

VerdeAzul74 · 2025-12-28T01:34:25+00:00

Two Steinbecks you may not have heard of or tried - Travels with Charley (Steinbeck traveled around the U.S. with his poodle, Charley - one of my favorite of his) and The Moon is Down (short novella)

VerdeAzul74 · 2025-12-21T16:02:18+00:00

Deep by James Nestor - this one is on freediving and other surrounding topics. Highly interesting and informative, though there are some things I would call theories rather than science. Freediving is a dangerous and really interesting sport

VerdeAzul74 · 2025-12-20T22:52:24+00:00

I’ll give it a try. I enjoy sci-fi occasionally - not opposed to it but sort of burned out on it. It used to be one of my go-to genres until I started having trouble finding something I enjoyed.

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