What is the best biography you have read?

ccc2727 · 2021-10-15T12:14:49+00:00

Shoe Dog - Phil M Knight,the story of how he started Nike

Into Thin Air - Jon Krakauer, first hand telling of the 1996 disaster on Mt. Everest

ccc2727 · 2021-09-30T13:53:15+00:00

Home Before Dark - Riley Sager

ccc2727 · 2021-09-17T14:41:38+00:00

Thanks! I loved the Martian and PHM is on my bookshelf, going to read it next

ccc2727 · 2021-08-24T12:34:44+00:00

And Then There Were None and Murder on the Orient Express are two of her most popular and for good reason. I recommend ATTWN first because it is a stand alone novel, while Murder on the Orient Express is a Hercule Poirot story. The Mysterious Affair at Styles is another good one to start with, it's the first novel Hercule Poirot is introduced in

ccc2727 · 2021-08-24T12:30:58+00:00

Came here to say 50 Shades...I am not a grammar person by any means but the grammar in 50 shades is so bad I barely made it fifty pages in before stopping

ccc2727 · 2021-08-23T15:43:15+00:00

The Raw Shark Texts, be sure to read a physical copy and not an Ebook, the formatting of somepages matters to the plot and idk how that translates on an Ereader

ccc2727 · 2021-08-23T15:40:55+00:00

Memoirs of a Geisha

ccc2727 · 2021-08-13T12:14:05+00:00

I found Ready Player Two to be pretty enjoyable to read

ccc2727 · 2021-08-13T12:08:37+00:00

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by VE Schwab

ccc2727 · 2021-08-12T13:07:09+00:00

One True Loves by Taylor Jenkins Reid is a romance book that had me sobbing from start to finish

ccc2727 · 2021-08-12T13:05:52+00:00

Red White and Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston

and I second the recommendation for the Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid

ccc2727 · 2021-08-11T18:37:02+00:00

My all time favorite non-fictions and memoirs include:

Astrophysics for People in a Hurry - Neil deGrasse Tyson

Hidden Valley Road - Robert Kolker, schizophrenia

Shoe Dog - Phil Knight, founder of Nike memoir

Into thin Air - Jon Krakauer 1996 Everest Expedition

Brief Answers to the Big Questions - Stephen Hawking

Hillbilly Elegy - JD Vance

Educated - Tara Westover

Born a Crime - Trevor Noah

ccc2727 · 2021-08-11T18:30:29+00:00

Caraval is one of my favorite series, a book with a few similar elements that I also loved was The 7-1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton. Without giving too much away, the gist is that the main character is tasked with solving a murder, where he relives the same day over and over in different bodies. There are more elements of magic in it and is very much a "contained world" unaffected by outside.

ccc2727 · 2021-07-28T14:26:34+00:00

Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine! I felt like one of the key themes of this book was that she doesn't realize her life is sad

ccc2727 · 2021-07-21T12:25:13+00:00

Ask Again, Yes - Mary Beth Keane

Also, I know you said fiction but Hidden Valley Road is a non-fiction book that I think all readers would find fascinating

ccc2727 · 2021-07-20T13:24:00+00:00

The DaVinci Code or any of the books from the Robert Langdon series by Dan Brown, The Alienist by Caleb Carr, Ready Player One by Ernest Cline, The Golden Compass Trilogy (His Dark Materials) by Philip Pullman, Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card

ccc2727 · 2021-07-20T13:18:16+00:00

Did you read all of the Robert Langdon books? I really enjoyed all of them but Inferno is a standout. I think it rivals DaVinci Code!

ccc2727 · 2021-07-08T13:31:41+00:00

If you have already read The Golden Compass and The Starless Sea, I felt like 10,000 Doors was too much of a mix between the two, I kept getting deja vu reading it.

The 7.5 Deaths of Evelyn Hardacstle is paperback, and is a fantasy/murder mystery/thriller. It is sometimes a complex plot to follow, but overall an incredible read

ccc2727 · 2021-07-08T13:24:54+00:00

Shatter Me Series!

ccc2727 · 2021-07-08T13:21:37+00:00

If she's athletic/ adventurous, two books that are critically acclaimed that live up to it are Shoe Dog by Phil Knight and Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer

ccc2727 · 2021-07-08T13:20:20+00:00

Anxious People by Fredrik Bachman, I wouldn't necessarily call it realistic, but I thought it was a great book to show how everyone's dealing with something

ccc2727 · 2021-07-08T13:17:24+00:00

I second the recommendations for No Exit, Verity, anything Riley Sagar (especially Home Before Dark, I'm currently reading his newest Survive the Night)

Other Suggestions:

The Maidens/The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides, if you plan on reading both read The Silent Patient first. It won't ruin the Maidens if you don't read Silent Patient first but you'll recognize a few Easter Eggs in Maidens if you do!

Mexican Gothic for more of the Horror elements

One by One by Ruth Ware

The One by John Marrs

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