100 Book Recommendations 💌 your very specific book requests

for post-apocalyptic themed books one of the best books i've ever read is a canticle for libowitz by walter m miller jr

this is also about a magic school where people go to study magic but i think there's also the added bonus that the school is trying to actively kill its students

the first book that came to mind when someone asked for a book about a group of friends or lifelong friendship was a little life by hanya yanigahara

this one's also set in italy and it's the countryside and it's hot it's sweltering there's romance

this is definitely enemies delivers it's also a hades and persephone retelling kind of set in a modern alternate universe

it's just so incredible it also provides you with an amazing soundtrack to the book there's so many different songs mentioned

i read this probably like seven years ago or something so good

something similar to autobiography of red which is an excellent book by anne carson a novel inverse and lgbt representation

this one just worked really well for me it's incredibly accessible it's exciting it's dystopia it's just really easy to fall into and get into

for a good introduction to classical literature the broken wings that could lead to drawn yes here you go

i think it's one of the best villain origin stories ever because just the take on it and what you really get to see behind the scenes and especially cersei growing up

yes summer in new york vibes the city of girls by elizabeth gilbert do yourself a favor

reading cloud atlas just reminded me of the world that was out there and of what you can do in that world

this one here is confessions of a mask so good i have so many different mishima books on my shelves but i think this one is probably a good place to start

seeing through the eyes of someone who knows vehemently what they want to do but when that isn't accepted by everyone around them i think is just such a powerful tool

she is such a pure spirit and she's just so connected with the earth she knows kind of what to look for how to live and stuff like that and it's just a really nice fantasy frolic through the forest basically

i was going to recommend daughter of the pirate king by trisha levinseller but they actually said that they read this one

very cozy very dark very gothic and also strangely funny sometimes

it just really i think provides you some super good insight into factory farming and the world of eating animals and possibly a world where we don't have to do that

this is a retelling of the 12 dancing princesses because so good just so good

this one so good it just took a twist that i wasn't expecting it's also extremely short i think it's a good introduction as well

i would say if you don't like the first book just keep going because i didn't really love the first book but the next two yes

i don't think you can go wrong with frankenstein i think it's just oh it's brilliant

this book is basically like him in disguise and trying to fit in with this world and it's just so good

it is super deep and intellectual and like as you can imagine there's a lot of commentary and stuff like that about love in here

it's super dark super gothic it's like ocean gothic but not beach at all it's not happy beach time it's sad cliff time there's huge cliffs the atmosphere is just lush and gorgeous

it'll make you smile it'll make your heart grow a few sizes and i just adore it

one which will accompany me in my adventure of living on my own for the first time if i had your face by francis chaw hands down so good

this is another dark academia i actually i think liked it better than the secret history show this one i really like this one

interview with the vampire by anne rice for sure i think this novel is just such a treat

a book that makes you feel like you're in a dream in the best way possible kiki's delivery service by yaikoke

someone would like a hot trash why a paranormal romance with twilight vibes definitely some hot trash i would say kingdom of the wicked by carrie maniscalco is definitely warm garbage

this is about a mother who is a very prominent kind of genius physicist and she is trying to find out what would happen if kind of our perception of time and entropy and stuff like that ran the other way which is really interesting

this one will not will not do you wrong it's just so good

this is literally about being an insignificant little speck of nothing a wretched worm in the vast earth dirt that is space

a calm book where not much happens but it's interesting enough for you to keep reading mrs dalloway by virginia woolf highly recommend

it's just a very nice cozy little murder mystery where everyone gets snowed in on this train

it's so immersive that i like had to listen to it almost all in a couple sittings because it was just so captivating so breathtaking

it's no surprise that this one is set in japan and has to do with a japanese underworld and strange things going on we have a number nine we have dreams we have weird things going on

it just really shows you like how valuable connection is no matter if it lasts no matter if it's romantic no matter if you split apart and come back together or you come back together and split apart

reading this just made me feel alive again it reminded me why i love studying literature it just reminded me of everything why reading is so incredible

i just think this one is super accessible

something with time travel but ideally historical slash mystery well i can't help but recommend outlander by diana baldwin time travel historical scotland

a classic to make me forget the world is on fire i think you've just got to do it i think you've just got to read pride and prejudice

this is my favorite manga i've ever read i know it's not maybe like objectively the best but it's just like been such a part of my childhood that i can't recommend anything other than sailor moon

the writing is gorgeous so much beautiful writing about snow and falling snow which also makes things feel very intimate and it definitely moved me deeply one of my favorite reads of the year so far

this is so good also one of my favorite reads of the year it's a tragic love story so melancholy

it focuses mostly on her and her group of handmaidens and like their whole lives because there's not just one of them we really get to know basically all of them and their world and stuff like that

this is a cinderella retelling the food it just made me hungry for one straight week while i was reading this

it was so bizarre but i also really like it

this is one of my favorite middle grade series ever it is delicious it is so good

so good very high concept fantasy definitely end of the world oh so good

the girl who drank the moon oh my gosh so good one of my favorite books of the year

the most lush descriptive pros you will ever read it does feel like a secret garden because there's so many little different details and elements in here

the great gatsby is rich people problems to the extreme i love it but also such a good book and also such a good commentary on rich people problems

someone wants a book that will be like hey maybe being single for the rest of your life isn't the only option i'm gonna say the hating game by sally thorne yeah made me feel a type of way

it just details their dinner party which is so amazing

for gothic cottage core i love that i'm gonna recommend the island of dr moreau by h.g wells very short very gothic

emily in here i think is she's very quiet but like she gets stuff done she faints a few times but she gets stuff done

i think this is now the dictionary definition of whimsy and magic

would i realistically read anything other than phantom of the opera i can see it

i cried because this was so good i literally like couldn't breathe because this book was so good

i love this series so much it is just so good

a popular book worth the hype the seven husbands of evelyn hugo by taylor jenkins read

a book that tricks you into thinking you know what's happening but then the plot twist definitely the silent patience by alex michaelities

you just follow they're kind of summer romance they're growing up they're kind of coming of age and it's just sunscreen in a book

i read this one years ago very sweet but also there's a lot of mystery and potentially darker things happening

the year of the hair by arthur barcelina because so good so good this is about a guy and his rabbit

this one is steampunk so we have a little bit of a different take on pirates but i do remember there being really strong female friendships there's definitely romance

it's one of my favorite works in the whole entire universe and i think it's just it just gives you what you need

one which will hold me while i deal with my beloved grandmother's death the dark interval the dark interval and i sincerely hope you're okay i think this book will hold you so magnificently

there's fantasy there's romance there's pretty much whimsy everything you could want

so good magical realism very similar to 100 years of solitude actually

classics that have a similar vibe to frankenstein i'm gonna say the monk by matthew lewis

the silence of the girls by pat parker retelling of the iliad so good

this was so dark very lonely very sad you follow a protagonist who is a thief he's a pickpocket and what he's doing and what his life is like and how that how that goes for him so noir so dark but so good

a recommendation for my cat fiona i love to read out loud to her i'm gonna say the traveling cat chronicles because this one's about a cat

i finally found one that is absolutely perfect

it's just so dark creepy but also so atmospheric and cozy it's kind of the coziest dark academia i've ever read

something that made me cry sad tears and happy tears but mostly sad tears more in peace worn peace by leo tolstoy war and peace war and peace war and peace cleared out my aqueducts

the piece is definitely dismantled destroyed ripped apart and it's the kind where like maybe when you are walking by a pond or something and suddenly something splashes and falls into it and like creates all these ripples you had no idea it was coming you had no idea what to expect and it was just excellent

this follows a family and they're going through a lot in their life it is about you know the people around us and stuff like that but it's also a lot about media

this is a nonfiction all about kind of like objective reality and also evolutionary psychology and stuff like that through the eyes of buddhism which is just good

it's a tragic love story but it's just so powerful so ghostly so ghoulish so transcendent and it's just so good it's like soul shredding

this one's definitely not like too spooky but also not too boring i just thought it was really interesting

brazilian literature aguaviva clarice less factor just clarice less factor in general please here you can have mine