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Cover of Boys in the BoatCover of Friday Night Lights 12 Copy Floor DisplayCover of OpenCover of MoneyballCover of The secret race
Drayfus Drayfus

Sports books worth reading even if you hate sports

Stories where the final score is the least of it. The best sports writing is about everything the game drags in with it.

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Intimate Cathartic
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Cover of The End of EternityCover of 2001Cover of 1984Cover of The Sirens of TitanCover of Solaris
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Understanding Science Fiction

If you're new to science fiction and want to understand its tropes, here's a stack of books covering what you should probably read to get up to speed

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Epic Propulsive
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Cover of Gone GirlCover of AtonementCover of Shutter IslandCover of Silent PatientCover of The Sense of an Ending
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Twists that send you back to page one

A reveal so good your first move is to flip back to the start and see how they pulled it off. Books built around a turn — wherever it lands — that rearranges ev

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Unsettling Haunting
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Cover of The Count of Monte CristoCover of Way of KingsCover of A Storm of SwordsCover of SarumCover of Wolf Hall
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Big books to disappear into for a month

Big books and doorstoppers worth the month they take. Worlds deep enough to live in, stories with room to wander. Clear your shelf first

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Epic Propulsive
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Cover of The Will of the ManyCover of The Eye of the WorldCover of Gardens Of The MoonCover of Prince of ThornsCover of Mistborn
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Fantasy sagas with world you can get lost in

Series built on maps you'll keep flipping back to and histories that go centuries deep. Fantasy where the world and the society are the real protagonists.

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Epic Gritty
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Cover of Silent PatientCover of Gone GirlCover of The Girl on the TrainCover of Sharp ObjectsCover of Before I Go To Sleep
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Psychological thrillers with a twist you never see coming

You start thinking you know who's lying. You end up doubting yourself. Suspense that keeps its final card until the last page.

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Unsettling Propulsive
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Cover of HeartburnCover of Eat, pray, loveCover of Tiny Beautiful Things: Reese's Book ClubCover of The Course of LoveCover of Normal People
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Books to read after a breakup

For the strange, raw weeks when everything reminds you of someone. Books that sit with you in the mess, then quietly help you stand back up.

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Cathartic Raw
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Cover of The Invisible Life of Addie LaRueCover of The time traveler's wifeCover of One DayCover of Normal PeopleCover of The Rosie project
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Romance for people who don't read romance

Romance with a second engine — a structure, a mystery, a voice — pulling you through the pages. For readers who bounce off the genre, not off love.

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Romantic Melancholic
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Cover of House of LeavesCover of S. - El barco de TeseoCover of Pale FireCover of The third policemanCover of Pedro Paramo
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Experimental books that lose you on purpose

You spend more time rotating the book than reading it. Pages that fold back on themselves, footnotes that bite, and a void that grows as you go.

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Hallucinatory Surreal
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Cover of The Haunting of Hill HouseCover of Turn of the ScrewCover of BelovedCover of The Woman in BlackCover of Lincoln in the Bardo
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Ghost stories where the dead won't leave

Some houses keep whatever dies in them. The dead in these books didn't pass through. They unpacked, and they're still in the room.

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Unsettling Melancholic
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Cover of Days at the Morisaki BookshopCover of Welcome to the Hyunam-dong BookshopCover of Before the Coffee Gets ColdCover of Un gato para los días difíciles. El bestseller japonés que ha enamorado a lectores en todo el mundoCover of We'll Prescribe You a Cat
Drayfus Drayfus

Asian fiction that heals on a slow simmer

Japanese and Korean novels that don't want to change your life — just keep you company while the tea goes cold.

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Quiet Meditative
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Cover of Gone GirlCover of Shutter IslandCover of Silent PatientCover of The HousemaidCover of I'm Thinking of Ending Things
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Thrillers with twists you'll be the next to spoil

The kind of book your friend hands you saying, "Just trust me, don't read anything about it." Addictive thrillers with twists built for the gasp.

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Unsettling Propulsive
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Cover of Klara and the SunCover of Never Let Me GoCover of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?Cover of FrankensteinCover of Flowers for Algernon
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Books that ask what makes us human

Philosophical fiction for the 2am question — what we owe each other, who we're becoming, and where the line between human and not-quite-human blurs.

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Meditative Melancholic
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Cover of The girl on the trainCover of Gone GirlCover of The Sense of an EndingCover of YouCover of Lolita
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Narrators you can't trust for a second

Someone's telling you this story, and someone's also lying to you — possibly the same person. Books where the voice in your ear has its own agenda.

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Claustrophobic Unsettling
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Cover of Fine BalanceCover of AtonementCover of Never Let Me GoCover of Little LifeCover of When Breath Becomes Air
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Novels that break you on a long flight

Thirty thousand feet up, nowhere to hide, and a book that decides this is the moment to take you apart. Stories with enough emotional weight to undo a stranger in seat 24B.

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Cathartic Raw
1 month ago 14 Viewed 14 times
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