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AskMe's Soliciting book recommendations
especially loved AskMes of the broadest sort
- universal books
- how did you find your favorite book?
- what single book is the best introduction to your field
- vacation reading, but not too light
- perfect non fiction books
- books every girl should read (and the ultimate result of the question)
- books for boys
- great books more great books
- a novel from every country great classics of national literature in countries other than the US national novels and poems
- fantastic books for 2007 for 2006
- all time favorites
- must reads
- a book everyone should read, and why
- what was the first book you read you really loved or two or three
- what books keep you in bed
- What books do you need to have read to live without regret
- what recent books of poetry have meant the most to you or influenced you the most
- a fiction book a week
- fill my bookshelves
- books with small, intense followings
- funny books for a new mom
- mindblowing
- great and yet unknown
- what books do people like to be assholes about
- best written novels
- odd short stories best short stories short short stories
- great books in the public domain unexpected fun things from Project Gutenberg
- novels which, like Lolita, are love letters to the English language
- for a fan of murakami and mieville
- books that take over your head
- science fiction by women
- literary page-turners
- really scary
- very near future science fiction
- best books for teaching yourself a new skill
- best books of 2013
- [1] (What one book could give me a new useful superpower?)
Non-fiction
- the best written non-fiction more
- on indolence
- oddball topics
- books which bust myths
- what books defined your generation
- books which contradict a field
- behind the scenes
- grand theories of the world
- a big think book
- sociology of a subculture
- mind blowing books on animals
- contrarian books like freakonomics
- like into the wild
- style like Anthony Bourdain
- novelesque non-fiction
- taxonomies
- the most useful books you own
- participatory journalism
- popular non-fiction
- a new look at the world
- intellectual non-fiction
- non-fiction graphic novels
- non-repetitive non-fiction
Science & Math
Science
- other solar systems
- quantum physics and metaphysics
- modern evolutionary theories
- eugenics
- genomics
- on unexplained phenomena
- names of animals in multiple languages
- latest advances in physics
- science for non scientists or introducing scientific thinking
- playful essays by scientists or engineers about their fields
- consciousness consciousness
- birds
- dinosaurs
- religion science & nature
- cognitive science or the mind and AI
- linguistics
- evolution of natural selection
- infectious diseases
- cryptozoology
- books in the public health canon
- natural history
- physically small science textbooks
- coffee table book about birds
- classic social science
- just science
- calendars and time
- fake or fantastic science books
- seminal works in psychology
- fundamental psychology textbooks
- forensic science
- weather
- global warming skeptical
- environmental science
- health science books for college juniors and seniors medical anthropology
- history of science history of the natural sciences
- history of the science of planetary motion for kids
Math
- basic math (up through single variable calculus) more remedial math
- make kids think like mathematicians
- Improving higher math (calculus, linear algebra, vectors etc)
- textbook on probability & statistics
- books to make statistics interesting
- math reference, including integrals
- approaching the mathematics field from an engineering background
- inexpensive mathematical treatises
introduction to ...
- ...statistics
- ...physics
- ...quantum physics again
- ...physics and math
- ...evolution
- ...calculus
- ...math after algebra
- ...science for children
- ...junk science
- ...biology ...and biology
- ...programming
Travel
- UK travel guide
- spooky Seattle travel guide
- off the road more traveled
- women traveling alone
- travel, in the broadest sense
- best travel guide
- exploration-type travel
- humorous travel
Philosophy & religion
- atheism
- Deism and Unitarian Universalism
- formal logic
- religion and theology
- a guide to classical philosophy
- semiotics
- non canonical texts
- Buddhism
- hot topics in philosophy
- introduction to philosophy
- classic works with timeless wisdom
- finding meaning and purpose in adversity
- on mimesis
- the phenomenology of text
- modern latin american miracles
- shinto
- semiotics
- tarot
- christian simplicity
- Bible that's easy on the eyes
- Bible as literature
History, Politics & Sociology
- world history and more world history
- books to read before you start your history PhD
- just history
- compelling, pre-1900s
- international relations
- about societies falling apart
- social and gender issues
- criminal justice system, race, and inequality
- alternatives to the nation-state paradigm
- relief and development
- disasters, perhaps nautical or disasters and desperate survival
- histories of places
- where the title is a single, specific year
- prehistory
- Ancient Civilizations
- Roman history more rome yet more City life in ancient Rome about the ancient world
- Russia
- international arms trade
- early Christianity
- Europe since the Renaissance
- suffering unfortunates
- Jewish law again history of Jewish conspiracy theories
- the biases of history books history books which, taken collectively, will balance biases
- the British constitution
- narrative history
- books that explore a subculture
- nomadic cultures
- niche history
- alternative history
- social science, with a Canadian focus
- history of psychoanalysis
- best history books
- atlas
- France Napoleon french revolution Napoleonic France French history between 1789 and 1939 Nazi-occupied Paris
- how people are shaped by culture
- Edwardian era
- social enterprise
- discussing the idea of a four-day working week
- relationship of colour to social and cultural trends
- network theory and social network theory
- basic geographical and cultural knowledge
- About Catholicism
- Vikings
- military history
- European history
- the Italian Renaissance
- History of business
- short, easy history
- weapons
- european history
- libertarian philosophy
- Joan of Arc
- gripping history
- different legal traditions
- the new journalism
- canada
- Canadian political history
- australian history but from a non-australian perspective
- battles with no survivors
- Munich, Germany
- Savile Row, London bespoke tailoring
- history of apocalyptic thinking
non-european
- history and causes of Sri Lankan conflict
- of the Persian Gulf
- modern east Asia
- the Cuban revolution
- non western cross cultural exchange
- Japanese history, pre 1900
- Islam and the politics of the Mid East or just Iraq
- China
- colonialism
- Vietnam (the country, not the war)
Post 1900
- WWII - the rise of the Nazis overview another overview specifics Japanese perspective the home front or spies on the verge of WWII
- The Stasi in East Germany
- Yugoslavia in the 1990s
- the interwar period american popular culture in the interwar period
- history of space travel
- the cold war
- the Falklands war
- 60s-70s England
- revolutionary movements
- an (imaginary) survey course in 20th century history
The United States
- overview of US history
- a book on every president
- an American history reading list
- light US history
- US political polemics
- US presidential elections
- US foreign relations
- native americans and their culture or American Indian law
- US demographics
- american political history to supplement constitutional law
- asylums in the US
- History of Maine
- special ops mercenaries the US navy
- whats it like to be the president
- Marijuana and American Culture
- about mexican-americans
- non-US perspectives on US Culture
- the african american experience
- rock - lots of debauchery
- Muslim life in America
- about a presidential nominating convention
- foundational works for US law
- first-person accounts of poverty in the US
by period
- everyday life during the American Revolution causes of the American Revolution
- the Lewis and Clark expedition
- Mexican-American war atrocities in the Mexican-American war
- American history to 1850
- the US civil war or supernatural belief during the civil war era
- some US event 1850-1929
- the old west
- 19th century Native American history
- the gilded age
- meatpacking in the 1920s
- mid-20th century ('30s-'60s) American culture
- the new left in the 1960s more 60s watergate
- the Reagan administration
politics
- dictatorships
- Marx and Arndt
- knitting together Keynes, Weber, Kant & Hohfeld
- cultural identity by the culture in question
- in re: freedom, for declaiming
- help me rediscover socialism
Biography
- Ataturk
- Charlemagne
- Oriana Fallaci
- Laurel and Hardy
- Langston Hughes
- Howard Hughes
- John Locke
- Suzanne Le Peletier de Saint-Fargeau, a.k.a. "Mademoiselle Nation"
- Trotsky
- Robert Smith of The Cure
- US presidents (2, 3) first ladies or american politicians Franklin Delano Roosevelt Abraham Lincoln James Madison and James Monroe Lyndon Johnson and the Great Society
- sports biographies about a figure skater
- biographies, perhaps of women of famous women
- gritty rock biographies
- creative people working in the arts or sciences
- autobiography inspiring auto-manographies
- biographies generally just biographies
- unique/offbeat biographies Quirky, current autobiography
- biographies where the subject dies long before the book ends
- about founders, makers, and rebels
- Diaries
- memoirs focused on food or travel (2005) (2004)
- about non-famous people
- old Hollywood
- memoirs
Business, economics & investment
- leadership and problem solving
- negotiation
- interviewing
- job hunt
- like the cluetrain manifesto
- business books which talk about business reality
- books about specific jobs
- like Memo from David O. Selznick
- the recording industry
- how to be a copy editor
- dog whispering at work
- personal MBA
- time management
- project management (that isn't IT related)
- social enterprise, social entrepreneurship and the Fourth Sector
- cause and effect relationships for investors
- e-business textbook
- how to become a successful salesman
- sales process development
- marketing
- IMF & the World Bank
- macroeconomics
- the "biography" of businesses
- for a new manager
- the global economy
- management for non-managers
- job hunting
- business books for someone working for a big company
- for an IT executive
- books to make someone successful
small business
- essentials for the small business owner
- how to break out to your own business
- how to run a grocery store
- start your own business
- incorporating a business
investment & finance
- finance for beginners
- introduction to economics and quantitative finance
- Finance, funds and investment
- classic investment books
- learn banking in a week
- personal investment
- electricity markets
Life, Health & medicine
- exercise journal
- weight training
- first aid
- living unhealthfully as healthfully as possible
- running
- clinical psychology
- divorcing your family
- meth users
- bringing western medicine to the developing world
- nutrition
- diet with flexibility and carbs
- a medical book which would be interesting in a first edition
- how to interpret my dreams
- self help self still needs help still needing help yet more help self help books with bad advice
- Good Anatomy books for MRI students
- bereavement
- self discipline
- meditation
- being a better person
- to help gain traction in career
- healthcare and Native Americans
- cross-cultural comparison of struggles for health, independence, community
- essential medical textbooks
- psychedelic
- Freud and Jung Jungian ideas in history
- life enhancing books
- happiness
- developing assertiveness
- why do we identify with fictional characters
- recent non-fiction about pharmaceuticals
- autism
- stopping domestic violence for abusers or potential abusers
- narcissistic parents
Relationships
- marriage counseling, 2
- social skills for moms
- dating
- emotional intimacy for straight men
- for a marriage on the rocks
- regaining emotional intelligence
- relationship advice for the median MeFi
Babies etc
- sex! (no accessories please)
- becoming pregnant
- diet and nutrition for a healthy pregnancy
- childbirth
- adoption
- stop baby crying
- parenting more parenting data-driven parenting
- mothers and teen-aged daughters (oy) more for people who suddenly become guardians
- for a reluctant mom
- fathers and sons
Hobbies, sports & games
- gardening gardening theory
- drawing more
- go
- poker
- mad survival skillz more survival books for shut in computer nerds, MeFis sure are worried about the end of the world
- freshwater fish
- home repair
- a medical dictionary
- Howto books
- leading small groups
- chess and the mathematics of chess another rook book
- small amusement parks
- knots
- wood (for working)
- home repair
sport & fitness
- hockey
- fantasy sports seasons
- tennis
- surfing or skateboarding
- being a good trainer
- yoga
- pilates
- sports sociology
- european football more soccer proper, american football
- boxing, lets go another round, and in this corner
- the one time champion Boston Red Sox
Food, drink & cooking
Cookbooks
- single reference (which isn't The Joy of Cooking)
- vegan vegetarian
- the perfect cookbook
- Mediterranean/Persian
- Ethiopian/Eritrean/North African
- best for technique and theory
- for children (and metric too)
- Asian
- light recipes
- The 10 books every cook should own
- culinary-historical cookbooks
- spanish cuisine
Technology
- digital circuit design
- excel and access
- networking
- tech for non-techies
- online culture
- computer hardware
- computer books
- iPod
- submarines or other boats
- audio editing
- simple electronics more electronics
- user interface design
- my Canon 350D
- Adobe Premiere Pro 7.0
- usability for web and software applications
- academic books on video games
- the PIC microprocessor (geekout!)
- old predictions of future technology
- detailed information about how computers work
- history of technology
- learning about electronics
coding
- XML
- agile
- ruby
- adobe flash
- php
- Flash CS3
- cold fusion
- C++
- SGML
- computer science reading list
- web design web development web design CSS html web design
- C# and web services
- ActionScript
- php and mySQL
Design
- a book by Edward Tufte
- faucet design
- visionary architecture or urbanism
- essential typography books more
- best book on graphic design
- industrial design
- photos of pre 20th century living spaces
- infographics
- universal design, suitable for a teenager
- introduction to design
the thing itself
Culture and society
- feminism
- non-coolness
- urban sprawl for laymen
- a book which has changed your mind
- the subjective experience of being attractive (surely you, who are reading this right now could answer this)
- sociology, light but not dumb
the arts & education
visual arts
- about Postmodernism
- architecture
- copyright free etchings
- painting with oils
- fashion and style
- reference books for fashion designers
- medieval tapestry
- books of street photography
- listing old movies
- best art and coffee table books
- Contemporary art history
- inspiring images
- theory of photography
- for an armchair architect
- Phoenix (the bird)
- cave art
- illuminated manuscripts and artist's books
- running a museum/art archive
music
- rock music
- the Rolling Stones
- theory of 70s & 80s popular music
- music theory or more music or indie music
- analysis of Beethoven's symphonies and other classical works
- learning to play musical instruments
writing
- writing non-fiction
- writing non-fiction and children's books
- writers on writing
- improving creative writing
- writers and alcohol
- the protagonist
- tech writing
- editing
- writing a scientific literature review
- good and evil in children's literature
- grammar and usage guides
- grammar for college student
comics TODO: move
- books about comic books more
- graphic novels more graphic novels Graphic novel form of Paradise Lost
- good graphic novels
- comics
- graphic novels
- help me get back into comic books again
- wonder woman
- where to start with Captain America and Thor?
- becoming a better student
- prepping for the GRE before taking the LSAT
- the relationship between books and films
- the basics of the Narrative Theory/Narratology
- astronomy textbook
- history of fine arts photography
- textbook on copyright
- historical or anthropological studies of fiction
- mythology more myths
- introduction to critical thinking
- learning skills from a book
- the infinity of definition
- like This American Life
foreign language
- learn Chinese
- learn Spanish grammar recall your spanish
- learn French intermediate French beginning french french
- Italian
- English grammar grammar of the English Language
- books popular among Russian youth
- Japanese etymology
- german
- great literature which has not been translated
- good books in Korean
- progressively challenging books for novice Hindi reader
- modern Spanish language literature e-books in Spanish
- tales of learning a foreign language
poetry
- getting started with poetry more beginners still starting out make a normal dude like poetry
- an introduction to english poetry
- brazilian poetry
- combining art and poetry
- some good modern poets
- who averages Neruda and Longfellow
- poetry which uses found language
- how to read poetry
- poems for a wedding more wedding verse to match brides Neruda
- prosody
- lift the curse, give light verse
- for someone who likes virgil note, not this guy
- sprung rhythm
- poetry magazines
- german anti nazi poetry
- sex up the Song of Solomon
- in the form a direct address
- if murakami were a poet
- secular readings for a memorial
poems about...
- ...migraines or chronic pain
- ...secrets or hidden places
- ...US Independence day
- ...an incorrect URL
- ...food or eating
- ...university life
- ...getting older
- ...christmas
- ...grandmothers
- ...the moon
- ...tragedy
- ...death
- ...camels
Fiction
- healing and relationships, or Armageddon
- isolated survivalism
- the great Australian novel
- stories about radical personal change
- the opposite of Atlas Shrugged
- fiction series written over 25 years
- quirky storylines
- best of modern, serious fiction
- smart adventure, not too much narrative or character
- joyful participation in the sorrows of the world
- characters who sacrifice themselves for the common good
- fiction that all Americans know
- the depressing 21st century
- like the princess bride
- to help accept death and loss
- about the day of the dead or plantation life in the west indies
- people and animals
- not focused on love
- the subconcious
- novels to kick start a brain
- science and literature, postwar
- examining the marginal
- fiction
- fantastic narrative adventure fiction
- impostors
- satirical fiction
- life changing short stories or just regular short stories or short story anthologies or about a birthday or with twist endings
- escape and survival
- Squirrely firstperson narratives
- philosophical fiction
- living in a condo
- Cornwell, Banks, Brookmyre, Rankin ... like Muriel Spark
- summer reading 2005 more poolside reading 2009 endless summer summer returns in 2013
- to go with Carnivale
- math and fiction
- good translations
- annotated books
- about unrequited love
- the exploration of knowledge
- books with good movie adaptations
- the literary equivalent of the road movie
- including the rituals of housekeeping or cooking
- holding out for a hero (late 1700s - 1800s, swashbuckling a must)
- things like Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin series
- with a wintry feel winter drags on with an autumnal feel leafs still falling
- centered on online communication
- a good story
- trashy
- exciting, thrilling, unputdownable pageturners more pageturners
- stories of survival and canibalism more survival novels
- prejudice and concealed identities
- dense historical genre
- christmas stories
- literary adventure stories
- ala Steinbeck
- like Lynda Barry
- what are the great patterning works of literature
- great writing and great story telling
- like Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
- trashy
- the great American novel
- romance and redemption
- after 2666
- in translation translation with style
- tragic love stories (snif)
- funny, happy books funny novels
- on marriage
- like Dan Brown
- must have books
- new young novelists
- american gothic
- a one week read
- daily life in the 1840s
- picaresque novels
- physically small gem-like novels
- with vivid settings
- character driven books
- alone abroad
- catharsis educing
- funny political novels
- with Machiavellian intrigue
- two people talking
- written in response to WWI or II
- I like Mark Kurlansky and Italo Calvino
- women, described by men
- magical realism
- books to read aloud
- like The Book Thief
- novels with the theme of FREE-DOM
- fiction with a spiritual message
- a book to travel with
- books to read more than once
- dark humor more dark humor
- with lots of cool maps and stuff
- with really advanced vocabulary
- disaster
- novels that will teach me something
- horrifying or unusual circumstances
- comic book backstories
- romance, decent writing
- books to partner with Gilead
- tragic, not just abusive, incest
- books that handle a large expanse of time
- concerning friendship and social circles
- healthy, normal marriages
- identity and transformation
- books that start with an aphorism
- carnival or mardi gras
- translated from Korean into English
- novels to pair with Coen brothers movies
- heavy on the nostalgia
- short stories where the time passes quickly
- asian classics
- strange fiction
- epic storytelling
- Croatian literature
- authors who started it all
- bad books by great authors
- with drugs
- taking place in a prison
- fiction to improve non-fiction writing
- food centric
- about a person's freedom to choose
- fiction that retells another story
- surprise, surprise
- human-computer interaction
- with a sublime death
- smart, fun fiction
- fst pced fctn
- political extremism
- visceral, over-the-top revenge
- contemporary novels about Native Americans
- separate third-person viewpoints that converge
- long, preferably non-European literature
- connecting multiple time periods
- engaging characters, intricate plots, first person
- set in a boarding school or college
- not written by white males
containing specific themes
- rough upbringings
- about entering middle age
- about a person's freedom to choose
- fiction with a spiritual message
- people who find out what they want and eventually get there
containing specific plot elements
- featuring a Thanksgiving gathering
- the War in Heaven or the fall of Lucifer
- mixtapes or playlists
- television
- folklore created by children free of adult supervision
concerning specific characters
- gay male fiction more
- with pitiful but sympathetic villains
- what it's like to be an attractive person in US or European society
- about journalists journalists behaving badly
- satisfied loners as main characters
- about people aged 25-35
- books where the narrator has mental disabilities
- starring real people
- about people without technology
- about 20-something hipsters
- stateless characters
- funny snobs
- superheros in retirement
- supernatural mystery series
- amoral people
- where a women gets victimized but takes revenge
- fictional encounters of historical characters
- happy, american atheists
- with very bad priests
- war criminals or suicide bombers
- an obsessive
- American families
- evil first person narrators
- with a character invented by another author
- originally written as a man, revised to a woman
- Jewish-American
- who have responsibility thrust upon them
- Obama/McCain so-called 'slash' fiction
- with apotheosis (treating a human as divine)
- characters who want to save the world
- americans under 40
- undercover, but not detecting
- bildungsroman
- women who work
- thief-kings and tricksters
Crime / Mystery / Noir / Horror
- Russian book noir
- mysteries [2]
- spy novels, like Len Deighton or John Le Carré
- historicl spy books
- detective/horror crossover
- classic crime & noir fiction, 2
- classic mysteries that play fair with the reader
- contemporary mysteries
- elegant/complex/interesting detective fiction
- literary crime novels
- cozy mysteries
- non-gory, like Sarah Caudwell
- mystery within history
- intelligent bad guys
- true crime
- to read after The Wire
- conspiracy and paranoia
- detective stories
- mysteries written pre-1920
- classics of genre
- gangs
- sex and crime
- pulp
- for gang members to read
- lonely, eerie or cold setting that is almost another character in the story, damaged or "othered" main protagonist more mystery series with atmospheric settings
- scary. Really scary
- suspense & horror yikes! eek! literary horror fiction
- truly disturbing novels
Historical Fiction
- historical fiction this fiction, its historical fiction set in the past
- great post-WW II American novels
- cold war spies
- historical fiction where characters stick to their principles
- historical fiction
- war
- about the irish
- historical fiction with subtle monsters
- historical fiction (convoluted, anachronistic, sprawling, adventuresome)
- prehistoric times
- with pirates shiver me timbers, more pirates arrr
- early Christians. Jesus does not count.
- in the age of european exploration
- art historical fiction
- set in the 1970s
- set during turmoil
- WWI steampunk
- non-standard take on a historical character
- great portraits of the past
- in the form of a diary about a shocking twist to history
- historical fiction with scientists
- modern biblical apocryphica
- medieval and renaissance
not in english
- in Russian
- in French popular books in french (french-french, not french canadian NOT QUÉBÉCOIS-IST) French science fiction more French science fiction french poetry
- in spanish easy spanish tough teens, in spanish
- in modern chinese
- fairly easy german
- easy books in Brazilian Portuguese
women
- at 20 or 25 or 40
- with pregnant characters
- womens fiction for a real man
- by the McSweeney's womens auxiliary
- about excellent women
- women who write like Neal Stephenson or David Foster Wallace
- new, american, female novelists
- for guys guilty about having no female authors
- chicklit, no apologies
- crazy women, they get better
our sensitive MeFis
- without violence
- that wont make me cry and that aren't sad
- generally non-disturbing
- no sex thanks, we're MeFis straight fiction, no sex
- family friendly books
Science fiction & Fantasy
- accessible contemporary science fiction
- contemporary-ish space exploration
- science fiction or fantasy set on Earth
- artificial intelligence
- about the last man on earth or just a few men left more Apocalyptic
- cyberpunk, less car chases unconditional cyberpunk steampunk
- epic sci-fi more epics
- great recent fantasy and sci-fi
- science fiction for a book club
- disaster books
- retold fairy tales
- shadows
- thrillers
- dark sci-fi
- sci fi with good story lines
- in the arctic
- like Dune or Left Hand of Darkness
- intro to sci fi
- post singularity
- sci fi with a religious tint
- colonies rebel against earth
- for an esl student
- sexy science fiction
- general sci fi questionsmore still moremore
- that a Clive Barker fan would like
- plot and character driven sci-fi
- sci-fi accurately depicting the scientific process
- sci-fi by mainstream authors
- sci-fi for people who don't like sci-fi
- speculative fiction
- without sexual violence
- the early stuff
- grand space operas act II, or ordinary life on space ships and stations
- canadian, dystopian science fiction
- pulp like Mervyn Peake and China Mieville
- fantasy like George Martin or Robin Hobb
- gender and race in the future
- sci-fi + horror
- if you like Philip K. Dick
- colonization
- sci fi with a particularly engaging central conceit
- creating life, LIFE I SAY
- robots
- love during the apocalypse
- with ancient, lost civilizations
- sci-fi you can read on the treadmill
- ecotopian fiction
- sci fi series just getting going
- time travel more time traveling timetravel - we have it in the future [3] where signals are sent into the past
- for the uninitiated
- kids with superpowers
- well written science fiction
- fiction which correctly predicts the future
- science fiction where the characters have read science fiction
- FARMS-IN-SPAAAAACE
- on Europa
- scifi for a honeymoon
- warhammer novels
- sci-fi addressing corporate powerfantasies with economic systems sci-fi/fantasy/horror novels about economics
fantasy and supernatural
- twilight, no vampires
- interwar supernatural
- stand alone fantasy
- werewolves
- investigators vs. supernatural more boo's clues
- fantasy books for people who dont like fantasy books
- zombies mmmm brains
- bumbling wizards
- set in alternate london
- literary fantasy inspired by fairy tales
- set in derelict factories, laboratories, other modern ruins
- set in non-Europe-like locations
...but not just any fiction
- with alternating narration
- epistolary novels more epistolary comic books
- condemned by the Vatican
- with characters from other books
- set in blackletter
- short but great
- independent scenes combine to a coherent whole. Or, failing that, funky punctuation
- with unreliable narrators
- written by a celebrity under an alias
- with the most swears
- second person narratives
- with titles in the form of a question
- with lots of US slang
- by women
- by autistic authors
- finishable
- well-developed people of colour
- with two heros
- long books
- books with their own mythology
- by australians
- in which the protagonist dies unexpectedly (hmmm, don't know how unexpected it will be now)
- funny, written before 1900
- a first person diary
- recursive books within books inside of stories
- English books written in a foreign literary style
- Novels with no character descriptions
books are sexy
- sexy and classy
- not necessarily classy
- with subtle kink or not necessarily subtle kink
- *makes sexy purring sound*
- sex from an academic perspective
- books that will delude me into thinking being an intellectual is hot
- sexy action novels
for a book club
- book club
- themed sets of books for a book club
- Catholic parish
- for a book club on the verge of dissolution
- vaguely holiday related
- young adult, fantasy
- maybe a female author?
- decadent book club
- radical
- less than 300 pages
- award-winning
for kids
- grown up books for kids
- sex ed for the preschool set
- absolutely favorite kids book
- lesser-known but deeply loved children's books
- big concepts, little people
- Pour les enfants
- children's books converted to song
- what novels are on the middle school syllabus
- concerning twins
- book series
- historical fiction, to support history class
- animals
- great cities of the world
- to make a mommas boy
- India for kids
- non-fiction for kids
- best book in your field for kids
- American history for kids
- historical fiction like Number the Stars
- funny young adult novels, keep it clean please
- in translation
- like Hans Press
- books to read to a preschooler
- best books for kids
- for red diaper babies
- for kids in Spanish
- printmaking in kids books
- mythology for kids
- books kids books which can be read without funny voices
- with characters of color
- where the characters know they are in a book
- textured books blind kids might like
- transgendered youth
- to improve a young adults taste in literature
- featuring fathers and children
- with no or very few words
- with characters named Daniel
- like Harry Potter
- about secret rooms or secret areas
- fairy tales for bedtime reading
...by precise age
- book for Anglo-Japanese newborn
- eye-catching books for 4-month-old
- books with flaps/that do things for 1-year-old
- illustrated books for a 2 year old toddlers bedtime books for toddlers
- books with children of color for 2-year-old
- 3 year old
- classics or Russian fairytales for a 4 year old
- For a five year old... for reading to or sci fi for five or physics or math or learning to read or challenging or chapter books
- pagan or regular stories for a 6 year old
- 8 year old to amuse second graders or family history for second graders
- funny, mischievous characters for 9 year old
- scared straight for 9 year old liars
- comic books for 9 to 11-year-olds
- for a 10 year old with a learning disability
- mystery novels for a 10-year-old who loves bugs
- books written >= 50 years ago for a 10-year-old
- like noisy outlaws or real life adventure for a 12 year old
- the American soldier or mysteries for a 13 year old
- inspirational stories for 8th graders or 8th graders going to rome
- humorous fantasy with wordplay for older tweens/teens
- great books to read in high school
- varsity novels, college kids
...specifically female kids
- 9 year old girl
- poetry for an 8 year old girl
- for a Canadian 11 year old girl
- womens lives for a 12 year old girl
- 'how my body works' for 8 year old girl to help 10 year old girl test out new feelings
- girls as main character
- what comic book character to name a daughter after
- the dangerous book for boys for girls
by reading circumstance
- at the beach still at the beach on a desert island (technically, still at the beach)
- after work
- for a two year old on an airplane
- during a peace corps stint
- on the plane still in the air
- to bring on deployment to the desert
- vacation more
- audiobooks for a commute
- appropriate for Halloween
- plane reading
- in the bathroom
Books of a certain age
- sex ed from the 1950s DIY books from the 1950s or sexy 1950s
- space books from the 1970s
- Spanish anarchist adventure stories from the 1930s
- best novels by decades
- before 1945
As gifts, by recipient
- for an architect
- for a 16 year old attention whore
- for a soon to be grieving preteen
- French language books for intermediate students of French
- for a teenager who has asked about vegetarianism
- for mom, but not too deep, not too fluffy
- for a retiree, to keep her busy
- for a person of faith to subvert or support same
- children's book collection for expectant mom
- for a retiring professor
- someone smart but physically deteriorating
- for someone with ADD
- to help learn English
- for an elderly aunt
- a non fiction book for someone you don't really know
- for eighth graders, as a prize
- for someone who got fired
- for a samurai movie fan
- for gay teens black gay teens
- poetry for an 8 year old
- for someone recovering from a stalking
- for someone who has never read a book by a woman
- witty picture books
- for Catholic language mavens
- an adult just learning to read
- to inspire someone to build a cabin
- for a new new yorker
- for some in juvie
- for an industrial engineer
- an intellectual who likes social science
- nerdy, geeky, incredibly smart, completely rad uncle
For someone who likes...
- ...history
- ...Life of Pi
- ...not reading
- ...Tom Clancy
- ...James Patterson, Stephen King
- ...Nick Hornby and Roald Dahl
- ...Anna Quindlen, Jumpha Lahiri
- ...Jodi Picoult
- ...Mervyn Peake
- ...Little Heathens
- ...the Sopranos
- ...Ian Bank's Wasp Factory
- ...Ann Patchett's Bel Canto
- ...Robert Galbraith (J. K. Rowling)'s The Cuckoo's Calling
- ...Kerry Greenwood's Phryne Fisher series
- ...Iain M. Banks
- ...Dark Souls
- ...Georgette Heyer
- ...L'Avventura
- ...Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House on the Prairie series
For new/reluctant readers
- scary books
- for high school age friend with ADHD
- 40-year-old with high school education who has never read a book
- books to induce a non reader to read
About or taking place in
Asia
- asia generally
- Tokyo
- China still in the middle kingdom Shanghai
- India or maybe India
- Southeast Asia an asian city
- singapore
Europe
- Barcelona
- London more london in the 1920s atmospheric England
- France
- Budapest
- Paris, but in 1899
- Sweden
- Oxford
- Europe
- East Germany
- Cork Ireland
- Spain
- eastern Europe
- Greece
Africa, Latin America
The United States (and Canada!)
- Los Angeles again
- Sacramento, California
- New York City New York (so good they asked it twice) about specifically the NYC subway
- Seattle
- San Francisco the city by the bay
- the USA, suitable for a first year university class studying the contemporary US
- Philadelphia
- Knoxville, Tennessee
- Chicago
- the American Southwest especially Arizona
- all 50 states
- Vancouver
Looking for things not found in a book
TODO
Libraries
- Foreign books in New York
- libraries with audiobooks
- reading at libraries vs. at home
- library software
- using your library
- borrowing books online
- a low tech anti-theft device
- setting up a small library for kids
- books about libraries
- what percentage of library books are never read
Buying & selling
- in paperback yet?
- first editions
- selling used textbooks
- cheap books online
- book search with price comparison
- cheap online books for Australians
- out of print books
- selling a basement full of books
- book releases
- getting alerts when an specific author publishes a new book
- book sales figures
- donate books for a good cause
- selling baseball books
- valuing old books
- grouping secondhand booksellers to minimize shipping
- book trading sites
- selling 10 year old text books
- selling books online
- selling vintage books
- swapping obscure books
- how to get books in classroom quantities for cheap
Bookstores in ...
- sell used literary fiction books in LA
- sell zines in SF
- bookstores in Philadelphia
- bookstores in Seattle
- books in Waco, Texas
- rare book dealers in Mississippi
- new york, especially poetry cheap comic books in NYC
- graphic novels in sci fi
- Chicago, with good poetry sections Chicago, for young children
- buying and selling used books in London
- denver
- London, more London or cosy in London
- Toronto
- Houston
The trials of book ownership
- deoderizing a book getting rid of that musty book smell
- de-molding books more
- the bittersweet feeling of finishing a good book
- sobering up a book remarkably, more
- the problem with scary books...scared readers
- storing moist books
- book vs. baby
- book mites
- distracted by my nose
- dirty books in the library, makes you sick dirty
- a dirty book
- why do bookstores make me poop
- have you ever thrown a book across the room?
- how to fix a warped book (warped by moisture, not the author)
e-readers
Questions about specific books or authors
- what to do after reading dune
- has Finnegans Wake ever been translated?
- Name of the Rose? I don't remember a rose
- Quicksilver. WTF? Stephensons Baroque Cycle more Stephenson
- John McPhee's Coming into the Country, where are they now?
- My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist
- desert solipsism
- Finnegan's wake
- Jane Austin's redactions more redactions
- the philosophy of Charlie Brown
- books about atonement to contrast with atonement
- about Wittgenstein (that about which you cannot speak, thereupon you should be silent)
- help with patrick o'brian vocabulary
- is JK Rowling trying to subvert the established order? [can my 7-year-old handle the darkness of the later Harry Potter books?]
- David Foster Wallace - do you read the footnotes? Infinite Jest why is the French weird in IJ
- life of pi. whats the deal?
- the purpose driven life
- best translator of Rilke
- e e cummings for middle schoolers
- Borges, in english, online did Borges read Schroedinger? best Borges
- Vonneguts "Rumfoords"
- 100 years of solitude
- the ending of Haruki Murakami's Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
- Kate Chopin's the Awakening
- Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra
- being and time
where to start with...
- ...Dickens 2
- ...Slavoj Zizek
- ...Peter Handke
- ...Thomas Bernhard
- ...John Irving
- ...Philip K Dick
- ...Vonnegut
- ...Kant
- ...Browning's The Ring and The Book
- ...Paul Celan
- ...Bukowski
- ...Gore Vidal
- ...Nero Wolfe
- ...Terry Pratchett
- ...The Master and Margarita
- ...Douglas Coupland
- ...Sartre
other sources of book recommendations
- magazines covering non fiction
- book websites more still more did I mention the web sites? I got it, maybe a website? allmusic for books websites for children's book reviews poetry blogs literary blogs
- international favorite books
- foolproof book recommendations
- websites
- queer sci-fi website plain old sci fi sci fi book reviews more sci-fi/fantasy/horror book reviews everyone is looking for sci-fi reviews
- blogs that review non fiction books
- guide to Project Gutenberg
- websites exploring the fringes of comic book culture
- international best seller lists best sellers by genre
- like Frederic Raphael's list of books
- how do you keep up with new books?
- multiple review summaries
- other sources of book recommendations
- reviews that include genre fiction
- lists/reviews of popular international authors whose work is available in translation to English
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- how to run a book club for kids
- how to scan a book
- where to sign or inscribe a book
- literary criticism websites
- mounting a paperback in a shadow box
- first vs. later editions
- books vs movies based thereon
- interesting mailer for a book
- pacing ones self while reading
- preventing cracked spines
- favorite small publishers
- ebooks
- API to get metadata from ISBN
- how to donate books to US soldiers
- requesting audio books (for a disabled person)
- christmas lit
- getting rid of books
- how to organize a library manage a small library at work hybrid physical/digital library
- what do you call the stuff people leave in books?
- novel plots in two sentences
- an english major hates the canon
- a list of novel plots?
- what are high school kids reading these days?
- contemporary book collection
- did any of these books change your life?
- how do I give books to a prison
- what to do with books you can neither keep nor sell
- books with memorable titles
- getting rid of books
- incredibly boring books
- recreating the feel of 17th century books online
