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Hello, fellow bibliophiles!...

Here is my embarrassing list....

I see many 4.5 to 5 star fantasy books. I get excited and read about them only to find out they are really just “romance” or smut type books. Grrr....

I’ve been on a spy fiction kick recently- I really enjoyed the recent The Man from UNCLE movie and I Expect You to Die video game. I’m looking for some novels that are in a similar vein (classic 60s spy versus an egomaniac villain out to take over the world). However, I cannot stand the sexism in Ian Fleming’s books....

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I started reading it a month ago (I’m a slow reader lol) and got to the middle of the book. I really liked the first part but half way it started to feel like it’s repeating itself and lose its meaning, like where does it go? It feels stuck....

After listening to a few clips of The Silmarillion narrated by Andy Serkis, I am interested in seeing if I could actually get used to listening to audiobooks. I usually can’t focus enough on audio alone to keep up with a book but now I’m thinking it might be more of a narration quality thing than anything else....

I recently sort of came into realizing I’m a demisexual, and was wanting to see about if there are any books about people’s experiences as demisexual or asexual or similar....

Looking for new books to read as I am preparing to head out on a much needed vacation and want to dig into some good reading. Can be fiction or nonfiction, just so long as it hooked you and made you want to keep reading and reading until the end.

I used to be an avid reader, but years of high school and depression completely ruined that. I haven’t been able to complete a novel since senior year six years ago. It’s frustrating to me and I want to know how I can overcome my lack of focus and anxiety. I’ve heard I’m not alone when it comes to this sort of thing at...

Audiobooks, e-Books, Paper, etc.?

I’m thinking we should have a central post for all the book sublemmys so we can easily find them. The ones I’m aware of are:...

I, 35M, have never been much into reading. I just never found that one book that I thought was fantastic. Everything felt OK at best....

cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/1212709...

I recently discovered Bookwyrm and am really liking it. It’s not quite as full-featured as The Storygraph or Goodreads but it covers all of the most important functionalities and it’s federated which I appreciate. Something that it is missing Vs either The Storygraph or Goodreads at the moment is volume of reviews (ie....

Unlike many other large subreddits r/books has not made any statements about the API changes. I did try and post something about it but it ended up getting deleted. At 22.1 million users this would be a pretty significant addition to the protest....

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For me, it’s a non-fiction by Ahmet Davutoglu (Turkey’s former PM) titled “Alternative Paradigms”. Without entering into extensive details, Davutoglu contrasts the Islamic and Western worlds from a philosophical and political aspects in assertion of the theory of the clash of civilizations in the globalization era. While...

“Piracy” here is used in the context of books and all sorts of manuscripts....

mine are:...

Recently there was kind of a discussion, with one user being a bit mean towards the other regarding the latter posting a link to Amazon....

Title, it would be nice to get to know the community in a place where we could see each other reading habits.

Neil Gaiman announced the Neverwhere sequel back in '17, and the last news I’ve been able to find is it’s delayed as of 2020. Is there any news I’ve missed since then? I’m pretty stoked about going back to that world for more.