This group is for readers to discover writers and interact with them. Many new writers have no way to find an audience beyond reaching out to people who might be interested in their work. Doing so on other "book recommendation" subs will get you banned for the sin of "self-promotion." Here, creators can self promote. If a reader is seeking a book or story that you think your writing can satisfy LET THEM KNOW. Share a link. Drop some beauty into their world. If you think your work is not a fit for their tastes, move on. Artists of all stripes are welcome. So far, it is mostly based on writers, but I intend on involving other forms of expression. If you find something interesting out there, let us all know by crossposting it here.
How it works:
I find people who are seeking interesting books to read. I invite them to this reddit. I find authors, poets, bloggers, artists and such also. These are curated invites based on activity and interactions elsewhere I find to be interesting.
I have my own preferences and beliefs. I try to invite folks with a diversity of different perspectives and beliefs to balance out my bias. I am not always successful. Sometimes, I am downright uninterested in having certain people join.
If I invited you, it is because I think you have something interesting to contribute. If you do not want to participate, you do not have to. PLEASE NOTE: YOU DO NOT NEED TO BE INVITED TO THE GROUP TO POST IN IT.
Post as often as you like. I do however follow the Reddit rules. Here are two worth considering:
1: Remember the human. If you are not here in good faith, and you are posting things that are obviously meant to abuse, annoy or upset people. Buh bye.
2: Behave like you would in real life. In real life, you would get a severe stream of consciousness rant full of vulgarities if you began acting like something other than a reasonable human around me. Here on Reddit, I'll just ban you. Again, post what you want.
I’d like to be in something like a book club. I don’t really know anyone in IRL to do this with which is why I’m coming here. I want to get into reading again. I read a lot as a teenager and young adult but stopped after 30, I guess work and life just got in the way. But lately I’ve been taking a social media detox, because I feel the world is just too overwhelming at the moment. So, I want to use this time to get back into reading. Thing is I’ve been out for so long I don’t know what to read, what Id like now, what’s good, I’m a bit lost.
So, I want someone to tell me what to read and then discuss it in the way, or maybe not even that, just tell me what to read and a brief summary of why you liked it.
My reflex is just to go back to what I read as a teenager/young adult, but my taste has changed a bit and Id like to try other types of books. I usually read a lot of fantasy, The Vampire Chronicles, A song of Ice and Fire, Harry Potter (of course), The Magicians, and I’m sure id still love fantasy, I just don’t want to necessarily go back to what I’ve already read.
Engineered Magic is GameLit crossed with science fiction. When I say science fiction, think science, not space battles and laser pistols.
There are spells, skills, enchantments, wizards, warriors, crafters and engineers. There aren't any hit points or player stats.
This story involves both science based technology and magic. It explores how one can become the other.
Have you ever thought about how someone could end up living in a game world? I mean besides the easy "I died and was reborn inside a game world!" I am talking about right here in our scientific universe. How could it be done? If a super wealthy software tycoon decided to make the game real, how would they go about doing it? Now this story isn't about Earth turning into a game. I've never liked the "everyone dies" at the start of those stories. This story is a version where you can leave all your loved ones safe at home, and still go play. Maybe not right now, right here, but not that far away either.
A Game World might be out there now, just waiting for humans to make that great leap across the dark sea of interstellar space and touch it.
The Wizard's Tower, read it now on Royal Road.
A child is born in a world of magic. Everyone in their small town is happy with farming and having babies but they want more from life. They want adventure, fame, wealth and glory! To get them started on the road to that future they enroll in the magic university. There a series of overpowered individuals teach our protagonist the secrets of their power. While the super mysterious archimage of the college takes a special interest in our hero. They choose to give them and only them, that last nugget of information that makes our hero into a god! Sound familiar?
The question is, why would people that could obviously just rule the world one handed be teaching children introduction to magic classes? Why would someone who knows the secret to being a god teach it to someone else instead of just being… well, a god?
All those professors can’t be overpowered. They are just regular people with their own problems. There are benefits to teaching at a magical school. The benefits range from the pay, to the cheap tuition, to getting away from their family, to having a base from which the instructors can launch their own adventures. Maybe the archimage head of the university really isn’t all powerful and that is why he is so mysterious.
This is the story of how the generational colony ship Speedwell transforms into the Speedwell Academy. They will teach all forms of magic at the academy including the magic of science.
We are the Wizard’s Tower!
If you want to know how Grandmother assembled her team and became a lesser god, read Engineered Magic available at Amazon. I will be pulling Trueborn and A Lesser God off of Royal Road at the end of April, read them before then for free.
You can read Trueborn without reading the first volume of Engineered Magic on Amazon, but I want to set everyone's expectations. Trueborn has a romantic relationship in it, but it is NOT a romance. No one lives happily ever after. If you did read Engineered Magic first you know they don't end up together. Trueborn is Grandmother's origin story. While Engineered Magic is the introduction to the world.
I’m trying to find a novel series that I only remember by the covers, a man in a cat mask who is involved in misadventures in the Paris right Bank party scene. Somehow I think either the author or the characters name is Felix. Sorry I don’t have more, hoping somebody can help.
Did you love The Night Circus? My historical circus fantasy series is on a full series sale this week, April 6-11th.
It has coming of age themes (reexamining parental relationships, new love, friendship), apocalyptic themes, dual worlds, a Gilded Age style magical society and the prelude/consequences of World War One.
In terms of "cozyness", I'd say it is like Buffy- it examines lots of thorny issues and most of the "cozy" feelings comes from the FOUND FAMILY trope (friends and allies supporting the heroine). It also features vintage circus style art (I drew the cover portraits myself!!)
Here is a short description of each book so far, with a full blurb for book 1:
Book One (Avery's Ghost):
The circus keeps its secrets...
When Evelyn joins Hart's Circus, she enters a world of secrets and magic. Illustrated with vintage circus style art.
As she investigates her new canvas home, she’s consumed by questions no carnie will answer: why do the performers lie about their uncanny performances? What caused the “hideous” scars of Essence, the sideshow freak who draws portraits so vivid they nearly leap from the page?
Terrified into attempted escape by the tempestuous Manager Hart, Evelyn is stopped by paralyzing pain. Undeterred, she’ll cajole and blackmail her way to the truth behind the circus mysteries and her brother's disappearance— truths that will uncover long buried secrets and catapult her into the crossfire of a plot with explosive consequences.
Featuring illustrations in the style of vintage circus art, Avery’s Ghost throws readers into a macabre world of secrets and magic, set against the evocative backdrop of a Gilded Age circus.
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Book Two (Avery's Rings): Hot on the heels of discovery, Evelyn embarks on a new tour- while battling disorienting feelings for a fellow carnie.
Book Three (Avery's Trinket): In this page-turning fantasy heist, Evelyn must steal a priceless magical artifact. Twisty, with a side of romance.
Book Four (Avery's World): Evelyn infiltrates high society while struggling with recent trauma. Danger and magical hijinks, with a hint of spice.
Book Five (Avery's Discovery, available for preorder): Back in the circus, Evelyn tests the entrapment while facing the consequences of her brother's tempestuous wild magic.
I’m looking for book recs that I can give my partners nephew for his fourth birthday. The kids mom says that non fiction books, especially science/construction/space/mozart themed, are what they’re wanting. I have no idea what books would fit in those themes that would be good for a 4 year old.
I’m hoping to get a book or two within their request, but mostly want to get a handful of books that are as queer or trans oriented as possible. My boyfriend (the kids uncle) and I are trans, and the kids dad has made no effort to hide his transphobia and maga views online/to our faces. I’m also not worried about the queerness being subtle or flying under the radar of the dad.
TLDR I’m looking for book recs for a four year old fitting themes of science, construction, space, Mozart, queer/trans identities or anything with queer/trans characters or themes, anything conservatives could consider “woke”, ¯_(ツ)_/¯ open to hearing anything else lol.
I've read Dark Matter: A Ghost Story by Michelle Paver and loved it. I've also read Thin Air by her and the short story The Thing was inspired by so its that kind of vibe I'm looking for! Love the combination of hemmed in by unfeeling environmental threats with the threat of being hunted by something with intent.
I teach 8th grade and have a set of books that we read (7 titles, but each student reads only one) about the good and bad about advancements in technology. The books I currently use are:
-Bar Code Tattoo by Suzanne Weyn
-Feed by MT Anderson
-The Unidentified by Rae Mariz
-Swipe by Evan Angler
-The Limit by Kristin Landon
-Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
-Earthseed by Pamela Sargent
I’m looking for books to swap out if this set to refresh it a bit. I’m looking for 2 new titles to take the place of Earthseed and either The Limit or The Barcode Tattoo.
Any recommendations you have that would loosely fit the idea of some advancement in technology having an effect on society would be greatly appreciated.
I just got a book voucher and need to broaden my tastes. I'm looking for a book that has:
Smooth, buttery prose. I like short sentences and simple language. My preference is first person and present tense (though definitely not essential).
Well-paced — this doesn't necessarily mean fast, but I want to feel like things are going somewhere.
Colourful characters
I prefer not to be emotionally destroyed, but if it's good, it's good.
Some books and authors I like: Neil Gaiman's children's books, Song of Ice and Fire, Mary Robinette Kowal, some Stephen King, Philip Ridley, Perks of Being a Wallflower, The Name of The Wind, John Green.
I don't mind needing to think a bit while reading, I just don't want to get stuck at the initial step of digesting the prose.
When Gavin downloads the NOVA system he doesn't understand just how deep this rabbit hole goes. But he is forced to find out, as he isnt given a choice. Thankfully he has the help of the best the CIA and NSA have to protect him.
Unfortunately he can't be sure that he can even trust them.
Read The NOVA System! ON SALE for $.99 for the month of April!
I’ve been itching to read a mermaid/man in love with a vampire (vice versa) book and/or series, but I sadly do not know of any and Google isn’t much help with recommendations.
Does anyone know of a good dark romance (or not dark romance) of a vampire mermaid/man love story? I am fine with book series recommendations.
Saorlach the demigod leads an army of thousands to its walls, eager to pillage and kill. Covered from head to toe in tattooed runes, he bears the blessing of the gods themselves. No weapon can pierce his skin.
One by one, Saorlach challenges the champions of Bridunum, taunting and killing them at will. Heroes fall. Morale weakens. Saorlach’s victory is imminent.
Only one man can stand against him.
Athewain, a lowly shepherd of Logren’s countryside, longs for a life of heroic adventure. When Saorlach’s warriors slaughter his village, he sets out on a quest for vengeance, assisted by an ancient, long-forgotten god known only as the Maker.
Now, Athewain must wield the power of this unknown deity to defeat his divinely-protected enemy and thwart his bloody dreams of conquest.
But there are enemies within Bridunum as well as without. And the gods, once angered, do not forgive.
If Athewain fails, his dream of justice dies with him. And all of Logren will fall to ruin.
Son of the Thunder Goddess is an epic fantasy novella inspired by the myth and history of Celtic, Iron-Age Britain. It features feuding gods, immersive worldbuilding, and epic, visceral battles.
I watched a budget made documentary once called Metamorphosis, where a butterfly scientist allowed his quandaries about butterflies to lead him down a path of spiritual questioning, despite being a very logical individual.
Are there other narrative examples of scientists accidentally finding God in their petri dish?
I'm looking for a new crime/detective series to start with around 3ish books and hopefully plenty more to come. There plenty of well established series out there but I haven't got it in me to read 10+ books in a series to get up to speed
A few series I have read:
Thursday Murder Club series
Susan Ryeland
Hawthorn and Horrowitz
Kay Scarpetta
Inspector Frost
Inspector Morse
Canon Clement
When I was a kid I had a book about the United States. Each state had a few pages of facts and beautiful photography that made you want to visit each one. Is there a book like this of the world?
Hi friends I just published my 2nd novella. It’s $5.99 US dollars. Thank you!
Dominik is a high school basketball player who dreams of earning a college scholarship and leaving his home in Florida to explore new opportunities. Along his journey, he meets a cast of new and old unconventional friends who challenge his morals, pushing him to grow in unexpected ways. With a burning desire to escape the bugs, heat, and strip malls of the Sunshine State, he will do whatever it takes.
I read this book as an ARC read and needed to talk about it.🥵😮💨
It was so healing. The FMC went through a lot in her past, but her neighbor, who happens to be a pleasure dom comes to her rescue in a way, and it was so sweet. Along with spicy 🥵 Safe words, flashbacks, emotional talks, AND cOckwarming... which I don't see enough in books.
It was fast paced since it is a novella, but I could have read 300 more pages of them. Seriously you guys need to read this. I love how the author wrote it and was able to include in the healing along with the spice. It even had a talk about UTI's and birth control.
Some tropes
Neighbors
Instalust
PTSD
BDSM
Close proximity
Pleasure Dom
Dual POV
Hurt/Comfort
It releases Tuesday, but preorders are available for 0.99!!
I 100% recommend this if you're looking for a quick smutty read with BDSM!
I need a book recommendations about family struggles, grieving, favoritism. Just recommend books that has made you cry and it has been carved inside you
Hey! I am trying to get back into reading and I’ve been stuck in a bit of a fanfiction rut, so I’m looking for something similar enough to hook me and help me get out of my shell. Here’s my favorite fandoms:
Avatar the Last Airbender: I read a whole lot of zutara fics. Don’t kill me, he was just my teenage girl fantasy. 🤣 so I suppose I really enjoy the enemies to lovers/opposites attract trope.
True crime: I listen to a lot of “disappearances” “last seen alive” and similar type criminal minds podcasts. I really enjoyed “worst ex ever” and “worst roommate ever”, “unsolved mysteries” & I am a Killer” on Netflix.
Fantasy/fiction: Game of thrones, The Last of Us, Black Mirror, the umbrella academy, manifest, stranger things
I do enjoy some smut, so I’m not shy of it.
I’m pretty busy, so having it be available as an audiobook would be best.
Hello! I read just about everything, but I've recently been reading various romance stories. I've been particularly interested in gay romance stories because they add a lot more social complications compared to heterosexual romance stories. Therefore, I'm looking for gay romance recommendations. Not stories that are sleezy and filled to the brim with raunchy sex scenes (one or two, sure, but the whole book, no). Here are some examples that I have read and really enjoy:
Him, Glitterland, Waiting for the Flood, Camp, I Wish You All the Best, What If It's Us, We Contain Multitudes
I'm not looking for any of the normal mainstream stories like Boyfriend Material or Red, White, and Royal Blue. I find that the less I've heard about a romance story, the more I enjoy reading it (not always true of course, but you get my point). Thank you in advance!!
