Recs if you like Lincoln in the Bardo...
Listening Is Reading
When the narrator(s) makes the book even better. For new listeners and audiobook elites, here is a range of different genres and narrators that excel at audio perfection.
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books your pretentious friend has heard of
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Lucy Dacus Recommendations 💛
Books recommended by musician Lucy Dacus, a solo artist and member of the band boygenius. Pulled from her goodreads list.
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after life? afterlife 🙂↕️
fiction books taking place after death
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Service95 Book Club ✨
Aka Dua Lipa’s reading list. Everyone’s fave popstar on permanent holiday with a massive list of books to read, and she always seems to have incredible recommendations.
I am not part of Service95 or affiliated with Dua Lipa. I am just a fan curating this list based on the @service95bookclub IG account 💋
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A Literary Journey Through Grief
Grief as one of the main topics
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Not that DMV
Stories that feature DC, Maryland, or Virginia. (Statehood for DC!)
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The Art of Engaged Reading: Fiction Companion
You've built up your skills as an engaged reader - now it's time to start reaping the benefits! Every book on this list was chosen because it's genuinely enjoyable AND hiding something underneath the surface worth finding. The goal isn't to find the "right" answer, but to trust your own instincts as a reader and see where that takes you. Start in your favorite genre - it makes close reading feel like a game, not homework. Happy Reading Boundlings!!
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Grief is The Thing
Books where grief is personified, given a body, a voice, or a shape, to explore how loss lives alongside us.
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NYT Readers' Best 100 Books of the 21st Century
A mix of reader favorites and editorial picks from The New York Times—100 books that defined the 21st century.
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booker prize winners 1969- present
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Service 95 Book Club
Dua Lipa’s book clip picks
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unconventional ghosts
strange and surprising hauntings. these ghosts defy or challenge conventions of commercial ghost stories, reimagining how memories and ancestry shape us. recommendations alway welcome!
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NYT Reader's Choice Top 100 21st Century
NYT Top 100 of the 21st Century: Reader's Choice. In order as published in 2024
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Books That Break The Rules
Books that ignore the traditional way of telling a story. These books tell their stories in unexpected ways, through letters, transcripts, diaries, documents, text messages, or unconventional layouts.
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NYT Top 100 Books of the 21st Century
In order from #1 (My Brilliant Friend) to 100 (Tree of Smoke)
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Writing & Literature Student Reading List
Here's a list of every book I studied, read, or was reccomended to read as part of my Writing and Literature BA - for eager academics, fellow writers & nostagic graduates💕 Let's milk my education💪
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book recs for blue readers
book recs for blue readers according to read your color on substack | updated periodically
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NYT’s The 100 Best Books of the 21st Century
A list published in 2024 by the New York Times, as voted on by 503 novelists, poets, critics, and other book lovers—with a little help from the staff of The New York Times Book Review
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Service95 Book Club
Service95 Book Club Monthly Reads + more and more books from their lists :)
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