Recs if you like Atlas Shrugged...

puts beret on a jaunty angle ‘why yes i went to Oxbridge and go skiing on my holibobs with papa, why do you ask?’ takes a hit of tobacco flavoured vape, puts asterisk in margin of the obscure classic i’m ‘reading’

the list for people who want to look ‘well read’ and need some books to name drop - look no further if you have read them, more power to you, but this is explicitly about the people who claim to have read them but can’t read instructions on pasta

consider this a shopping list 🖤

Penguin asked its readers in 2022 for the must-read classics. This is that list!

Hello! My name is John / Jon / Jonny / Jonathan! This list contains books that feature a main or semi-important character with a variant of the name John.

As always, open to suggestions!

Do you love reading bricks?? Do you love when authors go on and on forever?? Then this list may be for you!

This list is for folks looking for a long book to dive into. All books in this list have more than 250,000 words in them!

As always, open to suggestions! 🤠

Books that were adapted into movies (not tv shows). Let's make this list as long as possible!

(going to only add the first book in a series)

I'm going to read every book every

Books which have video game adaptations or are cited as heavy inspirations for them. I love both books & games as mediums & feel there is more connection between them than oft credited. Obviously, creatives are influenced by innumerable things, but it's awesome when developers, etc. share their inspirations. Please say if there are others you know of!

I tried to find the latest version (2026).

Books you didn't realize were written by Jewish authors. Bonus points if you studied them in school and it just... never came up.

Books that describe utopias and dystopias in some way.

All buddy reads taking place in the Organized Book Club discord starting and/or ending in 2025. The list will be updated throughout the year.

The list of 100 books/series, created during PBS Great American Read series (2018) in which the public voted on the most influential and important reads in America. All series are represented by their 1st book.

Books that have been made into a TV series or Movie

Books read, mentioned or seen in the TV show, One Tree Hill.

A combination of dystopian fiction and historical nonfiction that are very much a comment on our current situations.