Recs if you like People of the Book...
Books About Books 📚
Bibliophilia at its best - books about books, readers, libraries, bookstores!
half-glimpsed images: the novel in fragments
the fragmentary novel is constructed of fragments or vignettes, typically following images, thoughts, and feelings over a sequential series of events. in a world of disruption, displacement, and of time being swallowed and spat out by the machines of capitalism and colonialism, the fragmentary novel offers an alternative structure.
title borrowed from jenny offill. recommendations welcome.
Top 100 Australian books
G'day! This weekend our national radio station is counting down the top 100 Australian books of all time. As voted by readers. https://www.abc.net.au/listen/radionational/countdown/top100books I'll be listening as much as I can and I'll create a list to share the top 100 as we go.
So Meta: Books About Books, Authors, and Readers
Books about books. Books about authors/writers. Books about readers…but not like Annie Wilkes from Misery. Just non-psychotic readers. This list doesn’t include libraries or bookstores, because those are totally different types of pizza.
Books All The Way Down
What is the book about? A book.
Suggestions welcome.
Modern Epics as Stand Alone Novels
For the former enjoyer of fantasy, sci-fi, and historical fiction series without the time or obsession to get through three or more books to finish a narrative. These books are majority historical fictions that unfold at an epic scale. Whether through one journey, generations, or centuries, these stories speak to identities (often cultural or of a nation) and to truths larger than themselves.
Please note that any post-Cold War narrative settings exist alongside more historical perspectives.
Books about books
Books about books because there are never enough books
Jewish rep
Jewish characters written by Jewish authors that engage with Jewish themes, history, and culture. (no Daniel Deronda here!)
jewish lit
fiction with jewish protagonists! got so many suggestions from reddit
Reading the World: Bosnia and Herzegovina
Enjoy my newest lit series, ‘Reading the World’, in an attempt to diversify your own reading and broaden horizons, I have included a mix of genres. Sensitive topics often lie ahead as history, social and political issues are usually the centre of this writing. Enjoy!
For Gerim
A list of books for Jewish converts-in-progress 💙 includes titles commonly read in conversion journeys and books I read during my own :]
Set in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Fiction books set in Bosnia and Herzegovina
christianity & catholicism
a mix of fiction and nonfiction titles about Christianity, ranging from research on Catholic doctrine to reimaginings and retellings to criticism of the religion
Top Rated Books of the 21st Century
Goodreads Published List of Consistently > 4 ⭐️(by year published)
2000: Plain Truth - House of Leaves ‘01: Other Boleyn Girl - Secret Life of Bees ‘02: Fingersmith - Lamb ‘03: Shutter Island - Time Traveler’s Wife ‘04: Shadow of the Wind - Cloud Atlas ‘05: No Country for Old Men - Book Thief ‘06: Sharp Objects - Road ‘07: Terror - Thousand Splendid Suns ‘08: City of Thieves - Hunger Games ‘09: Maze Runner - Cutting for Stone
Ran out of room.. See Comments for full list!
Radio National Top 100 Australian Books 2026
Announced on ABC Radio National 18 October 2026
Top 100 Books (ABC’s National Radio)
Top 100 books of the 21st Century according to ABC Radio National (Australia)
Through Ages and Places
Travel through time and across the planet with these immersive historical fiction novels.
Radio National Top 100 Books of the 21st Century
ABC Australian Radio countdown on the 18th & 19th October 2025
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