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18 🏛️ History student 🤍 I want to talk about books!!! Trying to read a lot of different genres this year!

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Like 4 pages in and I love this guy. I love a stinky little curmudgeon of a man. He's very >:C and I'm sat for it

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The Seagull

Anton Chekhov

A Methuen Student Edition of Chekhov's classic play in Michael Frayn's acclaimed translation. When it first opened in St Petersburg in 1896, The Seagull survived only five performances after a disastrous first opening night. Two years later it was revived by Nemirovich-Danchenko at the newly-founded Moscow Art Theatre with Stanslasky as Trigorin and was an immediate success. Checkhov's description of the play was characteristically self-mocking: "A comedy - 3F, 6M, four acts, rural scenery (a view over a lake); much talk of literature, little action, five bushels of love".Michael Frayn's translation was commissioned by the Oxford Playhouse Company.

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North and South

Elizabeth Gaskell

When her father leaves the Church in a crisis of conscience, Margaret Hale is uprooted from her comfortable home in Hampshire to move with her family to the north of England. Initially repulsed by the ugliness of her new surroundings in the industrial town of Milton, Margaret becomes aware of the poverty and suffering of the local mill workers and develops a passionate sense of social justice. This is intensified by her tempestuous relationship with the mill-owner and self-made man, John Thornton, as their fierce opposition over his treatment of his employees masks a deeper attraction. In North and South, Elizabeth Gaskell skillfully fuses individual feeling with social concern, and in Margaret Hale creates one of the most original heroines of Victorian literature.

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Chess

Stefan Zweig

'... a human being, an intellectual human being who constantly bends the entire force of his mind on the ridiculous task of forcing a wooden king into the corner of a wooden board, and does it without going mad!'A group of passengers on a cruise ship challenge the world chess champion to a match. At first, they crumble, until they are helped by whispered advice from a stranger in the crowd - a man who will risk everything to win. Stefan Zweig's acclaimed novella Chess is a disturbing, intensely dramatic depiction of obsession and the price of genius.

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Classic recomendation

This year I would like to read more classic, whats your favourite classic author? I’m thinking on starting dovstoyeski with notes from the underground, would you say thats a good starting point??

Tell me about your favourites!!

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Classic recomendation

This year I would like to read more classic, whats your favourite classic author? I’m thinking on starting dovstoyeski with notes from the underground, would you say thats a good starting point??

Tell me about your favourites!!

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What's Your Favorite Venue to Buy Books From?

I curious were people like to buy books from. Physical stores? Online? E-books?

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The Penelopiad

Margaret Atwood

Now that all the others have run out of air, it's my turn to do a little story-making. In Homer's account in The Odyssey, Penelope—wife of Odysseus and cousin of the beautiful Helen of Troy—is portrayed as the quintessential faithful wife, her story a salutary lesson through the ages. Left alone for twenty years when Odysseus goes off to fight in the Trojan War after the abduction of Helen, Penelope manages, in the face of scandalous rumors, to maintain the kingdom of Ithaca, bring up her wayward son, and keep over a hundred suitors at bay, simultaneously. When Odysseus finally comes home after enduring hardships, overcoming monsters, and sleeping with goddesses, he kills her suitors and—curiously—twelve of her maids. In a splendid contemporary twist to the ancient story, Margaret Atwood has chosen to give the telling of it to Penelope and to her twelve hanged maids, asking: "What led to the hanging of the maids, and what was Penelope really up to?" In Atwood's dazzling, playful retelling, the story becomes as wise and compassionate as it is haunting, and as wildly entertaining as it is disturbing. With wit and verve, drawing on the story-telling and poetic talent for which she herself is renowned, she gives Penelope new life and reality—and sets out to provide an answer to an ancient mystery.

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12 recs for 2026

I saw other people do this and thought it was a nice idea, so: I want to read 12 books recommended by 12 different people, but since I don't have that many friends who actively read, I figured I'd ask here on Pagebound! Please only one rec per person (it's gonna be hard, I know), and feel free to use the comments to ask for recs yourself of course!!

Below are my reading preferences so you can actually gauge what you might want to rec if you want ⬇️:

Genres I like ❤️📚: litfic, sci-fi, horror, historical fiction, fantasy Genres I don't read 🚫: romance, thriller, romantasy

2025 favs ⭐️:

Piranesi
Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands
Erasure (or James, I really liked both)
Never Let Me Go
Chain-Gang All-Stars

2025 flops 👎:

The Silent Patient
The Castaway and the Witch
Katabasis (at least so far)

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Good Girl, Bad Blood (A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, #2)

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As Good As Dead (A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, #3)

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Dec 25, 2025

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Norwegian Wood

Haruki Murakami

Toru, a quiet and preternaturally serious young college student in Tokyo, is devoted to Naoko, a beautiful and introspective young woman, but their mutual passion is marked by the tragic death of their best friend years before. Toru begins to adapt to campus life and the loneliness and isolation he faces there, but Naoko finds the pressures and responsibilities of life unbearable. As she retreats further into her own world, Toru finds himself reaching out to others and drawn to a fiercely independent and sexually liberated young woman. A magnificent blending of the music, the mood, and the ethos that was the sixties with the story of one college student's romantic coming of age, Norwegian Wood brilliantly recaptures a young man's first, hopeless, and heroic love.

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Haruki Murakami

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The Secret History

Donna Tartt

Under the influence of their charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at an elite New England college discover a way of thinking and living that is a world away from the humdrum existence of their contemporaries. But when they go beyond the boundaries of normal morality they slip gradually from obsession to corruption and betrayal, and at last—inexorably—into evil.

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aeleis

it's my birthday and all I want is a Kuang rec

(yes, it really is my birthday haha) as the title says! I've been hearing about R.F Kuang endlessly for what feels like ages but haven't ever actually got around to any of her work. I'd like to change this in 2026, but she's terribly prolific and I'm at a loss now for where to start.

Any suggestions for a beginner? (and does it help to know I'm fine with academic settings and don't mind big meaty books?)

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