SDMB Book Recommendation Thread Compendium

I usually answer the thing at the end of the book on Kindle and it goes to my FB page, but my tastes have been very narrow, so I will subsrcibe here, especially for cheap or free Kindle books.

I sure will check this out, and what a great idea, MsWhatsit!

Thanks

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LotusPotus · June 10, 2012, 8:35am

Just got a new Kindle Touch so this thread is great, many thanks

WordMan · August 23, 2012, 9:20pm

New non-fiction recommendation thread.

Shadez · November 4, 2012, 1:47am

Science Fiction
Good Young-Adult or Easy-Adult Post-Apocalyptic/Zombie Books?
Post Apocalyptic Steam Power Novels
Remind me of some good teen SF/fantasy books from my childhood
Any good alien invasion novels?
Military Science Fiction Recommendations
Recommend a First Contact novel (sci-fi)
OP wants to read another Deep Space Nine Novel
Recommend a stealth sci-fi type novel for my book club
Recommend a time travel book?
Recommend me a Time Travel Novel that…
Hard Sci-fi Books
What should be my first science fiction novel?

Fantasy
Good Sci Fi and Fantasy that I can probably find for cheap in a used bookstore!
Point me towards some good trashy fantasy fiction?
Recommend some “magic in the real world” books
Book recommendations for a cheesy D&Dish fantasy?
Please recommend me some steampunk that isn’t set in london and doesn’t feature vampires
Recommend me books/films about mythological & folk tricksters
Suggest a fantasy comic book for me to try
Recommend graphic novels
Recommend some lesser-known fantasy

Mystery
Let’s talk about our favorite mystery novels
Favorite Fictional Detectives-Book Division
Recommend me some decent crime novels?
Please recommend me some non-Doyle Sherlock Holmes novels/stories

Wars & History
Books/films dealing with pre-WWI espionage?
Books/films on World War One
Book recommendations? American history
Please recommend book(s) on early US history with the emphasis on . . .[years 1750-1800 and key persons & ideas]
Reccomend Excellent U.S. History Books
Strange alternative history novels?
Please recommend a book on the history of The Holy Roman Empire
Novels and stories about interwar Britain?
Please recommend a good book on 18th-century West Africa
Recommend Books on Early Fertile Crescent Civilizations?
Reccommend some historical/fantasy military campaign fiction?

Non-Fiction
Recommend me some good non-fiction

Type
Works of Fiction Where the Villain is the (or a) Main Character
Recommend a good non-Grisham legal novel
Wanted: Books which (attempt to) explain EVERYTHING.
Please recommend a scary ghost book.
Need a trashy novel to read that isn’t Star Trek!
Book Recommendation-Isolated women
Please recommend a Pride and Prejudice sequel or “variation”
Let’s talk about literature that presents non-belief in a positive light.
Novels that end with their own beginning – Any examples? (Open spoilers)
Easy reads for a thirty-something who wants to get started on the classics
Recommend a classic novel that’s also a page-turner?
Recommend me a fun, easy, light read-- quick!
Now recommend some books for a nine year old girl
Recommend books for my 70 year old dad
Looking For A Book About A Man With Multiple Personalities
Book Recommendation: Complex Experimental Surreal Books
Gruesome pre-modern civilisations, and rule through terror
Recommend me some humor/dramedy/slice of life novels!
Recommend some erotic lit
Recommend me some erotica, please

Other
Need Book Recommendations for a Short Hospital Stay
Looking for a good book to bring on a trip - ideas?
Recommend a book for a long plane flight
The most depressing book you’ve ever read, but was still a good book (spoilers)
Books that made you cry
Book(s) You read that you’re pretty sure nobody else has read
Books you have on your shelf, taunting you to be read
List your three favorite books
Greatest American novel?
The Book Recommendation Challenge [for specific dopers]
Share beautiful passages of prose in your favorite fiction.

grodinsky · January 2, 2013, 4:34am

another one for the compilers.

Little_Nemo · June 26, 2013, 7:46am

The previous post has been reported.

jtur88 · July 11, 2014, 5:09pm

Here’s a category not covered by any of the above, which seems like it would be a very important thread: **Books by modern writers in other languages, translated into English. (Currently popular writers still releasing new titles.)

I’ve read Muriel Barbery, Peter Hoeg, Stieg Larson, Herta Müller, Per Petterson, Bernhard Schlink, and several Japanese authors. Where can I find recommendations for others that I might be missing?

twickster · December 12, 2014, 4:22pm

Just updated the “whatcha reading” master list with entries for 2012-14. Thanks, Shadez!

Elendil_s_Heir · December 12, 2014, 6:57pm

Many thanks to all. I love the Dope!

Shadez · December 12, 2014, 9:42pm

Merry Christmas.

War and (alternate) history
Alternate History Stories
Is there any alt-history fiction where Native Americans colonize Europe?
Books about servants’ worlds similar to Downton Abbey
Fiction that predicted the fall of the Soviet Union? (and those that didn’t!)
Recommend a book on European history, c. 1450-1550
Good popular history of World War I?
Recommend some books on post-WW2 military aviation
Short stories with Adolf Hitler as the good guy?
Please suggest a dispassionate bio of Richard III

Science fiction and fantasy, in that order
50 Essential Science Fiction Novels for a Public Library
Recommend Me Some Good New SF&F
Good Sci-Fi anthologies
What classic sci-fi should I read next?
Science Fiction Like A Song of Ice and Fire?
Having just finished a magical realism novel I need some hard Science fiction - The hardest!
Looking for some good hard science fiction that’s not internet centric
Recommend some colonization-themed science fiction
Reccomend Me Authors Similar to Philip K. Dick
Nuclear war fiction…set during the attack!
Post-Apocalyptic Book Suggestions?
Any post-apocalypse fiction that prominently features bicycles?
I’m looking for sci-fi/fantasy stories set on non-spherical worlds.
Time travel to the present book recommendations.
F&SF worlds, the really awesomely creative ones
Fantasy and SF novels since 2000 that Might Be Essentials One Day
Scifi/Fantasy books with strong female characters
If I liked The Name of the Wind, then I would like…
Books with Centaurs as Characters
Fairy tales with good adoptive (or step) parents
Best Stand Alone Fantasy Novel? (no spoilers)
Recommend some fantasy to me
I’m looking for fantasy stories in which magic is literally, physically dangerous to humans.
Looking for modern fantasy books/stories including magical apprenticeship
So I’ve been reading a lot of Epic Fantasy lately
Fantasy Books with a Female Lead
Recommend fantasy short story with familiars

Age-specific
Book Series for a 7 year old?
Comic books for an 8-year-old
Book Suggestion? pre-teen, non-fiction
War literature (for a 17 y/o)

Audio books
absolute best books on CD?
Audio Book for 17 hour car ride - Need Answer Fast
Can you recommend a good audiobook?

Horror / thriller
Best Lovecraft tribute story/book you’ve read?
Reccomend me long literary action/thriller novels

Favorites, (other) book type, etc
“10 Book Series So Addictive, You Never Want Them to End”
Which are the best 5 novels you have read in the last 5 years?
Do you have a “perfect” book?
50 tough books [off site list + discussion]
Books or book series most consider “guilty pleasures”
Reccomend me Fun and Complex Novels
Books that when they ended you went “WHAAAAT?”
What was the most interesting book you were ever forced to read for a class?
Good kid/adult books [equally meaningful to kids and adults]
Are there any literary classics of the “Choose Your Own Adventure” style book?
Books [Novels] That Are About Summer
Books written solely from the villain’s perspective
Books whose narrator is a ghost?
I’m looking for American-produced stories in which the United States is the villain …
Female first-person literature?
King Arthur Fiction
What to read after The Catcher in the Rye - (Book Recommendation)
Novels about Mormons
Old gods in fiction / Need for belief
I’m looking for stories in which the hero consciously decides to kill an innocent.
Recomend a free online graphic novel
Books about difficult white collar jobs?
Books akin to the prince or the art of war [power dynamics (in politics, in interpersonal relationships, within corporations, etc)]
Books or movies about people who suddenly become parents
Great novels that tackle the internet / social media etc.
Recommend me some ‘dawn of civilisation’ fiction.
Most recursive fiction? (story within a story or otherwise meta)

(General) fiction
Suggest some books that won’t make me want to cut my wrists
Recommend me some vacation reading
Help me find new books to read.

Non fiction
Book about early rocketry/space program
Essential baseball books
Informative books about the Holocaust
Programming language book recommendations for each language
Recommend a book on linguistics/language history
Books about “Interesting times*” [works that detail the daily life and experiences of people living through unusual and extreme experiences]
Recommend Dinosaur Books for Adults
What are some good biographies of drugged out or emotionally troubled people
Recommend some non-fiction con / grifter / thief stories.