>Book recommendation thread. I need something new to read

>>675608762
the new jim crow

>>67560876
Bump

The road

>>675608762
bill bryson's brief history of nearly everything

>>675608863
New jim crow?

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>>675609092
Read it in highschool and thoroughly enjoyed it

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>>675608863
Shut up nigger

what is /b/'s opinion of catcher in the rye?

>>675608940
Is it more or less a textbook style read?

>>675608762
1984 George Orwell and A Scanner Darkly by Philip K Dick

>>675608762
i enjoyed game of thrones a lot

>>675609306
OP here. Catcher in the Rye is pretty different from most novels I've read, in that the protagonist seemingly just whines generally the entire time. There's not much of a build up and it ends rather abruptly. However, because it's different from the norm in those ways, I liked it.

>>675609427
I forgot one. Starmaker by Olaf Stapledon

>>675609559
I've read fight club and a few short stories of his that I found online. I'm definitely up for more chuck palahniuk.

>>675609741
You will love it. His best novel.

>>675609427
What's a scanner darkly about?

>>675609902
Drugs and paranoia in a distopian future similar to our modern world

>>675608762
The Disaster Artist. About Tommy Wiseau and the making of The Room. Loved it.

>>675608762
this is not a novel but im currently readin "my big t.o.e. by Tom Cambell". It's pretty interesting op.

>>675610059
Isn't james Franco supposedly basing a movie on that book?

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>>675609902
Substance d

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These is gud

>>675610407
Second this. I'd start with crank

>>675610049
Sounds intriguing

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>>675610558
Is it a series?

>>675609576
I always loved that book. You're pretty much right though, it basically just him roaming around new york reflecting on life. It always hits home with me because when i was 12, my brother died. A lot of people see Holden as whiny or angsty, but until you have to see your own brother die, you don't know what pain is. The whole book he seems lost or distant, just kinda looking around and thinking really deep about crazy things like ducks. That's the kind of stuff that happened to me too. I was fucking 12 contemplating the meaning of our existance and about who created the universe. That's the kind of shit you go through. This book will always give me the feels.

The Dresden Files

>>675610687
Not quite. I think 3 or 4 of the books follow the same chick then her kid but the rest are standalone. Crazy stories about a cheerleader type to meth whore

>>675610687
Nope. 1 novel by Philip k dick

>>675608762
A canticle for Leibowitz

>>675608762
The Culture Series (sci-fi from the 80s, soon to be movie.)

>>675610129
Yep.

I'm actually reading through http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Science_Fiction_%28Bookshelf%29 . Reverse alphabetically, on some strange impulse I can't explain. I'm specifically enjoying George Oliver Smith's works right now.

>>675610845
Never heard if it. What's it about?

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>>675610933
Wut

Gone series by Michael Grant
One of my favorite books to read in my spare time

>>675610221
Weird thespian detected

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>>675611274
Exterminate all rational thought

>>675611226
It's a post-apocalyptic novel about an abbey dedicated to preserving pre-war knowledge. The story span hundreds of years.

>>675611284
Yes!! This a thousand times, it's an amazing series.
First person I see other than me that likes it

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>>675611622
What are the fucking odds you'd post the same book that I was going to post at the exact same fucking time?!?!?!

Crraazzzyyyy!!!!!!!!

>>675611284
What's it's about?

Just, fucking, read this book. People are going crazy for it. Absolutely outstanding. Film and TV series are currently in the works. Get in now.

http://www.patrickrothfuss.com/images/page/cover_277.jpg

This whole series

Start with Island 731

>>675611726
That sounds fucking cool

>>675611880
The Name of the Wind

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Broken Empire series on audiobook

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>>675609576
There's a line of theory floating around that the protagonist in CITR is mentally ill. That's why he gets hung up on shit like "phonies" and all that.

>>675611880
Sounds good to me.

>>675611833
Basically, everyone in like a 50 mile square radius is domed off from the rest of the world, but anyone above that age of 15 was teleport ed out or something, had to do with nuclear waste and basically all the kids are trying to survive but a lot of shit changes in the FAYZ(the dome thingy) they all get powers too

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>>675612122
Keked and checked.

1984, brave new world, everything from isaac asimov and stanislaw lem, if you want some nice war diary from ww1 "storm of steel"

>>675612163
The audio book (read by Nick Podehl) was amazing, I've since bought the books and have read them again. I have literally in my life not enjoyed a book as much.

>>675612378
Mother fucking recommend this entire series. Unreal

Red rising,broken empire,kingkiller chronicle(name of the wind).
Dank fantasy and sci-fi

Ubik, 1984, Brave New World, The shining, Catch 22, Dandelion wine.

what sites do you faggots use to find new books?

>>675612422
Eh I was looking at reading the series myself but Isn't the 3rd and last book in the trilogy like to be released this year? It's probably worthwhile waiting for it to release before starting the series I think.

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>>675611780
2 seconds earlier

>>675611284
Not a bad series

Neurologic

>>675612593

Audiobookbay.me

>>675612981
Is that only audio books or is there ebooks too?

>>675612416
This, especially the first two. Also Animal Farm. Ender's Game is good, even if the author is somewhat of an asshole. And some good short poems are Ozymandias, Invictus, and Thanatopsis.

>>675611726
Church of Steel?

>>675608762
TRAINSPOTTING, ya daft cunt.

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This was the last thing I read, it was actually really good.

>>675609899
bugger off. his best was fight club.

>>675613197
More or less, they certainly took inspiration from this book when creating BoS for Fallout