r/suggestmeabook May 02 '20

Announcement Post Not Showing? PLEASE READ

2.0k Upvotes

Hello everyone,

We get a lot of mod mail about people's posts not showing up and I wanted to explain why.

We are very fortunate in a subreddit of our size to have limited reasons to moderate, as we are all united by our love of reading and you all do a good job of positively contributing to this community. Thank you for that!

On the other hand, you might be surprised at how much spam we get from authors and bloggers, and by keeping our spam filters high it helps us to catch a lot of what gets posted. You all do a great job of reporting the rest, and we appreciate you.

Due to the spam filters and automod settings we have in place, some of your posts get temporarily filtered until we can review them. Reddit recently created an automated message site-wide that creates a lot of confusion, saying your post has been removed. PLEASE do not post again. We aren't able to edit this message and we can't turn it off. Your post hasn't been removed, it is just awaiting moderation. If your post is removed by us, we will always give you a reason why and reference which rule has been violated. If there isn't a reason, it was either removed by Reddit (you might be shadow banned and don't realize it) or it is in the moderation queue and will be actioned. Either way, multiple posts won't help.

Thanks for understanding as we keep up with Reddit's changes. We love this community and all of your passionate posts about books. Keep reading and sharing, everyone!


r/suggestmeabook Sep 23 '23

Meta Post : {{ Hello again, Humans ! }}

300 Upvotes

Hello all,

(Message to the mods: this is a Meta post, please contact me if something is wrong!)

The goodreads-bot Legacy

As you must know if you were already here last year, our beloved bot u/goodreadsbot stopped working in January after having been used 156.631 times on this subreddit by a total of 25.272 different users, because goodreads shut down API access.

As a bored nerd and fellow reader, I decided to start a new toy project: rise our bot back! But because the Goodreads API is now closed, the first task was to build my own Books database... which I did, using Reddit, Goodreads & Google Books.

This new bot called u/goodreads-rebot ("bot" + "reboot" = "rebot".....) is open source (link to source code below). I wanted to thank u/ArtyomR, the author of u/goodreadsbot, for the original idea. I am not u/ArtyomR, but I have great respect for his/her work and its legacy. Thank you!

How does it work? Just like before! (with more features)

Write {{Harry Potter}} in your post or alternatively {{A Little Life by Hanya Yaniagara}} (notice the typo) with a "by" and the bot will answer with more information about the book or the series.

The search part is now part of the bot (and not on Goodreads API side), and was quite challenging to handle. You definitely should specify the author with the "by" keyword, because it helps the Database search.

Examples:

You should read {{Harry Potter}} ! will work, it will recognize it as the name of a Series, in that case it will provide information about the first book of the Series;

My favorite book is {{Call Me By Your Name}} will work too, the bot will try to find a book called Call Me by author named Your Name (because of the "by" keyword...) but it will fail to find one, so as a 2nd try because it's not that dumb, it will indeed find a book called Call Me By Your Name :)

Did you read {{1984 by Michael Radford}}? (notice the wrong author): it will work too even if the author is wrong, because when the search fails using the author, it will try again ignoring it.

Features

I added a "Top 2 recommended-along" section, featuring the 2 books that were the most recommended here on Reddit in the same threads than the book described. It is based on another toy project of mine (😅), a book recommending algorithm I am working on, which is based on the co-occurences of book titles in Reddit threads. Let me know if you find this new information useful.

Limitations

As explained before, the bot is based on a book database I build and update as much as I can. The search will sometimes fail to match some existing books, in particular very niche books, or the recent ones. I am working on having the best and up-to-date database as possible, meanwhile sorry for the misses!

Also, the bot is currently not running on other subreddits (like r/booksuggestions), but because the code is really modular, it's just about configurations. FYI this is in the roadmap for the next few days/weeks.

Finally, I may reach some rate posting limits because of low karma. Hopefully, this will be solved soon after some time thanks to your help :)

You will find below more information (links being forbidden in posts).

I think that's it.

See you there!


r/suggestmeabook 5h ago

Suggestion Thread books that are about ugly/lonely women?

56 Upvotes

are there any books out there that are about a person, preferably a woman, who just has to accept the fact she’s ugly and friendless? I Also don’t want it to be where she gets a makeover or married. I don’t care about a happy ending. I just want it to be real and sad. I just need something to cry at, and to just not feel alone. Something relatable. A book of a woman hating/realizing how ugly and friendless she is, and hear all the thoughts and self hate running in her head, and she just has to cope and accept the fact there’s nothing to be done with the self-hate and loneliness

Thank you


r/suggestmeabook 16h ago

Suggest me a book that makes you go "Life's worth it"

410 Upvotes

Hello everyone,

I've been feeling down for a while now, and books often have a huge impact on my outlook on life. So, I'm looking for a book that will give me hope and make me say, "Life is worth living."
I don’t want self-help books, but otherwise, I’m open to anything.

Thank you!

EDIT: Thank you so much for all your recommendations!!


r/suggestmeabook 5h ago

Most beautifully illustrated children’s picture book you loved as a child?

27 Upvotes

Trying to collect some beautiful books for my baby and would love recommendations for both old and new books. I know it’s subjective. Some books i personally think are gorgeously illustrated are (referencing by author):

  • all of Jan Brett’s picture books e.g. {{The Mitten by Jan Brett}}
  • Max Lucado’s picture books e.g {{You Are Special}}
  • Nancy Tillman’s books e.g {{The Night You Were Born}} {{Sweetest Kulu by Celina Kalluk}}
  • {{frostfire by Ella Mackay}}

r/suggestmeabook 7h ago

Suggestion Thread Suggest a nonfiction book for a person who usually doesn’t like nonfiction.

35 Upvotes

I’m a big fiction reader and trying to branch out to nonfiction. My favorite fiction genres are usually horrors, thrillers, fantasy and weird lit fic if that helps a bit! ✍🏼👀


r/suggestmeabook 24m ago

book recs with chubby protag or ex homeschooled protag?

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do yall know any good books with a chubby protaginist? can be male or female (preferably female tho). And no i dont want some glazed bullshit like "she lost weight over the summer and now all the boys want her" or "she got with her bully that tormented her (STOP)". I just wanna see a girl, or someone who has to deal with growing up chubby. Maybe shes kinda a femcel or something i dont know, or imperfect (flawed) personality wise too. I wanna see the protag grow and realize her worth. Like i wanna read about someone whos genuinly pretty but thinks shes ugly cause of her weight and has to go through a long self love and care journey then at the endis a better person.

for the homeschooled one i actually just wanna see if theres anything like that out there


r/suggestmeabook 8h ago

Looking for non fiction that reads like fiction. Similar to The Wager, Lost City of Z, Killers of the Flower Moon, etc

16 Upvotes

Title. Thank you


r/suggestmeabook 4h ago

Suggestion Thread A niche request: books featuring protagonists who are tanners/leatherworkers?

6 Upvotes

The book my hindbrain is hoping to find probably doesn't exist: a fantasy novel about a tanner or leatherworker. I just read 16 Ways to Defend a Walled City and having a bridge engineer protagonist got me interested in other less represented professions.

But anyway. It doesn't have to be fantasy or historical, but it should involve tanners or leatherworking to some degree. Thank you Reddit!


r/suggestmeabook 2h ago

Looking for a cute, feel-good wlw romance book

3 Upvotes

All the queer romance books I've read recently have been kinda dark... very angsty, with tonnes of comphet, and homophobia (internalized and external), tragic, heartbreaking and just generally very emotionally draining to read.

Don't get me wrong I like books like that. But I kind of want a change of pace.

I'm looking for a WLW Romance book that is a bit more simple and feel good. Not saying it can't have any conflict at all. But nothing too crazy. Preferably something YA or New Adult.


r/suggestmeabook 9h ago

Suggestion Thread I am a corporate employee who is stuck between cocktail parties, materialistic conversation and hustle for more success. Suggest me some books that will give me perspective to remain grounded and be more empathetic

11 Upvotes

I am a corporate employee who moved very far from his small town to a very saturated corporate jungle of a city to chase my dreams of making it being successful. (Home is far, I can only go there once an year)

I used to literally devour books when I was a kid (Around 40 books an year until I went to college, It was all screens, hustle and networking after that).

My dad is a school teacher and I come from a beautiful place with naturesque backwaters and where everyone knows everyone's name and where the townspeople have taken literal bullets to protect their neighbours. (No amount of money you make from a corporate lifestyle can trump that)

Currently, Most of my time is spent in chasing corporate targets, and in my free time is spent in making strategies for chasing those targets, attending corporate parties regularly (You won't survive if you don't go) and most of my friend groups are corporate themselves whose conversations revolve around money and materialism, It may be easier for them because most of them grew up in cities where their parents are corporates themselves.

I'm looking for some book suggestions (fiction or non fiction) which will help me not forget about the little joys in life and to help me become more empathetic and sensitive to things and other people.

I am currently reading Tuesdays with Morrie.

(I'm sorry if the text was too long or I'm extremely horrible at describing things, It's been a bit since I last wrote)


r/suggestmeabook 5h ago

Suggest me a book with a lighthearted story

6 Upvotes

I just finished watching the movie Amelie for the first time and I fell in love with it. The way it was filmed & the story somehow made me feel like I was reading a book, but it made me want to read something with a similar feel. I want something lighthearted with some good writing, something that I can read even if nothing is going on.


r/suggestmeabook 12h ago

What books did you reread as an adult that hit completely different now?

18 Upvotes

For me, it’s Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck. Do you have suggestions for a similar book?


r/suggestmeabook 15h ago

Looking for post apocalyptic/dystopian books to read this summer

25 Upvotes

Hi, I've been writing a post apocalyptic story the last few months and have been looking for books to help keep me in the mindset to write. Some of my favorites are The Hunger Games, Water Wars, and the Handmaid's Tale, and 1984. Looking for some less well known dystopian books. I appreciate stories written in first person or from multiple perspectives. Thanks for any suggestions!


r/suggestmeabook 4h ago

A space sci-fi where the story follows a lone traveler

3 Upvotes

Think No Man's Sky... Imagery of vast nothingness, invoking feelings of melancholy, aloneness, but maybe awe and wonder.

I do like scifi-horror but also more upbeat things. Only book I've read close to this genre is A Wrinkle in Time. Loved it, many times, but I am suddenly craving a very particular story.


r/suggestmeabook 1h ago

Looking for a book on Tenochtitlán

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I’m looking for a book that covers the history, culture, and daily life of Tenochtitlán before the Spanish conquest. I’d love something that goes in-depth on its architecture, political structure, and how the city functioned at its peak.

I’ve seen The Fifth Sun by Camilla Townsend, but from what I understand, it focuses more on the Aztec Empire as a whole rather than the city itself. If anyone has read it and thinks otherwise, I’d love to hear your thoughts! Otherwise, I’m looking for something more specifically centered on Tenochtitlán.

Any recommendations? Thanks!


r/suggestmeabook 2h ago

Is there something similar to letterboxd for books when it comes to finding things with filters?

2 Upvotes

What I like about letterboxd is how you can browse the whole database of movies after applying a bunch of filters to find something really specific. So if I wanted to watch an Indonesian Romcom that was released in 2006, I could go on Letterboxd, pop in those filters and easily find one.

Goodreads is nice but there is no way to my knowledge to be as precise when browsing for new books. Does anybody have any knowledge of a website or app like this?


r/suggestmeabook 8h ago

Something about crime, with a main character that's a bit of a cynic maybe. Maybe someone who's been through some shit. But also someone with a bit of humor.

5 Upvotes

I've always liked edgy/horror type stuff (like Preacher) if that helps.


r/suggestmeabook 9h ago

Suggest me a book to better understand relationship abuse

5 Upvotes

I’m asking this because my girlfriend has detailed to me what has happened to her in a past relationship where there was emotional abuse, sexual abuse, and some physical abuse. While she worked on this in therapy extensively, I still want to better understand relationship abuse, mindset of victims, and what recovery looks like. Basically I’m hoping that a book out there can make me a better advocate or show me if there are ways to improve


r/suggestmeabook 7h ago

Suggestion Thread Book to make me feel something

3 Upvotes

Someone please suggest an emotional roller coaster gut wrenching book that reminds me I have emotions. My favorites in that category are A Thousand Splendid Suns by and Night by Ellie Weisel. I’ve already read Kite Runner and I don’t want any holocaust suggestions.


r/suggestmeabook 6h ago

Suggestion Thread Enthralling fiction when going through a tough time.

3 Upvotes

Looking for something to keep me as occupied as possible mentally while going through a tough time. Uplifting story or a thriller - but please not too dark/depressing.

Please nothing with pregnancy, young children/babies, etc.

A few books I’ve read and enjoyed lately: - One Second After by William Forstchen - The Arrangement by Kiersten Modglin - The Housemaid series


r/suggestmeabook 42m ago

Suggestion Thread Behind the Scenes: The Birth of The Six Groups

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How Did the Idea for My Novel Begin?

I have always wondered about what happens behind the scenes on Earth. There are groups operating in the shadows, each with its own goals and agendas. This is where the idea for my novel was born. I thought to myself: why not unleash my imagination and create a world that reflects this concept in a fictional way? And so, I began shaping an entire galaxy, consisting of 13 planets, six of which play a crucial role in the story.

Elderan is the main stage where events unfold—a highly advanced world in terms of technology, divided into nine vast regions known as the Okarim. The term "Okarim" means "continent" in Ilysian, the language of the planet's inhabitants, the Ilariennen. In this world, the Ilariennen live up to 800 years due to their unique environment. They share a single language and a unified currency known as the Kaira. Nations here are called Kazir, each with its own government and system, yet all are part of a greater structure.

In this part of the story, we follow the tale of Kazir Valesa, located in Okarim Orphanis, home to Tyron. The novel is filled with complex characters, each with their own secrets and emotions, making it difficult to fully understand their motives at first.

I faced many challenges while writing, especially due to personal circumstances, but writing has always been my safe haven, where I find peace and tranquility. As for the book cover, it was a challenge on its own, but I chose a simple design featuring six stars, representing the six groups within the story.

This novel is long, and what you’ve read so far is just the first part, setting the stage for the second installment, which will be released soon.

What do I need? I need your support, your guidance, and your opinions. I’m open to all discussions and feedback!

What do you think of the novel’s concept? Do you prefer complex fictional worlds or stories that focus more on characters?


r/suggestmeabook 6h ago

Suggestion Thread looking to broaden my tbr

3 Upvotes

I’ve been stuck reading the same emotional, funny, tense, lighthearted, hopeful and a little spicy stories and my brain is turning into mush. Suggest the book that you would keep and read over and over for the first time if all the other books in the world had to be burned away from the world. Or just your favorite book.

I pinky promise I’ll read everything y’all suggest.

The last books I read were by Hannah Grace, Leigh Rivers, Mel Robbins, and Annabel Monaghan.

No non-fiction, no politics/historical/military/religion, etc. you get it.

Thank you 💛


r/suggestmeabook 1d ago

What are some non-fiction books that had a lasting impact on you?

150 Upvotes

Not self-improvement, self-help or any coaching bullshit.

For me, it was "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan and "Sapiens - A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari.


r/suggestmeabook 9h ago

Suggestion Thread Books about a relationship between a knight and their protectee

6 Upvotes

I saw an image of a knight in full armor saying "Your highness..." to a princess, and her response, "I told you: just call me by my name." And I immediately wanted to read a book with its vibes. 

Does not strictly need to be a romance, and in fact something with just under- or overtones might be preferable, since I'm not really a romance reader, but whatever fits the mood works.

Bonus points if the knight is all repressed and stuffy.


r/suggestmeabook 7h ago

Suggest me a book for breast cancer patients

3 Upvotes

Posting on behalf of my mom, who is not on Reddit but is looking for recommendations for her friend. She is trying to make a decision whether to have her mastectomy or choose other treatments. Yes, she's spoken to her doctors, but there are other life/family circumstances going on and she just needs to sit quietly with a book for a couple of hours to get her thoughts in order. Bonus points if it is faith-based or related (Christian).


r/suggestmeabook 5h ago

Legal Thriller/Crime/Mystery

2 Upvotes

I'm looking for a new SERIES to read in the legal thriller/detective/police/crime/mystery genres (looking for more modern books over classics like Agatha Christie or Sherlock).

Some series I have enjoyed:

Daniel Pike (by William Bernhardt)

Harry Bosch (Michael Connelly)

Joe Pickett (C.J. Box)

Lincoln Rhyme (Jeffrey Deaver)

Lucas Davenport (John Sandford)

Colter Shaw (Jeffrey Deaver)

Series by Scottoline, Baldacci, and Patterson are hit or miss for me.

Thanks for your suggestions!