Hi reddit,
Looking for some recommendations for what to suggest for our tiny family book club consisting of me, my sister, and my mother. For context – my sister is 22; I’m 27. Hope you can help out!
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Personally I don’t really care much about the genre, as long as the storytelling is solid, and not too predictable ( I hate being able to guess what’s going to happen after the first chapter).I also enjoy new ideas, even if they were only new at the time of the book being written, or just in general discovering new things I don’t already know of. Kind of getting back into reading!
My sister is kind of a mix between arts and classics; I think she’d enjoy fantasy, romance, historical, drama, modern classics… She’s a cottagecore girlie who’ve studied japanese and is considering going into graphic design or history. I think she’d like to be more cultural, and is researching a lot of cool things on her own. Idk if that helps haha
My mother is more conservative than me or my sister who can be pretty libral, and loves flavourful language, classics and philosophic and historical fiction. Generally things that feel thought out, studied or well researched I suppose. She’s also more spiritual.
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Last suggestion was The Secret History by Donna Tartt which was suggested by my sister. It seemed to fit alright I think 🙂
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by Fallaflora
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Maybe A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith?
Memoirs of a Geisha?
Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders.
It’s creative, it’s thoughtful, it’s funny, it’s melancholic. Incredibly well researched, philosophical, spiritual, and it sounds like it’ll appeal to all three of you. One of my favorite novels.
The format’s a little unusual, but it reads so easily.
[The Glass Castle](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7445) by Jeannette Walls (nonfiction memoir)
[Commonwealth](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28214365) by Ann Patchett
[Nothing to See Here](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49086091) by Kevin Wilson
[There There](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36692478) by Tommy Orange
Piranesi by Susanna Clarke might appeal to all of you
Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson
About what could habe happens if the plague killed all of Europe (or at least 99%) it jumps atound in time a bit and follows reincarneted sollst who keep meetin in life and sometimes discuss Theorie lifes in the afterlife(I think buddhist inspiered)