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Post by Superb Owl 🦉 on Jan 7, 2021 14:24:22 GMT -5
I'm doing the library's 2021 reading challenge and there are a couple categories I have no ideas for or at least am not excited about my current ideas:
-Road Trip or Travelogue
-Non-human main characters
-Non-fiction about a specific historical event
To a lesser extent, I'm also open to other ideas on:
-epistolary novel
-short story or essay collection
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Post by Roy Batty's Pet Dove on Jan 7, 2021 14:39:09 GMT -5
I'm doing the library's 2021 reading challenge and there are a couple categories I have no ideas for or at least am not excited about my current ideas: -Road Trip or Travelogue -Non-human main characters -Non-fiction about a specific historical event To a lesser extent, I'm also open to other ideas on: -epistolary novel -short story or essay collection Owl, even if you somehow do manage to catch books while fishing, I highly doubt they’ll be in a state where you can still read them. For the non-human protagonist category, I recommend the novel The Bees by Laline Paul. It’s about bees. |
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Post by Rainbow Rosa on Jan 7, 2021 14:56:22 GMT -5
I'm doing the library's 2021 reading challenge and there are a couple categories I have no ideas for or at least am not excited about my current ideas: -Road Trip or Travelogue -Non-human main characters -Non-fiction about a specific historical event To a lesser extent, I'm also open to other ideas on: -epistolary novel -short story or essay collection I am a big Assassination Vacation stan, personally, w/r/t travelogues. You should pick Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? for the "non-human main character" category and force your library administrators to debate whether Rick Deckard is (spoilers) an android. |
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Post by Dellarigg on Jan 7, 2021 15:05:33 GMT -5
Martin Amis's essay/journalism collections are very good. I would recommend The Moronic Inferno and Visiting Mrs Nabokov.
For relatively easygoing historical non-fiction, Vive La Revolution by Mark Steel. It's about the French Revolution. He's a left-wing stand-up comic over here in the UK, and the book is full of pretty good jokes, easily digestible.
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Post by Superb Owl 🦉 on Jan 7, 2021 15:10:31 GMT -5
I'm doing the library's 2021 reading challenge and there are a couple categories I have no ideas for or at least am not excited about my current ideas: -Road Trip or Travelogue -Non-human main characters -Non-fiction about a specific historical event To a lesser extent, I'm also open to other ideas on: -epistolary novel -short story or essay collection I am a big Assassination Vacation stan, personally, w/r/t travelogues. You should pick Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? for the "non-human main character" category and force your library administrators to debate whether Rick Deckard is (spoilers) an android. I've read Assassination Vacation though I do enjoy Vowell's books. Ha to the second part, although Dick wouldn't be a bad idea for a short story collection.... |
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Post by repulsionist on Jan 7, 2021 16:26:04 GMT -5
Intriguing White Guys
Travelogue
Drums Along the Congo: On the Trail of Mokele-Mbembe, the Last Living Dinosaur, Rory Nugent (1993)
Non-fiction of recent events
Among the Thugs, Bill Buford (1990)
Essays
Corruptions of Empire: Life Studies and the Reagan Era
(The Haymarket Series), Alexander Cockburn (1987)
Fiction Non-human main character
Tik-Tok, John Sladek (1983)
Intriguing humans
Non-fiction/Epistolary
Memoirs of a Woman Doctor, Nawal El Saadawi (1958)
Guests of the Sheik: An Ethnography of an Iraqi Village, Elizabeth Warnock Fernea (1965)
Bad: The Autobiography of James Carr, James Carr (1975)
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Post by moimoi on Jan 7, 2021 17:05:26 GMT -5
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Post by Roy Batty's Pet Dove on Jan 8, 2021 8:30:40 GMT -5
For an epistolary novel, I recommend Camp Concentration by sci-if novelist/the guy who wrote the novella The Brave Little Toaster was based on Thomas M. Disch. It is very good, imo.
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Post by Superb Owl 🦉 on Jan 19, 2021 17:53:07 GMT -5
I'm doing the library's 2021 reading challenge and there are a couple categories I have no ideas for or at least am not excited about my current ideas: -Road Trip or Travelogue -Non-human main characters -Non-fiction about a specific historical event To a lesser extent, I'm also open to other ideas on: -epistolary novel -short story or essay collection Owl, even if you somehow do manage to catch books while fishing, I highly doubt they’ll be in a state where you can still read them. For the non-human protagonist category, I recommend the novel The Bees by Laline Paul. It’s about bees.The bee book was very fun, I ripped through it in like 4 days. |
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Post by Crash Test Dumbass on Jan 20, 2021 12:41:04 GMT -5
I liked The Screwtape Letters for epistolary, despite having left the church long before reading it.
I like Bill Bryson's travelogues, especially the ones where he comes back to the US after having been abroad.
The Martian Chronicles (Bradbury) is probably my favorite short story collection of all time.
Erik Larson's The Devil In The White City is a very good book about the World's Columbian Exposition Of 1893 and also all the murders that happened around it, if you haven't already read it.
These are all old and/or dead white dudes, so if you want more diverse books, I can come back.
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Post by WKRP Jimmy Drop on Jan 20, 2021 22:02:32 GMT -5
I'm doing the library's 2021 reading challenge and there are a couple categories I have no ideas for or at least am not excited about my current ideas: -Road Trip or Travelogue -Non-human main characters -Non-fiction about a specific historical event To a lesser extent, I'm also open to other ideas on: -epistolary novel -short story or essay collection Road Trip or Travelogue: Lonesome Dove by Larry Murthy Non-human main:The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells. SecUnit is def not human, but maybe too close to count. Read it anyway, it’s fantastic. Or Watership Down fits the bill entirely. Non-Fiction: The 900 Days Siege: The Siege of Stalingrad by Harrison Salisbury, but be warned, it’s fairly intense in parts & not a particularly comfortable read. I don’t really care for Stephen King’s newer short story collections, but Night Shift is good for the creepy, and The Last Rung On The Ladder is non-creepy and heart-rending. |
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Post by Albert Fish Taco on Jan 23, 2021 9:59:23 GMT -5
River Horse by William Least-Heat Moon is a travelogue of a cross-country trip almost entirely by boat. The same author is also best known for Blue Highways, which is about a circular trip throughout the lower 48 almost entirely on lesser numbered roads/through obscure small towns.
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