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30 books

What are your favorite modern retellings of mythological stories?

These works explore mythological stories where we probably know the endings. They can be from any place or society, and explore mythological characters in more depth or expand on familiar stories.

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Mary, Called Magdalene
Paradiso
Purgatorio
Inferno
Till We Have Faces
The Penelopiad
The Divine Comedy
Paradise Lost
The Song of Achilles
Circé

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9 books

Dystopian books

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Niklas
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Isolation
Ruins
Fragments
Partials

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121 books

Which novel left you ruined?

Some novels don't leave when they're supposed to. They either keep haunting you, leaving you unsettled, sleepless, full of questions that will never be answered. Or they ruin you in a good way, mak...

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A Prayer For Owen Meany
The Jaunt
Atonement
Let's go play at the Adams'
Never Let Me Go
Flowers for Algernon
1984

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90 books

What are your favorite vampire stories?

From charming bloodsuckers to downright terrifying night-stalkers, show us the tales that give you chills, laughs, or maybe even a little bite of romance.

Anno Dracula
Dracula: The Un-Dead
The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires
Wormwood
The Historian
My Soul to Keep
Dracul
Lost Souls
Carrion Comfort
Carmilla
'Salem's Lot
Dracula

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231 books

What books have changed you as a person?

For better or for worse, what books have you read that influenced your character and/or how you view everyone else's character (or even the world and universe surrounding us)?

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Christine
The Haunting of Hill House
The Lottery and Other Stories
We Were the Mulvaneys
Dracula
Holy Bible: 1599 Geneva Bible
Love Wins
Harriet the Spy
The Complete Chronicles of Narnia
A Wrinkle in Time Quintet: Books 1-5
The Grapes of Wrath
William Shakespeare: The Complete Works

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271 books

Non-fiction books that expanded your understanding of the world

Any non-fiction books that taught you something that made you understand the world better

The Men Who United the States: America's Explorers, Inventors, Eccentrics and Mavericks, and the Creation of One Nation, Indivisible
Knowing What We Know: The Transmission of Knowledge: From Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic
Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded
The Surgeon of Crowthorne: A Tale of Murder, Madness and the Oxford English Dictionary
Seeing Further: The Story of Science, Discovery, and the Genius of the Royal Society
Made in America: An Informal History of the English Language in the United States
The Mother Tongue: English and How it Got that Way
The Body: A Guide for Occupants
At Home: A Short History of Private Life
A People's History of the United States
Night
A Promised Land

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82 books

What is the scariest horror book you have ever read?

I love horror books but am not scared the easiest! What are some books that had you locking your doors and checking under the bed?

The Girl Next Door
Rosemary's Baby
We Used to Live Here
Cold Moon Over Babylon
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
The Haunting of Hill House
We Need to Talk About Kevin
The Shining
NOS4A2
The Exorcist
Pet Sematary
'Salem's Lot

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36 books

What book has your favorite opening line?

There has to be one book you read that got your attention when reading the opening line.

A Wrinkle in Time
The Haunting of Hill House
Rebecca
The Great Gatsby
The Gunslinger

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111 books

What are the best non fiction audiobooks?

Looking for all sorts of themes, but focused on books praised by the quality of narration as well as content