Book suggestion thread

[Anonymous No.11369316]

Post the book you would like to read, mood you are in or whatever else and get a book reccomendation

[Anonymous No.11369332]

>>11369316
I need something rainy and romantic for my depression

[Anonymous No.11369402]

I need a book with a story that covers a long period of time (a lifetime basically) with friendships and nostalgic elements

[Anonymous No.11369437]

>>11369402
War and Peace

[Anonymous No.11369441]

>>11369316
I've been reading a bunch of downer history books like With the Old Breed and The Unwomanly Face of War. Can anyone suggest war history that isn't depressing?

[Anonymous No.11369446]

>>11369332
Book of Disquiet. Unless you mean the other kind of romantic.

[Anonymous No.11369453]

>>11369402
Hundred Years of Solitude

[Anonymous No.11369463]

>>11369446
I mean romantic as in romanticism romantic

[Anonymous No.11369482]

>>11369441
Catch 22 is really funny and the good soldier Švejk is also pretty humorous.

[Anonymous No.11369525]

Is flowers for algernon good? What about Lovecraft?

[Anonymous No.11369551]

I need something bleak, post-war, modernist, psychological, depressing, preferably european. Imagine a mood evoked by a black and white still from a french movie

[Anonymous No.11369553]

I need guns a'blazin

[Anonymous No.11369582]

>>11369332
read under the volcano

[Anonymous No.11369585]

Keen for a non-fiction book. Something light, interesting, inspiring.

[Anonymous No.11369592]

>>11369551
No Longer Human but it’s Japanese.

[Anonymous No.11369624]

>>11369316
Need a book about acute anxieties about the passing of time, living only in memories, feeling like everything is fading away, etc.

[Anonymous No.11369643]

My whore gf just broke up with me after 3 years and didn't give me a reason and blocked me from all social media and won't answer my calls.
I suspect she just wants to fuck other guys and "be a free spirit." I thought she was the one and we were planning on getting married.

Books for this feel?

[Anonymous No.11369649]

>>11369643
The peaceful pill handbook

[Anonymous No.11369652]

>>11369402
Stoner
A Little Life

[Anonymous No.11369653]

>>11369643
damn thats icy cold, were there any signs in hindsight?

[Anonymous No.11369654]

>>11369585
The Foundation for Exploration. It's not light but it's simply written.

[Anonymous No.11369705]

I need a book about intense paranoida/black-and-white thinking

[Anonymous No.11369720]

>>11369653
Sort of but not really. There were a few red flags I should have picked up on I guess, but for the most part we had fun together. But she basically admitted that she needs me more than I need her, so she'll come crawling back after she realizes she fucked up. I know her too well at this point. But she burned all chances of making up. She said some unforgivable things.
I'm going to get over her this weekend by getting drunk and banging this cute girl who works at the convenience store by my house. I basically have reached full /r9k/ levels in hating women by now though. They are just fuckholes and I have no intention of settling down. She basically just ruined any trust I could ever have in another future gf.

[Anonymous No.11369726]

>>11369649
Is this a meme suggestion or actually good?

[Anonymous No.11369735]

>>11369720

>so she'll come crawling back after she realizes she fucked up

Dont fall for that one m8, she's not coming back

[Anonymous No.11369742]

>>11369720

Whatever by Michel Houllebecq might be the book for you my dude

[Anonymous No.11369762]

>>11369735
She already did it twice before. I wouldn't say it unless she had an MO. She gets bored with monogamy, says we need "a break," confesses that she loves me and I fall for it because I think with my dick and have no will power. She's insanely hot and out of my league, so I was thinking with my dick too much probably.

[Anonymous No.11369770]

I want something Post-Apocalyptic, akin to "life without god". Kinda like Nier Automata or Last of Us. If the characters have some good psychology behing their motivations, then all the better

[Anonymous No.11369776]

>>11369770

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Phillip K Dick my dude

[Anonymous No.11369781]

>>11369742
Will this book make me wallow in my depression or help me get out of it?

[Anonymous No.11369814]

>>11369332
Confessions of an English Opium Eater

[Anonymous No.11369820]

>>11369402
Copperfield

[Anonymous No.11369841]

>>11369551
Christopher Isherwood, The Berlin Stories

[Anonymous No.11369848]

>>11369585
Bachelard's Poetics of Space

[Anonymous No.11369867]

>>11369624
I'm guessing that this is a prompt, but here goes anyway:
ISOLT

[Anonymous No.11369875]

>>11369643
Laughter in the Dark

[Anonymous No.11369886]

>>11369624
>living only in memories, feeling like everything is fading away

the First Man by Camus

[Anonymous No.11369923]

What book can I conveniently carry around in public to let girls know I'm intellectual, but be a little bit subtle about it?

[Anonymous No.11369945]

>>11369923
Mein Kampf

[Anonymous No.11369984]

Need a book about only being able to think in extremes, someone who consistently fucks their life up because they're incapable of taking things in moderation

[Anonymous No.11370234]

I feel like I don't have control of my life and even if I did nothing I do would make me feel any better.

Any recommendations?

[Anonymous No.11370343]

>>11369624
the rings of saturn

[Anonymous No.11370358]

>>11369624
>>11369705
>>11370234
You guys should check out my autobiography

[Anonymous No.11370371]

>>11369441
The Phantom Major is a true story about a couple of guys fucking around in the desert in ww2

[Anonymous No.11370384]

I want a book on how to economically and culturally integrate 2 nation's into one.

[Anonymous No.11370472]

>>11369316
I'm fascinated by literature's ability to combat depression/suicidal thoughts, which has been clinically proven by a field of psychology called bibliotherapy. Both for my own mild treatment but also to help many other people in my life who are depressed.

My list right now consists of a lot of Hesse, Nietzsche, Dostoevsky, Proust, some of Tolstoy's shorter works, and Willam Blake's major poetry works.

Any other works that help fight depression would be greatly appreciated.

[Anonymous No.11370698]

>>11369551
Schlump by Hans Herbert Grimm

[Anonymous No.11370814]

Is there a British equivalent to Pynchon, and if not what's the closest thing to a British maximalist novel?

[Anonymous No.11370820]

>>11370472
>literature's ability to combat depression/suicidal thoughts, which has been clinically proven by a field of psychology called bibliotherapy.
fuck, do you also belive that "reading" fiction makes you enlightened ?

[Anonymous No.11370836]

>>11370820
>My list consists of Nietzsche
What people are doing when they even think about Nietzsche

[Anonymous No.11370838]

>>11369776
This one hundred percent.

[Anonymous No.11370907]

>>11369402
Stoner

[Anonymous No.11370918]

>>11369923
Gaddis

[Anonymous No.11371826]

>>11369316
Give me something about fighting the government, preferably by socialists

[Anonymous No.11372041]

>>11369624
Maybe Suttree, but it's pretty subtle and the living only in memories part doesn't apply.

[Anonymous No.11372065]

>>11370820
>disputing something proven by science
ok

[Anonymous No.11372089]

>>11369551

[Anonymous No.11372108]

>>11369316
The world according to garp

[Anonymous No.11372113]

>>11370472
this is a cool idea

[Anonymous No.11372242]

>>11372089
perfect rec man, top

[Anonymous No.11373090]

>>11369867
Not saying I don't feel tempted to read it, but can someone please point out why I should read this book? Does it resembles like War and Peace?

[Anonymous No.11373154]

It's winter here and raining. I feel slighty depressed (as always), stressed and without a sense of what I'm doing with my life.

I'm just finishing War and Peace, more 200 pages and I'll be done, finding it incredibly deep, but boring at the same time. I want to read a book that after ending it I feel some sort of hope, that Crime and Punishment feel, that even after commiting the most grotesque errors of all you can still have hope and do something with your life, that all is not lost no matter where your feelings lie.

[Anonymous No.11373489]

>>11369762
Do you had a shit relationship and somehow that means marriage?
Read Genesis I suppose