Answer These 5 Questions And We’ll Tell You What Your Next Book Should Be!
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Are you on the hunt for a new book to devour? With so many options and genres and sub-genres out there, it can be hard to even know where to begin! Or, maybe you’re more like me, and you just get so excited about everything that’s out there, so you have a reading list a mile long, and in the end you still don’t even know where to start!
Let us help narrow down the options for you! Even if you don’t end up loving your results (or if you’ve already read the book we suggest), these questions are good to keep in mind while you’re considering what to read next. We all go through different seasons where we’re looking for different things from our books. Is life stressful right now? Then you need an escape in the form of a good book! Are you pumped up about changing the world? Grab an autobiography by a powerful underdog and join the fight!
You’ll find something for every kind of book nerd here in our quiz. From unheard of classics to modern dystopian worlds, and everything in between! Go ahead and see what we pick for you to read next!
QUIZ: Answer These 5 Questions And We’ll Tell You What You Should Read Next!
Finding a new book is hard! Let us help with a few recommendations tailored to your interests!
A Bridge Of Birds
From the Amazon Review: Bridge of Birdsis a lyrical fantasy novel. Set in “an Ancient China that never was”, it stands with The Princess Bride andThe Last Unicornas a fairy tale for all ages, by turns incredibly funny and deeply touching. It won the World Fantasy Award in 1985, and Hughart produced two sequels. All present the adventures of Master Kao Li, a scholar with “a slight flaw in [his] character”, and Lu Yu, usually called Number Ten Ox, his sidekick and the story’s narrator. Number Ten Ox is strong, trusting, and pure of heart; Master Li once sold an emperor shares in a mustard mine, because “I was trying to win a bet concerning the intelligence of emperors.” Sound like a winner? Get your copy below!
Ella Minnow Pea
From School Library Journal: With shades of Kurt Vonnegut, George Orwell, and William Pne du Bois, Ella Minnow Pea is delightfully clever from start to finish. It’s set on Nollop, a fictional island off the coast of South Carolina named for its long-dead founder, Nevin Nollop, the “genius” who came up with “The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.” A huge cenotaph of Nollop’s sentence stands over the town square-and one day, the “z” falls to the ground. Nollop’s elected-for-life Council interprets this as a missive from beyond the grave, “that the letter `Z’ should be utterly excised-fully extirpated-absolutely heave-ho’ed from our communal vocabulary!” Other letters soon follow, and the novel becomes progressively lipogrammatic (a “lipogram” being writing in which one or more letters are forbidden), told exclusively in the form of letters from one citizen to another as they struggle to adapt (a third offense means banishment). Not even the discovery that the glue holding the letters up is calcifying sways the zealots on the Council (perhaps Nollop intended its deterioration). It’s decided that only the construction of another sentence that uses every alphabet letter in only 32 graphemes could discredit Nollop’s “divine” word. Dunn plays his setup to the hilt, and the result is perfect for teens fond of wicked wit, wordplay, and stories that use the absurd to get at the serious.
Rebel Girls
Rejecting the deadening conventions of their Victorian elders, the rebel girls demanded new freedoms and new rights. They took their suffrage message out to the remotest Yorkshire dales and fishing harbours, to win Edwardian hearts and minds. 16-year-old Huddersfield weaver Dora Thewlis on arrest was catapulted onto the tabloid front-pages as ‘Baby Suffragette’. Her life was transformed. Dancer Lilian Lenton waited till her twenty-first birthday – then determined to burn two buildings a week until the Liberal government granted women the vote. Rebel Girls shows how this daring campaigning shifted from community suffragettes to militant mavericks.
Gone Girl
From the Amazon Review: On a warm summer morning in North Carthage, Missouri, it is Nick and Amy Dunne’s fifth wedding anniversary. Presents are being wrapped and reservations are being made when Nick’s clever and beautiful wife disappears. Husband-of-the-Year Nick isn’t doing himself any favors with cringe-worthy daydreams about the slope and shape of his wife’s head, but passages from Amy’s diary reveal the alpha-girl perfectionist could have put anyone dangerously on edge.Under mounting pressure from the police and the media—as well as Amy’s fiercely doting parents—the town golden boy parades an endless series of lies, deceits, and inappropriate behavior. Nick is oddly evasive, and he’s definitely bitter—but is he really a killer?
The Enormous Room
The Enormous Room is a 1922 autobiographical novel by the poet and novelist E. E. Cummings about his temporary imprisonment in France during World War I. Cummings served as an ambulance driver during the war. In late August 1917 his friend and colleague, William Slater Brown, were arrested by French authorities as a result of anti-war sentiments B. had expressed in some letters. When questioned, Cummings stood by his friend and was also arrested.
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QUIZ: Answer These 5 Questions And We’ll Tell You What You Should Read Next!
Finding a new book is hard! Let us help with a few recommendations tailored to your interests!
A Bridge Of Birds
From the Amazon Review: Bridge of Birdsis a lyrical fantasy novel. Set in “an Ancient China that never was”, it stands with The Princess Bride andThe Last Unicornas a fairy tale for all ages, by turns incredibly funny and deeply touching. It won the World Fantasy Award in 1985, and Hughart produced two sequels. All present the adventures of Master Kao Li, a scholar with “a slight flaw in [his] character”, and Lu Yu, usually called Number Ten Ox, his sidekick and the story’s narrator. Number Ten Ox is strong, trusting, and pure of heart; Master Li once sold an emperor shares in a mustard mine, because “I was trying to win a bet concerning the intelligence of emperors.” Sound like a winner? Get your copy below!
Ella Minnow Pea
From School Library Journal: With shades of Kurt Vonnegut, George Orwell, and William Pne du Bois, Ella Minnow Pea is delightfully clever from start to finish. It’s set on Nollop, a fictional island off the coast of South Carolina named for its long-dead founder, Nevin Nollop, the “genius” who came up with “The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.” A huge cenotaph of Nollop’s sentence stands over the town square-and one day, the “z” falls to the ground. Nollop’s elected-for-life Council interprets this as a missive from beyond the grave, “that the letter `Z’ should be utterly excised-fully extirpated-absolutely heave-ho’ed from our communal vocabulary!” Other letters soon follow, and the novel becomes progressively lipogrammatic (a “lipogram” being writing in which one or more letters are forbidden), told exclusively in the form of letters from one citizen to another as they struggle to adapt (a third offense means banishment). Not even the discovery that the glue holding the letters up is calcifying sways the zealots on the Council (perhaps Nollop intended its deterioration). It’s decided that only the construction of another sentence that uses every alphabet letter in only 32 graphemes could discredit Nollop’s “divine” word. Dunn plays his setup to the hilt, and the result is perfect for teens fond of wicked wit, wordplay, and stories that use the absurd to get at the serious.
Rebel Girls
Rejecting the deadening conventions of their Victorian elders, the rebel girls demanded new freedoms and new rights. They took their suffrage message out to the remotest Yorkshire dales and fishing harbours, to win Edwardian hearts and minds. 16-year-old Huddersfield weaver Dora Thewlis on arrest was catapulted onto the tabloid front-pages as ‘Baby Suffragette’. Her life was transformed. Dancer Lilian Lenton waited till her twenty-first birthday – then determined to burn two buildings a week until the Liberal government granted women the vote. Rebel Girls shows how this daring campaigning shifted from community suffragettes to militant mavericks.
Gone Girl
From the Amazon Review: On a warm summer morning in North Carthage, Missouri, it is Nick and Amy Dunne’s fifth wedding anniversary. Presents are being wrapped and reservations are being made when Nick’s clever and beautiful wife disappears. Husband-of-the-Year Nick isn’t doing himself any favors with cringe-worthy daydreams about the slope and shape of his wife’s head, but passages from Amy’s diary reveal the alpha-girl perfectionist could have put anyone dangerously on edge.Under mounting pressure from the police and the media—as well as Amy’s fiercely doting parents—the town golden boy parades an endless series of lies, deceits, and inappropriate behavior. Nick is oddly evasive, and he’s definitely bitter—but is he really a killer?
The Enormous Room
The Enormous Room is a 1922 autobiographical novel by the poet and novelist E. E. Cummings about his temporary imprisonment in France during World War I. Cummings served as an ambulance driver during the war. In late August 1917 his friend and colleague, William Slater Brown, were arrested by French authorities as a result of anti-war sentiments B. had expressed in some letters. When questioned, Cummings stood by his friend and was also arrested.
Pick A Genre
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What peaks your interest when reading a book?
Pick your favorite spot to read:
Why do you love reading?
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