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Books I Can't Recommend Enough
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items These books are sure to take you on a journey. Whether it’s a journey of terror, love or loss, depends on the book. Each book here is one I read and enjoyed.
A creeping, winding story that follows its characters deeper and deeper down into the nondescript blank walls of madness. A simple house becomes a doorway into another dimension when a family begin to notice their house slowly changing, until a door ...
House of Leaves: Remastered Full-Color
This book was originally published in 1985 and is starting to read like prophecy in 2025. A dystopian look into an American future where a far-right group has taken the country into a monotheocratic form of government. What it has to say will hopeful...
The Handmaid's Tale: Atwood, Margaret
This book might provoke thoughts of God, truth and morality in you, or it will be a fantastic story about a boy on a boat with a bunch of animals. Either way the first half of the story is a slow climb. It follows a young Pi, raised Hindu, wrestling ...
Life of Pi: A Novel by Yann Martel
This book is a warm hug for your soul. A woman who lost her son years ago finds closure as a direct result of working at an aquarium and befriending an octopus. I wept.
Remarkably Bright Creatures: A Novel by Shelby Van Pelt
A young Lord named Paul Atreides is moved to a new planet as a pawn in a political game outside of his control, leading to betrayal and slaughter over the control of a priceless form of power known as Spice. But hope springs in the desert world of Du...
Dune (Dune #1) by Frank Herbert
This is a heart wrenching YA book about terminal illness told through a cancer riddled teen, so it doesn't end with giggles and rainbows. But I've read this book at least three times. It breaks me into pieces every single time, yet I continue to keep...
The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
A group of farm animals rise up against their human oppressors after the death of the farmer and a charismatic leader regales them with a dream of a better way. They follow this leader all the way to the bitter end in this allegory that is a must rea...
Animal Farm: 75th Anniversary Edition: George Orwell, Russell Baker
A book about opening yourself up to new experiences. I found this book inspiring when I read it years ago. The movie based off this book, starring Jim Carrey, was funny but not as inspiring. This book made me feel like the right opportunity might dro...
Yes Man: Wallace, Danny
If you are a horror fan and a manga fan and i'm the first to introduce you to Junji Ito, let me start off by saying that I am honored to be the one. Now lets get started! Tomie is the story of a mysterious young woman with a unique talent for inspiri...
Tomie: Complete Deluxe Edition (Junji Ito)
I'm going to start off by telling you that Uzumaki is a horror manga about a town under the curse of the spiral. The shape. You might feel like I did, namely, unimpressed. Like me, you'd be wrong. Junji Ito manages to make this subject genuinely terr...
Uzumaki by Junji Ito
An older gentleman adopts a flat-faced cat in a pet store one day and if you read this manga, you're going to happy cry about it. Introduced to me as a gift, I can't get enough and I can see why it's a fan favorite in Japan.
A Man and His Cat vol.01 by Umi Sakurai
This is Junji Ito's adaptation of a piece of classic Japanese literature of the same name written by Osamu Dazai. It follows the life of Yozo Oba from his boyhood of playing the fool through a lifetime marked by tragedy until the man he grows to be n...
No Longer Human (Junji Ito)
The title says it all. This is a great, fun book for the curious mind.
What If?: Scientific Answers to Absurd Questions
A man, depressed with his mundane office job and unremarkable life, meets a charismatic Tyler Durden, who inspires equally restless men to embrace the chaos in the form of fight clubs in basements and escalating from there. I love me an unreliable na...
Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
Out of print, so if you find a copy I highly suggest you snatch it up. These poems are bizarre, goofy and weird in all the right ways.
99 Poems to Cure What's Wrong With You or Create the Problems You Need