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Books I’ve read and you should too
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items Book I've read as a philosophy and history of math and science undergrad and now nursing student!
Sections
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You’re a sensitive soul
You love a good science fiction
You’re an academic nerd
You want something easy to read
You’re reading to impress
You want to grow in faith
You’re a sensitive soul
Slice of life fiction/memoirs that begins a ripple of emotions through your heart
Slice of life stories about love and grief and how to face death and decisions in life
Before the Coffee Gets Cold (B&N Exclusive Edition) ...
A book that would make you pause and rethink about how we influence the lives of people around us whether we recognize it or not.
The Five People You Meet in Heaven - Albom
Memoir about grief and how it impacts our lives.
The Year of Magical Thinking: Joan Didion
A story that follows a girl through her depression and mental breakdown from societal pressure and her sensitive soul.
The Bell Jar (P.S. Series) by Sylvia Plath, Paperback
This book might have inspired me to go into healthcare. Memoir of a doctor is the best way I can describe it without any spoilers. It's written so beautifully
When Breath Becomes Air: Pulitzer Prize Finalist
You love a good science fiction
A sci-fi that actually sounds possible and realistic? I got you.
Thrilling, gravitating. Ever wondered about what if you made a different decision how your life could have been? Well, you’re about to find out in this book.
Dark Matter: A Novel: Crouch, Blake - Books
The movie is coming out soon so why not read it?! Story about how the weight of saving the earth lands on the shoulders of the last person who wanted it.
Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir, Paperback
You’re an academic nerd
Stories with authors who love classivs, literature, history, mathematics, and linguistics.
You like classics, linguistic, and history? Oh, you’re in for a treat!
Babel: Necessity of Violence - Arcane History
Historical fiction about behind the scenes of making of the Oxford English Dictionary and a young woman who collected words that were excluded from it. If you love linguistic, this is for you!
The Dictionary of Lost Words: A Novel by Pip Williams
Going down to hell to bring back the advisor so you can graduate from school. A little too relatable fantasy story that also reveals the toxic academia culture that’s seldom talked about.
Katabasis (Standard Edition): A Novel by R. F. Kuang, Hardcover
You want something easy to read
Trust me. You’ll pick this book up and won’t be able to put it down until it’s done
The Wedding People: A Novel by Alison Espach, Hardcover
Such a captivating book that I had a hard time putting it down. The twist at the end is great too.
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo: Deluxe Edition Hardcover: A Novel
You’re reading to impress
except it’s actually great! Books that would make people go: “wow you actually read that?!”
Thick enough that you can knock someone out with this book both literally and figuratively. Masterpiece that’s both deeply philosophical and gut wrenching romance
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy, Paperback
Not only they'll think you're really well read, but honestly, one of the finest literature piece that delves deep into human soul and nature
The Brothers Karamazov: Pevear / Volokhonsky Translation (Deluxe ...
Masterpiece constantly referred to in mass media, but, to read all three volumes? Oh, they won't look at you the same again
Dante's Divine Comedy Set| Sinclair
CLASSIC. the movie's coming out too!
Odyssey: Translated by Stanley Lombardo
I understand it's a classic and many watched the movies, but not all have read the books, your sign to be the one who have actually read the books!
The Lord of the Rings Box Set: Includes The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, and The Return of the King
Heartwrenching. But it is very thick. So. impressive if you read the whole thing through. Will not take responsibility of your post-reading depression.
A Little Life
You want to grow in faith
Tim Keller lays out what it means to be a christian in modern day secular world.
The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism
In a busy world, learning to slow down
The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry: How to Stay Emotionally Healthy and ...
You like a historical fiction
story about grief and the wife of one of the greatest playwriter in history
Hamnet
a modern re-iteration of David Copperfield by Charles dickens. Goes through the Opioid epidemic in the early 2000s in the lens of a young boy
Demon Copperhead (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
You like to feel something in your soul
books that leave your heart shaken, whether that's heartaches, shock, disbelief in humanity, or warmth. Mostly hopeless, but to feel is to be alive. Books that would leave you staring at the ceiling after finishing
A dystopian book that asks the question: what does it mean to be a human?
Never Let Me Go
What does it mean to be a human when you are stripped down to your bare existence?
I Who Have Never Known Men