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Hello I’m fairly new to reading and am wanting to see what books people recommend and why, also i really enjoy horror/mystery!

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[–] lunarcat@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

My taste is a bit all over the place, but the last few books I read and loved are:

Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Annihilation by Jeff Vandermeer

They're all very different from each other so fair warning to you!

[–] GaumBeist@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 days ago

I read Frankenstein 4 times in school: once in senior year of high school, then thrice in freshmen year of college -- for the intro english class in my first semester, for an honors class about monster fiction that same semester, and for a class on gothic fiction that took care of my other core credit the second semester.

I have read that book in 4 different ways with countless different perspectives being share, and I can say

I didn't truly appreciate it the first time, it definitely requires multiple readings