r/books • u/AutoModerator • 26d ago

WeeklyThread Weekly Recommendation Thread: September 18, 2026

Welcome to our weekly recommendation thread! A few years ago now the mod team decided to condense the many "suggest some books" threads into one big mega-thread, in order to consolidate the subreddit and diversify the front page a little. Since then, we have removed suggestion threads and directed their posters to this thread instead. This tradition continues, so let's jump right in!

The Rules

  • Every comment in reply to this self-post must be a request for suggestions.

  • All suggestions made in this thread must be direct replies to other people's requests. Do not post suggestions in reply to this self-post.

  • All unrelated comments will be deleted in the interest of cleanliness.

How to get the best recommendations

The most successful recommendation requests include a description of the kind of book being sought. This might be a particular kind of protagonist, setting, plot, atmosphere, theme, or subject matter. You may be looking for something similar to another book (or film, TV show, game, etc), and examples are great! Just be sure to explain what you liked about them too. Other helpful things to think about are genre, length and reading level.

All Weekly Recommendation Threads are linked below the header throughout the week to guarantee that this thread remains active day-to-day. For those bursting with books that you are hungry to suggest, we've set the suggested sort to new; you may need to set this manually if your app or settings ignores suggested sort.

If this thread has not slaked your desire for tasty book suggestions, we propose that you head on over to the aptly named subreddit /r/suggestmeabook.

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u/lexiebeef 26d ago

Looking for books like Piranesi where you start the book not knowing what’s happening and then you get clues and increasingly learn more. I love making theories while reading, it makes the whole experience so much more fun

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u/Anxious-Fun8829 26d ago

Fever Dream by Samanta Scweblin is about... a mom and her son... From the first chapter you're just thrown into the plot blind and the tension and dread builds as you figure out what's going on.

I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman is about 40 women who make it out of an underground prison. Why were they there? Where are they? Where is everyone? 🤷‍♀️ The book isn't about answering any of that (it explores the philosophical theory if Absurdism) but Harpman builds the world just enough that you can't help but form theories about what happened.

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u/kodran 2 8d ago

Schweblin is ana amazing writer. I do think it was a bad idea to change the title in the translation. It kind of spoils/limits interpretation posibilities.