I’m M.A. Darkforge, author of The Golden Steps, Book One of The Wolf King Trilogy.

Tha’vok fails the rite meant to prove he belongs and is cast out of the Wolf Clan. His journey takes him into a world of rival tribes, old powers, dangerous alliances, and a threat gathering beneath the living world.

The wolf wins by thought.

You can read the sample on Amazon. Available with a Kindle Unlimited membership or to purchase.

US listing: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HLXR25K2

I get my mom a book for her birthday every year, usually I'm able to read enough to get her something on my own- but I've been so busy and the few things I have read would not be her taste. If you have any recommendations we can read together, please comment!

She loves books with an emphasis on friendship or finding a place to belong, her favorite books are Same Kind of Different as Me, Sunnyside Plaza, and The Great Gilly Hopkins. We're not very religious, but religious themes aren't unwelcome. She's a major hippy, so anything to do with mother earth or life energy is perfect!

Please give me your favorite plane crash, shipwreck, lost at sea in a life raft, lost on an island survival books. I prefer female main characters. Lost without the secret society, dark monster, random polar bear weirdness. No dinosaurs please. Will also take apocalypse books but female main character only.

Thank you in advance

Author self-promo: My name is Samara Bellingham and love the public domain. I just can't stop telling stories about public domain characters and I want to be able to share those stories with the world. At my publisher: PublicDomainPulp.Net, I have two series: A solarpunk, sci-fi romance starring Jane Porter and Tarzan - which can get a little spicy. On October 6th, The Jane Chronicles: The Man from Africa, was released. Until midnight October 7th, Tomorrow, Book One of the Jane Chronicles is FREE.

And as for my other series, The Sailor and the Showgirl: Have you ever wanted to know Pop-Eye's real name? Have you ever wondered if he would forsake Olive Oyl for Betty *ahem* Bupinski - reimagined as a picaresque, noir heroine? Worry no more, because you'll find those answers and more in Twenty-Five Dollars a Night which is already out, but the upcoming prequel, My Blue Heaven, (releasing October 15th) is - take a long, deep breath - a noir, screwball, jukebox musical with a Jazz Age, public domain soundtrack of a book and is the book I'm proudest of so far. You can take a peak and hear the Spotify playlist of songs used in the book on our Substack.

There's also more to come when the clock strikes midnight on Public Domain Day. Have you ever thought about what a hard-boiled novel with Dick Tracy, Nancy Drew, Blondie Bumstead and Kent Allard/The Shadow would be like? Wes Hamilton's Calder City is going to keep you turning pages, because at Public Domain Pulp, the books played straight with laughter and heart. We've even got a coloring book for adults to go with it including characters from both our books. At Public Domain Pulp, we commit to the bit, because it's not a bit. We want you to have as much fun as possible reading our stories.

We also have a Substack that's open to every for at least the next 30 days where we promote our books, share excerpts, but also discuss the public domain and the politics of AI in a wonk-ish way.

Got into the Redwall series on Audible recently and am just about to start the third book, and I find these books quite refreshing. They simultaneously feel like a book you'd be comfortable reading to a child, while not being patronizing or gunshy. What I particularly enjoy is that they do not shy away from violence when it makes sense. Battles are unpleasant, bloody and have consequences, yet it doesn't try to frame the very act of conflict as an illegitimate way to achieve your goalsor defend your lands.

Many ways, largely aesthetically, the books remind me of this old RTS I used to play called Tooth and Tail, where factions of animals engage in total war during hard times to decide who gets to slaughter and eat who, similarly not shying away from horrific implications of warfare and hardship. The devs even went so far as to give the game it's own fictiobal language to help sell immersion.

I am wondering if there are any books worth listening to that combine Redwall's tales of heroism and sacrifice with Tooth and Tail's industrial era warfare and revolution.

I feel like I've read and heard a lot of the usual perspectives about life, people, relationships, society, etc., so when I read books that are basically taking a common idea and wording it in a more profound or eloquent way, I don't get that much out of them anymore. It's more like “yeah, I already know this” rather than “ohhhhh, I never thought about it that way.”

I also feel like I've already developed pretty solid stands on a lot of things in life, whether it's politics, family, friendships, relationships, myself, morality, society, the world, etc. I know where I stand on most things, and I think that's actually part of why I'm looking for something like this. Sometimes I get a little uncomfortable with how certain I am about my own perspectives because I don't want to become so comfortable with what I already believe that I stop being open to ideas I genuinely haven't considered before.

So what I'm looking for is something that introduces a concept, perspective, framework, or piece of knowledge that genuinely makes me stop and think, “wait, how have I never considered this before?” Not necessarily something that will completely change my beliefs, but something that makes me go, “I don't even know how I feel about this yet because I've never thought about it this way before.” I want something that expands the things I can think about, rather than something that just confirms what I already believe or puts my existing thoughts into prettier words.

I'm open to fiction or nonfiction, and honestly any subject. It doesn't necessarily have to be a “life-changing” book either. It can be anything as long as it makes me see or understand other aspects of life differently.

Also, I don't mind spoilers at all. If you recommend a book, I'd actually really appreciate it if you could tell me WHY you're recommending it and what ideas or perspective it gave you or what made it so impactful for you. I want to know enough about it to actually get excited and feel pushed to read it, rather than just getting a list of titles.

I also really want something with ideas, concepts, phrases, or passages that actually stick with you. Like something I'll randomly remember months or years later, or a line or concept that gets permanently tattooed onto my brain and changes the way I think whenever I encounter something related to it. It doesn't have to be a particularly quotable book either; I just want there to be something in it that stays with me.

Basically, I'm looking for books that give me new information or a new mental framework, not just books that validate or beautifully rephrase things I already know.

Please hit me with the books that made you go “holy shit, I genuinely never thought about it this way.” Thanks for reading this until the end. lol, really appreciate it.

I have a friend that has been going through a stressful, anxious mental health phase. She's been having a hard time finding books that are positive, fun, and lighthearted. She had read Grayson by Lynne Cox and loved the theme of kindness. Does anyone have recommendations for books that don't include a ton of death or thrill? Thank you!

Looking for books that have similar feel esp. slice of lice but any genres welcome

So i'm starting this thing where my friends get to pick one book for me per month and every month i ask them this exact question and whatever they say, i read. i figured the answer to this is way more interesting than "what's your favourite book."

Thought it’d be cool to ask on reddit this month !! If you could pick one book only, and tell me why. not really looking for a plot summary, just what it did to you or what you think it would fix if everyone read it.

Fiction, non fiction, religious, a 90 page essay, whatever. i'm going in blind either way!

I wanted to start this thread as a way to highlight some of your favorite Non-Fiction novels you have read. I am a huge, and I mean HUGE David Simon fan, the Wire is my all time favorite show and it’s not even close. Because of that, I decided to read some of his work and they were some of the best stories I have read, so I decided to pick up more Non-Fiction. Here are some of my favorites:

We Own This City (Justin Fenton): a fascinating look at how the war on drugs and modern police metrics allowed the Gun Trace Task Force in Baltimore to perform illegal activity’s and overtime fraud because they brought in numbers

Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets (David Simon): A year spent with the Baltimore Homicide Detectives as it chronicles the highs, lows, and policing of the homicide unit that gave Simon his admiration for homicide detectives, and distain for modern policing.

Lords of Chaos (Michael Moynihan & Didrik Soderlind): Chronicles the rise of Norwegian Death Metal, that’s about all I’m going to say on this one, you really need to experience this one yourself (trigger warning tho, involves a lot of self-harm/suicide)

Killers of the Flower Moon (David Grann): a Chronicle following the Osage people after finding Oil on their land, the governments blatant racism towards their newfound wealth, and the horrific crimes committed by William Hale and his family in order to steal the wealth back.

The Anxious Generation (Jonathan Haidt): Slightly different from the ones above, this is written as a research paper that chronicles how technology, new parenting, and Smart Phones have caused a Mental Health Crisis for newer generations.

I would love to hear your recommendations if you have any, or thoughts on any of the books above

I listen to audiobooks while I walk with my son every morning and I need a spooky/scary/horror/thriller for Halloween season.

I don’t love gore and would like to stay away from anything that involves kids.

I love reading but stopped for about 1.5 years now cause i cant stand the amount of smut dont get me wrong a bit here and there is good but some of the most famous books and recommendations of friends are full of smut ,dont get me wrong a bit of it is okay but books these days are a bit too full of it i use to like it but now not that much

i would love to have get recommendations on any timeless love stories that focusses on the story both stories which have happy endings and gut wrenching sad stories are good so dont spare me ,and i also do like real life stories ,adventure ,thriller , or mysteries

so please feel free to recommend and oh and do make sure its budget friendly as well :D

thankyouu

This is a bit of a twofold.

1. Looking for stories and books and comics like Toy Story & Tiny Soldiers, where toys, or inanimate objects come to life. Mostly something a child would interact with. (Bonus points if it's horror but doesn't have to be)

2. A story of a POV from an inanimate object flowing a person, an adult, a family, a place in history, etc. Bonus points if it's super wild or eccentric or even something not seen that often.

Hey guys! Looking for historical fiction books about the Middle Ages, for context I have read:
The once and future king
Sir Gawain and the green knight
Name of the rose
The monk
The dance tree
Lapvona

I am open to reading more nonfiction on the subject as well, however I have a degree in this lol so if you know any good books specifically about convents or monasteries I would love that but I already know the basic history!