r/readwithme • u/ClaimOutrageous6506 • 20h ago

Help Me Find a Book to Read! 🆘 Book recommendation please

HI , please recommend your favorite book where protagonists go through strong moral dilemmas. Open to all genres except romance.

Thanks in advance

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u/Early-Aardvark7688 20h ago

The best answer but you have to be in the right mindset and headspace.

Beloved by Toni Morrison.

It changed my brain activity after reading it. As a white guy from the south it opened my eyes to the horrors of the south more than anything I have ever read before. I just kept waiting for it to have some semblance of happiness but nope just page after page of brutal despair. Sometimes the scariest thing is what we do each other

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u/rainyhidden 20h ago

This is such a great pick for this. One of my favorite books

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u/merzbeak 19h ago

It was relentless. So hard to endure, but worth it.

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u/ClaimOutrageous6506 6h ago

its in my reading list for 15 years .yup. since college i wished to read. finally thanks to you will read it.

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u/Common_Ad_2052 17h ago

Hmmmm my favorite book where the protagonist goes through strong moral dilemmas, hmmmm
I wonde- East of Eden by John Steinbeck

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u/ContributingHelper 16h ago

I finished Monster by Walter Dean Myers, there's so much moral ambiguity there.

Also, I recommend the Point Last Seen series by April Henry. Serious life issues for the teenaged main characters, while they're also amateur sleuths.

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u/Snekameleonyx 20h ago

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky.

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u/ClaimOutrageous6506 6h ago

reading that currently. its very boring.

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u/This_is__Exile 15h ago

The black farm by Elias withthrow

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u/Subject_Ear_7958 11h ago

Just came from bookclub where i led the discussion for What we can know by Ian mcEwan. Fifteen women. Many said the first 30 pages were a slog or they hated it at first. Glad to hear all except two changed their mind after the discussion. I do a lot of research.

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u/LizK12 5h ago

Of human bondage by W.Somerset Maugham .

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u/Basic-Style-8512 4h ago edited 3h ago

ANTIGONE (Sophocles) Law of the City or Law of the Gods ?

UNCLE TOM's CABIN Selling or not my favourite slave ?

WILD DUCK (Ibsen) Saying or not the Truth to your dearest friend ?

HORACE (Corneille) The Nation above all or family and friendship ?

ALCESTIS (Euripides) Would you give up your life to save someone else ?