5 Book Recs from Friends

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16 participants (70 books)

01 Jan 2025—31 Dec 2025

Overview

My friends keep loaning and recommending books that I just haven’t read yet, so I’m going to try to read 5 recommendations this year. Feel free to join if you need motivation to read some book recs too

Challenge Books

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The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating by Elisabeth Tova Bailey

The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating

Elisabeth Tova Bailey

191 pages • hardcover • 2010

nonfiction essays memoir nature science informative reflective slow-paced
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer

Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants

Robin Wall Kimmerer

391 pages • hardcover • 2013

nonfiction essays nature science informative inspiring reflective slow-paced
Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses by Robin Wall Kimmerer

Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses

Robin Wall Kimmerer

168 pages • paperback • 2003

nonfiction essays nature informative reflective slow-paced
The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides

The Silent Patient

Alex Michaelides

325 pages • hardcover • 2019

fiction mystery thriller dark mysterious tense medium-paced
Iron Flame by Rebecca Yarros

Iron Flame

The Empyrean #2

Rebecca Yarros

28 hours, 17 minutes • audio • 2023

fiction fantasy romance adventurous emotional tense medium-paced
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy #1

Douglas Adams

5 hours, 51 minutes • audio • 1979

fiction classics science fiction adventurous funny lighthearted fast-paced
The Agony and the Ecstasy by Irving Stone

The Agony and the Ecstasy

Irving Stone

776 pages • paperback • 1958

fiction art classics historical informative slow-paced
The Nightmare Before Kissmas by Sara Raasch

The Nightmare Before Kissmas

Royals and Romance #1

Sara Raasch

356 pages • paperback • 2024

fiction fantasy lgbtqia+ romance emotional funny lighthearted medium-paced
Assistant to the Villain by Hannah Nicole Maehrer

Assistant to the Villain

Assistant to the Villain #1

Hannah Nicole Maehrer

340 pages • paperback • 2023

fiction fantasy romance adventurous funny lighthearted medium-paced
The Love of My Afterlife by Kirsty Greenwood

The Love of My Afterlife

Kirsty Greenwood

369 pages • hardcover • 2024 user-added

fiction contemporary magical realism romance emotional funny lighthearted medium-paced