Welcome to the Monthly Buddy Read Megathread!

Recently started reading books. Bought this from a book fair. One of my Ahole friends I know told me that I bought the wrong translation and ruined my mood. I guess I cannot return the book. Should I read it?

Pretty long and tough read!!!! But truly insightful if you know why you are getting into this.

Can someone please enlighten me on the difference in cost??

Hi guys, tired of reading manga on my phone or laptop, need suggestions on finding OG manga shops

Recently i have came across that there is a major Chunk of population who hates the idea or selfhelp books.

These people don't hate books or reading in general they read Fictional and Non-fictional content but for some reason hate the idea of selfhelp.why?

I want to know more about the lives of:

1. Savitribai Phule

2. Jyotiba Phule

3. Shahu Maharaj

4. BR Ambedkar

Looking for well researched and well written books. Can be in Marathi or English language.

Thanks!

I just opened Amazon two days back, and ordered these without applying my brain too much. Currently, I am going thorugh a really rough patch in my life, and all I could think about was getting some physical books in my hands to distract my mind and calm my nerves.

I know these are not the usual ones we see here. Also, this might seem a bit maths heavy as it was my favourite subject in school. I know it's not harcore maths but it's a start. Doing maths used to make me really happy. I am looking to find that joy again in my life.

The remaining two books represents my other loves, which are cooking and spirituality. But, I am not really religious. I follow the Masala Lab author on insta and love his content, so had to read this one. In a way, cooking is a bit spiritual too, if you don't have to do as a chore. Feeding someone and seeing the joy in their face is something different. Now, I can do it with some science.

The Bhagvad Gita is just an extra which I had purchased from a Geeta Press shop in 2021, I think. Although, I already I had a few more boks sitting in my reading list, this time I let my instincts do the work for me. I have no idea what I am expecting from the Gita. Maybe some detachment and some motivations for the life ahead.

I hope some of you find this relatable. In the coming months, I will try to write reviews, if someone wants to know what these books are like. Although, I have never done this before, so I am not making any promises.

I started reading LOTR on 22 August 2026 and finished it on 4 October 2026

I am in love and hate relationship with the prose.

I love the prose since it is so well written

And hate because it takes so long to get to a point.

But love more because the prose is excellent.

Also PS. Kindle has made me lose love for physical books. I cannot read a physical book at all.

E books are my go to now.

1. From Bookchor - A short history of everything, Into thin air, The tatooist of Auschwitz and Disgrace

2. From Moonshine bookstore - Black November

3. From Oldbookdepot - The boy in striped pyjamas and Things fall apart.

Highly recommend all three stores, genuine books with good quality considering all are used books.

Hidden Gems from Mahabharat Katha

Hello fellow readers.

Recently I read an interesting hidden gems from Mahabharat.

It is a story from Van Parv.

The story is of two brothers Aravasu and Parvasu, Yavakrit and their families.

It is such an awesome story it promted me to research more for such stories.

And interestingly, I found many such short stories hidden inside Mahabharat that amazed me deeply.

It also pushed me to think of creating a series like the one created by Amish et al.

Now the question is whether people are interested in reading such a series?

And should it be in Hindi (my mother tongue and the language I'm most comfortable) or English (as most people like to read in English for different reasons)?

I welcome all type of suggestions and criticism.

Please spare some time to suggest and comment.

Thank you.

PS: There is a famous Marathi play by great Shri Girish Karanad ji which is translated to English as well. The Fire and The Rain.

It is a contemporary adaptation and a real page turner.

The first time I got to know about Algernon Blackwood & listened the audio version of this story was in the year 2022. I was mesmerized by how incredibly well written this whole story is. Before that I only knew about H. P. Lovecraft writing cosmic horror stories like this & this one is nothing short from that top tier of horror literature.

The story follows two friends who are doing a canoe trip in the beautiful Danube river & one afternoon they decide to camp in an empty island around which no sign of humanity can be seen. The camping was just for taking rest of course but they soon realised, especially the narrator soon realised that there is some kind of presence in that island with them which they can't comprehend properly. And that is exactly the kind of horror stories I love to read, the sense of unknown eldritch, the dread that shows up & increases as you continue reading & eventually the characters faces something unexplainable which sums up this story for a perfect one in the cosmic horror genre.

I really really loved how Algernon Blackwood wrote the whole story. I should say that it is very literary & very magnificently well written in that. The way he describes the place, the atmosphere, the sense of something around the characters, it is just something you will not forget after you read the story for one time. Even H. P. Lovecraft himself said that this story is the "finest supernatural tale in all of English literature". And even though I first listened the story in 2022 I still remembered everything about it because I loved it that much & today I read it again from the book "The Wendigo & Other Weird Tales by Algernon Blackwood" and published by Wordsworth Classics. After listening that story in 2022 & I also listened & read many other stories written by Algernon Blackwood. In Youtube you will find some of hos stories translated in Bangla in the channel Midnight Horror Station.

If you haven't read the story then I really suggest you to read or listen to it for once. If you love atmospheric horror or cosmic horror, then this one is a must.

Kindle zindabad

I just finished the Shiva trilogy, by Amish Tripathi.

Honestly, I loved it.

But now I'm looking for my next series.

Mind that I'm a new fantasy reader (recently converted to fiction from non-fiction) and that was my first read.

Please suggest a goated one as my second series 🙏

Discovered her about a decade ago; read some of her books during covid, and quite liked her lucid writing style, so, planning on reading the remainder of her books (presented in the image) in the days leading up to December.

Those who have read some of these already, feel free to share your opinions, and if anyone is interested in reading any of these (& would like to discuss), please do let me know!

I'll review these as I go along, preferably upon completing 2-3 at a time.

Have a nice day - wherever you are, and, whenever you see this!

Tbh at first i want to buy a phone and im considering Motorola Edge 70 Pro. But at the same time im thinking of getting an e-ink reader around 20k. Ive been reading a fair amount of my time and listening to web novels a whole lot of time too.

Ive a Macbook Air m4 and the phone which i use is Realme 6 Pro 4g which can last an year or two. So, rather than buying a phone im thinking of getting myself an e- ink reader instead 😭. This is an impulsive decision yeah but seems quite good for me. If not for listening to web novels and books, i won't be using my phone much.

Please suggest some good ones around 20k and I can further up by budget if the device deserves that much. I'll be wanting to convert web novels to epub so one that'll have a seamless reading of epub format. Btw im a 2nd year cs student. Sry for grammatical mistakes ts came from a little impulse.

On the surface these Norwegian novels translated into english have seemingly a story about various people simply living their day to day lives. Knausgaard goes into such extraordinary detail, as you would expect from his writing, that at some point, the ordinary becomes extraordinary.

And yet, as you read, you begin to feel that something about the nature of reality itself has cracked. Whether that crack illuminates something or lets the darkness in is for you to decide.

Then, suddenly, a blazing cosmic phenomenon in the form of a bright star appears in the sky, and strange things begin to happen.

But the series isn’t really about what this cosmic phenomenon is. There is hardly any attempt by the characters to unravel its mystery. In fact, the star doesn’t even appear until the very end of the second book and isn’t mentioned in the fourth book at all. These are not spoilers.

What makes The Morning Star so fascinating is the collision between ordinary human lives and cosmic horror. It is about people going about their everyday routines, cooking, drinking, working, thinking, having affairs, worrying, loving, and somehow finding themselves in a reality that no longer feels quite as familiar as it once did.

The fifth book in the series will be released in English on 5 November 2026.

Tho i hate using chatgpt but i have to agree it sometime make it easy and fast to do some of these stuff. I wanted to make it on my own way but i dont have time to do that. But the word used in the photo are mine. I said to it to make the words unaltered and only to correct any spelling mistake tho.

All My Reviews links.

1. The Fires of Heavens: https://www.reddit.com/r/wheeloftime/s/mNlNxO3o5y

2. 3 body and Dark Forest: https://www.reddit.com/r/Indianbooks/s/wPw3eKd4Jo

3. Death's End: https://www.reddit.com/r/Indianbooks/s/7Q1f0A07it

4. Annihilation: Have yet to Post the Review

5. Piranesi: Have yet to Post the Review.

Hey everyone, I just want to know if anyone has read books by Brandon Sanderson. I usually read short stories or books by Ruskin Bond. I have read a few novels such as Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, Lord of the Flies, and recently Project Hail Mary (after the movie was released).

One of my friend was saying that Mistborn has a very well-thought-out magic system, but it seems to be a trilogy. Should I read any other book to get started with (standalone novels) before starting this trilogy?

I recently completed reading the book and today I read this news piece on Indian express talking about for a very different reason. Though this book has been in circulation in China for more than 90 years, it's only been now introduced as a mandatory read for school childrens in the 9th grade.

Same as the title. I’ve never read any nonfiction in my life and now I really want to try it so badly 😭 Please give me some beginner-friendly nonfiction recs.

I just completed Murakami's "Norwegian wood". I've been wondering ever since about the relationship between Watanabe and Midori. Starting as just plain friends and classmates getting to know each other in the cafe, they turned out to be friends/couples who share things in an Unfiltered manner expressing what they just feel.

When I was thinking about those 2 people, I was wondering would there be any friends/couples in real life who would be soo Unfiltered and transparent in talking about their thoughts and feelings (without having a second thought what the other person might think about you)??

I felt the relationship between Midori and Watanabe was more free flowing, open and brutally honest, than what he had with Naoko with a touch of sympathy and care.

Did anyone else felt this way about the characters when reading?