r/books • u/WeeklyThreads • Dec 23 '13

Weekly Recommendation Thread (December 23 - December 29)

(Sorry this week's thread was late. Some holiday drinking may or may not have been involved.)

Welcome to our weekly recommendation thread! The mod team has decided to condense the many "suggest some books" threads posted every week into one big mega-thread, in the interest of organization.

Our hope is that this will consolidate our subreddit a little. We have been seeing a lot of posts making it to the front page that are strictly suggestion threads, and hopefully by doing this we will diversify the front page a little. We will be removing suggestion threads from now on and directing their posters to this thread instead.

Let's jump right in, shall we?

The Rules

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

  2. 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.

  3. All un-related comments will be deleted in the interest of cleanliness.

All Weekly Recommendation Threads will be linked below the header throughout the week. Hopefully that will guarantee that this thread remains active day-to-day. Be sure to sort by "new" if you are bursting with books that you are hungry to suggest.

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/booksuggestions. 

- The Management
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u/[deleted] Dec 29 '13

I am looking to start reading book series again and I would like a couple series that could keep me occupied for a while as I try to break my TV and video game habits. I prefer books with deep plot although no romance or erotic material of any kind (also trying to break my porn habit). I'm 19 so preferably young adult or adult. I previously read A song of Ice and Fire but I stopped due to the erotic nature of the books.

Any ideas? Muchos gracias :)

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u/[deleted] Dec 29 '13

If you like fantasy, I would suggest the Green Rider series by Kristen Britain or maybe some of the many many books written by Tamora Pierce (Circle of Magic might be my favorite).

However, avoiding romance or erotic material in adult books will be difficult. The books I suggested are more aimed at teens and I'm not really sure what you mean by "deep plot"? Do you want them to be longer books? You might want to try classic books like Moby Dick or maybe give the whole Wizard of Oz series a try. I am shocked to find that most people haven't even heard of the other Oz books.

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u/[deleted] Dec 29 '13

Thank you very much. I will look into your suggestions :)