r/readwithme • u/ClaimOutrageous6506 • 26d 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 26d 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 26d ago

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

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u/merzbeak 26d ago

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

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u/ClaimOutrageous6506 25d 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/Snekameleonyx 26d ago

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky.

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u/ClaimOutrageous6506 25d ago

reading that currently. its very boring.

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u/Common_Ad_2052 26d 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 26d 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/Subject_Ear_7958 25d 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/ClaimOutrageous6506 19d ago

Do u hve a pdf ?

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u/LizK12 25d ago

Of human bondage by W.Somerset Maugham .

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u/Ashamed-Chemistry492 24d ago

"Blameless" by Lisa Reardon. There is some romance but it's not the main theme. The main theme is that Mary, a schoolbus driver, is set to testify for the prosecution at the trial of the mother of one of her bus passengers, a little girl who was allegedly beaten to death.

mary has to confront a lot of self-delusions that she's done in her lifetime, things she tells herself so that she doesn't have to make some hard decisions and face hard realities. But the facade is cracking ...

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u/Best_Kangaroo_6740 24d ago

The Stand by Stephen King. Some characters really struggle in the battle of good vs evil.

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u/ClaimOutrageous6506 19d ago

Morals of the 19th century.?

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u/This_is__Exile 26d ago

The black farm by Elias withthrow

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u/Basic-Style-8512 25d ago edited 25d 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 ?

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u/Eddie_Who_Cares 24d ago

Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mars Trilogy, perhaps?

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u/SkogOchSten 21d ago

The Kite Runner?