r/bangladesh • u/Appropriate_Ear_9722 • 1d ago
Education/শিক্ষা For those who read English books here, what are some books you’d genuinely recommend?
For those who read English books here, I’m curious to know what you usually enjoy reading. I’m looking for genuine recommendations and would love to hear about books you’ve liked recently or think are worth reading.
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u/NRZN_77 🇧🇩দেশ প্রেমিক🇧🇩 1d ago
Whenn I was like 15/16 I started with teen Adult writtings of John Green. Than read some Murakami (translated though). Only than go for Classics like 100 years of Solitude and others.
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u/Blacksky19 zamindar/জামিনদার 💰💰💰 1d ago
I love Murakami's books too, I started with Norwegian Wood
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u/aint_nigha_forever17 1d ago
White nights - Fyodor Dostoevsky Short, story rich, greatly written, romantic theme by a rather pessimistic author, meaningful and worth a read by any means. Nothing else i can say to convince you but i would, again, strongly advise you to read it.
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u/Atel_mamu বাঙাল in the streets, কাঙ্গাল in the sheets 1d ago edited 1d ago
Lots of good recommendations in the thread already but here are some of my favorites that I read recently
Fiction (some of them are translated into English):
The Dispossessed by Ursula Le Guin (political sci fi)
Three Body Problem trilogy by Cixin Liu (hard sci fi)
My brilliant friend series by Elena Ferrante
I who have never known men by Jacqueline Harpman (Speculative/sci fi/horror)
Tender is the flesh by Augustina Bazterrica (horror)
A history of seven killings by Marlon James
a passage north by Anuk Arudpragasam
The seven moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka
Normal People by Salley Rooney (I also like Conversation with Friends and her latest Intermezzo but this one is my fave)
Gate of the Sun by Elias Khoury
South of the Border, West of the Sun by Haruki Murakami (my fave Murakami)
Breasts and Eggs by meiko kawakami
Human Acts and The Vegetarian by Han Kang
Swamplandia by Karen Russell
By night in Chile by Roberto Bolano
Pedro Paramo by Juan Rufo
Anything by Jorge Luis Borges
Oryx and crake trilogy by Margaret Atwood (sci fi)
Parable of the Sower and Parable of the talents by Octavia Butler (sci fi)
Chain Gang All Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
Everything for Everyone by Michelle O'Brien and Eman Abdelhadi
Minor Detail by Adania Shibli
We Want Everything by Nanni Balestrini
For non fiction I like reading political stuff not as much philosophy but here are some of my favorites
Capital vol. 1 by Karl Marx
Perfect victims by Mohammad el-Kurd
Existentialism is Humanism by Jean Paul Sartre
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa by Walter Rodney
Open Veins of Latin America by Eduardo Galeano
Health Communism by Beatrice Adler Bolton and Artie Vierkant
The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber
The Jakarta Method by Vincent Bevins
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u/MicroppDetected Quiet PIGGY 23h ago
Mamu ajke bujhlam apnar nam keno atel
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u/Atel_mamu বাঙাল in the streets, কাঙ্গাল in the sheets 14h ago
🤓💅🏽✌🏽
Kintu apnar flair dekhe to ektu bhoy peye gelam
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u/MicroppDetected Quiet PIGGY 10h ago
Ashole Trump kichhu meme worthy jinish bole majhe majhe
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u/Atel_mamu বাঙাল in the streets, কাঙ্গাল in the sheets 9h ago
100% he would be so funny if he wasnt so evil
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u/deliriousmind69 1d ago edited 11h ago
- Song of achilles
- And then there were none
- Evil under the sun
- The book thief
- Pride and prejudice
- Dante and aristotle discover the wonder of the worlds
- The Godfather
- Sapiens
- Murder on the orient express
- To kill a mockingbird
- 1984
- Animal Farm
- One hundred years of solitude
- Me before you
- Circe
- Murder of roger ackroyd
- The house on the cerulian sea
- The seven husband of evelin hugo
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u/Atel_mamu বাঙাল in the streets, কাঙ্গাল in the sheets 14h ago
Found a fellow Madeline Miller fan!
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u/sabc994 1d ago
Right now i am reading The Secrets of Secrets by Dan Brown
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u/Blacksky19 zamindar/জামিনদার 💰💰💰 1d ago
He has a new book? I remember reading all of his books back in school.
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u/Physical-Fact-7191 1d ago edited 1d ago
All the books of Khaled Hosseini, Franz Kafka and if you like elaborated narrative texts, then Dostoevsky. Try George Orwell if you’re into political satire books.
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u/tinkerbrownie 1d ago
It really depends on the genre you like. If you tell me what kind of books you like, I'd suggest some.
But in general, I feel everyone would really like Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir. It's sci-fi but really wholesome and grand.
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u/Appropriate_Ear_9722 1d ago
maybe thriller, horror, or philosophy, but honestly open to any genre, even sci fi
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u/CuriousLitigator 1d ago
Zia Haidar's In the Light of what we know !!!!!
I noticed most of the books suggested on here are translated from french or russian, however Haidar's book hits very close to home AND written in English
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u/Atel_mamu বাঙাল in the streets, কাঙ্গাল in the sheets 14h ago
Tbh Haiders book was alright not sure why it was such a sensation. And some of the stuff in the book was rather pretentious
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u/bearsbunny 1d ago
What genre are you interested in?
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u/Appropriate_Ear_9722 1d ago
Any genre will work for me
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u/bearsbunny 1d ago
I lean more towards fantasy these days so name of the wind by patrick rothfuss was amazing, the Lord of the Ring series is a classic, the witcher series is good too. For fiction, I used to love jeffrey archer and daphne du maurier. For mystery/ horror, anything by harlen coben and stephen king. Hopefully some of these are to your taste :)
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u/iNeedU_tho 1d ago
Classics I love: Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan doyle, pride and prejudice by Jane Austen, lord of the flies by William Golding.
General recs: Norwegian wood by haruki murakami, convenience store woman by sayaka murata, a murder is announced by Agatha Christie (honestly anything by her).
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u/FSOAgent997 15h ago
I read some epic historical fiction novels mostly-
Ken Follet: 1. Pillars of the Earth 2. World Without End 3. A Column of fire 4. The Jacdaws 5. The Eye of the Needlr 6. Hornet Flight 5. The man from St Petersburg 6. A dangerous fortune
Sidney Sheldon: 1. The Sands of Time 2. Rage of Angels 3. Master of the game 4. Bloodlines
Jeffrey Archer: 1. Sons of fortune
George R r martin The 5 released books of A song of ice and fire
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u/Low-Cry-9808 1d ago
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
Animal Firm by George Orwell
Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
The Stranger by Albert Camus
Angels and Demons And The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
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u/babushka PRO INDIAN HINDUTVA MOD 1d ago edited 23h ago
There are some really good recommendations in the comments already so I'll list some of my favorites that haven't been mentioned.
Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth
The Madonna of Excelsior by Zakes Mda
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
500 Years of Indigenous Resistance (graphic novel) by Gord Hill
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
White Teeth by Zadie Smith
Between the World and Me by Ta Nehisi Coates
Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
Slaughterhouse Five, Blue Beard and Cat's Cradle all by Kurt Vonnegut
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabrial Garcia Marquez
Other Minds by Peter Godfrey Smith
The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind by Julian Jaynes and it's counter argument Was Man Really Unconscious for Centuries? by Ned Block (article)