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Re: My Next Read

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higgyhann10 wrote: What book should I read next?
Try one of these:

1. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
2. The Cyberiad
3. Paradise Lost (by Milton)
4. When Gravity Fails (by Effinger)
5. I, Claudius
6. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
7. Vathek
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I might be able to help out if you're looking for a semi-programmatic way to find a new book? I just finished this little site that's just based on goodreads ratings / classifications - there's a few classification issues in it but its been super helpful to myself and my friends (and I'm just proud of finishing it...)

For example nonfiction books: https://nextnovelproject.com/genres/non-fiction
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Another vote for The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov.

You may also enjoy Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol.
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hi,
Since you mentioned a Russian, I'll try to stay in the same "neighborhood" so to say, and come up with a few more titles:
Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
Tolsoy, Short Stories
You said no Dostoevsky, but if you went past the little "monastery " problem(after all, it only appears briefly in one novel), you would discover that he is one of the most wonderful novelists, in fact his great genius is that his novels seem to have been written yesterday.
A shorter book that could get you started is Notes from the Underground. My personal favorite is The Demons and of course The Brothers Karamazov and The Idiot. My leas favorite was Crime and Punishment
Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls and The Mantle
Tatjiana Tolstaya(she is Tolstoy's great grand daughter), The Slynx, a post apocalyptic tale about the power of humanity and books.
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