r/BooksThatFeelLikeThis

hey all i’m looking for a specific type of book. one about someone who tires of their busy life in the city and moves to a small town to live a slow life.

preferably they build relationships with the townsfolk. can be someone coming back to their small hometown too. can have some romance too

Inspo for this request : stardew valley, harvest moon/story of seasons game, the polish film ‘no promises’

Can be absolutely any fiction genre even horror.

thank you!

Bit of a hard one but I'm looking for recs (don't have to be well known books I love indie published) of gothic, mystery, romance, academy setting books. For example I loved Nocticadia by Keri Lake, Nightshade by Autumn Woods and Zodiac Academy. I'd love a paranormal mystery romance set in an academy but I think that's a little too niche so really anything that gives these vibes!!

Hey everyone! I'm seeking books (preferably literary fiction, but I'm open to anything) that are about regret and guilt over feeling like you've destroyed your own life. Yearning to go back to where it all went wrong and do it differently, unmake it all and fix it. Grief over wasting so much time when if you had just done things differently, you could have lived a much better life. I'd like some suggestions where there's a degree of hope that things can get better, but also open to books that don't have happy endings/are pretty hopeless

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I want a book that makes my stomach feel feels as I ponder the vast existential yawn of history and future, doesn’t have to be sci-fi but they usually are.

I love the passages in The Time Machine that describe how the landscape changes over millennia as he watches.

I love The Last And First Men, both the book and the movie(doc?).

I love the Dune series, and The Passage series (Cronin).

I love reading the Human Interference Task Force writings over and over.

Just some I can think of off the top of my head.

Any genre but I do get slight horror vibes from this song that I love. Thank you!

Any suggestions for books that are about friends who make each other worse, one shaky decision at a time. Just besties against the world where murder seems more and more like a viable solution. Maybe you're right and we should totally contact the dead! That scary looking book in a deserted cabin is probably cool and we should definitely steal it.

Those kind of vibes

The most interesting part of Thor 4 was the prologue where Christian Bales character was wandering the desert with his daughter, praying, yearning for help, and when he meets their god, he’s just a fatass enjoying grapes not listening to the calls of his followers.

Similar story in the book American Gods where what people believe is the lifeblood of the gods. (Zeus in USA being a Slob vs Nordic Zeus a muscular deity with a staff)

Most recently I read a book called Fountains of Paradise from Arthur C Clarke that explore building a space elevator on a sacred temple, the only place it can be built in the world of the novel. I loved the religion vs technology discussions in this book.

Looking for something that explores the yearning of humanity that creates a tipping point of a people that create these belief systems/ bonus points if it explores the religion vs tech aspect (Zeus vs Mr Tv or whoever from American gods) and the friction that comes with it.

must be NA or adult 🙏🏼

any recommendations for books with this vibes?

preferably set within a medieval time period?

I really dont mind if its not a romance novel.

fantasy elements are a plus

grimdark are a plus !

horror is a plus

(I've attached the artist name in order to give them credit for their work)

this might be a long shot but anyone know any books kinda like this? ive always loved Walter Wick's art and have always wanted to live inside one of his photos! maybe set in a dollhouse or something like thumbelina?

I'm looking for a couple like Mina and Jonathan Harker from Dracula (book), two devoted, smart, kind individuals, when the Horrors™ go after one of then, they fight for the other, and would willingly succumb alongside the other.

When Mina was turning into a vampire, Jonathan would accept turn into a vampire to be with her, even if it would mean loose his soul to the victorian society.

That's what I'm looking for, I prefer gothic/dark fantasy settings with the one person loving the other so much they would join them in the Horrors™ just to be together. Bonus point if has vampires.

Art by cry-ptidd on tumblr. Movie scene is Nosferatu.

bonus points if it’s enemies to lovers