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ITT: You say a theme/subject and anon recommends you books relationed with it.

I'm looking for:
>historical fiction of non-western civilizations
>novels that are almost devoid of plot
>non-fiction about everyday life
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Quran.
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>>8110702
>>novels that are almost devoid of plot
they're called essays
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>>8110713
Historical fiction, not religious texts.

>>8110717
No, they aren't.
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>>8110738
>Historical fiction, not religious texts.
Oxymoron.
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safety pins
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Romanticism.
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>>8111411
A Room With A View
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A Western Novel with the same lyricism as Blood Meridian or Warlock please
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>>8110742
kek
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Retrofuturism. The gleaming optimistic kind, preferably.
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>historical fiction of non-western civilizations
Shogun, The Long Ships, The Egyptian (Waltari), King Jesus (Graves), The Captain's Daughter

>non-fiction about everyday life
Philippe Aries, Alltagsgeschichte, Annales stuff
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>>8111426
A Room w/ a View is romantic/a love story but it's modernist in style. Still v good. Quite an underrated novelist.
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>>8111442
>Philippe Aries, Alltagsgeschichte
Thanks for this. This stuff looks phenomenal.

>>8111411
Goethe? Or anything Sturm und Drang.
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What are some entry level books about purpose that maybe correlate with music and art
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>>8112003
Not entry level, but Schopenhauer and Nietzsche.
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>>8110702
>>novels that are almost devoid of plot
The Tunnel.
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>>8110702
>>novels that are almost devoid of plot
Three men in a boat
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>>8110702
>non-fiction about everyday life
My struggle, kind of
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>>8111435
>>8110742

"Har har har look at me muhmmy i called a riligus teks figsshun lmao dumb doublethink 1984ers btfo"

You guys have no idea how immature you look. Fuck off
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>>8113465
t. Ahmed "taqiyya" Al-Ahmoud Ibn-Mohammad
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>>8113979
t. Joshua Baker McSanders
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Looking for something about pirates.
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Motivation / Achievements
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>>8114421
captain blood
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>>8110702
>novels that are almost devoid of plot
The Unnamable by Samuel Beckett
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>Science Fiction
Written in 1st person perspective
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a book that turns you into a girl when you read it
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Cool thread! I'm looking for books about redemption. Or characters who are changed forever by the book's end.
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