Young Adult

Honestly, most of these books tend to have a more negative. But for all the troubles and chaos, this is exactly what makes life beautiful and worthwhile. When we care more about each other than what any tangible objective. This is the slice of life

Normal people

star rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Reading length: medium (279 pages)
Amazon pricing: $9
Author: Sally Rooney
Primary countries in the book: Ireland
“no-no stuff” : non-existent/moderate/apparent
One sentence(ok maybe two): The Perfect book for normal people, about normal people. Best book I've read

“She closes her eyes. He probably won’t come back, she thinks. Or he will, differently. What they have now they can never have back again. But for her the pain of loneliness will be nothing to the pain that she used to feel, of being unworthy. He brought her goodness like a gift and now it belongs to her.

Meanwhile his life opens out before him in all directions at once. They’ve done a lot of good for each other. Really, she thinks, really. People can really change one another.

You should go, she says. I’ll always be here. You know that."

Beautiful world, where are you

star rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Reading length: medium (370 pages)
Amazon pricing: $9
Author: Sally Rooney
Primary countries in the book: Ireland
“no-no stuff” : non-existent/moderate/apparent
One sentence: Just as good as Normal people

“Maybe we're just born to love and worry about the people we know, and to go on loving and worrying even when there are more important things we should be doing. And if that means the human species is going to die out, isn't it in a way a nice reason to die out, the nicest reason you can imagine? Because when we should have been reorganising the distribution of the world's resources and transitioning collectively to a sustainable economic model, we were worrying about sex and friendship instead. Because we loved each other too much and found each other too interesting. And I love that about humanity, and in fact it's the very reason I root for us to survive - because we are so stupid about each other.”

Conversation with friends

star rating: ⭐⭐⭐
Reading length: medium (320 pages)
Amazon pricing: $11.50
Author: Sally Rooney
Primary countries in the book: Ireland
“no-no stuff” : non-existent/moderate/apparent
One sentence: Sally rooney's first novel so don't expect too much

“Gradually the waiting began to feel less like waiting and more like this was simply what life was: the distracting tasks undertaken while the thing you are waiting for continues not to happen.”

“Things and people moved around me, taking positions in obscure hierarchies, participating in systems I didn't know about and never would. A complex network of objects and concepts. You live through certain things before you understand them. You can't always take the analytical position.”

Norweigian wood

star rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Reading length: medium (307 pages)
Amazon pricing: $7
Author: Haruki Murakami
Primary countries in the book: Japan
“no-no stuff” : non-existent/moderate/apparent
One sentence: The first book you should read to explore Murakami

“But who can say what's best? That's why you need to grab whatever chance you have of happiness where you find it, and not worry about other people too much. My experience tells me that we get no more than two or three such chances in a life time, and if we let them go, we regret it for the rest of our lives.”

“I want you always to remember me. Will you remember that I existed, and that I stood next to you here like this?”

“I was always hungry for love. Just once, I wanted to know what it was like to get my fill of it -- to be fed so much love I couldn't take any more. Just once. ”

Kafka on the shore

star rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Reading length: medium (448 pages)
Amazon pricing: $14
Author: Haruki Murakami
Primary countries in the book: Japan
“no-no stuff” : non-existent/moderate/apparent
One sentence: THIS BOOK IS WILD, one of the best book's I've ever read for simply being so surreal

“Sometimes fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing directions. You change direction but the sandstorm chases you. You turn again, but the storm adjusts. Over and over you play this out, like some ominous dance with death just before dawn. Why? Because this storm isn't something that blew in from far away, something that has nothing to do with you. This storm is you. Something inside of you. So all you can do is give in to it, step right inside the storm, closing your eyes and plugging up your ears so the sand doesn't get in, and walk through it, step by step.... And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.” Kafka on the shore

The Seven husbands of evelyn Hugo

star rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Reading length: medium (400 pages)
Amazon pricing: $12
Author: Taylor Jenkins Reid
Primary countries in the book: America
“no-no stuff” : non-existent/moderate/apparent
One sentence: Very surprise ending

"You can be a nothing living in a cardboard box and i’d still love you"

“You do not know how fast you have been running, how hard you have been working, how truly exhausted you are, until somewhat stands behind you and says, “It’s OK, you can fall down now. I’ll catch you.”

“People think that intimacy is about sex. But intimacy is about truth. When you realize you can tell someone your truth, when you can show yourself to them, when you stand in front of them bare and their response is 'you're safe with me'- that's intimacy.”

A little life

star rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Reading length: long (737 pages)
Amazon pricing: $13
Author: Hanya Yanagihara
Primary countries in the book: America(NYC)
“no-no stuff” : non-existent/moderate/apparent
One sentence: Everything is worth reading i assure that, just very long

“The axiom of equality states that x always equals x: it assumes that if you have a conceptual thing named x, that it must always be equivalent to itself, that it has a uniqueness about it, that it is in possession of something so irreducible that we must assume it is absolutely, unchangeably equivalent to itself for all time, that its very elementalness can never be altered. But it is impossible to prove. Always, absolutes, nevers: these are the words, as much as numbers, that make up the world of mathematics. Not everyone liked the axiom of equality––Dr. Li had once called it coy and twee, a fan dance of an axiom––but he had always appreciated how elusive it was, how the beauty of the equation itself would always be frustrated by the attempts to prove it. It was the kind of axiom that could drive you mad, that could consume you, that could easily become an entire life.

But now he knows for certain how true the axiom is, because he himself––his very life––has proven it. The person I was will always be the person I am, he realizes. The context may have changed: he may be in this apartment, and he may have a job that he enjoys and that pays him well, and he may have parents and friends he loves. He may be respected; in court, he may even be feared. But fundamentally, he is the same person, a person who inspires disgust, a person meant to be hated.”