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Best Fiction Books to Read: How Do You Live (Genzaburo Yoshino)
How Do You Live is an old Japanese book that was written in 1937 by Genzaburo Yoshino. It has recently become more mainstream after it was announced that legendary filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki (Studio Ghibli) is going to be adapting it into a movie. The format of How Do You Live is a conversation between an…
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Best Books to Read: The Alchemist (Paulo Coelho)
Since I have been pretty busy recently, I have not had as much time to write new blog posts. While I am still constantly finding new things I love to recommend, I wanted to share some of my previous favorite recommendations. Over the course of this blog, I have now written over a year’s worth…
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Best Books to Read: Crazy Rich Asians Series (Kevin Kwan)
While I am still constantly finding new things I love to recommend, I wanted to share some of my previous favorite recommendations. Over the course of this blog, I have now written over a year’s worth of posts (412 and counting), so you may have missed some of these along the way! Many people may…
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Best Fiction Books to Read: Tai-Pan (James Clavell)
Tai-Pan is a book in the Asian Saga series written by James Clavell. Other famous books in the series include Noble House and Shogun, although I have not read either of those books before. Tai-Pan was written in 1966 (so long ago!), but I still found the book extremely interesting. The setting of the book…
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Best Fiction Books to Read: The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared (Jonas Jonasson)
The 100 Year Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared was originally written in Swedish in 2009, before being translated into English in 2012. The book is fiction, but it manages to blend a lot of true historical facts and events into it. For example, the main character in the book, Allan…
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The Best Fiction Books You Have to Read Now
I thought it would be good to compile a list of all of my previous book recommendations. I will continue to add to this list as I find more great fiction books, but it is just an easy, condensed way to view all of my recommendations. Also, it is a good way to review any…
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Best Fiction Books to Read: The Dark Forest (Liu Cixin)
In a previous post, I wrote about the Three Body Problem by Liu Cixin. The Dark Forest is the second book in the series, and I thought it was an incredible read. While I had mixed feelings about the first one (it was good, but also kind of confusing and difficult to understand), I had…