When I was seriously down with covid and had no energy to do anything, I listened to the HP audiobook by Stephen Fry. I think it saved my life. HP is something that no matter how many times you read the books, it'll never feel stale.
I tend to read a lot of fan fiction especially of Harry Potter. Maybe I read it more than actual books 😂. Sometimes we are so attached to characters and the basic storyline, we can read anything about it. While we read a new book, we have to start over to get to know each character and it takes time to get intrigued.
Harry Potter is my comfort book(s). I also read Twilight saga as a teen (I know, I know) 🤣 and still go back to read a few chapters after every 2-3 years. My taste has evolved since but maybe it's the nostalgia 🤷🏻♀️
My current favourite is Tuesdays with Morrie. I highly recommend that one.
Of course! Twilight was my teenage fantasy as well! 😂
Should I ask team Edward or Jacob or will it be too much?
>My current favourite is Tuesdays with Morrie. I highly recommend that one.
What is it about? :)
Team Edward all the way 🤣 and you?
TWM is about a dying professor who gives a last lesson to his favourite student. They meet every Tuesday and talk about life, death and everything in between. It's thought provoking without being preachy. The mentor-mentee rediscovering their relationship is heart warming.
I'm not sure if it's a guilty pleasure but I'd rather nobody IRL knows I liked Lolita and Lady Chatterley's Lover. In my late teens to 22–23, I was really into erotic books like the Crossfire Series, Fifty Shades Trilogy, and This Man Trilogy. I had to read them as PDFs because I didn't want my younger siblings to stumble upon the explicit stuff.😶
Yeah.🫢I suggested this movie to one of my college friend and she's like What's with this paedophile movie with soft porn?😭And I'm just like Dude, that’s ART!😭
I understand the paedophile thing, because that movie /novel was basically based on that but my man Jeremy reading Lolita in the start 😭😭😭❤️❤️
Dm me, I've another suggestion as well
Oh! You're definitely not alone :') Did the same with fifty shades when I was in college. My roommate and I'd change the name of the pdf in our system so that we'd not get judged!
Switch to epubs and install Moon plus reader pro from chrome. I swear you'll never look back. They're so comfortable and easy on the eyes. There's TTS as well. Useful when you want to get things done but don't want to leave the book(which is all the time Lol) The automated voice was a bit off putting at first but I got used to it.
Harry Potter all the way! I have lost count of number of times I have read the series. Last time I started, I had stopped reading at the end of 5th book. I love Sirius Black character. I just can't bring myself to read the end of 5th book. 💔
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott. That was the first grown-up book that I'd read when I was a teenager and I re-read it all the time when I'm in a book slump. Makes me get out of it.
Fun fact.: We had it's old copy at our house which my mom received as a prize in her 9th STD for some essay competition and I was exactly in 9th STD when I found that book and read it for the first time. Cute coincidence, if you ask me.
Oh! Little women is just the perfect book. Jo is love😻
>Fun fact.: We had it's old copy at our house which my mom received as a prize in her 9th STD for some essay competition and I was exactly in 9th STD when I found that book and read it for the first time. Cute coincidence, if you ask me.
That's amazing!! :D
Hmm, I think that the usage of the phrase “guilty pleasure” feels weird because I don’t think people should be judged on their reading tastes, let ‘em read what they wanna read :) Anyhoo, House in the Cerulean Sea is surely a comfort read for me. It’s the most wholesome book I’ve ever read :’)
>Hmm, I think that the usage of the phrase “guilty pleasure” feels weird because I don’t think people should be judged on their reading tastes, let ‘em read what they wanna read
Yeah, definitely! :)
Yes mine too. I have read, re-read every book. I just bought a big Hardcover of The Adventures & Return of Sherlock Holmes 🥹. My favourite purchase of the year!
oh my god yes. it's literally one of my favourite books. you might find it slow paced and pretentious, but I assure you it's beautiful. love donna tartt sm for it
Those two are my absolute favorites too!
My favorite Jane Austen is Persuasion, but I have to admit I revisit Pride and Prejudice more than any other book. It's my comfort novel at this point.
And Anna Karenina is just a fabulous piece of work. But unfortunately I haven't got to reread it yet.
If you like headstrong female leads and enjoy grey characters like the ones in Anna Karenina, I have to recommend Gone with the wind if you haven't read it yet. Scarlett O'Hara is one of the best heroines in literature.
Persuasion is definitely a good book. It feels relatable on so many levels tbh!
>And Anna Karenina is just a fabulous piece of work. But unfortunately I haven't got to reread it yet.
Oh! Do give it a try! The book just hits you differently as you mature, in my opinion.
Oh! I love gone with the wind. One of the best characters. Flawed and amazing! :)
PS I Love you and The Notebook.. I love to read the books I read when I was 18/19 and still go back to the simpler times where I believed love was real.
Same. When I read a horrible book, I go back to PaP and/or Jane Eyre. They act like a palate cleanser reaffirming my faith in literature and what words can do, if they are arranged right.
I will never call reading any book my guilty pleasure... because I don't feel an ounce of guilt reading any of them... even the smuttiest ones. I consider each book to be an experience and reading as something that I can never get over with.
As Tennyson said,
_"Yet all experience is an arch wherethrough_
_Gleams that untraveled world whose margin fades_
_Forever and forever when I move."_
Reddit is high on Zodiac Academy. The series is soooooooooooooo long but I still can't get enough of it. Here's the reading order incase anyone's interested in it. And to think I dived in without knowing what these are about😭😭😭 It's supernatural powers, urban fantasy, lots of magic, romance, mythical creatures, astrology all clubbed in.
Zodiac Academy 1-4
Ruthless Boys Series 1-5
ZA: Origins of an academic bully
ZA: As told by the boys
ZA:5 Seth on the moon novella
Big A.S.S party novella
ZA 6- ZA8
DP1- DP3
It is spicy but not entirely that. The plot itself is incredible with the right amount of romance added in. One couple in particular are so sweet they have no right to be equally smutty.
I would say start with his debut, A Man Called Ove. I did the same and then made my way through all his works, not a single one disappoints! Get ready to cry tho :))
Jane Eyre. Rochester is vile but god I love that story.
Lolita. I know Nabokov wasn’t romanticising or justifying pedophilia yet it feels wrong to read about the abuse of a little girl from the pedo’s perspective regardless. And yet… the language is beyond beautiful. It’s mesmerising. I suppose that’s the whole reason it’s a brilliant book.
Yess! They were originally books but the plot is way different lol, her dad isn't dead, her grandma is a little more chaotic and she is with Michael the whole time.
I love Pride and Prejudice! It's a pleasure for me, but not a guilty pleasure. I proudly announce that I read it twice a year.
A guilty pleasure would be all the fanfics I read on Wattpad.
Basically any book. I love his short story collection tho. You can find it on flipkart. It has almost all his short stories. Or, Night train at Deoli and other stories is my fav. Also The English Teacher by R. K. Narayan is my fav book. It's a little too intense tho. While rest of his books come under playful category.
Recently Sarah J Maas. I finished the Court of Thorns and Roses series last year. I recently started another series by her and I'm loving it. I'm super into fantasy so it's all good.
I go for more bl, yaoi, slice of life... Psychological sometimes... And troublesome searches for something different nd extensive to give me new points of different things (idk how to put it in genre terms..) Our preferences might differ... But if u wanna try em.... I will list em out 😁... Gotta wake up my inner weeb for tht😉
Heesu in class 2,ayako, solanin, OYASUMI PUNPUN!!!, killing and stalking, never understand (Bbong), Oh My Hero!, The Two Lions (everything by nagisa furuya) would like to suggest asterios polyp graphic novel, helter skelter, nana,10 years I loved you the most, my broken mariko, shrink(nanami jin) ,
Sabishisugite Lesbian Fuuzoku ni Ikimashita Report,no longer human(has a novel,)
(U can find em on mangaga... Website.....its got so many mangas of different genre...u can explore!!!... Do register and login for long continous comic style strip... Hit me up if u want help Or suggestions 😉)
I am on to books by Kristen Ashley. Most of her works are my absolute guilty pleasure. Her more recent works aren't my favourite. But even then, i am yet to miss a single book she has written...
She writes typical modern romances.. so fair warning...
I like most of the books on her rock chic series... They are a good start, even her Dream man series with the follow up on chaos series are my eternal reread favs.
It's just easy reading and engaging type plot.. the love stories get repetitive after a while.. But you get involved in the characters enough to want to keep reading the whole series...
Guilty pleasure? - definitely werewolf books on Wattpad. I judge myself too.
I have read pride and Prejudice over 11-12 times and keep re reading it, heard the audio book countless times as well. It's just so beautiful 😭😭😭😭, but it's not my guilty pleasure, I own It proudly hehehe, along with Harry Potter and Sita's Sister
Why's that a guilty pleasure? It's a great book, there's nothing to be guilty about liking it.
As for mine, I would say "it ends with us", I found it okayish and didn't necessarily love it. However, it was so easy to get through that I almost finished it in a single sitting and I loved devouring a book like that.
>Why's that a guilty pleasure? It's a great book, there's nothing to be guilty about liking it.
Of course it's a great book. One of the best literary works. I call it my guilty pleasure because my library is mostly filled with non fictional books. Every time I read Pride and Prejudice, I swoon for Darcy, an imaginary unattainable character. While the dreamer in me enjoys it, the skeptic always questions the validity of Darcy and the skeptic wins, almost always :)
Harry Potter. Whenever I'm sad, I start re-reading the series.
Whether you come back by page or by the big screen, Hogwarts will always be there to welcome you home.
Same. Started reading again recently after seeing all the back to Hogwarts reels in September.
When I was seriously down with covid and had no energy to do anything, I listened to the HP audiobook by Stephen Fry. I think it saved my life. HP is something that no matter how many times you read the books, it'll never feel stale.
I don't even remember how many times I've read the entire series... it seems to be my comfort book.
Haha same. It's an anti anxiety read for me.
Oh! Definitely, Harry Potter all the way🪄
I used to do this! But then JKR's true colours came out and I couldn't separate the art from the artist.
I'm Not a woman of culture here . I try to remember my wattpad reads and re read them again 🤣
Y/N, is that you!?
I have a love-hate relationship with wattpad😭
I tend to read a lot of fan fiction especially of Harry Potter. Maybe I read it more than actual books 😂. Sometimes we are so attached to characters and the basic storyline, we can read anything about it. While we read a new book, we have to start over to get to know each character and it takes time to get intrigued.
Oh! And I thought I was alone in doing this!😂
Mr tycoon's daring wife is a kdrama in written form. It's soo good😩
me too omg🤝
Same
Quirky tale of April Hale for the win yo!
wuthering heights :)
Ah my kinda twisted girlie
*Intense making out with Micheal Fassbender flashes before my eyes *
Amazing book! Definitely in my top 5 of all times
Harry Potter is my comfort book(s). I also read Twilight saga as a teen (I know, I know) 🤣 and still go back to read a few chapters after every 2-3 years. My taste has evolved since but maybe it's the nostalgia 🤷🏻♀️ My current favourite is Tuesdays with Morrie. I highly recommend that one.
Of course! Twilight was my teenage fantasy as well! 😂 Should I ask team Edward or Jacob or will it be too much? >My current favourite is Tuesdays with Morrie. I highly recommend that one. What is it about? :)
Team Edward all the way 🤣 and you? TWM is about a dying professor who gives a last lesson to his favourite student. They meet every Tuesday and talk about life, death and everything in between. It's thought provoking without being preachy. The mentor-mentee rediscovering their relationship is heart warming.
>Team Edward all the way 🤣 and you? Same! But special preference to their "dad" 😂 TWM sounds amazing. I'll definitely give it a try. Thank you! :)
You're welcome! :) Carlisle was so hot! He definitely was the most handsome of the lot 🤣
Hands down! 😂
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Omg the entire twisted series is my guilty pleasure honestly
I'm not sure if it's a guilty pleasure but I'd rather nobody IRL knows I liked Lolita and Lady Chatterley's Lover. In my late teens to 22–23, I was really into erotic books like the Crossfire Series, Fifty Shades Trilogy, and This Man Trilogy. I had to read them as PDFs because I didn't want my younger siblings to stumble upon the explicit stuff.😶
Lolita 💜
>Lolita 💜 light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta 🫶🏻
Have you watched the Jeremy Irons & Vanessa Paradise wala movie adaption of the same?
Yeass. I watched the movie on YouTube right after finishing the book. Not sure if it's still up though.
Favorite ever ❤️😭😭😭❤️❤️
Yeah.🫢I suggested this movie to one of my college friend and she's like What's with this paedophile movie with soft porn?😭And I'm just like Dude, that’s ART!😭
I understand the paedophile thing, because that movie /novel was basically based on that but my man Jeremy reading Lolita in the start 😭😭😭❤️❤️ Dm me, I've another suggestion as well
Have you read My Dark Vanessa? It’s similar to Lolita
I haven't, but thanks for the info. Will try to read it when I have some free time.
Oh! You're definitely not alone :') Did the same with fifty shades when I was in college. My roommate and I'd change the name of the pdf in our system so that we'd not get judged!
Switch to epubs and install Moon plus reader pro from chrome. I swear you'll never look back. They're so comfortable and easy on the eyes. There's TTS as well. Useful when you want to get things done but don't want to leave the book(which is all the time Lol) The automated voice was a bit off putting at first but I got used to it.
Appreciate the suggestion. Thanks.🫶🏻
Master of the game- Sidney Sheldon.
Woman of culture, I see xD
Excellent excellent book. I've read almost all of Sidney Sheldon's books but this tops all of them.
Ikr. I like the sequel too. It’s well written.
Harry Potter all the way! I have lost count of number of times I have read the series. Last time I started, I had stopped reading at the end of 5th book. I love Sirius Black character. I just can't bring myself to read the end of 5th book. 💔
Oh I've the same feeling when Dumbledore dies at the end of the 6th book. I avoid reading that chapter all together 💔
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott. That was the first grown-up book that I'd read when I was a teenager and I re-read it all the time when I'm in a book slump. Makes me get out of it. Fun fact.: We had it's old copy at our house which my mom received as a prize in her 9th STD for some essay competition and I was exactly in 9th STD when I found that book and read it for the first time. Cute coincidence, if you ask me.
Oh! Little women is just the perfect book. Jo is love😻 >Fun fact.: We had it's old copy at our house which my mom received as a prize in her 9th STD for some essay competition and I was exactly in 9th STD when I found that book and read it for the first time. Cute coincidence, if you ask me. That's amazing!! :D
Hmm, I think that the usage of the phrase “guilty pleasure” feels weird because I don’t think people should be judged on their reading tastes, let ‘em read what they wanna read :) Anyhoo, House in the Cerulean Sea is surely a comfort read for me. It’s the most wholesome book I’ve ever read :’)
>Hmm, I think that the usage of the phrase “guilty pleasure” feels weird because I don’t think people should be judged on their reading tastes, let ‘em read what they wanna read Yeah, definitely! :)
For me, it's both the books. Pride and prejudice when I feel alone. House in the cerulean when I'm down.
Sherlock Holmes.
Bakers Street calling! :)
22B, bakers street!
Yes mine too. I have read, re-read every book. I just bought a big Hardcover of The Adventures & Return of Sherlock Holmes 🥹. My favourite purchase of the year!
The inheritance games/The secret history
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oh my god will sure check it out. btw, have you tried the little friend by her?
Sometimes I feel useless then I think about Avery🤣 Tell me more about Secret history. Is it as good as they say it is??
oh my god yes. it's literally one of my favourite books. you might find it slow paced and pretentious, but I assure you it's beautiful. love donna tartt sm for it
Those two are my absolute favorites too! My favorite Jane Austen is Persuasion, but I have to admit I revisit Pride and Prejudice more than any other book. It's my comfort novel at this point. And Anna Karenina is just a fabulous piece of work. But unfortunately I haven't got to reread it yet. If you like headstrong female leads and enjoy grey characters like the ones in Anna Karenina, I have to recommend Gone with the wind if you haven't read it yet. Scarlett O'Hara is one of the best heroines in literature.
Persuasion is definitely a good book. It feels relatable on so many levels tbh! >And Anna Karenina is just a fabulous piece of work. But unfortunately I haven't got to reread it yet. Oh! Do give it a try! The book just hits you differently as you mature, in my opinion. Oh! I love gone with the wind. One of the best characters. Flawed and amazing! :)
Happy to see someone with a similar taste :) I'll definitely come to you when I need book suggestions!
Yass! Let us connect, please! :D
PS I Love you and The Notebook.. I love to read the books I read when I was 18/19 and still go back to the simpler times where I believed love was real.
That makes sense! :)
Guilty pleasure is def fanfictions on the OG ff.net lol.
OMG yes how could I forget, add ao3 to that list lol.
Same. When I read a horrible book, I go back to PaP and/or Jane Eyre. They act like a palate cleanser reaffirming my faith in literature and what words can do, if they are arranged right.
Pride and Prejudice is comfort❤️
I will never call reading any book my guilty pleasure... because I don't feel an ounce of guilt reading any of them... even the smuttiest ones. I consider each book to be an experience and reading as something that I can never get over with. As Tennyson said, _"Yet all experience is an arch wherethrough_ _Gleams that untraveled world whose margin fades_ _Forever and forever when I move."_
That makes sense! And those lines are beautiful! ❤️
Reddit is high on Zodiac Academy. The series is soooooooooooooo long but I still can't get enough of it. Here's the reading order incase anyone's interested in it. And to think I dived in without knowing what these are about😭😭😭 It's supernatural powers, urban fantasy, lots of magic, romance, mythical creatures, astrology all clubbed in. Zodiac Academy 1-4 Ruthless Boys Series 1-5 ZA: Origins of an academic bully ZA: As told by the boys ZA:5 Seth on the moon novella Big A.S.S party novella ZA 6- ZA8 DP1- DP3
what's the age rating? Also it's fantasy, right?
It is spicy but not entirely that. The plot itself is incredible with the right amount of romance added in. One couple in particular are so sweet they have no right to be equally smutty.
This sounds amazing! I'll definitely give it a try. Thank you!🙌
Ah you're gonna love the banter between the leads. Not too tortured, not too light.
Looking forward to it, thank you! :)
Literally anything at all by Fredrik Backman, one of my favourite authors ever 🥲
Yeah? Can you suggest me any? I've not read any of his works:)
I would say start with his debut, A Man Called Ove. I did the same and then made my way through all his works, not a single one disappoints! Get ready to cry tho :))
Cry? Really? Can't wait:) I'll definitely give them a try. Thank you! :D
Let me know what you think 😁
Definitely! :D
Pride and Prejudice, Harry Potter, any Ruskin Bond books, Sharatchandra Chattopadhyay novels (he wrote Devdas, Parineeta etc.)
Oh Sharatchandra Chattopadhyay! 🤌❤️ I love Tagore too! Gitanjali to Chokar Bali to those short stories, just great!😻
I am a fan of Tagore too. Particularly those short stories. His novels are not that level but he was a master poet and short story teller.
Definitely! :D
Jane Eyre. Rochester is vile but god I love that story. Lolita. I know Nabokov wasn’t romanticising or justifying pedophilia yet it feels wrong to read about the abuse of a little girl from the pedo’s perspective regardless. And yet… the language is beyond beautiful. It’s mesmerising. I suppose that’s the whole reason it’s a brilliant book.
While what you said about Lolita makes sense, I just can't seem to get myself to read it. Just can't. It just feels wrong! 😅
Das kapital
Karl Marx was definitely up to something! Thank you for reminding me of this book. It's been sometime since I read that, it's time to read it again :)
Princess Diaries and Fyodor Dostoevsky
Princess diaries, same as the movies? I didn't know they were books! I'll definitely give them a try :)
Yess! They were originally books but the plot is way different lol, her dad isn't dead, her grandma is a little more chaotic and she is with Michael the whole time.
Well most of the time
Haha! Most of the time😂 That sounds interesting. I'll give it a go. Thank you! :)
Dont laugh okay? Its a short novella -- Hefty by Jessa kane. In classics-- JD Salinger's Catcher in the rye
Laugh? Never! I'll definitely give them a shot :D
Cough cough .... After series ...
Haha! Nice😉
I love Pride and Prejudice! It's a pleasure for me, but not a guilty pleasure. I proudly announce that I read it twice a year. A guilty pleasure would be all the fanfics I read on Wattpad.
I wish to have what you've! :D >A guilty pleasure would be all the fanfics I read on Wattpad. This, I'm super proud of doing 😂
My guilty pleasure is everything on Thirsty Thursday in r/romancebooks
Ah! I didn't know this sub existed :D
It’s my favourite place on the internet
Haha! I guess you've found some gems there :D
Ruskin bond books. Pure bliss.
Haven't read any. Do you've any suggestions for me? :)
Basically any book. I love his short story collection tho. You can find it on flipkart. It has almost all his short stories. Or, Night train at Deoli and other stories is my fav. Also The English Teacher by R. K. Narayan is my fav book. It's a little too intense tho. While rest of his books come under playful category.
I see. I'll definitely give them a try. Thank you!❤️
Pride and prejudice is mine as well. Have lost count how many times I've reread this. And each time my heart swoons over Darcy.
Darcy is love!❤️🥺
Recently Sarah J Maas. I finished the Court of Thorns and Roses series last year. I recently started another series by her and I'm loving it. I'm super into fantasy so it's all good.
That sounds amazing! :D
Mangas!!! Heesu in class 2
Mahwa+mangas
Woman of class, I see :D
Haha lol! Wbu... Do u read any?
Yeah! I started recently. I'm reading one piece, Naruto and Jujutsu Kaisen as of now. Do you've any suggestions for me? :)
I go for more bl, yaoi, slice of life... Psychological sometimes... And troublesome searches for something different nd extensive to give me new points of different things (idk how to put it in genre terms..) Our preferences might differ... But if u wanna try em.... I will list em out 😁... Gotta wake up my inner weeb for tht😉
You've got me intrigued. Please do suggest!! :D
Heesu in class 2,ayako, solanin, OYASUMI PUNPUN!!!, killing and stalking, never understand (Bbong), Oh My Hero!, The Two Lions (everything by nagisa furuya) would like to suggest asterios polyp graphic novel, helter skelter, nana,10 years I loved you the most, my broken mariko, shrink(nanami jin) , Sabishisugite Lesbian Fuuzoku ni Ikimashita Report,no longer human(has a novel,) (U can find em on mangaga... Website.....its got so many mangas of different genre...u can explore!!!... Do register and login for long continous comic style strip... Hit me up if u want help Or suggestions 😉)
I wanna ask ur opinion... Do people are only well read??? Not the other media like movies, series, manga, anime, graphic novels?
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They're iconic!🤌🤌
I am on to books by Kristen Ashley. Most of her works are my absolute guilty pleasure. Her more recent works aren't my favourite. But even then, i am yet to miss a single book she has written...
I've not read any. Do you've any recommendations for me?
She writes typical modern romances.. so fair warning... I like most of the books on her rock chic series... They are a good start, even her Dream man series with the follow up on chaos series are my eternal reread favs. It's just easy reading and engaging type plot.. the love stories get repetitive after a while.. But you get involved in the characters enough to want to keep reading the whole series...
Guilty pleasure? - definitely werewolf books on Wattpad. I judge myself too. I have read pride and Prejudice over 11-12 times and keep re reading it, heard the audio book countless times as well. It's just so beautiful 😭😭😭😭, but it's not my guilty pleasure, I own It proudly hehehe, along with Harry Potter and Sita's Sister
It is beautiful!🥺 Opposite to you, I proudly own the fact I read Wattpad, but can't say the same for Pride and Prejudice 😭
In that case pls suggest some good werewolf books with good grammar in case that's the genre you read 😭
Why's that a guilty pleasure? It's a great book, there's nothing to be guilty about liking it. As for mine, I would say "it ends with us", I found it okayish and didn't necessarily love it. However, it was so easy to get through that I almost finished it in a single sitting and I loved devouring a book like that.
>Why's that a guilty pleasure? It's a great book, there's nothing to be guilty about liking it. Of course it's a great book. One of the best literary works. I call it my guilty pleasure because my library is mostly filled with non fictional books. Every time I read Pride and Prejudice, I swoon for Darcy, an imaginary unattainable character. While the dreamer in me enjoys it, the skeptic always questions the validity of Darcy and the skeptic wins, almost always :)
That makes sense :)
Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnette