Which book are you currently reading and would you recommend it?

Submitted by Swatcat on October 3, 2025
I’m reading a book called “10 Mistakes That Changed History”, by Paul Coulter, and would totally recommend it!

It’s a fun entertaining read in contemporary lingo, and is pretty insightful, informative and incisive at the same time! And it’s kind of unputdownable. You’ve been duly warned.

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Level 33
Oct 3, 2025
I'm currently reading Star Wars : Dark Disciple

I only recommend it for hardcore Star Wars fans who want more lore as it is very niche and not for the average, casual Star Wars enjoyer.

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Level 82
Oct 3, 2025
I am reading a book called "The very hungry caterpillar".

It's an incredibly complex piece of literature, probably even more than Finnegans Wake. I take notes at every page and still feel overwhelmed.

Would recommend only to the most experienced of readers.

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Level 56
Oct 3, 2025
Oh ive read that book like hubdreds of time to try and understand the story

When i did i felt absolutely amazing

I love this book

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Level 71
Oct 3, 2025
What?!? You've finished 'The very hungry caterpillar' hunbdreds of times?!?! That's an extremely complete and delicate piece of literature!!!

Must have been a very important accomplishment!!!

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Level 78
Oct 4, 2025
Sounds like a project!👍🏼
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Level 71
Oct 3, 2025
The Bible.

I enjoyed reading the Mysterious Benedict Society.

Narina, LODR and the Wingfeather Saga are good Christian-based (childrens-teens) book series.

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Level 71
Oct 3, 2025
*LOTR
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Level 81
Oct 3, 2025
The Bible and Plato's Republic, but I've been too busy to consistently read the latter.
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Level 81
Oct 3, 2025
At the moment I am dipping in and out of a series of travel books called "About Britain". They were produced in the 1950's and show a completely different Britain than today. There are 13 or 14 in the series of which I have 9 at the moment. They were very popular at the time and pop up on eBay fairly regularly.

They're a brilliant read if you are interested in Geography and History.

I do feel though, that at 62 years of age, I should have read The Bible by now, even though I am not religious in any way.

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Level 82
Oct 3, 2025
I've just finished The Shell Seekers, and I recommend it. It's a family story.

I'm reading

—Cry, the Beloved Country (about South Africa), a gentle book despite the fact that it deals with such tough things.

—Long Petal of the Sea by Isabel Allende, and it's interesting but I recommend it less highly. Too often, the characters feel to me like they're just ways to fit the history in. But I've learned a LOT about the Spanish Civil War and Chile which I didn't know, and I'm grateful for that.

—A People's History of the United States, which is eye-opening.

—The House of Ulloa, by a 19th-century Spanish writer who may be one of my new favorites.

I'm re-reading

—The Shadow of the Wind, one of my favorites.

—Middlemarch, another favorite, but very different, and not easy reading if you're not used to reading 19th-century stuff.

I'm stuck in bed so I have lots of time for reading and audiobooks!

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Level 92
Oct 6, 2025
I'm currently reading Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch by Gregory Maguire (it's what the Broadway play and the movie Wicked are based on).

It's fine so far but obviously if you don't like Wizard of Oz/Wicked-related things than don't read it. But if you do (like me) than you should definitely read it :)

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Level 54
Oct 6, 2025
I am currently reading The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. It is mind-blowingly good
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Level 61
Oct 6, 2025
Trying to read all of the I Survived Books. I know I have out grown them, but they are just so dang addictive