Are there any books you recommend often?

maira kalman's 'max in hollywood baby' was my go-to picture book because i love her and otherwise know nothing about kids picture books

'ender's game' was my go-to teenage sci-fi boy suggestion, though that was before i knew dude was a psycho asshole

About the only place i recommend books is round here. Nobody i know in the real world is interested in the sort of stuff i like.
When i worked in a bookshop, same era as mookieproof, i would sometimes order in stuff i loved. It was almost always still there on the shelf years after i left.

I always recommend Tim Weiner's books, especially Blank Check.
Kahneman's Thinking Fast and Slow.
Normal Accidents by Charles Perrow.
And John McPhee's Uncommon Carriers, both as a great collection generally and as a good introduction to McPhee (his geology stuff can be a bit stultifying imo).

I'm trying to think if there are any graphic novels I've recommended a lot to people, but nope.

i first started working in bookstores in alaska, so mcphee's 'coming into the country' was second only to the milepost

everyone rightfully scorned the 'into the wild' dude as an idiot

i only really recommend books to people here actually!

i hardly ever talk about books in real life.

i used to lend people books and i would never hear if they read them and they would never give them back. last time i did that was when i gave someone my copy of Pulphead to read and instead of asking for it back i just bought another copy. have no idea if they read it.

xp mookie: richard russo is my comfort food - i love straight man

i always end up recommending The Secret History but i think it's bcz i cant think of other books

i've also gone into that sci-fi black hole and 95% of everyone doesn't want to hear about that stuff.

Would recommend Ferrante in a 'believe the hype' way because I can't imagine anyone I would be recommending books to would not have heard of her.

i recommend the man who was thursday sometimes cuz it's short and trippy and people haven't heard of it unless they are big deus ex fans. other than that i mostly just tell people not to believe anyone who says a bad word about moby-dick. will still push dostoevsky's demons p hard in some company (like ilx) but iirc it didn't work out w aimless :(

iirc, I finished Demons, so it wasn't a failure. It was just not a rip-roaring success, due to my lack of affinity with Dostoevsky.

Masters of Atlantis by Charles Portis

Books I can remember recommending more than once: Doug Coupland Life After God, Murakami Haruki A Wild Sheep Chase, Iain Banks The Wasp Factory, Ramachandran and Blakeslee Phantoms in the Brain, DFW A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again.