designyoself:

• “If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”  
  — Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

Contemplating on this little quote I decided to put up a list of unusual book recommendations. I want you to enjoy yourself while possibly getting out of your comfort zone. If you want to know more about these books - send me an ask or just read reviews on Goodreads. (The links will take to the Book Depository which ships books worldwide for no extra fee. Yay for free shipping!)

• “Isn’t this a nice time of night to walk? I like to smell things and look at things, and sometimes stay up all night, walking, and watch the sun rise.” 
  ― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
  
• “Reading good books ruins you for enjoying bad books.”
  ― Mary Ann Shaffer, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
  
• “I am made and remade continually. Different people draw different words from me.”
  ― Virginia Woolf, The Waves
  
• “I suppose that a lifetime spent hiding one’s erotic truth could have a cumulative renunciatory effect. Sexual shame is in itself a kind of death.”
  ― Alison Bechdel, Fun Home
  
• “Yes, of course duct tape works in a near-vacuum. Duct tape works anywhere. Duct tape is magic and should be worshiped.”
  ― Andy Weir, The Martian
  
• “Reading is an intelligent way of not having to think.”
  ― Walter Moers, The City of Dreaming Books
  
• “We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
  ― Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night
  
• “Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”
  ― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
• “The most important thing we learn at school is the fact that the most important things can’t be learned at school.”
  ― Haruki Murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

This is the first post in my series of book recommendations. Coming up: YA and poetry recs! Follow me to see recs as I publish them! All the recs can be found here.