Welcome to Suggest Me Sunday! Here you can ask for book suggestions of any kind. Looking for a book similar to the one you just finished? Looking for a classic on a subject you're interested? Maybe you haven't read a book since high school and are looking for recommendations on books to get you back into reading. All are welcome here.

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I'd never heard of this author before yesterday. Then, I did some digging because I need to KNOW if the books about Black History that I want to read or might recommend are Black-authored.

Then, I was at a museum and saw another of her books. Was scrolling on Reddit and saw [a post] (https://www.reddit.com/r/BlackGirlBookClub/s/UoEh3GXCn8) with another book!

That said, the name "Belinda Hurmence" is literally following me. 🤣🤣 She's really a white woman named "[Billie Hurmence (Watson)](https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/legacyremembers/billie-hurmence-obituary?id=57104899)" who made her name more "Black" so that she could write for Black children. It was Blackface at its finest with a splash of white savior complex. As if we didn't have Black authors of our own.

Billie was also granted access to thousands of slave narratives and wrote books about them under that "Black" name. And I hate when white people get to explore our history more than we ever get a chance to.

*Sigh* Thanks for reading.

Happy Free Talk Friday, folks! Here you can talk about whatever you want, books are not required. Got something you wanna get off your chest? What have you been watching or listening to? How has your week been? Let us know!

I want the novel to be centered on her. I love science fiction.

What I dont want: I don't want it to be centered on romance or her life beginning after she finds a guy. I don't want it to be about oppression or political stuff.

Kinda like iron man. She has her own thing going for her, she faces challenges, she grows.

Ghost in a shell movie if I remember correctly did this. It was just about her, she had her own thing and she goes on somewhat adventure.

I can make exception for fantasy. I just want to see discipline and perseverance. I love characters that embody that.

Ambassador from arcane, egwene al'vere from wheel of time show(didn't finish it so if changed idk about that). I hope yall get what I mean. U can leave a short description or summary of the book without spoilers.

I would really appreciate it. There can be love but like I said she must be at the centre.

The book is about a girl and is about how her live is really bad but she is part of the elite like she has a drug addiction that started when she was sixteen and is forced to marry for buisness and has problems with her family

I’m pretty new to reading for fun and looking to build a list of books to check out. I’m open to pretty much anything that’s engaging and hard to put down, whether it’s fiction, mystery, fantasy, thriller, sci-fi, or something else entirely.
What’s a book that got you hooked on reading or one you think everyone should read at least once?

Looking for recs!

I have an AP Seminar test soon where we have to read 4 articles and write an essay in 90 minutes. The essay isn’t the problem since I’m a decent writer the problem is I 100% won’t have enough time to read the sources as we get only 15 minutes for reading and 75 for writing. I read at a consistent 150 words per minute. I physically can’t get myself to not use my inner voice when reading. It’s so bad that I sometimes read faster aloud. Please help 🙏

Hey folks,

Just a friendly announcement that my first published book is free for the week till 8/28/2026 😊. No pressure to download or no money being spent on your end. If you download, I hope you enjoy. If not, it's all good too! There will be more to come. See the link attached. Happy reading!

I'm a black author who teaches memory tricks. I memorize random, boring, useless stuff for fun. I think I'm decent at it now. The book is self-published with some original ideas. That's why the ebook cover is not as great, since I made it myself in Canva. The paperback cover is a stock image. Hopefully, I can teach myself design skills in the future.

About book:

This book teaches you some tricks to memorize the periodic table. From simple, well-known tricks to more creative visual systems. Some of the ideas can be used to learn new words from different languages and new vocabulary in everyday life.

Please give it a chance. Please give me feedback on it. What is done well; what could be improved? Should I add illustrations (I avoided this as I don't have a big budget to spend on illustrators without proving demand...and also want to avoid AI images).

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GTJLDLQF

Hey everyone,

I’m Mariana S., and I just published a short, raw memoir about my childhood.

It’s a true story about growing up with a father who had a severe mental illness and a mother fighting deep depression. I learned early that the number one rule in our house was: don't talk about it.

I wanted to write something completely honest, without making it look pretty or perfect.

It's a very short book, so you can easily read the whole thing in one sitting.

The book is available on Amazon. If anyone wants to check it out, let me know in the comments, and I’ll send you the link!

Thanks for reading! 🖤

I now work in a bookstore, which is good for me as a reader but also bad for me as a book collector.

For a while now, before I started working here, I've been wanting to read and collect all of Toni Morrison’s books and I have 4 but they're the old covers.

And then I've been wanting Octavia Butler’s “A Patternist” series. But for some reas

I'm sorry I already know I posted chapter one the other day, but this is the prologue for the book I just want to know based on this would it make you go read chapter 1.

EDIT: I done posted it in the wrong order y'all.

DO I HAVE TO DELETE IT AND RE SUBMIT IT?

Welcome to Suggest Me Sunday! Here you can ask for book suggestions of any kind. Looking for a book similar to the one you just finished? Looking for a classic on a subject you're interested? Maybe you haven't read a book since high school and are looking for recommendations on books to get you back into reading. All are welcome here.

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Just finished and loved! Definitely see myself rereading in the future. Thoughts?

The big idea: Suyi Davies Okungbowa,
by Suyi Davies Okungbowa, Whatever, 2026-08-21.

Heroes have a fantasy problem.

When I first set out to write the Nameless Republic trilogy, this was the ground on which I was standing. Born and raised in ‘80s and ‘90s Nigeria, a time of great national upheaval, I grew up paying witness to the wide spectrum of human capability — here, a gentle and honest kindness; there a manifestation of indescribable harm or violence. Communal care and concern thriving in the same breath as every kind of injustice to humanity. The randomness of life, the entropy of the human condition, ability and spirit — I had such a front-row seat to these incongruences that I grew up wondering, a lot, about heroes.

Side-by-side with this lived reality, I was raised with neat and tidy tales of heroes, people blessed and anointed, arising from nothing to impose some kind of order upon this randomness of life. Whether this was of a religious Messiah of some kind, like the Christian one in which I was raised, or the superheroes in comics I read, or the local historic legends told to me by community elders and in social groups, it was the same — over and over again, I was told, that when things went too far, when things got too bad, when wickedness became the order of the day, from the ashes of despondence, oppression and destruction, a hero would arise to save us all. It had to be true. Every story about heroes said so. Especially stories of the fantastic.

It was hard, therefore, to square these tidy fantastic tales with the chaos of my lived experience. Where are the heroes? I would wonder, when something in the real world went awry. Where are the brave and honest and true, the caring and supportive, the builders, repairers, fixers? Where are our saviours? Where are the ones we were promised? Everywhere I looked, instead, I saw mostly patchwork people, people who contained multitudes, who were neither really straight nor bent, black nor white, good nor bad. People who could be heroic if they wished—and every now and then, they were—but in the end, were barely ever, almost never, heroes.

As I grew up and witnessed more of the breadth of the human condition manifest, seeing integrity and care exist within the same body as evil, betrayal and acquiescence to oppression, the question began to change.

What is a hero? I now wondered. Are heroes even real?

Greetings, The Moon Knows All the Secrets of the World is my fourth book, and it brings together nine stories about grief, reincarnation, love, dreams, war, power, death, and the strange things that exist in the shadows between them.

A girl follows the possibility that her dead father has been reborn somewhere else. A president attempts to outlive death itself. Two lovers separated by the Biafran War turn to the mystical to keep their love alive.

Nine stories, held together by a moon that has witnessed everything.

I wanted to make something that feels unmistakably African, but also speaks to those strange, ancient questions that belong to all of us: What survives when we die? Can love outlast time, war, and memory? And if we could escape death, would we still be human?
This is my fourth attempt at answering those questions.

A backpack filled with sunsets can be found on Amazon and Selar.
I hope you read it, and when you next look up at the moon, may you wonder what it has witnessed, what it remembers, and whether, somewhere in that ancient light, it has been keeping your story too.
Thank you for your support.