Book recommendations, fishies? Looking for something light, but intellectually engaging—a satire, maybe? Or anything really engrossing! Please help ya chiefy, thank youuuu🤗😘

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what if by Randall Monroe — a mad scientist gets absurd questions he tries to answer seriously

My favorite question was “how high do you have to drop a steak for it to be fully cooked by the time it comes down?”

I absolutely hate science but this was a fun light read

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This is a GREAT suggestion, thanks! But I was secretly going to “read” an audiobook version of whatever was recommended (so I can craft at the same time) and I dunno if this will work as audio. But thank you!🤗

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The Stranger in the Lifeboat! Best I’ve read this year. I couldn’t put it down and kept thinking about it when I’m not reading it

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Just ordered this one after reading your comment! Thanks!

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Any of the Discworld books by Terry Pratchett.

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Honestly it sounds ridiculous, but they’re truly perfect satire. Started out as satire of fantasy tropes, and over the years it just became general satire.

Graphic Novels are pretty good at being light but intellectual.

Try Watchmen, or Arkham Asylum, or the Sandman Chronicles. There are a lot of good ones.

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graphic novels for adults are their own genre and are fantastic Guy delise does great travel logs drawn and quarterly is a good place to go for a survey of authors some are more serious than others in terms of subject matter

Trixie and Katya’s Guide to Modern Womanhood—laughed out loud reading

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