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Channel Best books | Ebooks & Audiobooks | Top lists | Recommendations (@book_lists) in the English language segment is an active participant. Currently, the community unites 31 736 subscribers, ranking 977 in the Books category and 373 in the United Kingdom region.
📊 Audience metrics and dynamics
Since its creation on невідомо, the project has demonstrated rapid growth, gathering an audience of 31 736 subscribers.
According to the latest data from 15 October, 2026, the channel demonstrates stable activity. Although there has been a change in the number of participants by -84 over the last 30 days and by -25 over the last 24 hours, overall reach remains high.
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- Engagement rate (ER): The average audience engagement rate is 3.53%. Within the first 24 hours after publication, content typically collects 1.66% reactions from the total number of subscribers.
- Post reach: On average, each post receives 1 120 views. Within the first day, a publication typically gains 526 views.
- Reactions and interaction: The audience actively supports content: the average number of reactions per post is 2.
- Thematic interests: Content is focused on key topics such as novel, narrative, fiction, 20k, author.
📝 Description and content policy
The author describes the resource as a platform for expressing subjective opinions:
“Sharing our love of books 📚❤
@boris_sz book search and other questions”
Thanks to the high frequency of updates (latest data received on 16 October, 2026), the channel maintains relevance and a high level of publication reach. Analytics show that the audience actively interacts with content, making it an important point of influence in the Books category.
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Donna Tartt, The Secret HistorySome beauties come with a shadow attached. 🕯️
Cozy mysteries set in English villages
Tea, gossip, a body in the vicarage garden—and sharp minds.
The Murder at the Vicarage — Agatha Christie
A disliked colonel is found shot in the vicar's study, while Miss Marple quietly watches the village. Classic and witty.
The Thursday Murder Club — Richard Osman
Four retirees meet weekly to study cold cases—until a real murder lands on their doorstep. Warm, funny and touching.
The Body in the Library — Agatha Christie
A young woman's body appears on a respectable family's hearth rug. Neat plotting, social comedy and village secrets.
Murder Most Unladylike — Robin Stevens
Two schoolgirls form a detective society after finding a body at boarding school. Light, clever and great for English learners.
Hercule Poirot's Christmas — Agatha Christie
A wealthy patriarch is murdered in a locked room at a family gathering. Festive, twisty and unputdownable.
Save this for your next rainy weekend ☕
— Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young PoetSome answers arrive only when we stop demanding them. 🌙
Sylvia Plath, Ariel ("Lady Lazarus")A line that burns and still rises, red-haired and unafraid. 🔥
Five novels about borders, belonging, and becoming someone new
Exit West — Mohsin Hamid
Two young people fall in love as their city collapses, escaping through mysterious doors into an uncertain world. Lyrical and intimate.
Americanah — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
A sharp story of love, migration, race, and the distance between home and life elsewhere.
The Namesake — Jhumpa Lahiri
Born between cultures, Gogol negotiates family expectations, grief, and the meaning of his name. Tender and restrained.
Brick Lane — Monica Ali
A young Bengali woman arrives in London for an arranged marriage and slowly discovers her voice. Vivid and full of quiet determination.
Sea of Poppies — Amitav Ghosh
On the eve of the Opium Wars, strangers converge aboard a ship bound for a new life. Adventurous and immersive.
Save this list for when you want a story about crossing a line and discovering what lies beyond.
— Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the ShoreSome storms never leave the sky. They move into us and learn our names. 🌪️
Italo Calvino, If on a winter's night a travelerSome journeys begin with nothing more than a turned page. 📖
YA fantasy where the heroes are not exactly good
Fast, sharp stories full of difficult choices. Unputdownable if you like ruthless protagonists.
Six of Crows — Leigh Bardugo
Teenage criminals are offered an impossible heist in a city built on greed. Clever, tense, and packed with secrets.
The Cruel Prince — Holly Black
A mortal girl raised in the faerie court decides that if she can't be safe, she'll become dangerous. Venomous, political, and full of betrayal.
Legendborn — Tracy Deonn
After her mother's death, a teen uncovers a secret society tied to Arthurian legend. Angry, magical, and driven by grief.
The Poppy War — R. F. Kuang
An orphan enters an elite military academy and discovers the cost of power. Dark and brutal, with heavy themes.
Shadow and Bone — Leigh Bardugo
A soldier discovers a rare gift that could save her country, but those who want to use it are not what they seem. An easy entry point.
Which anti-hero would you follow into…
— James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room“Not everything that is faced can be changed; but nothing can be changed until it is faced.” Some truths arrive not to comfort us, but to make movement possible.
“It is not down in any map; true places never are.” — Herman Melville, Moby-DickSome destinations exist only after we have learned how to recognize them.
Five novels where a house becomes a character
The Haunting of Hill House — Shirley Jackson
Four people investigate a mansion’s strange history, but the house seems to be studying them. Elegant, claustrophobic, and quietly terrifying.
Rebecca — Daphne du Maurier
A young bride arrives at Manderley, where her husband’s first wife still dominates every room. Gothic, suspenseful, and poisonous.
The House of the Spirits — Isabel Allende
A powerful family’s home becomes the stage for love, political upheaval, ghosts, and generations of conflict. Sweeping and magical.
Beloved — Toni Morrison
A haunted house forces a family to confront buried memories. Lyrical and devastating, it explores trauma, love, and survival.
The Little Stranger — Sarah Waters
In postwar England, a doctor is drawn into the decline of a grand estate, where something unseen may be changing the family. Slow-burning and unsettling.
Which haunted house would you enter first?
— Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis “Meaningful relationships are not often strengthened by shared suffering.”Some distances appear not when people leave, but when they can no longer recognize one another.
“It is not down in any map; true places never are.” — Herman Melville, Moby-DickSome destinations can only be recognized after they have changed us.
When family history refuses to stay buried
The House of the Spirits — Isabel Allende
A family saga unfolding alongside political upheaval. Lyrical, passionate, and filled with almost ordinary ghosts.
Homegoing — Yaa Gyasi
Two half-sisters begin separate family lines in eighteenth-century Ghana; their descendants carry the consequences across generations. Powerful and ambitious.
The God of Small Things — Arundhati Roy
Twins return to the childhood home where one terrible day changed their family. Sensual, fragmented, and devastating.
One Hundred Years of Solitude — Gabriel García Márquez
The Buendía family rises and falls through a century of love, war, solitude, and repetition. A dazzling introduction to magical realism.
Pachinko — Min Jin Lee
A young woman’s decision shapes four generations living between Korea and Japan. Expansive yet personal, with resilience at its centre.
Save this list for an immersive reading mood.
“The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.”— John Green, Looking for Alaska Some doors open only when we stop asking pain to explain itself.
— Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God"There are years that ask questions and years that answer."
Five novels about art, obsession, and the people who create
The Goldfinch — Donna Tartt
After tragedy changes his life, a boy becomes attached to a small painting—and the dangerous world surrounding it. Immersive, dramatic, and morally tangled.
Girl with a Pearl Earring — Tracy Chevalier
A young servant enters a famous painter’s household in seventeenth-century Delft. Atmospheric, sensual, and full of unspoken tension.
The Master and Margarita — Mikhail Bulgakov
The Devil arrives in Moscow as a persecuted writer and his beloved confront love, art, and impossible choices. Satirical, surreal, and imaginative.
The Agony and the Ecstasy — Irving Stone
A fictionalised portrait of Michelangelo’s struggle to turn vision into stone, facing patrons, rivals, and his own demanding genius. Passionate and richly detailed.
The Art Forger — B. A. Shapiro
A painter reproduces a stolen masterpiece and uncovers a secret in its history. A brisk blend of art, crime, and ethical…
“It is not down in any map; true places never are.”
— Herman Melville, Moby-Dick
Some discoveries begin where certainty ends.
“You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance.”
Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451A small, fierce lesson in keeping your inner compass when the world insists on choosing your direction.
Five novels about friendship under pressure
The Friend — Sigrid Nunez
After a loss, a writer inherits an enormous Great Dane and an impossible amount of grief. Wry, intimate, and quietly surprising.
Foster — Claire Keegan
A child spends a summer with relatives and discovers what care can look like when it is offered without conditions. Brief, luminous, and deeply moving.
The Interestings — Meg Wolitzer
A group of teenagers meet at summer camp and carry their friendships into adulthood, where talent, money, and envy reshape the bond between them.
The Neapolitan Novels — Elena Ferrante
Two girls grow up in a changing Naples, tied together by affection, rivalry, and the fear of being left behind. Intense, expansive, and emotionally fearless.
The Dutch House — Ann Patchett
A brother and sister look back on the house and family history that shaped them. Elegant, absorbing, and tender without being sentimental.
Save this list for your next character-driven read.
