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would it be fair to submit the Grady twins from The Shining? they’re not really even characters in the book, but the mention of what happened to the Grady family is very important to the messages of the book

Sure, I'll allow it. If people disagree with the submission, they'll just have to vote against them

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Submissions for Twins in Books :

Jude and Taryn Duarte (The Folk of the Air series)

Jared and Simon Grace (The Spiderwick Chronicles)

Ronan Born For Water Maddock-Shongili and Murel Monster Slayer Maddock-Shongili (The Twins of Petaybee trilogy)

Tolya Yul-Bataar and Tamar Kir-Bataar (Grishaverse)

Ianthe and Coronabeth Tridentarius ( The Locked Tomb)

Nicholas Benedict and Ledroptha Curtain (The Mysterious Benedict Society)

Lucy Goedhart and Sarah Schatteleyn (Blood on Her Tongue)

Amelia and Agatha Cackle (The Worst Witch)

Aaron and Andrew Minyard (All For The Game)

Cersei and Jaime Lannister (A Song of Ice and Fire)

Alanna and Thom of Trebond (The Song of the Lioness series)

Nan and Di Blythe (Anne of Green Gables series)

Elladan and Elrohir (The Lord of the Rings)

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Best Book Recommended to You

Matchups for Round 1

Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow (Gabrielle Zevin) VS Realm of the Elderlings (Robin Hobb)

Trickster’s Choice (Tamora Pierce) VS The Hunger Games (Suzanne Collins)

October Daye series (Seanan McGuire) VS Knight & Rogue series (Hilari Bell)

One and Only Ivan (Katherine Applegate) VS The Queen's Thief series (Megan Whalen Turner)

Broken Earth series (N. K. Jemisin) VS The Search for WondLa (Tony Diterlizzi)

Little Thieves (Margaret Owen) VS Ella Minnow Pea (Mark Dunn)

Yotsuba& ! (Kiyohiko Azuma) VS Under the Pendulum Sun (Jeanette Ng)

Swordheart (T. Kingfisher) VS Queen of the Cicadas (V. Castro)

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Best Book Recommended to You

Round 1

Propaganda for Swordheart :

"Charming, hilarious, and occasionally terrifying, one of many bangers by Kingfisher and the first one I ever read of hers, thanks to a rec on a tumblr post. I absolutely adored the heroine, Halla, and rooted for her all the way. The stakes are fairly low, as nobody's trying to save the world, but they're high for Halla herself and her friends, and so it's never boring. Love this book!"

Propaganda for Queen of the Cicadas :

"An astounding book, horrific and erotic, also vindicating, I’ve read just about everything by this author since and I’ve only disliked one thing (which was admittedly more of a romance than a horror and I’m not partial to romance). Funny enough, the coworker who recommended this to me, is able to recommend me many books that I enjoy, but I have never successfully recommended anything to her."

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Best Book Recommended to You

Round 1

Propaganda for Under the Pendulum Sun :

"A delicious supernatural gothic romance with a strong core concept and biting critiques of religious dogma and imperialism."

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Best Book Recommended to You

Round 1

Propaganda underneath

Propaganda for Little Thieves :

"Absolutely FANTASTIC adaptation of the fairy tale "The Goose Girl", from the servant's POV, who is a total gremlin and we love that about her <333"

Propaganda for Ella Minnow Pea :

"A short epistolary novel set on an island that worships the written word above all else, whose founder is the man who created the pangram "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog". When the Z tile in a statue of this pangram shatters one day, the council interprets this as a divine edict for the people to never use any words containing Z again, on pain of banishment or worse... This is dismissed as a minor inconvenience by the people at first. But then more letters start breaking, far more commonly used ones. As written & spoken communication both become more difficult, so does speaking out against the council's laws.

The story is all told through letters the characters write to each other. Tension sharply mounts as you read once the first ban on Z is passed, which had me nervously scanning the pages in case a single instance of the forbidden letter had been overlooked. An unusual, novel, & engaging read for anyone who loves words or hates censorship!"

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Best Book Recommended to You

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Propaganda for October Daye :

"some of the absolute best urban fantasy out there! watch as Toby makes terrible life decisions and slowly amasses a wonderful group of friends and family around her, unwillingly on her part at first <3 plus an amazingly intricate and long-running plot!"

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Best Book Recommended to You

Round 1

Propaganda for Trickster's Choice :

"Honestly the best depiction of spy craft I’ve read, better than James Bond or Jason Bourne. It’s about the security in secrecy, the value of service workers, and the importance of optics and public opinion in revolution. "

Propaganda for The Hunger Games :

"My mom recommended it to me with zero context or description. To this day, it is easily my favorite reading experience. "

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Best Book Recommended to You

Round 1

Propaganda for Realm of the Elderlings :

"My dad's friend handed me the first book in this series when I was 10 years old and, with that simple act, absolutely rewired my brain"

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Standalone Books

Matchups for Round 3

The Brothers Karamazov VS The Count of Monte Cristo

The Book Thief VS The Night Circus

Pride and Prejudice VS The Secret History

The Princess Bride VS The Three Musketeers

To Kill a Mockingbird VS Project Hail Mary

The Haunting of Hill House VS The Picture of Dorian Gray

The Little Prince VS The Last Unicorn

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue VS To Be Taught, If Fortunate

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Favorite Standalone Books

Round 3

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Favorite Standalone Books

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Propaganda for Project Hail Mary and explanations about To Kill a Mockingbird underneath

*You folks mentioned TKAM has a sequel, also written by Harper Lee. It's called Go Set a Watchman. I've read it and on an unrelated note, it's good, if quite disheartening in a way.

My problem with Go Set a Watchman is its conditions of publication, which seem shady at best. There doesn't seem to have any doubt that Harper Lee wrote it, and did so quite a few years before it was published. It was published when she was elderly and after she lost her sister, who was her close advisor. Lee had been recorded many times before that saying TKAM didn't need a sequel. Several of her friends attested that she was vulnerable toward the end of her life (she died a year after GSaW's publication).

So I** don't consider it a sequel

** This is my own opinion. Feel free to disagree and vote against TKAM if you consider it should be disqualified.

Propaganda for Project Hail Mary :

"Andy Weir is also the author of The Martian!! His writing is genuinely amazing, all of the humor is fantastic and so are the emotional moments, and I absolutely ADORE Grace and Rocky (the two main characters) so so so much their friendship is everything to me. They make me weep I love them so much. I’ve reread this book sooooo many times. The audiobook is also wonderful if you prefer listening!! Also there is a movie being made!! All around amazing book <333333" - @chrometheraptor

"honestly any summary of this book is spoilers so I’m just gonna say one of the best books I’ve ever read, captivating and almost impossible to put down, I still think about it randomly out of nowhere"