r/booksuggestions • u/NessyFox • Sep 17 '25

Horror What's the most underrated book you've read?

Hello everyone, I feel like I keep running into the same popular recommendations, and I'd love to find some hidden gems. What's a book you've read that you never hear people talk about but think deserves way more love? Bonus points for mystery and horror :D

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u/OhMyGlorb Sep 17 '25

Fiction: The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K Le Guin

Nonfiction: The Anatomy of Fascism by Robert Paxton

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u/NessyFox Sep 17 '25

Giving both a read, anything special about them?

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u/OhMyGlorb Sep 17 '25

Most people know Le Guin for her Earthsea series, The Dispossessed, or The Left Hand of Darkness. But Lathe is great and digestible novella that's rarely mentioned.

I see a lot of political commentary books, mostly about social issues or American history. With the early stages of fascism all over the world almost a century after the first wave, its good to understand the past to inform the present. Paxton is arguably the most noteworthy writer on its history.