The Rosie Project
THE ART OF LOVE IS NEVER A SCIENCE MEET DON TILLMAN, a brilliant yet socially challenged professor of genetics, who’s decided it’s time he found a wife. And so, in the orderly, evidence-based manner with which Don approaches all things, he designs the Wife Project to find his perfect partner: a sixteen-page, scientifically valid survey to filter out the drinkers, the smokers, the late arrivers. Rosie Jarman is all these things. She also is strangely beguiling, fiery, and intelligent. And while Don quickly disqualifies her as a candidate for the Wife Project, as a DNA expert Don is particularly suited to help Rosie on her own quest: identifying her biological father. When an unlikely relationship develops as they collaborate on the Father Project, Don is forced to confront the spontaneous whirlwind that is Rosie—and the realization that, despite your best scientific efforts, you don’t find love, it finds you. Arrestingly endearing and entirely unconventional, Graeme Simsion’s distinctive debut will resonate with anyone who has ever tenaciously gone after life or love in the face of great challenges. The Rosie Project is a rare find: a book that restores our optimism in the power of human connection.
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- It depends on what kind of fiction you like, as romance is a kind of meta genre that spans every other genre. Knowing nothing about you, other than the fact you are on HN, I would recommend The Rosie Project. It is a contemporary comedy romance, one of the only works of fiction Bill Gates has ever put on his yearly recommendation list.
Overall, your best bet is finding a community and lurking. Maybe asking for recommendations.
Reddit has a number of communities. /r/RomanceBooks is the main one, but there is also /r/fantasyromance, /r/HistoricalRomance/, /r/ScienceFictionRomance/, etc... If you are a guy and kinda feeling out of place, there is also /r/Romance_for_men
- Some books that I have really liked:
- Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss(waiting on the third book....)
- Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch (also waiting on the rest of the series...)
- The Three Body Problem by Cixin Liu - the first book was ok but I really liked the second - The Dark Forest
- Devotion of Suspect X by Keigo Higashino
- House In the Cerulean Sea
- How to Stop Time by Matt Haig
Others that I like: The Rosie Project, The Books of Babel, A long way to a small Angry Planet, Wool/Shift/Dust, Lockstep, All the Light We Cannot See, Mr. Penumbra's 24 Hour Bookstore, Earth Abides, Project Hail Mary, The Martian
Also, check out https://www.reddit.com/r/suggestmeabook/
- I read "The Rosie Project"[1] and the sequel and it made me realize I have a number of similar patterns to the main character.
Made me more aware of how I should act in a relationship.
[1]: https://www.amazon.com/Rosie-Project-Novel-Graeme-Simsion/dp...
- Have you read "The Rosie Project"? It explored some similar ideas as a fun novel.
- The Aeon 14 novels following Tanis Richards[1] have been a consistently good read. The Intrepid Saga and The Orion War series. Haven't ventured into the other offshoots as yet.
The Dome Trilogy[2] was also pretty good, as are the Rho Agenda series[3][4][5].
And if you prefer horror to sci-fi, the I Am Not a Serial Killer series[6] was very good overall, although I thought it lost some steam in the last two books.
And finally, The Rosie Project[7] was so completely charming I ended up reading it straight through in one night.
[1] https://www.goodreads.com/author/list/6426890.M_D_Cooper
[2] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25501349-unexpected-rain
[3] https://www.goodreads.com/series/61746-the-rho-agenda
[4] https://www.goodreads.com/series/142618-the-rho-agenda-incep...
[5] https://www.goodreads.com/series/175066-rho-agenda-assimilat...
[6] https://www.goodreads.com/series/49883-john-cleaver
[7] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18015965-the-rosie-proje...
- Top books that I read this past year:
- Hillbilly Elegy By JD Vance
- Golden Son by Pierce Brown (second book in a trilogy) liked the whole trilogy
- Rosie Project/Rosie Effect by Graeme Simsion
- Graceling by Kristin Cashore
- Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
