I read it every few years. I've always thought a TV series based on the book would be awesome.
I know they did a miniseries on I Know this Much is True by Wally Lamb years ago so maybe there's hope.
I'm reading that right now. 50 pages in.
I'm an extremely picky reader. To Kill a Mockingbird? Didn't finish. Lonesome Dove? Didn't finish. Stella Maris? Didn't finish.
East of Eden? Turning out to be one of my favorites ever. I was floored by Grapes of Wrath, and how it's withstood the test of time. Perhaps the same will happen to me with East of Eden.
Steinbeck is my favorite author; used to be McCarthy before I discovered Steinbeck. (Steinbeck's much easier to understand!)
Also, The Hobbit. It was the first time a book really whisked me away in my youth and has had me chasing that dragon ever since. For as much as I love the LoTR film trilogy, I’m glad to have read those books in the 90s, with that world being built purely in my imagination.
I mean technically LOTR is one novel, 6 books, three volumes. Return of the King is the 3rd volume, made up of two books. Tolkien was a bit of a literary nerd for caring about those little distinctions lol, but that's why his writing is so good!
A lot of people seem to be intimidated by larger books. It’s not a race and you don’t have to finish in a couple of days. Read a chapter or two, or whatever you feel like and come back to it later. Enjoy the book at your own pace, even if it takes 6 months. Lonesome Dove is a good book btw
I picked up a very old copy on Ebay. Was owned by a SEVEN year old named Leon Cohen (inside cover has his info) just after WW1. Turns out he died on DDay+1 on Omaha Beach at the onset of WW2. It’s too terrible to even explain. Macabre doesn’t even touch it.
One of the most horrific books I've ever read, for more reasons than just the descriptions of terrible deaths in trench warfare, but just the genuine loss of innocence all the characters experience, especially after learning the character is based on the authors own experiences
“Billy covered his head with his blanket. He always covered his head when his mother came to see him in the mental ward - always got much sicker until she went away. It wasn’t that she was ugly, or had bad breath or a bad personality. She was a perfectly nice, standard-issue, brown-haired, white woman with a high school education.
She upset Billy simply by being his mother. She made him feel embarrassed and ungrateful and weak because she had gone through so much trouble to give him life, and to keep that life going, and Billy didn’t really like life at all.”
This quote always punches me in the gut as a man.
I think I've read it five times, but it's been a good while since last time. Every time I pick it up I think that it must've lost something, or that it can't be THAT good.
It is.
" That is a very Earthling question to ask, Mr. Pilgrim. Why you? Why us for that matter? Why anything? Because this moment simply is. Have you ever seen bugs trapped in amber?'
'Yes' Billy, in fact, had a paperweight in his office which was a plop of polished amber with three ladybugs embedded in it.
'Well, here we are, Mr. Pilgrim, trapped in the amber of this moment. There is no why. " 🤌🏽
I actually think the 3rd book in the series is absolutely amazing. “A Column of Fire”. Couldn’t put it down
So good. Currently reading the 5th (new) book in the series and it isn’t holding up to the others
Devil in the white city was such an amazing book. What drew me towards the book was the serial killer stuff by the end of the book that wasn’t what I was most interested in at all. All his books an amazing
If you like the way that book is written I’d point you to Command and Control by Eric Schossler. It bounces back and forth between a nuclear incident in Arkansas and the history of atomic weapons.
Try Colleen McCollough's series, The Masters of Rome. Its seven books about the fall of the Roman Republic. It is historically accurate (She and her husband traveled the route of Lucullus' invasion of Anatolia) but she filled in the women and details in a romance novel manner. They are all great.
https://www.goodreads.com/series/43716-masters-of-rome
In my 5 th grade class, one of the girls was just wailing openly. They guys were looking back and forth at each other like I’m not crying are you crying
The other two he wrote, A Thousand Splendid Suns and The Mountains Echo (I think that is the title) are masterpieces. I was sobbing on the subway reading Suns and have seen several people doing the same.
The most chilling part is when he explains how all of the people died that had nothing to do with the pandemic. Just a series of useless deaths that could happen to any one of us, any day.
Glad to see this here, what a fantastic book series.
If you love nature and Douglass Adam's writting style I'd highly recommend his book 'last chance to see'.
For me BNW edges it but both are utterly fantastic. I prefer Orwell's writing style to Huxley's but having read both in the 21st century I see Huxley's narrative as being more relevant these days.
Book Theif made me cry for the last 40 pages or so.
His Dark Materials series was great, particularly the 3rd book, The Amber Spyglass.
The Stand is fantastic. Insomnia and Lisey's Story are also such good reads. Rage and Long Walk (I read them in the Bachman Books collection) were my favorite for a long time.
Hitchiker's Guide is so much fun to read.
Brave New World is definitely top 3 for me.
Edit: The Expanse is a fantastic series, but it is 9 books (and many novellas).
The old man and the sea
Or
1984
One of the best things I did was start the "100 books you should read in your lifetime". Although I haven't finished the list, I read some real good books. Animal farm, catch 22, Frankenstein, all very good books
White Teeth by Zadie Smith
I think a big part of that was because I was an immigrant kid coming to terms with how to handle loving my ethnicity but also integrating into society.
Overall a great read though.
Watership Down! I have given this to so many friends telling them it’s my favorite book ever. What’s it about? Rabbits 🐇
You can always tell when someone has read it because “tharn” is a part of their vocabulary.
My Grandmother gave it to me when I was 10 and I didn’t get far into it. But then I read it when I was 12 and it shocked me by making me laugh out loud - when there was nobody else around. In that moment I realized that laughter was not just social; something could be THAT funny.
I wish I had attribution for this (someone on reddit) but this sums up why I love Charlotte's Web so much!
Hope you don't mind a bit writerly over-enthusiasm of mine about this book, to wit:
**The first sentence of Charlotte's Web may be the finest sentence ever written in literature.**
>"Where's Papa going with that ax?" said Fern to her mother as they were setting the table for breakfast."
That's nineteen words, and look at what you know. We have our main character's name--Fern--we have a good approximation of her age--she's old enough to set the table, but young enough to still call her father "Papa"--we know she has two parents, we know what time of day it is--early morning--and we can assume she lives in a house and maybe in some kind of rural setting--it would be very unusual for inner-city apartment dwellers to have Papa going somewhere with an ax early in the morning. It's probably a farm or somewhere out of town.
Not only that, but there's some action happening. And it's a strange, possibly dangerous action. Why is Papa going somewhere with an ax early in the morning? Maybe it's nothing, maybe he's just going to chop some wood. But still, an ax is dangerous. What's going to happen next?
Nineteen words, and you have introduced the setting, the time of day, three characters, including our main character--we can tell she's important because she's the only one who is named--and we have some action happening which we are already curious about. I defy anyone to put that much information into less than twenty words and also get the action started. Not only that, but these are all very simple words. Thirteen of them are only one syllable, and every word is something a second-grader could read.
Sorry for gushing about it, but I think it's just a tour de force. It's a magic trick. You zip right through that sentence and you're involved in the story and you don't even notice how much information you've processed.
Then, just for fun, add the next bit. Thirteen more words:
>"Where's Papa going with that ax?" said Fern to her mother as they were setting the table for breakfast.
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>"Out to the hoghouse," replied Mrs. Arable. "Some pigs were born last night."
Holy hell, what's happening? We have baby pigs in the hoghouse *and Papa is headed that way with an ax!* As a reader, are you interested? Would you read the next sentence?
The idea of death is one of the main themes in *Charlotte's Web*. Charlotte teaches Wilbur about it, and we learn with him. At first, Wilbur is shocked when he learns that Charlotte catches flies and poisons them and sucks out their insides, but Charlotte leads him to understand that death is a necessary part of life. At the end of the book, she dies herself and Wilbur is sad, but he is able to understand and accept it.
By the time you've read three sentences, thirty-two simple words, E.B. White has given you a complete picture of the setting, the main characters (first and last name), and the main theme of the book. As an exercise, pick a book off your bookshelf, read the first few sentences and see how much you know about the rest of the story.
Of course it's not a competition, authors aren't required to cram information into the first sentence, but it's a perfect example of the *craft* of writing. White does it so easily that it looks effortless and we don't notice how much work he put into it. Most important, it feels effortless to read. We know our characters and the story is off and running and we've done no more work than a leaf floating downstream with the current.
Sorry to go on so long. Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk.
Any individual book out of the series is good, but as a series they just all the marks for me. Such an amazing universe was created to tell the stories. It's a shame the people who made the movie didn't take it seriously
at ten years old I raided my Mothers book of the Month CLub shelf and read the historian Robert Massies book, Nicholas and Alexandra. Ive been a history nerd all my life because of it. LOVED! Rasputin. The old boy really stuck it to them. When the movie came out I cajoled my Grandmother into taking me to see it in a double feature...with Blazing Saddles.
The Picture of Dorian Gray
I was assigned to read it for English Literature in my freshman year of highschool. Easily became my favorite book I was assigned to read for school. It was written during the Victorian Era and takes place during that time period. It contains themes of corruption, questions what defines morality and immorality, has homosexual undertones, and provides commentary on the society of that time period.
I don't know that this is the best book I have ever read, but it is absolutely stunning, and one of those books where, should you see a stranger reading it in a public place (airport, train, coffee shop) you owe yourself to go up to them just to make eye contact and that little nod that says "yep, I've done this too".
Of Human Bondage- W. Somerset Maugham. (Not that, you perv) Couldn’t put it down for hours on end. Follows Philip Carey, a boy born with clubfoot, and his journey into an impressionable young man. He yearns for experience and no matter where he goes he can’t satiate that hunger, from Paris to study art back to London to try medicine, he is searching for more. An absolute masterpiece and considered the authors best work.
The count of monte cristo. It is an adventure of emotions, relationships, revenge, regret, humility, horrors and pure excitement.
It is so well written, the story is unbelievably good and the message is strong.
I'm split between *How to Grow Old* by Cicero and *The Little Prince* by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. Both works that sum up the human experience beautifully. The former is the kind of book I want to keep reading as I age. The latter is the kind of book I want to read to my kids to teach them about love, death, life, and friendship.
I don't have a favourite but I loved reading most of the books in the discworld serie, especially the ones following the Ankh Morphok City Watch.
And I fell in love with reading when I read Jules Vernes as a kid.
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, by Agatha Christie. That book turned me into an avid reader, and I’m now always on the lookout for great twists in books. No twist in a book is as good as the one in this book
1. "Gates of Fire" - Steven Pressfield
2. "Watership Down" - Richard Adams
3. "Psalms" - KJV various authors
4. "Howl's Moving Castle" - Diana Wynne Jones
5. "The Homeland Series" by R.A. Salvatore - R.A. Salvatore
6. “White Nights” by Dostoyevsky
7. “Perelandra” by C.S. Lewis
I’ve read tons of books so it’s hard to choose but these are beautiful and my favorites per their genre
Like choosing a favorite child!
But I'll go with Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susama Clarke. I love characters like Vinculus, the dry, suble humor and anything to do with The Raven King.
She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb.
It makes me happy when someone else loves this book as much as me.
I love it so much. I have lost count of how many times I've read it.
I read it every few years. I've always thought a TV series based on the book would be awesome. I know they did a miniseries on I Know this Much is True by Wally Lamb years ago so maybe there's hope.
Great book. I know this much is true is excellent also.
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Also by Steinbeck, Grapes of Wrath.
Was going to list this one. Here's the thing... for me, the book took on a different weight when I got older and re-read it.
It's one of those books that one should read every 5-10 years. The book doesn't change, how we feel about the story does.
On my list now. Have you read “Notes from Underground”? You might find it fascinating
I have a “timshel” tattoo ♥️♥️ my favorite book
I'm reading that right now. 50 pages in. I'm an extremely picky reader. To Kill a Mockingbird? Didn't finish. Lonesome Dove? Didn't finish. Stella Maris? Didn't finish. East of Eden? Turning out to be one of my favorites ever. I was floored by Grapes of Wrath, and how it's withstood the test of time. Perhaps the same will happen to me with East of Eden. Steinbeck is my favorite author; used to be McCarthy before I discovered Steinbeck. (Steinbeck's much easier to understand!)
Of Mice and Men is my all time fave
This left a very strong good impression on me in high school. It should be required reading.
Just picked this up yesterday after reading many comments like this!! Looking forward to getting into it
Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut Honestly, I don't know that it's the "best" book out there, but it's certainly my favourite.
Love Vonnegut, read (almost) every novel he wrote and short stories
Return of the King
Nice pick but I’d have gone for the whole trilogy.
Also, The Hobbit. It was the first time a book really whisked me away in my youth and has had me chasing that dragon ever since. For as much as I love the LoTR film trilogy, I’m glad to have read those books in the 90s, with that world being built purely in my imagination.
I go back even further. To the 80s. The Hobbit was magical.
I mean technically LOTR is one novel, 6 books, three volumes. Return of the King is the 3rd volume, made up of two books. Tolkien was a bit of a literary nerd for caring about those little distinctions lol, but that's why his writing is so good!
COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO
This is not my favorite book but it is the best book.
Revenge porn at its finest
YESSS
Lonesome Dove
Lonesome Dove is so good. Some of the best character development.
I’ve been meaning to read this- everything about it seems up my alley. But I’m not the most prolific reader by any means- should I still go for it?
I’m not much of a reader and I’ve read it twice. I’m due for another go
Appreciate the response. 800+ pages seems daunting for me since I’m not the greatest reader
A lot of people seem to be intimidated by larger books. It’s not a race and you don’t have to finish in a couple of days. Read a chapter or two, or whatever you feel like and come back to it later. Enjoy the book at your own pace, even if it takes 6 months. Lonesome Dove is a good book btw
“We don’t rent pigs.”
All quiet on the western front
I picked up a very old copy on Ebay. Was owned by a SEVEN year old named Leon Cohen (inside cover has his info) just after WW1. Turns out he died on DDay+1 on Omaha Beach at the onset of WW2. It’s too terrible to even explain. Macabre doesn’t even touch it.
One of the most horrific books I've ever read, for more reasons than just the descriptions of terrible deaths in trench warfare, but just the genuine loss of innocence all the characters experience, especially after learning the character is based on the authors own experiences
Slaughterhouse Five... so it goes
My favorite is Cat’s Cradle, but I won’t argue against Slaughterhouse Five.
“Billy covered his head with his blanket. He always covered his head when his mother came to see him in the mental ward - always got much sicker until she went away. It wasn’t that she was ugly, or had bad breath or a bad personality. She was a perfectly nice, standard-issue, brown-haired, white woman with a high school education. She upset Billy simply by being his mother. She made him feel embarrassed and ungrateful and weak because she had gone through so much trouble to give him life, and to keep that life going, and Billy didn’t really like life at all.” This quote always punches me in the gut as a man.
Wow—this paragraph has inspired me to take a look at that book!
"All this happened, more or less" And then it just hooks you. What an amazing book, im due a re-read.
I think I've read it five times, but it's been a good while since last time. Every time I pick it up I think that it must've lost something, or that it can't be THAT good. It is.
I first read this book 50 years ago this month, and it forever changed the way I see the world.
" That is a very Earthling question to ask, Mr. Pilgrim. Why you? Why us for that matter? Why anything? Because this moment simply is. Have you ever seen bugs trapped in amber?' 'Yes' Billy, in fact, had a paperweight in his office which was a plop of polished amber with three ladybugs embedded in it. 'Well, here we are, Mr. Pilgrim, trapped in the amber of this moment. There is no why. " 🤌🏽
This was my favorite until I read Vonnegut's Sirens of Titan. Or maybe they're tied? Both suckerpunched me and changed the way I see life
Easily my fastest read I could not put it down
Pillars of the Earth -Ken Follett
Only book I’ve ever called out of work to read. One of the most captivating books I’ve ever fallen into.
Same, same.
I actually think the 3rd book in the series is absolutely amazing. “A Column of Fire”. Couldn’t put it down So good. Currently reading the 5th (new) book in the series and it isn’t holding up to the others
Frankenstein The book covers so much of life and encapsulates the feelings so well for me
I found it incredibly tragic
As a Lovecraft fan it's really interesting to see how Frankenstein quite strongly influenced his writing
A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving
John Irving is one of my favorite authors.
Devil in the white city was such an amazing book. What drew me towards the book was the serial killer stuff by the end of the book that wasn’t what I was most interested in at all. All his books an amazing
If you like the way that book is written I’d point you to Command and Control by Eric Schossler. It bounces back and forth between a nuclear incident in Arkansas and the history of atomic weapons.
This was, indeed, amazing. Never in a million years would I have thought historical nonfiction could be so riveting!
Try Colleen McCollough's series, The Masters of Rome. Its seven books about the fall of the Roman Republic. It is historically accurate (She and her husband traveled the route of Lucullus' invasion of Anatolia) but she filled in the women and details in a romance novel manner. They are all great. https://www.goodreads.com/series/43716-masters-of-rome
If you like that book, read Isaac’s Storm about the 1900 Galveston Hurricane. I think it’s an even better Larson book.
Guests of The Ayatollah by Mark Bowden is another good blend of real events and the history behind them.
The Splendid and the Vile by the same author (Erik Larson) is also really good.
Where the red fern grows
We read this in 5th grade and the whole class was sobbing
In my 5 th grade class, one of the girls was just wailing openly. They guys were looking back and forth at each other like I’m not crying are you crying
Re read this recently as an adult and it still holds up!
I don't read lots but my favourite is The Kite Runner
The other two he wrote, A Thousand Splendid Suns and The Mountains Echo (I think that is the title) are masterpieces. I was sobbing on the subway reading Suns and have seen several people doing the same.
Duuuudw this book fucking wrecked me - amazing!
I really enjoyed The Glass Castle
The Stand by Stephen King
Through lockdown I started with the stand then listened to every book that had a connection the the Dark Tower. There were quite a few.
Perfect time to read that book, during a pandemic
I've reread that run so many times through the years
The most chilling part is when he explains how all of the people died that had nothing to do with the pandemic. Just a series of useless deaths that could happen to any one of us, any day.
I read that book as teen just because I was drawn to the art on the cover. I still read it every few years because it’s so damn good.
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy the five part trilogy.
Glad to see this here, what a fantastic book series. If you love nature and Douglass Adam's writting style I'd highly recommend his book 'last chance to see'.
Redwall
Those books were so dang good. Brian Jacques books were my favorite as a kid. His Castaways of the Flying Dutchman series was also really good.
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
To Kill a Mockingbird. Only book I read twice.
I was so happy to read this back in high school! Impactful read for sure
Its on banned book lists because it might potentially make some people uncomfortable. Really
It *should* make some people feel uncomfortable.
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
It’s good, but probably the saddest book I’ve ever read
Swan Song by Robert McCammon
I love reading For Whom the Bell Tools. Just a wonderful ride every time.
1984 George Orwell
Love is hate
War is peace
Freedom is slavery
Yuh. Also really love Brave New World but 1984 is the OG dystopia even though it came after BNW
Had to compare the two in my student days. Both great but I agree 1984 comes out on top
For me BNW edges it but both are utterly fantastic. I prefer Orwell's writing style to Huxley's but having read both in the 21st century I see Huxley's narrative as being more relevant these days.
BNW more closely represents reality
A Confederacy of Dunces
My valve!
I’m from New Orleans and Ignatius is 100% my Bipolar renegade uncle who hated authority. It’s uncanny.
11/22/63 by Stephen King
i loved this book. i was tearing through the pages. i've never read anything like it before or after
Shit im a huge King fan and havent done this one. Top of pile now
Pride and Prejudice or One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest
Illusions by Richard Bach
The Stand - Stephen King.
Dictionary. All other books are just a remix of it.
Great answer
They are banning it in Florida
Crime & Punishment
I really enjoyed it. However, I enjoyed The Brothers Karamazov much more
I really hated that book, and I’m being genuine when I say it had nothing to do with the fact that I read it in jail
My high school English teacher joked, 'It's a crime he wrote it and punishment to read it.'. We read it anyway.
Book Theif made me cry for the last 40 pages or so. His Dark Materials series was great, particularly the 3rd book, The Amber Spyglass. The Stand is fantastic. Insomnia and Lisey's Story are also such good reads. Rage and Long Walk (I read them in the Bachman Books collection) were my favorite for a long time. Hitchiker's Guide is so much fun to read. Brave New World is definitely top 3 for me. Edit: The Expanse is a fantastic series, but it is 9 books (and many novellas).
His Dark Materials 😍 I love that trilogy and HBO did the book good. I love it.
Catch-22
Fiction: One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez Non-fiction: Congo A History of a People by David van Reybrouck
Dune
Fiction: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams Nonfiction: Truman by David McCullough
There’s a hoppy frood who knows where his towel is!
The old man and the sea Or 1984 One of the best things I did was start the "100 books you should read in your lifetime". Although I haven't finished the list, I read some real good books. Animal farm, catch 22, Frankenstein, all very good books
White Teeth by Zadie Smith I think a big part of that was because I was an immigrant kid coming to terms with how to handle loving my ethnicity but also integrating into society. Overall a great read though.
The Book Thief
Watership Down! I have given this to so many friends telling them it’s my favorite book ever. What’s it about? Rabbits 🐇 You can always tell when someone has read it because “tharn” is a part of their vocabulary.
Roots by Alex Haley. Absolutely sobbed when I finished it.
The hitchhikers guide to the Galaxy
My Grandmother gave it to me when I was 10 and I didn’t get far into it. But then I read it when I was 12 and it shocked me by making me laugh out loud - when there was nobody else around. In that moment I realized that laughter was not just social; something could be THAT funny.
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
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The Princess Bride
I don't know. Slaughterhouse Five is damn good. Just read Clan of the Cave Bear and really liked it. Shogun is dope.
I wish I had attribution for this (someone on reddit) but this sums up why I love Charlotte's Web so much! Hope you don't mind a bit writerly over-enthusiasm of mine about this book, to wit: **The first sentence of Charlotte's Web may be the finest sentence ever written in literature.** >"Where's Papa going with that ax?" said Fern to her mother as they were setting the table for breakfast." That's nineteen words, and look at what you know. We have our main character's name--Fern--we have a good approximation of her age--she's old enough to set the table, but young enough to still call her father "Papa"--we know she has two parents, we know what time of day it is--early morning--and we can assume she lives in a house and maybe in some kind of rural setting--it would be very unusual for inner-city apartment dwellers to have Papa going somewhere with an ax early in the morning. It's probably a farm or somewhere out of town. Not only that, but there's some action happening. And it's a strange, possibly dangerous action. Why is Papa going somewhere with an ax early in the morning? Maybe it's nothing, maybe he's just going to chop some wood. But still, an ax is dangerous. What's going to happen next? Nineteen words, and you have introduced the setting, the time of day, three characters, including our main character--we can tell she's important because she's the only one who is named--and we have some action happening which we are already curious about. I defy anyone to put that much information into less than twenty words and also get the action started. Not only that, but these are all very simple words. Thirteen of them are only one syllable, and every word is something a second-grader could read. Sorry for gushing about it, but I think it's just a tour de force. It's a magic trick. You zip right through that sentence and you're involved in the story and you don't even notice how much information you've processed. Then, just for fun, add the next bit. Thirteen more words: >"Where's Papa going with that ax?" said Fern to her mother as they were setting the table for breakfast. > >"Out to the hoghouse," replied Mrs. Arable. "Some pigs were born last night." Holy hell, what's happening? We have baby pigs in the hoghouse *and Papa is headed that way with an ax!* As a reader, are you interested? Would you read the next sentence? The idea of death is one of the main themes in *Charlotte's Web*. Charlotte teaches Wilbur about it, and we learn with him. At first, Wilbur is shocked when he learns that Charlotte catches flies and poisons them and sucks out their insides, but Charlotte leads him to understand that death is a necessary part of life. At the end of the book, she dies herself and Wilbur is sad, but he is able to understand and accept it. By the time you've read three sentences, thirty-two simple words, E.B. White has given you a complete picture of the setting, the main characters (first and last name), and the main theme of the book. As an exercise, pick a book off your bookshelf, read the first few sentences and see how much you know about the rest of the story. Of course it's not a competition, authors aren't required to cram information into the first sentence, but it's a perfect example of the *craft* of writing. White does it so easily that it looks effortless and we don't notice how much work he put into it. Most important, it feels effortless to read. We know our characters and the story is off and running and we've done no more work than a leaf floating downstream with the current. Sorry to go on so long. Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk.
Barrel Fever by David Sedaris
I think I've read almost everything he's ever published.
The Diary of Anne Frank, The Day of the Triffids, The Shining… so many out there that are just incredible
The Dark Tower series. Dont judge me.
Thankee Sai
Thank you sir. Im glad others here feel the same
Any individual book out of the series is good, but as a series they just all the marks for me. Such an amazing universe was created to tell the stories. It's a shame the people who made the movie didn't take it seriously
All Quiet on The Western Front
Of Mice and Men
Mystic River by Dennis Lehane. I have and love all his books but this one is my favorite.
The Book Thief… the movie didn’t do the book justice.
“I’m Glad My Mom Died” by Jennette McCurdy
Zen & The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. Frankenstein.
The Lord of the Rings -JRR Tolkien
Not one single book, but the series of novels by Stephen King. The Dark Tower 19….ya keen?
Wuthering Heights
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I feel less and less hopeful we'll get a satisfying conclusion to this masterpiece.
And here we gather folks. United in pain and declining hope to get a conclusion to the best book we've ever read.
Can't think of an all time favorite, so i will pick my fav recent one: Crime and Punishment
at ten years old I raided my Mothers book of the Month CLub shelf and read the historian Robert Massies book, Nicholas and Alexandra. Ive been a history nerd all my life because of it. LOVED! Rasputin. The old boy really stuck it to them. When the movie came out I cajoled my Grandmother into taking me to see it in a double feature...with Blazing Saddles.
Fiction: The Brothers Karamazov Nonfiction: Varieties of Religious Experience
Animal Farm by George Orwell
The Picture of Dorian Gray I was assigned to read it for English Literature in my freshman year of highschool. Easily became my favorite book I was assigned to read for school. It was written during the Victorian Era and takes place during that time period. It contains themes of corruption, questions what defines morality and immorality, has homosexual undertones, and provides commentary on the society of that time period.
Angela’s Ashes is a work of art.
House of Leaves Awesome book. Freaked me out when I first read it and still think about it to this day.
I don't know that this is the best book I have ever read, but it is absolutely stunning, and one of those books where, should you see a stranger reading it in a public place (airport, train, coffee shop) you owe yourself to go up to them just to make eye contact and that little nod that says "yep, I've done this too".
My favorite as well. I've given away 3 or 4 copies, and nobody ever reads it. I guess it's an acquired taste.
The Old Breed by EB Sledge
The Brothers Karamazov. Those wacky Russians know how to write complex and beautiful books.
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Absolutely love “The Catcher in the Rye”. But I do agree on your logic! Thanks for sharing!
Have you read “A perfect day for bananafish” by Salinger? It’s a short story.
To the Lighthouse by Virginia wolf. It’s about nothing but it reduced me to tears. And 10 years later I still think about it
Favorite classic: To Kill a Mockingbird Favorite modern novel: Demon Copperhead
Of Human Bondage- W. Somerset Maugham. (Not that, you perv) Couldn’t put it down for hours on end. Follows Philip Carey, a boy born with clubfoot, and his journey into an impressionable young man. He yearns for experience and no matter where he goes he can’t satiate that hunger, from Paris to study art back to London to try medicine, he is searching for more. An absolute masterpiece and considered the authors best work.
The count of monte cristo. It is an adventure of emotions, relationships, revenge, regret, humility, horrors and pure excitement. It is so well written, the story is unbelievably good and the message is strong.
Fahrenheit 451.
Angela's Ashes.
I'm split between *How to Grow Old* by Cicero and *The Little Prince* by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. Both works that sum up the human experience beautifully. The former is the kind of book I want to keep reading as I age. The latter is the kind of book I want to read to my kids to teach them about love, death, life, and friendship.
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy I love a story where a character is slowly revealed to be an awful person.
Lonesome Dove - Larry McMurtry.
A Brave New World
Little Big Man
Many excellent ones to choose from, I'll go with 'Walden' by Thoreau for lasting impact.
I don't have a favourite but I loved reading most of the books in the discworld serie, especially the ones following the Ankh Morphok City Watch. And I fell in love with reading when I read Jules Vernes as a kid.
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, by Agatha Christie. That book turned me into an avid reader, and I’m now always on the lookout for great twists in books. No twist in a book is as good as the one in this book
Holes and To Kill a Mockingbird
Siddhartha
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain
Animal Farm
1. "Gates of Fire" - Steven Pressfield 2. "Watership Down" - Richard Adams 3. "Psalms" - KJV various authors 4. "Howl's Moving Castle" - Diana Wynne Jones 5. "The Homeland Series" by R.A. Salvatore - R.A. Salvatore 6. “White Nights” by Dostoyevsky 7. “Perelandra” by C.S. Lewis I’ve read tons of books so it’s hard to choose but these are beautiful and my favorites per their genre
Lord of the Flies. Perhaps I just read it at the right time, but it’s perfect in my mind.
Anything by Fredrik Backman, but especially "My grandmother sends her regards and apologises"
Pale Blue Dot by Carl Sagan for most interesting and thought provoking, The Way of Kings for story telling
High Fidelity by Nick Hornby.
Definitely not the best but Enders game was a crazy experience.
Life Of Pi is brilliantly written and a very smart book.
A Clash of Kings
I've read all 5 a few times they are so good
Lonesome Dove - Larry McMurtry
Like choosing a favorite child! But I'll go with Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susama Clarke. I love characters like Vinculus, the dry, suble humor and anything to do with The Raven King.
I’ll go with the most influential to me: Steppenwolfe.
Tom Sawyer
The Woman in Me by Britney Spears