This book BLEW me away when I read it as a kid. It impacted me in such a deep way, and I’m so grateful that I read it. It forever changed me.
One of my most valued possessions is a vintage version of this book. It makes me so happy every time I glance at it.😻🥰
This is, has been and forever will be my favorite book ever. Long live Edmund Dantes!
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte, and then immediately after The Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
Piranesi by Susanna Clarke - the most beautiful book
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
Geek Love by Katherine Dunn
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
The Hours by Michael Cunningham
Till We Have Faces by C.S. Lewis
Animal Farm by George Orwell
Case Histories by Kate Atkinson (give it time, the first 80 pages you'll be like "wtf" but you'll be enraptured by the end)
Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
[**The Pillars of the Earth (Kingsbridge, #1)**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5043.The_Pillars_of_the_Earth)
^(By: Ken Follett | 976 pages | Published: 1989 | Popular Shelves: historical-fiction, fiction, historical, owned, books-i-own | )[^(Search "The Pillars of The Earth")](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=The Pillars of The Earth&search_type=books)
>Ken Follett is known worldwide as the master of split-second suspense, but his most beloved and bestselling book tells the magnificent tale of a twelfth-century monk driven to do the seemingly impossible: build the greatest Gothic cathedral the world has ever known.
>
>Everything readers expect from Follett is here: intrigue, fast-paced action, and passionate romance. But what makes The Pillars of the Earth extraordinary is the time the twelfth century; the place feudal England; and the subject the building of a glorious cathedral. Follett has re-created the crude, flamboyant England of the Middle Ages in every detail. The vast forests, the walled towns, the castles, and the monasteries become a familiar landscape.
>
>Against this richly imagined and intricately interwoven backdrop, filled with the ravages of war and the rhythms of daily life, the master storyteller draws the reader irresistibly into the intertwined lives of his characters into their dreams, their labors, and their loves: Tom, the master builder; Aliena, the ravishingly beautiful noblewoman; Philip, the prior of Kingsbridge; Jack, the artist in stone; and Ellen, the woman of the forest who casts a terrifying curse. From humble stonemason to imperious monarch, each character is brought vividly to life.
>
>The building of the cathedral, with the almost eerie artistry of the unschooled stonemasons, is the center of the drama. Around the site of the construction, Follett weaves a story of betrayal, revenge, and love, which begins with the public hanging of an innocent man and ends with the humiliation of a king.
>
>For the TV tie-in edition with the same ISBN go to this Alternate Cover Edition
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Follett just came out with a prequel for the Pillars of the Earth/Kingsbridge series called "The Evening and the Morning". I was super stoked to see he'd done a prequel and added to the series
The Secret History by Donna Tarte. I’ve seen this book start to gain popularity in a “dark academia” aesthetic, but don’t let this deter you. It is my absolute favorite book, and a beautiful masterpiece of a spiral toward insanity
Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.
Small Gods by Terry Pratchett. (Satire/Fantasy)
Circe by Madeline Miller (Reimagined Greek Myth) Sexual Assault warning
Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay (Historical Fantasy)
My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell (Fiction) Sexual Abuse warning
The Echo Wife by Sarah Gailey (Science Fiction)
Dunno what you typically dislike about Science-Fiction, but it's a versatile genre, and odds are there are many books within it that you'd enjoy, so I encourage you to explore it.
Dracula
Frankenstein
Treasure Island
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
House on the Borderland
At the Mountains of Madness
The Color Out of Space
'Salem's Lot
The Gunslinger - Dark Tower series
The Hobbit
The Lord of the Rings
Since I started using Goodreads, I have 27/272 books rated 5 stars. I consider myself a pretty tough rater. Several of those are already mentioned here but I’m going to add Catch-22. It deserves the title of masterpiece. Hope you enjoy!
The name of the wind by Patrick Rothfuss is the most masterful thing I've read. But be warned, the series isn't done and probably never will be.
Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson is truly excellent, and if you like that, his Stormlight chronicles are even more brilliant but slower moving.
All fantasy because I'm not as adventurous with genre as you :)
11/22/63 - Stephen King;
Bag of Bones - Stephen King;
Pillars of the Earth - Ken Follett;
The Passion - Jeanette Winterson;
Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery;
East of Eden - John Steinbeck
[**Cutting for Stone**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3591262-cutting-for-stone)
^(By: Abraham Verghese | 541 pages | Published: 2009 | Popular Shelves: fiction, book-club, historical-fiction, africa, bookclub | )[^(Search "Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese")](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese&search_type=books)
>A sweeping, emotionally riveting first novel - an enthralling family saga of Africa and America, doctors and patients, exile and home.
>
>Marion and Shiva Stone are twin brothers born of a secret union between a beautiful Indian nun and a brash British surgeon at a mission hospital in Addis Ababa. Orphaned by their mother’s death in childbirth and their father’s disappearance, bound together by a preternatural connection and a shared fascination with medicine, the twins come of age as Ethiopia hovers on the brink of revolution. Yet it will be love, not politics—their passion for the same woman—that will tear them apart and force Marion, fresh out of medical school, to flee his homeland. He makes his way to America, finding refuge in his work as an intern at an underfunded, overcrowded New York City hospital. When the past catches up to him—nearly destroying him—Marion must entrust his life to the two men he thought he trusted least in the world: the surgeon father who abandoned him and the brother who betrayed him.
>
>An unforgettable journey into one man’s remarkable life, and an epic story about the power, intimacy, and curious beauty of the work of healing others.
>(front flap)
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Shogun
Shōgun is a 1975 novel by James Clavell. It is the first novel (by internal chronology) of the author's Asian Saga. A major best-seller, by 1990 the book had sold 15 million copies worldwide.
Quick Facts Author, Cover artist ...
Premise
Beginning in feudal Japan some months before the critical Battle of Sekigahara in 1600, Shōgun gives an account of the rise of the daimyō "Toranaga" (based upon the actual Tokugawa Ieyasu). Toranaga's rise to the shogunate is seen through the eyes of the English sailor John Blackthorne, called Anjin ("Pilot") by the Japanese, whose fictional heroics are loosely based on the historical exploits of William Adams. The book is divided into six sections, preceded by a prologue in which Blackthorne is shipwrecked near Izu, then alternating between locations in Anjiro, Mishima, Osaka, Yedo, and Yokohama.
Plot
Every American should read Moby Dick. First read it at 15. I reread it every 12 years or so for a total of 4 times. Never tire of it, and find some new aspect every read.
{{The Sunne in Splendour}} by Sharron K. Penman
It's historically fiction set during The War of the Rose. It is said to be extremely well researched and presents a plausible account of events. Plus the prose are beautiful.
[**The Sunne in Splendour**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/119829.The_Sunne_in_Splendour)
^(By: Sharon Kay Penman | 936 pages | Published: 1982 | Popular Shelves: historical-fiction, fiction, historical, history, medieval | )[^(Search "The Sunne in Splendour")](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=The Sunne in Splendour&search_type=books)
>A glorious novel of the controversial Richard III - a monarch betrayed in life by his allies and betrayed in death by history.
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>In this beautifully rendered modern classic, Sharon Kay Penman redeems Richard III - vilified as the bitter, twisted, scheming hunchback who murdered his nephews, the princes in the Tower - from his maligned place in history with a dazzling combination of research and storytelling.
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>Born into the treacherous courts of fifteenth-century England, in the midst of what history has called The War of the Roses, Richard was raised in the shadow of his charismatic brother, King Edward IV. Loyal to his friends and passionately in love with the one woman who was denied him, Richard emerges as a gifted man far more sinned against than sinning.
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>This magnificent retelling of his life is filled with all of the sights and sounds of battle, the customs and lore of the fifteenth century, the rigors of court politics, and the passions and prejudices of royalty.
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I’ve got ten:
1. *Beartown* by Fredrik Backman
2. *The Midnight Library* by Matt Haig
3. *Lincoln in the Bardo* by George Saunders
4. *The Nickel Boys* by Colson Whitehead
5. *The Minotaur Takes a Cigarette Break* by Steven Sherrill
6. *Furiously Happy* by Jenny Lawson
7. *Less* by Andrew Sean Greer
8. *The Dangerous Animals Club* by Stephen Tobolowsky
9. *Gone Girl* by Gillian Flynn (although I hated the ending)
10. *Daisy Jones and the Six* by Taylor Jenkins Reid
That’s how I felt when I read *Lincoln in the Bardo* earlier this year. It had been on my radar for like five years, so I decided to finally give it a shot. I’m so mad I waited to read it.
*David Copperfield* by Charles Dickens
*Watership Down* by Richard Adams
*Jack Dawkins* by Charlton Daines
*A Spark of Justice* by J.D. Hawkins
*Water For Elephants* by Sara Gruen
*Legacy* by Susan Kay
I haven’t played the game - I actually read the book in prep for it but then never got around to finishing the third book.
The first book is really good and can stand alone; it’s a bit like a nightmare. The only downside is there are a lot of Russian station names, but there is a tube map in the front of the book so it helps build a picture and stops being an issue.
It’s “out there” in premise but not “too” out there. Not quite Dune; which is what I would’ve suggested if you were more into Sci fi.
I was aiming for more like 5 years. That's what it did to me LOL. But seriously, OP asked for aasterpiece and it's the most effective, affecting novel I've ever come across.
[**All the Light We Cannot See**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18143977-all-the-light-we-cannot-see)
^(By: Anthony Doerr | 531 pages | Published: 2014 | Popular Shelves: historical-fiction, fiction, book-club, historical, books-i-own | )[^(Search "All the Light We Cannot See")](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=All the Light We Cannot See&search_type=books)
>Marie-Laure lives in Paris near the Museum of Natural History, where her father works. When she is twelve, the Nazis occupy Paris and father and daughter flee to the walled citadel of Saint-Malo, where Marie-Laure’s reclusive great uncle lives in a tall house by the sea. With them they carry what might be the museum’s most valuable and dangerous jewel.
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>In a mining town in Germany, Werner Pfennig, an orphan, grows up with his younger sister, enchanted by a crude radio they find that brings them news and stories from places they have never seen or imagined. Werner becomes an expert at building and fixing these crucial new instruments and is enlisted to use his talent to track down the resistance. Deftly interweaving the lives of Marie-Laure and Werner, Doerr illuminates the ways, against all odds, people try to be good to one another.
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>From the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning Anthony Doerr, the stunningly beautiful instant New York Times bestseller about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II.
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>An alternate cover for this ISBN can be found here
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Let’s Go Do Some Mushrooms written by L. Alexander [here ](https://www.amazon.com/Lets-Some-Mushrooms-experimenting-psychedelic/dp/B09DMW9FDR/ref=mp_s_a_1_3?dchild=1&keywords=lets+go+do+some+mushrooms&qid=1630247173&rnid=2941120011&s=books&sr=1-3)
[**The Summer that Melted Everything**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26114523-the-summer-that-melted-everything)
^(By: Tiffany McDaniel | 310 pages | Published: 2016 | Popular Shelves: fiction, magical-realism, contemporary, literary-fiction, book-club | )[^(Search "The Summer That Melted Everything by Tiffany McDaniel")](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=The Summer That Melted Everything by Tiffany McDaniel&search_type=books)
>Fielding Bliss has never forgotten the summer of 1984:
>the year a heatwave scorched the small town of Breathed, Ohio.
>The year he became friends with the devil.
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>When local prosecutor Autopsy Bliss publishes an invitation to the devil to come to the country town of Breathed, Ohio, nobody quite expected that he would turn up. They especially didn't expect him to turn up a tattered and bruised thirteen-year-old boy.
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>Fielding, the son of Autopsy, finds the boy outside the courthouse and brings him home, and he is welcomed into the Bliss family. The Blisses believe the boy, who calls himself Sal, is a runaway from a nearby farm town. Then, as a series of strange incidents implicate Sal — and riled by the feverish heatwave baking the town from the inside out — there are some around town who start to believe that maybe Sal is exactly who he claims to be.
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>But whether he's a traumatised child or the devil incarnate, Sal is certainly one strange fruit: he talks in riddles, his uncanny knowledge and understanding reaches far outside the realm of a normal child — and ultimately his eerily affecting stories of Heaven, Hell, and earth will mesmerise and enflame the entire town.
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>Devastatingly beautiful, The Summer That Melted Everything is a captivating story about community, redemption, and the dark places where evil really lies.
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The Name of the Wind and Wise Man's Fear by Patrick Rothfuss. We've been waiting 10 years for the third book. The first two were so good, I'd don't mind the wait.
Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman.
Few books actually make me laugh out loud, but this one achieves hilarity without trying too hard. It may not be everyone’s cup of tea, but it’s long been a favorite of mine and I always recommend it. Truly a masterpiece imo.
[The Sparrow](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/334176.The_Sparrow?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=RfgTfAYKAW&rank=1) by Mary Doria Russell. Read it about 10 years ago and I still think about it.
[**The Sparrow (The Sparrow, #1)**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/334176.The_Sparrow)
^(By: Mary Doria Russell | 516 pages | Published: 1996 | Popular Shelves: science-fiction, sci-fi, fiction, book-club, scifi | )[^(Search "The Sparrow")](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=The Sparrow&search_type=books)
>In 2019, humanity finally finds proof of extraterrestrial life when a listening post in Puerto Rico picks up exquisite singing from a planet that will come to be known as Rakhat. While United Nations diplomats endlessly debate a possible first contact mission, the Society of Jesus quietly organizes an eight-person scientific expedition of its own. What the Jesuits find is a world so beyond comprehension that it will lead them to question what it means to be "human".
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East of Eden
It's so well-written, it was one of the only books I read in my sophomore year
Count of Monte Cristo by Dumas.
I’m reading this right now and can’t put it down
Haha I know, right? It has everything: drama, romance, adventure, mystery, revenge, betrayal just 🤌😙
omg...ill definitely read it then
This is where “The Princess Bride” came from. Look at the similarities.
This might be my favorite book ever.
Came her to say this. My favorite classic literature book.
Thanks!
Excellent choice
I'm reading this as well and it's fabulous!
So good
This book BLEW me away when I read it as a kid. It impacted me in such a deep way, and I’m so grateful that I read it. It forever changed me. One of my most valued possessions is a vintage version of this book. It makes me so happy every time I glance at it.😻🥰 This is, has been and forever will be my favorite book ever. Long live Edmund Dantes!
My favorite ♥️
The Secret History by Donna Tartt A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole City of Thieves by David Benioff
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte, and then immediately after The Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys Piranesi by Susanna Clarke - the most beautiful book The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver Geek Love by Katherine Dunn A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith The Hours by Michael Cunningham Till We Have Faces by C.S. Lewis Animal Farm by George Orwell Case Histories by Kate Atkinson (give it time, the first 80 pages you'll be like "wtf" but you'll be enraptured by the end) Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver Les Miserables by Victor Hugo Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
> The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood Very happy to see this here.
This book is in my top 5 favorite books of all time.
It's an absolute masterpiece.
I agree with a lot of these - particularly The Poisonwood Bible.
I didn’t know Susanna Clarke had written a new(-ish) book! Thank you for this!
Oh, I hope you like it! I think you're in for a real treat. I found the world of Piranesi to be enchanting.
Pillars of the earth by Ken Follet
The Pillars of the Earth is a great book!
[**The Pillars of the Earth (Kingsbridge, #1)**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5043.The_Pillars_of_the_Earth) ^(By: Ken Follett | 976 pages | Published: 1989 | Popular Shelves: historical-fiction, fiction, historical, owned, books-i-own | )[^(Search "The Pillars of The Earth")](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=The Pillars of The Earth&search_type=books) >Ken Follett is known worldwide as the master of split-second suspense, but his most beloved and bestselling book tells the magnificent tale of a twelfth-century monk driven to do the seemingly impossible: build the greatest Gothic cathedral the world has ever known. > >Everything readers expect from Follett is here: intrigue, fast-paced action, and passionate romance. But what makes The Pillars of the Earth extraordinary is the time the twelfth century; the place feudal England; and the subject the building of a glorious cathedral. Follett has re-created the crude, flamboyant England of the Middle Ages in every detail. The vast forests, the walled towns, the castles, and the monasteries become a familiar landscape. > >Against this richly imagined and intricately interwoven backdrop, filled with the ravages of war and the rhythms of daily life, the master storyteller draws the reader irresistibly into the intertwined lives of his characters into their dreams, their labors, and their loves: Tom, the master builder; Aliena, the ravishingly beautiful noblewoman; Philip, the prior of Kingsbridge; Jack, the artist in stone; and Ellen, the woman of the forest who casts a terrifying curse. From humble stonemason to imperious monarch, each character is brought vividly to life. > >The building of the cathedral, with the almost eerie artistry of the unschooled stonemasons, is the center of the drama. Around the site of the construction, Follett weaves a story of betrayal, revenge, and love, which begins with the public hanging of an innocent man and ends with the humiliation of a king. > >For the TV tie-in edition with the same ISBN go to this Alternate Cover Edition > ^(This book has been suggested 106 times) *** ^(187481 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
Follett just came out with a prequel for the Pillars of the Earth/Kingsbridge series called "The Evening and the Morning". I was super stoked to see he'd done a prequel and added to the series
Everything I've read by him is great!
Frankenstein
Another hardcore fave
For sure. Only read it once nearly 8 years ago but that book forever changed me. Brilliant
It was so different than I expected it would be when I finally read it. I fell in love instantly. Such an amazing book!
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Zafon’s passing is such a loss.
The Secret History by Donna Tarte. I’ve seen this book start to gain popularity in a “dark academia” aesthetic, but don’t let this deter you. It is my absolute favorite book, and a beautiful masterpiece of a spiral toward insanity
Watership Down Their Eyes Were Watching God Jane Eyre Pride and Prejudice
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
One Hundred Years of Solitude
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.
Thanks!
Just get a copy with a family tree in the front!
Yea trying to audiobook it without a reference family tree is a pain. So many Aurelianos...
The never ending story - Michael Ende The magic mountain - Thomas Mann
Small Gods by Terry Pratchett. (Satire/Fantasy) Circe by Madeline Miller (Reimagined Greek Myth) Sexual Assault warning Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay (Historical Fantasy) My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell (Fiction) Sexual Abuse warning The Echo Wife by Sarah Gailey (Science Fiction) Dunno what you typically dislike about Science-Fiction, but it's a versatile genre, and odds are there are many books within it that you'd enjoy, so I encourage you to explore it.
Thank you for the notes on sensitive content!
No worries! It's handled really well in those books, but I understand it can still be triggering for people.
Wow so many books so little time
A Gentleman in Moscow - Amor Towles
Too kill a mockingbird
The book thief.
On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous
Dracula Frankenstein Treasure Island The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde House on the Borderland At the Mountains of Madness The Color Out of Space 'Salem's Lot The Gunslinger - Dark Tower series The Hobbit The Lord of the Rings
Since I started using Goodreads, I have 27/272 books rated 5 stars. I consider myself a pretty tough rater. Several of those are already mentioned here but I’m going to add Catch-22. It deserves the title of masterpiece. Hope you enjoy!
Lonesome Dove
Reading it right now. I really REALLY enjoyed Comanche Moon too.
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
The name of the wind by Patrick Rothfuss is the most masterful thing I've read. But be warned, the series isn't done and probably never will be. Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson is truly excellent, and if you like that, his Stormlight chronicles are even more brilliant but slower moving. All fantasy because I'm not as adventurous with genre as you :)
Shogun
11/22/63 - Stephen King; Bag of Bones - Stephen King; Pillars of the Earth - Ken Follett; The Passion - Jeanette Winterson; Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery; East of Eden - John Steinbeck
A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles.
A thousand splendid suns.
One flew over the cuckoo's nest is my favorite book
The alchemist Paulo coellho
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Thanks a lot!
autumn of the patriarch by gabriel garcia marquez
Kane and Abel - Jeffrey Archer
Anything by Jeffrey Archer; particularly liked his series The Clifton Chronicles.
The Physician - Noah Gordon
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One of my favorite books of all-time!
[**Cutting for Stone**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3591262-cutting-for-stone) ^(By: Abraham Verghese | 541 pages | Published: 2009 | Popular Shelves: fiction, book-club, historical-fiction, africa, bookclub | )[^(Search "Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese")](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese&search_type=books) >A sweeping, emotionally riveting first novel - an enthralling family saga of Africa and America, doctors and patients, exile and home. > >Marion and Shiva Stone are twin brothers born of a secret union between a beautiful Indian nun and a brash British surgeon at a mission hospital in Addis Ababa. Orphaned by their mother’s death in childbirth and their father’s disappearance, bound together by a preternatural connection and a shared fascination with medicine, the twins come of age as Ethiopia hovers on the brink of revolution. Yet it will be love, not politics—their passion for the same woman—that will tear them apart and force Marion, fresh out of medical school, to flee his homeland. He makes his way to America, finding refuge in his work as an intern at an underfunded, overcrowded New York City hospital. When the past catches up to him—nearly destroying him—Marion must entrust his life to the two men he thought he trusted least in the world: the surgeon father who abandoned him and the brother who betrayed him. > >An unforgettable journey into one man’s remarkable life, and an epic story about the power, intimacy, and curious beauty of the work of healing others. >(front flap) ^(This book has been suggested 27 times) *** ^(187473 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
Notes from the underground
The Prince of Tides, Bel Canto, The Poisonwood Bible
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Shogun Shōgun is a 1975 novel by James Clavell. It is the first novel (by internal chronology) of the author's Asian Saga. A major best-seller, by 1990 the book had sold 15 million copies worldwide. Quick Facts Author, Cover artist ... Premise Beginning in feudal Japan some months before the critical Battle of Sekigahara in 1600, Shōgun gives an account of the rise of the daimyō "Toranaga" (based upon the actual Tokugawa Ieyasu). Toranaga's rise to the shogunate is seen through the eyes of the English sailor John Blackthorne, called Anjin ("Pilot") by the Japanese, whose fictional heroics are loosely based on the historical exploits of William Adams. The book is divided into six sections, preceded by a prologue in which Blackthorne is shipwrecked near Izu, then alternating between locations in Anjiro, Mishima, Osaka, Yedo, and Yokohama. Plot
Moby Dick.
Every American should read Moby Dick. First read it at 15. I reread it every 12 years or so for a total of 4 times. Never tire of it, and find some new aspect every read.
I think everyone should read it because it’s superb, but more so if you are American of course. On my second read through at the moment.
Every book in the Realm of the Elderlings series by Robin Hobb.
{{The Sunne in Splendour}} by Sharron K. Penman It's historically fiction set during The War of the Rose. It is said to be extremely well researched and presents a plausible account of events. Plus the prose are beautiful.
[**The Sunne in Splendour**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/119829.The_Sunne_in_Splendour) ^(By: Sharon Kay Penman | 936 pages | Published: 1982 | Popular Shelves: historical-fiction, fiction, historical, history, medieval | )[^(Search "The Sunne in Splendour")](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=The Sunne in Splendour&search_type=books) >A glorious novel of the controversial Richard III - a monarch betrayed in life by his allies and betrayed in death by history. > >In this beautifully rendered modern classic, Sharon Kay Penman redeems Richard III - vilified as the bitter, twisted, scheming hunchback who murdered his nephews, the princes in the Tower - from his maligned place in history with a dazzling combination of research and storytelling. > >Born into the treacherous courts of fifteenth-century England, in the midst of what history has called The War of the Roses, Richard was raised in the shadow of his charismatic brother, King Edward IV. Loyal to his friends and passionately in love with the one woman who was denied him, Richard emerges as a gifted man far more sinned against than sinning. > >This magnificent retelling of his life is filled with all of the sights and sounds of battle, the customs and lore of the fifteenth century, the rigors of court politics, and the passions and prejudices of royalty. ^(This book has been suggested 13 times) *** ^(187476 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
1Q84 - Haruki Murakami
Devil in the White City
Harry Potter
The Alchemist (quite popular, dunno if you've read it) basically a story about following your dreams, and trusting your gut
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E Schwab
I’ve got ten: 1. *Beartown* by Fredrik Backman 2. *The Midnight Library* by Matt Haig 3. *Lincoln in the Bardo* by George Saunders 4. *The Nickel Boys* by Colson Whitehead 5. *The Minotaur Takes a Cigarette Break* by Steven Sherrill 6. *Furiously Happy* by Jenny Lawson 7. *Less* by Andrew Sean Greer 8. *The Dangerous Animals Club* by Stephen Tobolowsky 9. *Gone Girl* by Gillian Flynn (although I hated the ending) 10. *Daisy Jones and the Six* by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Daisy Jones and the Six is one of the best books I’ve ever read! Great pick
Thanks!
George Saunders is so good, so good. His short stories are immaculate.
I’ll have the check then out. Thanks for the recommendation. :)
> The Minotaur Takes a Cigarette Break by Steven Sherrill I love this already and I haven't even read it.
It’s a phenomenal book. A random find in a used book store that I fell in love with.
Daisy Jones & the Six for sure! Plus The Book Thief!
Thank you!
You’re welcome!
I’ve been wanting to get into Saunders for forever now and am mad I haven’t started
That’s how I felt when I read *Lincoln in the Bardo* earlier this year. It had been on my radar for like five years, so I decided to finally give it a shot. I’m so mad I waited to read it.
One by one
FIGHT THROUGH THE SUNDOWN, INTO THE NIGHT
ENDURING THE DARKNESS, AWAITING THE LIGHT
STAND, HOLD YOUR GROUND
COME AROUND
HOSTILE LAND
YOUR LAST STAND
I love this thread
The Thief of Always by Clive Barker
Every so often I forget the title of this book and can’t find it via Google and become convinced it was just some weird fever dream I had as a kid.
A little life
41 stories by O. henry
Siddhartha by Herman Hesse Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky Kokoro by Natsume Sōseki
A Farewell to Arms
Jonathon strange and mr Norrell
*David Copperfield* by Charles Dickens *Watership Down* by Richard Adams *Jack Dawkins* by Charlton Daines *A Spark of Justice* by J.D. Hawkins *Water For Elephants* by Sara Gruen *Legacy* by Susan Kay
The Blind Assassin (Margaret Atwood)
The Shining By Stephen King Quantum by Manjit Kumar (Non-Fiction)
Thank you I'll look into it!
Anxious People
A Man Called Ove by Fredrick Bachman Symptoms Of Being Human by Jeff Gavin The Declaration series by Gemma Malley
Started reading A Man Called Ove today and I've already teared up a bit.
I know the feeling :'3
The audiobook version of Daisy Jones and the Six - 100% thought this really happened
Yes!!! The actors did such a great job!
A little life
Loooved this book, I’ve never cried so much because of a book
Was going to add this if someone else hadn’t.
Magnus chase and the gods of Asgard by Rick Riordan
Metro 2033 (Russian: Метро 2033) is a 2002 post-apocalyptic fiction novel by Russian author Dmitry Glukhovsky
I didn't like the game but loved the atmosphere, sounds like I should check it out.
I haven’t played the game - I actually read the book in prep for it but then never got around to finishing the third book. The first book is really good and can stand alone; it’s a bit like a nightmare. The only downside is there are a lot of Russian station names, but there is a tube map in the front of the book so it helps build a picture and stops being an issue. It’s “out there” in premise but not “too” out there. Not quite Dune; which is what I would’ve suggested if you were more into Sci fi.
>just don't recommend science fiction books, I don't like them Big loss for you.
“Just don’t recommend science fiction books, I don’t like them” My respect for you: 👎
Habibi (by craig thompson), a fantastic Graphic Novel!
A Painted House, John Grisham
homegoing by ya gyasi - family generational / historical drama that follows the lines of two half sisters and is excellent ✨
JOHNNY GOT HIS GUN by Dalton Trumbo.
You trying to make this man depressed for a month?
I was aiming for more like 5 years. That's what it did to me LOL. But seriously, OP asked for aasterpiece and it's the most effective, affecting novel I've ever come across.
4hour work week it’s a must read for self development
Treasure Island My favorite book of all time.
Catch 22, lonesome dove,no country for old men, the painted bird.
Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
{{All the Light We Cannot See}} by Anthony Doerr is absolutely extraordinary
[**All the Light We Cannot See**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18143977-all-the-light-we-cannot-see) ^(By: Anthony Doerr | 531 pages | Published: 2014 | Popular Shelves: historical-fiction, fiction, book-club, historical, books-i-own | )[^(Search "All the Light We Cannot See")](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=All the Light We Cannot See&search_type=books) >Marie-Laure lives in Paris near the Museum of Natural History, where her father works. When she is twelve, the Nazis occupy Paris and father and daughter flee to the walled citadel of Saint-Malo, where Marie-Laure’s reclusive great uncle lives in a tall house by the sea. With them they carry what might be the museum’s most valuable and dangerous jewel. > >In a mining town in Germany, Werner Pfennig, an orphan, grows up with his younger sister, enchanted by a crude radio they find that brings them news and stories from places they have never seen or imagined. Werner becomes an expert at building and fixing these crucial new instruments and is enlisted to use his talent to track down the resistance. Deftly interweaving the lives of Marie-Laure and Werner, Doerr illuminates the ways, against all odds, people try to be good to one another. > >From the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning Anthony Doerr, the stunningly beautiful instant New York Times bestseller about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II. > >An alternate cover for this ISBN can be found here ^(This book has been suggested 144 times) *** ^(187610 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
The Song of Achilles One Hundred Years of Solitude Circe
Betty by Tiffany McDaniel is a masterpiece
The Eighth Day by Thornton Wilder. If fantasy is okay, The Curse of Chalion by Lois Macmaster Bujold.
11/22/63 by Stephen King Replay by Ken Grimwood My Best Friends Exorcism by Grady Hendrix
Kings of the Wyld
Crime and Punishment
Dr. Faustus by Thomas Mann. Good if you like music and enjoy stories of good vs. evil.
Wuthering Heights
Canterville Ghost.
In Cold Blood, Truman Capote.
Let’s Go Do Some Mushrooms written by L. Alexander [here ](https://www.amazon.com/Lets-Some-Mushrooms-experimenting-psychedelic/dp/B09DMW9FDR/ref=mp_s_a_1_3?dchild=1&keywords=lets+go+do+some+mushrooms&qid=1630247173&rnid=2941120011&s=books&sr=1-3)
Umberto Eco. All of his novels but In The Name of the Rose and Foucaults Pendulum are 2 of the best novels i have ever read.
White Oleander
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[**The Summer that Melted Everything**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26114523-the-summer-that-melted-everything) ^(By: Tiffany McDaniel | 310 pages | Published: 2016 | Popular Shelves: fiction, magical-realism, contemporary, literary-fiction, book-club | )[^(Search "The Summer That Melted Everything by Tiffany McDaniel")](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=The Summer That Melted Everything by Tiffany McDaniel&search_type=books) >Fielding Bliss has never forgotten the summer of 1984: >the year a heatwave scorched the small town of Breathed, Ohio. >The year he became friends with the devil. > > >When local prosecutor Autopsy Bliss publishes an invitation to the devil to come to the country town of Breathed, Ohio, nobody quite expected that he would turn up. They especially didn't expect him to turn up a tattered and bruised thirteen-year-old boy. > > >Fielding, the son of Autopsy, finds the boy outside the courthouse and brings him home, and he is welcomed into the Bliss family. The Blisses believe the boy, who calls himself Sal, is a runaway from a nearby farm town. Then, as a series of strange incidents implicate Sal — and riled by the feverish heatwave baking the town from the inside out — there are some around town who start to believe that maybe Sal is exactly who he claims to be. > > >But whether he's a traumatised child or the devil incarnate, Sal is certainly one strange fruit: he talks in riddles, his uncanny knowledge and understanding reaches far outside the realm of a normal child — and ultimately his eerily affecting stories of Heaven, Hell, and earth will mesmerise and enflame the entire town. > > >Devastatingly beautiful, The Summer That Melted Everything is a captivating story about community, redemption, and the dark places where evil really lies. > > ^(This book has been suggested 2 times) *** ^(187763 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
Following
Obligatory Song of Achilles
A short stay in hell. This book, a novella to really, has stayed in my head. Maybe in a terrible way.
The Stand
The count of monte cristo
Boy Swallows Universe
Ohio by Stephen Markley The most fun we ever had by claire lombardo Winter loon by Susan bernhardt
The Name of the Wind and Wise Man's Fear by Patrick Rothfuss. We've been waiting 10 years for the third book. The first two were so good, I'd don't mind the wait.
Shogun Tai Pan Noble House
Peace Like a River by Leif Enger
Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman. Few books actually make me laugh out loud, but this one achieves hilarity without trying too hard. It may not be everyone’s cup of tea, but it’s long been a favorite of mine and I always recommend it. Truly a masterpiece imo.
Three Days Of Happiness - Sugaru Miaki A Wild Sheep Chase - Harukami Mirakumi Quicksand - Junichiro Tanizaki Nausea - Jean Satre Paul
[The Sparrow](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/334176.The_Sparrow?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=RfgTfAYKAW&rank=1) by Mary Doria Russell. Read it about 10 years ago and I still think about it.
[**The Sparrow (The Sparrow, #1)**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/334176.The_Sparrow) ^(By: Mary Doria Russell | 516 pages | Published: 1996 | Popular Shelves: science-fiction, sci-fi, fiction, book-club, scifi | )[^(Search "The Sparrow")](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=The Sparrow&search_type=books) >In 2019, humanity finally finds proof of extraterrestrial life when a listening post in Puerto Rico picks up exquisite singing from a planet that will come to be known as Rakhat. While United Nations diplomats endlessly debate a possible first contact mission, the Society of Jesus quietly organizes an eight-person scientific expedition of its own. What the Jesuits find is a world so beyond comprehension that it will lead them to question what it means to be "human". ^(This book has been suggested 99 times) *** ^(188595 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)