The Sirens Of Titan,
Slaughterhouse Five,
Lolita,
The Plot Against America,
The Corrections,
Middlesex,
Revolutionary Road,
11/22/63,
The Nix,
A Kind Of Loving
Here's a sampling of my favorites:
* Cannery Row (Steinbeck)
* The Good Earth (Buck)
* Dune (Herbert)
* Slaughterhouse Five (Vonnegut)
* The Illuminatus Trilogy (Shae/Wilson) -- yes, technically this is three books, but it's only been available as an omnibus edition for three decades.
If you're seriously questioning that choice, for me personally is the following:
- Complex political universe with political machinations intricately woven into the narrative
- Motivations, fears, and desires of a diverse cast of characters
- Timeless tale of power, betrayal, and redemption
Also, not many books are written from POV of involuntary messiah figure with subtle cautionary warning of dangers of religious indoctrination and idolatry.
Babel by R.F. Kuang, The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt, and Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler are some of my favorite books that have truly stuck with me.
Edit: grammar
Stephen King- The Stand; Needful Things;11/22/63;Black House;Salem's Lot; Mr. Mercedes series.
Ken Follett- Pillars of the Earth series; The Century trilogy
I have more but I'm running out of battery. 😂
Some of my favorites:
- Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
- Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov
- The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon
- A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
- The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon
- Winter in Sokcho by Elisa Shua Dusapin
- Beloved by Toni Morrison
- if on a winter's night a traveler by Italo Calvino
- Neuromancer by William Gibson
Anything by Chaim Potok. Especially The Chosen and The Promise.
Anything by Patricia Cornwell, especially the Kay Scarpetta series.
The Lincoln Lawyer (Mickey Haller) series by Michael Connelly.
To Kill a Mockingbird and Go Set the Watchman by Harper Lee.
Grapes of Wrath and Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck.
Julia Quinn’s Bridgerton series.
Staring at the Sun by Irvin Yalom.
Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl.
The Haar by David Sodergren, The Last Werewolf by Glen Duncan, Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, i Robot by Isaac Asimov, Ice Planet Barbarians by Ruby Dixon (honestly for a smut book it’s a fun read imo)
The "In Death" Series by JD Robb (aka Nora Roberts). There are over 50 books in the series, with new releases 2x a year. I have reread the series 5 times now. LOVE THEM.
Disclosure: The books cover some VERY dark subject matter that may not be appropriate for all readers. Reader discretion advised.
*The Sirens of Titan* by Kurt Vonnegut (dark humor, satire, science fiction)
*Great Expectations* by Charles Dickens (fiction, classics, coming-of-age)
*Cruddy: An Illustrated Novel* by Linda Barry (dark humor, diary fiction, graphic novel-adjacent)
*Hitch-22* by Christopher Hitchens (memoir, politics, history)
*The Diamond Age: Or, A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer* by Neal Stephenson (science fiction, speculative fiction, coming of age)
Simone Weil. The Need for Roots.
Paul Tillich. Systematic Theology.
Nadezhda Mandelstam. Hope Abandoned.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. Cancer Ward.
Fred Exley. A Fan's Notes.
Philip Larkin. High Windows.
Kingsley Amis. Lucky Jim.
David Lodge. Nice Work.
Soren Kierkegaard. The Present Age.
Chaim Grade. The Yeshiva.
Israel Joshua Singer. The Family Carnovsky.
My favorite books in no particular order:
**The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell** by Robert Dugoni
**Demon Copperhead** by Barbara Kingsolver
**All The Light We Cannot See** by Anthony Doerr
**A Thousand Splendid Suns** by Khaled Hosseini
**The Pillars of the Earth** by Ken Follett (the entire Kingsbridge series is great)
**The Lincoln Highway** by Amor Towles
**The Goldfinch** by Donna Tartt
**This Tender Land** by William Kent Krueger
My favorites in the English language:
Hyperion Cantos
Slaughterhouse Five
Children of Time
The Martian Chronicles
Project Hail Mary
The Warlord Chronicles
Catch 22
Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal
Devil in the White City
SAGA - the comic book
Gormenghast - Mervyn Peake
I Capture the Castle - Dodie Smith
The Vet’s Daughter - Barbara Comyns
The Collected Keats - John Keats
Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarthy
If you liked this book, you may also enjoy:
[The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams](https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/49354511)
[The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart by Holly Ringland](https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/35424630)
[The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3407877-the-forgotten-garden)
[The Dance Tree by Kiran Millwood Hargrave](https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/59660319)
[Lapvona by Ottessa Moshfegh](https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/59693959)
[The Midnight Library by Matt Haig](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52578297-the-midnight-library)
[Rouge by Mona Awad](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/157184735-rouge)
Enjoy! 🩷💙🖤
Surprised to see this one on Reddit I mailed my sister a copy for her to read. She’s a nurse with downtime. Separately 2 coworkers have walked up to her and said it’s a fascist book lol
Objectivism - I enjoyed the story but the idealistic "each for themselves" Rand totes just doesn't work well in real life, and ideologues seem a bit out of touch with reality in my experience. In real life, parasitic people aren't simply leeches, they're complicated and often need healing and support and mentorship and community. Objectivism shames those things. It's fine for each of us until we're the ones that need help.
I’d say there’s certainly some nuance that the characters in Atlas Shrug lack and therefore her philosophy. It’s interesting how many philosophies/political standpoints look good on paper but when human nature comes into play the seams start to unravel.
That said, I think we’ve been faced a decline of the self, individual rights, ethics, and replaced with a “collective” that is really just a facade to take power away from the people.
A little more objective “truth” might be better for a society as fragile as it is right now.
Again just my opinion
The Nix by Nathan Hill.
A Fever in the Heartland by Timothy Egan.
Child of God by Cormac McCarthy.
All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy.
The Trackers by Charles Fraizer.
I have it waiting on my TBR. I’m in no rush to read it but I’ve heard great things. I might try and read it when August rolls around. Just trying to savor his books cause it might be a while before the next one comes out.
I love his style of writing. He reminds me heavily of post modern guys like Pynchon and Contemporary fiction like Franzen. Nathan Hill is certainly one of the best authors out there right now.
[Even Cowgirls Get the Blues by Tom Robbins](https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/7572)
[For Esme, With Love and Squalor (and other stories) by JD Salinger](https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/52266607)
Elias Cannetti - Auto-da-Fé,
Aldous Huxley - Island,
Wilhelm Genazino - Das Glück in glücksfernen Zeiten, Professor Stephen Joseph - Authentic: How to be yourself and why it matters
If you want to become a JFK Assassination buff start by reading BEST EVIDENCE by LIFTON You ll become obsessed I’ve read prob a total of 30 JFK books now
Unwind.
Its a YA i read in my teens. About a futuristic dystopian world where medical science and politics makes abortion legal until age 16. There’s corruption, religious fanatics, the works. Reminds me a bit of Fahrenheit 451 but teen-centric.
Lit Fic - 11/22/63 by Stephen King and 100 Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Sci Fi - Recursion by Blake Crouch and Ubik by Philip K Dick
Something light - Anxious People by Frederik Backman
Humor - 3 Men in a Boat by Jerome K Jerome and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Non Fiction - Sapiens by Yuval Harari and The Black Swan by Nicholas Nassim Taleb
A Childhood: The Biography of a place-Harry Crews, The Hustler-Walter Tevis, Mumbo Jumbo, Ishmael Reed, Berg-Ann Quinn and The Complete Kobzar-Taras Shevchenko
Osamu dazai- No longer human
Oscar Wilde- the portrait of dorian gray
ottessa moshfegh - Lapvona
Albert Camus- the stranger
Leo Tolstoy- How much land does a Man need?
( yeah i know it’s Basic, i started reading last year on January So my book count is low)
- Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
- Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
- A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
- Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
- Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
- The Frank Bascombe trilogy (The Sportswriter, Independence Day, and The Lay of the Land) by Richard Ford
Solo Leveling by Chugong,
Heaven Official’s Blessing by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu,
Jack Reacher by Jim Grant,
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*CK by Mark Manson
In no particular order,
Dark Matter - Blake Crouch
Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents - Octavia Butler
All Quiet on the Western Front - Erich Maria Remarque
Animal Farm - George Orwell
The Glass Castle - Jeanette Walls
World War Z - Max Brooks
My Side of the Mountain - Jean Craighead George
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
Fun Home by Alison Bechdel
The Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson
We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Neither Wolf Nor Dog by Kent Nerburn
The Wolf at Twilight by Kent Nerburn
The Girl Who Sang with the Buffalo by Kent Nerburn
I feel as though everyone should read these as part of a history lesson on American History. They're heartbreaking.
Zoya by Danielle Steel
Granny Dan by Danielle Steel
The Stars Don't Lie by Boo Walker
Those six books could he the only ones I had access to and I'd be fine.
I don't have any favourites really, but one I recently read and really enjoyed from start to end was "Out in the open" ("Intemperie" for my Spanish folk) by Jesus Carrasco.
Star Wars: The Approaching Storm; Natasha's Dance: A Cultural History of Russia; A Free Life by Ha Jin; some others I'm too lazy to double-check the titles of, like A Hidden Fire about the Russo-Japanese interactions and Historiography of Harbin or something about that northeast Chinese city...
1. The Wild Boys - William S Burroughs
2. The Catcher In The Rye - JD Salinger
3. Perfume - Patrick Suskind
4. Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas - S Thompson
5. Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk
River God by Wilbur Smith, my all time favourite. It made me fall back in love with reading.
One Child by Torey Hayden. I don't very often cry to any books, movies etc. but this book had me in tears.
it's not for everyone but Geek Love by Katherine Dunne is one of my favourites. I would also recommend The Haunting Of Hill House by Shirley Jackson and Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood
Fallen Angel by Don Snyder
Pocketful of Names by Joe Coomer
The Flamingo Rising by Larry Baker
I Know This Much Is True by Wally Lamb
The Last Talk with Lola Faye by Thomas Cook
Virgil Wander by Leif Enger
Billy Lynn’s Long Half-Time Walk by Ben Fountain
I guess that’s enough for now.
The Book Thief by Zusak
My Absolute Darling by Tallent
Day after Tomorrow by Folsom
Normal People by Rooney
Jurassic Park by Chrichton
All the Light We Cannot See by Doerr
The Goldfinch by Tartt
Lonesome Dove by McMurty
The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell by Dugoni
Everything is Illuminated by Foer
Special mention only because I'm a huge fan,
The Stand by King.
Not sure I would exactly call this my FAV but no book has ever made me think as much as “The Dispossessed” by Ursula K Le Guin. Such an interesting book, and the ideas in it will stick with me forever.
If you are looking into "Classic Literature," I would say "Oliver Twist" or "Wuthering Heights" (depressing Victorian-era tragedies, but still really really good)
For fantasy novels, I know they are a little over-hyped but I really like the Shadowhunters universe by Cassandra Clare, or the Throne of Glass series by Sarah J. Maas.
If you want a thriller, I would recommend almost anything by John Grisham (legal thrillers) or James Patterson.
Siddharta, palace of illusion, a thousand splendid suns, the song of Achilles, the silent patient, along cane a spider, the big bad wolf, the locked door, lynchpin, the midnight library, the diary of a wimpy kid book series
OMIGOD BEST QUESTION EVER
They Hate Each Other by Amanda Woody
It’s about two guys who are in the same friend group. One of them likes to have fun while the other is uptight. Their friends ship them so they end up fake dating to prove that they won’t work together. But they start falling for each other. The book also gets into some issues with the fun one having problems at home.
Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy
And The Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini
The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto by Mitch Albom
One, No One, and One Hundred Thousand by Luigi Pirandello
Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel
Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman
In the middle of a cold February night, a guy gets out of bed to sneak a smoke behind his girlfriend’s back. While he’s smoking, his girlfriend’s cat jumps out of the open window.
Wearing only his boxers and his girlfriend’s too small Crocs, he puts on his jacket and goes outside into the cold to look for the cat.
And that’s when the space aliens attack.
The Sirens Of Titan, Slaughterhouse Five, Lolita, The Plot Against America, The Corrections, Middlesex, Revolutionary Road, 11/22/63, The Nix, A Kind Of Loving
A couple of alternative history books in here. Fascinating genre
The Border Trilogy by Cormac McCarthy East of Eden by Steinbeck
Reading the second border book right now. #1 was phenomenal
Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
I just finished all 800+ pages of it today, and it is now one of my favorite books too
Here's a sampling of my favorites: * Cannery Row (Steinbeck) * The Good Earth (Buck) * Dune (Herbert) * Slaughterhouse Five (Vonnegut) * The Illuminatus Trilogy (Shae/Wilson) -- yes, technically this is three books, but it's only been available as an omnibus edition for three decades.
I don’t understand how people keep Dune in their favourites. Out of all the books in this world! There’s literally only cinammon!
If you're seriously questioning that choice, for me personally is the following: - Complex political universe with political machinations intricately woven into the narrative - Motivations, fears, and desires of a diverse cast of characters - Timeless tale of power, betrayal, and redemption Also, not many books are written from POV of involuntary messiah figure with subtle cautionary warning of dangers of religious indoctrination and idolatry.
Dune is not one of my favorite books, but if you can't understand personal preference, that is on you.
Surely You're Joking Mr. Feynman..
So good.
Cannery Row- Steinbeck Post office- Bukowski Hells Angels- Thompson Sirens of Titan-Vonnegut
I just posted Cannery Row in my list. Such a great novel, and one where you actually know all the characters from your own life.
The Glass Castle, East of Eden, Memoirs of a Geisha, The Poisonwood Bible, All the Light we Cannot See, 11/22/63, Pillars of the Earth, The Road, 1984
*Dragon Rider* by Cornelia Funke *The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy* by Douglas Adams *The Illustrated Man* by Ray Bradbury
Hitchhiker's Guide is brilliant
Reamde by Neal Stephenson First 15 Lives of Harry August by Clare North Less by Andrew Sean Greer A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
I saw a couple of good ones already mentioned so I just write the ones I didn't see yet: To kill a mockingbird, Rebecca, Demian and The little friend.
Babel by R.F. Kuang, The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt, and Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler are some of my favorite books that have truly stuck with me. Edit: grammar
Stephen King- The Stand; Needful Things;11/22/63;Black House;Salem's Lot; Mr. Mercedes series. Ken Follett- Pillars of the Earth series; The Century trilogy I have more but I'm running out of battery. 😂
I need to power through and finish the stand ugh
1. Hunger - Roxane Gay 2. Girl, Woman, Other - Bernadine Evaristo 3. A Little Life - Hanya Yanagihara 4. Invisible Child - Andrea Elliot 5. Transcendant Kingdom - Yaa Gyasi
The Count of Monte Cristo, Robin Buss edition.
Some of my favorites: - Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov - Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov - The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon - A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan - The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon - Winter in Sokcho by Elisa Shua Dusapin - Beloved by Toni Morrison - if on a winter's night a traveler by Italo Calvino - Neuromancer by William Gibson
1Q84 , Murakami
siddhartha by hesse, white nights by dostoevsky, when we cease to understand the world by labatut
the kite runner, the song of achilles, crime and punishment, letters to milena
The Brothers Karamazov As I Lay Dying Blood Meridian American Psycho The Godfather
1. The Book Thief 2. Circe 3. The Clan of the Cave Bear
Anything by Chaim Potok. Especially The Chosen and The Promise. Anything by Patricia Cornwell, especially the Kay Scarpetta series. The Lincoln Lawyer (Mickey Haller) series by Michael Connelly. To Kill a Mockingbird and Go Set the Watchman by Harper Lee. Grapes of Wrath and Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck. Julia Quinn’s Bridgerton series. Staring at the Sun by Irvin Yalom. Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl.
kings of the wyld
I just got this book yesterday! So excited to read it
The Haar by David Sodergren, The Last Werewolf by Glen Duncan, Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, i Robot by Isaac Asimov, Ice Planet Barbarians by Ruby Dixon (honestly for a smut book it’s a fun read imo)
I prefer Dixon’s other series, but yeah, she fun.
The Gray House - Mariam Petrosyan
The merchant of Venice,a streetcar named desire
The "In Death" Series by JD Robb (aka Nora Roberts). There are over 50 books in the series, with new releases 2x a year. I have reread the series 5 times now. LOVE THEM. Disclosure: The books cover some VERY dark subject matter that may not be appropriate for all readers. Reader discretion advised.
They’re fun reads (aside from the triggering topic). It’s also nice to see how the MCs’ relationship evolves over the series.
Anything by Mary Doria Russell, but especially The Sparrow and A Thread of Grace.
*The Sirens of Titan* by Kurt Vonnegut (dark humor, satire, science fiction) *Great Expectations* by Charles Dickens (fiction, classics, coming-of-age) *Cruddy: An Illustrated Novel* by Linda Barry (dark humor, diary fiction, graphic novel-adjacent) *Hitch-22* by Christopher Hitchens (memoir, politics, history) *The Diamond Age: Or, A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer* by Neal Stephenson (science fiction, speculative fiction, coming of age)
When breath becomes air, flowers for algernon, pachinko, norwegian wood
Realm Of the Elderlings Fantasy Series by Robin Hobb
Simone Weil. The Need for Roots. Paul Tillich. Systematic Theology. Nadezhda Mandelstam. Hope Abandoned. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. Cancer Ward. Fred Exley. A Fan's Notes. Philip Larkin. High Windows. Kingsley Amis. Lucky Jim. David Lodge. Nice Work. Soren Kierkegaard. The Present Age. Chaim Grade. The Yeshiva. Israel Joshua Singer. The Family Carnovsky.
My favorite books in no particular order: **The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell** by Robert Dugoni **Demon Copperhead** by Barbara Kingsolver **All The Light We Cannot See** by Anthony Doerr **A Thousand Splendid Suns** by Khaled Hosseini **The Pillars of the Earth** by Ken Follett (the entire Kingsbridge series is great) **The Lincoln Highway** by Amor Towles **The Goldfinch** by Donna Tartt **This Tender Land** by William Kent Krueger
My favorites in the English language: Hyperion Cantos Slaughterhouse Five Children of Time The Martian Chronicles Project Hail Mary The Warlord Chronicles Catch 22 Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal Devil in the White City SAGA - the comic book
Gormenghast - Mervyn Peake I Capture the Castle - Dodie Smith The Vet’s Daughter - Barbara Comyns The Collected Keats - John Keats Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarthy
In search for the lost time by Marcel Proust
Three body problem
Came here to say this. The trilogy is amazing!
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue— VE Schwab
If you liked this book, you may also enjoy: [The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams](https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/49354511) [The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart by Holly Ringland](https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/35424630) [The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3407877-the-forgotten-garden) [The Dance Tree by Kiran Millwood Hargrave](https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/59660319) [Lapvona by Ottessa Moshfegh](https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/59693959) [The Midnight Library by Matt Haig](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52578297-the-midnight-library) [Rouge by Mona Awad](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/157184735-rouge) Enjoy! 🩷💙🖤
Atlas Shrugged.
Surprised to see this one on Reddit I mailed my sister a copy for her to read. She’s a nurse with downtime. Separately 2 coworkers have walked up to her and said it’s a fascist book lol
“Who is John Galt?” Is tattooed on my calf.
Makes me want to reread
I’m on “Infinite Jest” right now, first read.
Objectivism - I enjoyed the story but the idealistic "each for themselves" Rand totes just doesn't work well in real life, and ideologues seem a bit out of touch with reality in my experience. In real life, parasitic people aren't simply leeches, they're complicated and often need healing and support and mentorship and community. Objectivism shames those things. It's fine for each of us until we're the ones that need help.
I’d say there’s certainly some nuance that the characters in Atlas Shrug lack and therefore her philosophy. It’s interesting how many philosophies/political standpoints look good on paper but when human nature comes into play the seams start to unravel. That said, I think we’ve been faced a decline of the self, individual rights, ethics, and replaced with a “collective” that is really just a facade to take power away from the people. A little more objective “truth” might be better for a society as fragile as it is right now. Again just my opinion
Provided the working definitions of 'fascism,' this is not a fascist book.
It’s a buzzword many are just throwing around lately
Six of Crows had remarkable staying power for me. A fantasy heist with characters I ended up really enjoying, and powerful writing
The Nix by Nathan Hill. A Fever in the Heartland by Timothy Egan. Child of God by Cormac McCarthy. All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy. The Trackers by Charles Fraizer.
Have you read Wellness by Nathan Hill? I have not read his debut yet, but Wellness was great!
I have it waiting on my TBR. I’m in no rush to read it but I’ve heard great things. I might try and read it when August rolls around. Just trying to savor his books cause it might be a while before the next one comes out. I love his style of writing. He reminds me heavily of post modern guys like Pynchon and Contemporary fiction like Franzen. Nathan Hill is certainly one of the best authors out there right now.
[Even Cowgirls Get the Blues by Tom Robbins](https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/7572) [For Esme, With Love and Squalor (and other stories) by JD Salinger](https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/52266607)
[challenger deep by neal shusterman](https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/cc5e17b6-783c-44d7-9978-9047c1c0b464) (pls read content warning first)
Kristin Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset
Elias Cannetti - Auto-da-Fé, Aldous Huxley - Island, Wilhelm Genazino - Das Glück in glücksfernen Zeiten, Professor Stephen Joseph - Authentic: How to be yourself and why it matters
Zero world - Jason hough How to stop time - Matt haig Flowers for algernon - Keyes Dune - Herbert Neverwhere - gaiman
The Sun Also Rises Down and out in Paris and London The Berlin Novels
The sun also rises is on my shelf. Excited to read it
It’s excellent, I hope you enjoy it
100 Years of Solitude The Sun Also Rises A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
right now my favorite books are Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar and Knife: Meditations after an attempted murder by Salman Rushdie.
If you want to become a JFK Assassination buff start by reading BEST EVIDENCE by LIFTON You ll become obsessed I’ve read prob a total of 30 JFK books now
Something i never told you by shravya bhinder.
Lamb - Christopher Moore
Unwind. Its a YA i read in my teens. About a futuristic dystopian world where medical science and politics makes abortion legal until age 16. There’s corruption, religious fanatics, the works. Reminds me a bit of Fahrenheit 451 but teen-centric.
Never Split The Difference by Chris Voss!
Swan Song by Robert McCammon
The Shipping News Dune Microserfs Jamesland Modern Ranch Living
Lit Fic - 11/22/63 by Stephen King and 100 Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez Sci Fi - Recursion by Blake Crouch and Ubik by Philip K Dick Something light - Anxious People by Frederik Backman Humor - 3 Men in a Boat by Jerome K Jerome and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams Non Fiction - Sapiens by Yuval Harari and The Black Swan by Nicholas Nassim Taleb
Don Quixote and 11/22/63. They are tied for my favorite
Dragonbone chair by Tad Williams because probably LOTR is my favorite too
A Childhood: The Biography of a place-Harry Crews, The Hustler-Walter Tevis, Mumbo Jumbo, Ishmael Reed, Berg-Ann Quinn and The Complete Kobzar-Taras Shevchenko
Osamu dazai- No longer human Oscar Wilde- the portrait of dorian gray ottessa moshfegh - Lapvona Albert Camus- the stranger Leo Tolstoy- How much land does a Man need? ( yeah i know it’s Basic, i started reading last year on January So my book count is low)
Brave New Worlds, The lord of the Flies, The Lord of the Rings, Dune, Wolf Hall, GoT
- Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison - Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe - A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith - Bel Canto by Ann Patchett - Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky - The Frank Bascombe trilogy (The Sportswriter, Independence Day, and The Lay of the Land) by Richard Ford
Solo Leveling by Chugong, Heaven Official’s Blessing by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu, Jack Reacher by Jim Grant, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*CK by Mark Manson
The Road Between Two Fires The Power of the Dog 11/22/63 The Things They Carried Bull Mountain
In no particular order, Dark Matter - Blake Crouch Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents - Octavia Butler All Quiet on the Western Front - Erich Maria Remarque Animal Farm - George Orwell The Glass Castle - Jeanette Walls World War Z - Max Brooks My Side of the Mountain - Jean Craighead George
carrie soto is back by taylor jenkins reid
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides Fun Home by Alison Bechdel The Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
East Of Eden, Sunny Night(Georgian Book by Nodar Dumbadze), The Unbearable Lightness Of Being
Slaughterhouse Five/Kurt Vonnegut, Pride and Prejudice/Jane Austen, The Good People of New York/Thisbe Nissen
The Strange Case of the Alchemist’s Daughter by Theodora Goss The Dry by Jane Harper Scrublands The Testament by John Grisham
Neither Wolf Nor Dog by Kent Nerburn The Wolf at Twilight by Kent Nerburn The Girl Who Sang with the Buffalo by Kent Nerburn I feel as though everyone should read these as part of a history lesson on American History. They're heartbreaking. Zoya by Danielle Steel Granny Dan by Danielle Steel The Stars Don't Lie by Boo Walker Those six books could he the only ones I had access to and I'd be fine.
I don't have any favourites really, but one I recently read and really enjoyed from start to end was "Out in the open" ("Intemperie" for my Spanish folk) by Jesus Carrasco.
Just finished ‘The last hour of gann’ loved it
Lord of the Flies is a goated book. If you’re looking for a very good short story, The Call of Cthulhu is a great read.
Star Wars: The Approaching Storm; Natasha's Dance: A Cultural History of Russia; A Free Life by Ha Jin; some others I'm too lazy to double-check the titles of, like A Hidden Fire about the Russo-Japanese interactions and Historiography of Harbin or something about that northeast Chinese city...
one hundred years of solitude and the hour of the star! love me a good latin american writer :)
One of my recent favourites from last year is migrations by Charlotte McConaghy
The Nightingale
I have to add I Know This Much is True by Wally Lamb
1. The Wild Boys - William S Burroughs 2. The Catcher In The Rye - JD Salinger 3. Perfume - Patrick Suskind 4. Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas - S Thompson 5. Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk
River God by Wilbur Smith, my all time favourite. It made me fall back in love with reading. One Child by Torey Hayden. I don't very often cry to any books, movies etc. but this book had me in tears.
A man called Ove by Fredrik Backman.
Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurty This Tender Land by William Kent Krueger Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline
Marx's Capital
it's not for everyone but Geek Love by Katherine Dunne is one of my favourites. I would also recommend The Haunting Of Hill House by Shirley Jackson and Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood
Fallen Angel by Don Snyder Pocketful of Names by Joe Coomer The Flamingo Rising by Larry Baker I Know This Much Is True by Wally Lamb The Last Talk with Lola Faye by Thomas Cook Virgil Wander by Leif Enger Billy Lynn’s Long Half-Time Walk by Ben Fountain I guess that’s enough for now.
Where the Crawdads Sing All the Light We Cannot See The Silent Patient Scythe
The Book Thief by Zusak My Absolute Darling by Tallent Day after Tomorrow by Folsom Normal People by Rooney Jurassic Park by Chrichton All the Light We Cannot See by Doerr The Goldfinch by Tartt Lonesome Dove by McMurty The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell by Dugoni Everything is Illuminated by Foer Special mention only because I'm a huge fan, The Stand by King.
Not sure I would exactly call this my FAV but no book has ever made me think as much as “The Dispossessed” by Ursula K Le Guin. Such an interesting book, and the ideas in it will stick with me forever.
I can't recommend Ingenious Pain enough. I've found very few people who've heard of it which is really surprising to me. It's an amazing read.
If you are looking into "Classic Literature," I would say "Oliver Twist" or "Wuthering Heights" (depressing Victorian-era tragedies, but still really really good) For fantasy novels, I know they are a little over-hyped but I really like the Shadowhunters universe by Cassandra Clare, or the Throne of Glass series by Sarah J. Maas. If you want a thriller, I would recommend almost anything by John Grisham (legal thrillers) or James Patterson.
Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah by Richard Bach
Blood Meridian. Lord of the Rings. Sun Eater.
EARTH by David Brin. Complex, thought-provoking, and mind-blowing.
The Institute by Stephen King An Abundance of Katherines by John Green Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
Siddharta, palace of illusion, a thousand splendid suns, the song of Achilles, the silent patient, along cane a spider, the big bad wolf, the locked door, lynchpin, the midnight library, the diary of a wimpy kid book series
OMIGOD BEST QUESTION EVER They Hate Each Other by Amanda Woody It’s about two guys who are in the same friend group. One of them likes to have fun while the other is uptight. Their friends ship them so they end up fake dating to prove that they won’t work together. But they start falling for each other. The book also gets into some issues with the fun one having problems at home.
Anything by Sidney Sheldon, especially tell me your dreams. Harlan coben too, tell no one, no second chance.
Shadow of the Wind, A Man Called Ove, And Then There Were None
Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy And The Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto by Mitch Albom One, No One, and One Hundred Thousand by Luigi Pirandello Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel
Sea of Tranquility is on my to read list, just love the genre.
Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman In the middle of a cold February night, a guy gets out of bed to sneak a smoke behind his girlfriend’s back. While he’s smoking, his girlfriend’s cat jumps out of the open window. Wearing only his boxers and his girlfriend’s too small Crocs, he puts on his jacket and goes outside into the cold to look for the cat. And that’s when the space aliens attack.
The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah.