What is the book/books you’ve enjoyed reading the most? Doesn’t have to be a modern classic, but just something you enjoyed reading and would recommend to read.
For me I’d go with Stone Junction (Jim Dodge), Dragon Mage (M.L. Spencer) and Matterhorn (Karl Marlantes).
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Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
His Majesty’s Dragon by Naomi Novik
Golden Boy by Abigail Tarttelin
I’m torn between WEB Griffin and Tom Clancy, but Heinlein and Robert Jordan are right there in the fray!
W. E. B. Griffin – Historical Military Fiction, start with “The Lieutenants”
Tom Clancy – The Jack Ryan Universe that began with “The Hunt for Red October”
Robert Heinlein – The Future History of mankind and the many adventures of Lazarus Long ( and if you haven’t gone there, you don’t have the foundational works that inspired many of today’s modern authors! ) Blowups Happen!
Robert Jordan – The Wheel of Time – “The Eye of the World”. ( you will barely recognize it as the source material for the Prime miniseries of the same name! )
David Webber – The Honor Harrington Universe. “On Basilisk Station”
Each one has created an entire bookshelf universe that has been filled with fantastic and well developed stories and characters.
I have purchased them ALL so that I can return to their wonder.
Dune by Frank Herbert
The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R Tolkien
The Iliad and The Odyssey by Homer
Le Morte d’Arthur by Sir Thomas Malory
The Cry and the Dedication and America is in the Heart by Carlos Buosan
In the House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
Noli Me Tangere by Jose Rizal
10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World by Elif Shafak. The concept of the novel impressed me the most. I also loved the friendships between the characters.
Vulture is a Patient Bird by James Hadley Chace. The story was fantastic and it kept me engaged until I finished the story.