I have been trying to get out of a reading slump – after reading misery and the book thief I feel like it’s been hard to find someone that piques my interest. So help – what is your all time favorite book? Or top three. I know that’s a hard ask.
by night_birdie
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I have too many favourites but here are three I would re-read.
Good Omens- Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
Dune- Frank Herbert
Last Chance to See- Douglas Adams
Take a swing at Shantaram. That’s a cracking big old page-turner.
Bitten – Kelley Armstrong
Sweep in Peace – Ilona Andrews
Orphan X – Greg Hurwitz
Poppy War – R.F Kuang
A Long Way to a Small Angry Planet – Becky Chambers
All You Need is Kill by Hiroshi Sakurazaka. Military SF meets Groundhog Day.
Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao. Pacific Rim meets The Handmaid’s Tale.
Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik
The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton
Intervention by Julian May
I’ll mention some favourites from this year because otherwise there would be too many:
Percival Everett – *I am Not Sidney Poitier*
Ursula K.LeGuin – *The Left Hand Of Darkness*
The gargoyle by Andrew Davidson, ender’s game by Orson Scott card, battlefield earth by l. R. Hubbard
My top four are-
* Metro 2033-Dmitry Glukhovsky
* The City of Dreaming Books-Walter Moers
* The Siala Chronicles (Shadow Prowler, Shadow Chaser, Shadow Blizzard)-Alexy Pehov
* The Witcher Saga-Andrzej Sapkowski
I have loads more I could add XD
The Road – Cormac McCarthy
Drop City – TC Boyle
I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
Gitanjali by Tagore
Mill on the Floss by George Eliot
A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth
Little, Big by John Crowley
Middlemarch by George Eliot
Mystic and Rider by Sharon Shinn
The Count of Monte Cristo
The Neapolitan novels by Elena Ferrante.
It tackles friendship, love, politics, class, feminism, maternity. Once you start it, it’s really hard to put it down.
Once Upon a Broken Heart by Stephanie Garber
Babel by R.F Kuang
Book Lovers by Emily Henry
People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry
Patron Saints of Nothing by Randy Ribay
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai
Terms and Conditions by Lauren Asher
Edit: I forgot to add the Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
Yeah, they’re either really dramatic or really romantic.
Notes from Underground – Dostoyevsky.
That shit hits hard
*Company of Liars* by Karen Maitland
Hold the Dark by William Giraldi, Devil All the Time by Donald Ray Pollock, & The Road by Cormac McCarthy are my top 3 favorites at the moment. Also they are shorter reads and have a steady flow so they’re perfect if you haven’t read books in awhile and want to get back in the groove of reading easily as opposed to being overwhelmed by a really long, complicated volume.
Maybe not my all time favorite, but damn if Lonesome Dove isn’t in my top 10. Page turning and well written. Still think about the characters a lot almost a year later.
The Ex by Nicola Moriarty (probably the most tightly plotted domestic thriller I’ve ever read, but I’m still relatively new to the genre)
Love Struck by Melanie La’Brooy (when I’m in the mood for a ridiculously fun romance novel)
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold (a very moving and poignant read but definitely have to be in the right mindset whenever I re-read this)