Whole bibliography of Vladimir Nabokov and Jorge Luis Borges.
Gold-Judgment-6712 on
If you can pick one, you haven’t read enough.
missyharlotte on
I have one for every genre. How could I pick just one?
RiskItForTheBriskit on
Yukikaze by Chohei Kambiyashi. My all time favorite book, that I’ve loved for a decade or more.
A war on an alien planet with a man who can’t get along well with people is used as a basis to examine human relationships to war, technology, each other, and speculate about what forms aliens could take.
ZaphodG on
The Grapes of Wrath really reached me when I read it 18 months ago. I felt rage reading it. When I read it as a teen, it was just a story about poor Okies.
Maybe it’s superficial but I like story lines that are boy becomes man, evil villain, loyal sidekick, interesting love interest, some swashbuckling, hero vanquishes foe, boy gets girl, the happy ending. Dune is like that. The first time I read it in college ages ago, I was lost in the first 100 pages but it’s long been my favorite book. There are a couple of 1940s bestseller historical novels by Samuel Shellabarger that are like that. Captain from Castile is Spain around 1500 and the Aztec conquest. Prince of Foxes is Medici Italy at a similar time.
ohrryp on
Godel, Escher, Bach.
Bookumapp on
Too hard to pick just one book! A recent great read was Heavy by Kiese Laymon and Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
Bluntforce18 on
The Impossible Fortress by Jason Rekulak
Interesting-Sail-586 on
I’m going to recommend a bunch but my favorite author is probably Stephen King – Misery, The Shining, and Pet Sematary are 🤌🏼😮💨 Other gems are Station Eleven, Crying in H Mart, Piranesi, The Hunger Games Series, & I Who Have Never Known Men
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Whole bibliography of Vladimir Nabokov and Jorge Luis Borges.
If you can pick one, you haven’t read enough.
I have one for every genre. How could I pick just one?
Yukikaze by Chohei Kambiyashi. My all time favorite book, that I’ve loved for a decade or more.
A war on an alien planet with a man who can’t get along well with people is used as a basis to examine human relationships to war, technology, each other, and speculate about what forms aliens could take.
The Grapes of Wrath really reached me when I read it 18 months ago. I felt rage reading it. When I read it as a teen, it was just a story about poor Okies.
Maybe it’s superficial but I like story lines that are boy becomes man, evil villain, loyal sidekick, interesting love interest, some swashbuckling, hero vanquishes foe, boy gets girl, the happy ending. Dune is like that. The first time I read it in college ages ago, I was lost in the first 100 pages but it’s long been my favorite book. There are a couple of 1940s bestseller historical novels by Samuel Shellabarger that are like that. Captain from Castile is Spain around 1500 and the Aztec conquest. Prince of Foxes is Medici Italy at a similar time.
Godel, Escher, Bach.
Too hard to pick just one book! A recent great read was Heavy by Kiese Laymon and Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
The Impossible Fortress by Jason Rekulak
I’m going to recommend a bunch but my favorite author is probably Stephen King – Misery, The Shining, and Pet Sematary are 🤌🏼😮💨 Other gems are Station Eleven, Crying in H Mart, Piranesi, The Hunger Games Series, & I Who Have Never Known Men