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Looking for Alaska. Its not really my type of read, but I was recommended it a few times and I was hooked immediately

Metro 2033

The Kingkiller Chronicle

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (all five)

The Little Prince, because nothing cuts so quick as real life disguised as a silly bed-time story.

Man's Search for Himself - Rollo May

When I finished reading Blood Meridian I said WTF, turned to the first page and read it again.

I have read hitchhiker's guide four or five times, also the next two books. I've listened to them as audiobooks at least 10 times I'm not exactly keeping track but I used to have that on as my driving music.

I read snow crash twice and listened to it probably about a dozen times years ago. Now that I have teenage kids I'm not quite as impressed by its treatment of people in the book.

I've read most of the popular Cthulhu lure more times than I will freely admit.

" When Mr. Bilbo Baggins of Bag End announced that he would shortly be celebrating his eleventy-first birthday with a party of special magnificence, there was much talk and excitement in Hobbiton. "

Stephen King's Dark Tower series is my go-to epic fantasy. I'm about to start a 4th trip to the tower once I'm done with my current listen.

Enders Game by Orson Scott Card, and a select few other books in the series (Speaker for the dead and Enders Shadow most notably) - Card at the top of his game is fantastic, I just wish he didn't dive completely off the deep end.

Tangentially, Berserk, if you include manga. Hands down my favorite piece of media altogether.

The Forever War - Joe Haldeman A fantastic novel on the pointlessness of war, told through the lens of space opera / sci-fi

Behave by Robert Sapolsky. It's an excellent book if you're trying to understand why the people around you are like.. well, that way. But if you didn't study neuroscience, you'll likely have to re-read it to get at least the most important points to stick.

"Dark Star" and "Night Soldiers" by Alan Furst. Both are about Soviet spies in the run up to World War 2. Great combination of atmosphere and action.

I reread most of my books but "player of games" by Iain M. Banks I read so many times I broke it and had to buy a new copy. Weirdly, I don't think it is the best of his books, it is just a fun read.

Brandon Sanderson’s entire cosmere.

The Name of the Wind and The Wise Man’s Fear

Robin Hobb’s Farseer, Fitz and the Fool, Liveship Trader, and Tawny Man trilogies. All interconnected.

Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy

Dirk Gently

Harry Potter

Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegut Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving

The Count of Monte Cristo

Stewart O'Nan, "Last Night at the Lobster". It's about the night a Red Lobster runs its last shift before closing for good in gritty upstate New York town. It's SO good. All his books are really, The Speed Queen is about a woman on death row being interviewed by Stephen King. Can't recommend them enough.

A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson and Sailing Alone Around the World by Joshua Slocum

Read X times Title

2 Everybody Lies

3 Storyworthy

3 The Design of Everyday Things

3 Think Again

2 Beyond Command and Control

3 Good Strategy/Bad Strategy

2 First Break All the Rules

3 Never Split the Difference

2 Antifragile

2 Fooled by Randomness

2 Skin in the Game

2 Black Swan

2 Talking To Strangers

3 Call Center Management on Fast Forward

4 The Effective Manager

2 Atomic Habits

2 Never Eat Alone

2 An Economist Walks Into a Brothel

2 The Tipping Point

3 Misreading Scripture with Western Eyes

7 Powerful

3 Effective Hiring Manager

7 The Total Money Makeover

2 Dare to Lead

4 Great at Work

7 The 4 Disciplines of Execution

5 Unlearn

2 The Hard Thing About Hard Things

2 The Best Service is No Service

9 The Effective Executive

5 Financial Intelligence

2 Understanding Complexity

2 How to be an Antiracist

2 Deep Work

2 Happier Now

2 The Fearless Organization

3 Algorithms to Live By

3 Four Thousand Weeks, Time Management for Mortals

3 Thinking in Systems

2 Multipliers

2 The Scout Mindset

2 High Conflict

2 The Prince

2 Not Nice

2 The Value of Everything

2 Born a Crime

2 Freakonimics

2 Human Sigma

2 Getting Things Done

3 Rework

2 Linchpin

2 White Fragility

2 Complexity

2 Parenting with Love and Logic

2 The Five Temptations of a CEO

2 21 Laws of Leadership

2 Failing Forward

2 Our Iceberg is Melting

2 TNIV Bible

2 Graveyard Shift and Other Stories

2 The Dictators Handbook

2 The First 90 Days

2 Where the red fern grows.

I have reread several books but most of them have several years or decades in between.

Especially Terry Pratchetts' books are better after and worthy of a second read.

Dean Koontz: “Phantoms” and “Sole Survivor”.

The rise of red shadow and the series (book of deacon). Also angry ghosts trilogy.

I remember the VCR instruction manual.

Otherwise Terry Pratchett's discworld novels and the Hitchhikers guide to the Galaxy (the 3 first ofc).

Harry Potter The Martian The Cosmere (all for Sanderson's cosmere I've done a few times) The First Law Trilogy

One I will reread but just haven't yet: Uprooted Codex Alera Legends and Lattes

Walden by Henry David Thoreau