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Snow Crash - Niel Stephenson

Choke - Chuck Palahnuik

Timeline - Michael Chricton

It's hard to pick which one I like the best.

I'm probably just a basic bitch but I reread Frankenstein as an adult and it hits.

Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card

I read lots of books over the years.

The last book series I read was All Quiet On The Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque.

Bought the series on my Nook eReader.

Currently, I read the Alphabet series by Sue Grafton, a local mystery novel author.

I mostly read series, and my favorite is Malazan Book of the Fallen by Steven Erikson. The Silo series by Hugh Howey a close second.

I'm not really someone who reads many standalone books, because I love getting lost in epic/long stories (for this same reason I barely ever watch movies and stick with series in stead), and I hate how by the time I'm really getting into a book, suddenly it's over.. But hmm, for a standalone book I'd have to go with The Book Thief by Zusak (which btw, never seen the movie, maybe I should sometimes).

My favourite book is hands down the scorpio races by maggie stiefvater. I've read that book so many times I've lost count now

Empire of Normality, Neurodiversity and capitalism by Robert Chapman

It's about the normalization of the human centered on eugenic and how it serves the capitalism to the detrimental of the neurodiversity and the neurodivergents.

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd. I was going to complain about having to only choose one book before realizing that it pretty much always came back to that. The honorable mentions are all stuff that comes with a message like The Giver or The Samurai's Garden, which I do recommend. But I'm a sucker for a good mystery and TMORA was a good exercise in thinking outside of the box.

For me it has to be Berserk. Not an actual book, I know, but it has the best story I've ever consumed, it being books, movies, games, you name it. Berserk takes the crown

How can one choose? It is so much connected to my mindset at the time of reading.

I don't know if it's my favorite, but the one I suggest to people the most is "House of Leaves" by Mark Z. Danielewski

Hyperion Cantos. Excellent story and interesting characters.

Red Sister by Mark Lawrence. A series described inaccurately, but amusingly, as about "lesbian murder nuns".

"It is important, when killing a nun, to ensure that you bring an army of sufficient size. For Sister Thorn of the Sweet Mercy Convent Lano Tacsis brought two hundred men."

"No child truly believes they will be hanged. Even on the gallows platform with the rope scratching at their wrists and the shadow of the noose upon their face they know that someone will step forward, a mother, a father returned from some long absence, a king dispensing justice … someone. Few children have lived long enough to understand the world into which they were born. Perhaps few adults have either, but they at least have learned some bitter lessons."

My two favorites from the last few months have been The Way of the Strangers by Graeme Wood and The Immortality Key by Brian Muraresku.

Really, not possible to have a single favorite. Maybe favorites by genre?

Fiction: Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shadow_of_the_Wind

Science Fiction: Little Fuzzy by H. Beam Piper (bonus! public domain!)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Fuzzy

Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/18137

Fantasy: Lord of the Rings

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lord_of_the_Rings

Horror:

Books of Blood by Clive Barker

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Books_of_Blood

Of particular note are the stories "The Yattering and Jack" and "The Body Politic".

Western:

The Dark Tower series by Stephen King

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dark_Tower_(series)

Romance:

Griffin and Sabine series by Nick Bantock

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Griffin_and_Sabine

Also - Outlander by Diana Gabaldon

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outlander_(book_series)

Travel:

Into the Heart of Borneo by Redmond O'Hanlon

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/123474/into-the-heart-of-borneo-by-redmond-ohanlon/

Also - In Trouble Again by Redmond O'Hanlon

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/123475/in-trouble-again-by-redmond-ohanlon/

Religion:

Rescuing the Bible From Fundamentalism by Archbishop John Shelby Spong

https://www.harpercollins.com/products/rescuing-the-bible-from-fundamentalism-john-shelby-spongjohn-shelby-spong?variant=41174963781666

Also - Liberating the Gospels: Reading the Bible with Jewish Eyes by Archbishop John Shelby Spong

https://www.harpercollins.com/products/liberating-the-gospels-john-shelby-spong?variant=41245649600546

Mythology:

Tales series by Chronicle Books:

https://www.chroniclebooks.com/collections/tales

Charlotte's Web.

I've read it to each of my kids at least once (I have quite a few children). I'm at the point where I do different voices for each character and so on.

It is such a beautifully told story and really has a very special place in my heart. I still struggle to not get upset at the sad bit each time.

Myst: The Book of Ti'Ana by Rand Miller

Being a writer myself, I always loved the premise of Myst where you could write a world and actually visit it. This book goes into detail about the D'ni at the height of their civilization and how the books work and stuff. It's awesome.

Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? -Bill Martin/Eric Carle (I’ve read this book HUNDREDS of times, so it has a special place in my

The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck - Mark Manson

Asimov's Foundation. That got me back into reading after around twenty years. Now I read one book a month, mostly sci fi, for nine years now.

Thank you Isaac Asimov, I could not imagine a life without reading anymore.

Lord Valentine’s Castle by Robert Silverberg