Snow Crash - Niel Stephenson
Choke - Chuck Palahnuik
Timeline - Michael Chricton
It's hard to pick which one I like the best.
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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.
It very much does! Good choice.
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
Great title!
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.
Please feel free to list any book you think worth listing! No limits on how many.
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
That's good by me. A story is a story.
How can one choose? It is so much connected to my mindset at the time of reading.
Then give me a few that come to mind at the moment. :)
I could go on for a while, I suppose. Every one of them has brought me joy reading. The discworld series are being reread at the moment and at every stage of my life the address me in a different way. The Little Prince is the one I would buy for everyone I know. In French because that works best.
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."
Lesbian murder nuns loooool
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
Also - Liberating the Gospels: Reading the Bible with Jewish Eyes by Archbishop John Shelby Spong
Mythology:
Tales series by Chronicle Books:
If you like Books of Blood, may I recommend North American Lake Monsters by Nathan Ballingrud? Utterly terrifying stories.
I'll check that out!
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