I don’t know if i can say its a novel but i really loved the” Puppy lost in lapland” it was one of my lot of words no pictures book and i was really proud of myself
Ive been forced to read a lot in my life but nothing conpares to tom clancy. Was so guttee when he died! Red storm rising still one of the beat booka ever!
I have 3: One Hundred Years of Solitude. I love it so much, as well of many other books from GGM. It hits differently when you feel at home, because I’m latina, and although Colombia and Costa Rica are different, we still have a lot in common.
The Unbearable Lightness of Being: it is amazing the way Milan Kundera talks about feelings. And he has other wonderful books as well.
Shalimar the Clown: I learned do much about culture from that book. Salman Rushdie is an amazing writer I recommend to also read other books from him.
It’s so hard to pick a best. I’m a big fan of John Steinbeck’s East of Eden, John Irving’s The World According to Garp, and both The Stand and The Gunslinger series by Stephen King. I also thought Life of Pi by Yann Martel was memorable.
I don’t read a lot, but Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy is one of the very few books that stuck with me since I read it over 15+ years ago. It’s a very different, clever, and unique read (in a good way) that gets you to think differently. The full book is like ~5 various length stories in one (plus another one written by someone else, which I haven’t read yet).
Wave by Sonali Deraniyagala. If youre into a good cry and need a perspective on life. Amazing woman. I think about her often and I hope she is doing well.
Lolita. It’s not my favorite (Slaughterhouse Five, Crime and Punishment), but damn was it impressive.
I finished it more than a decade ago, but it’s the one novel I read that I am still trying to wrap my head around.
The Good Nurse. Only time in my life I refused to put a book down and finished it all in one 6 hour sitting, my palms sweaty as fuck by the end. Still pissed they screwed up the movie so badly.
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Looking for Alaska by John Green
Kite runner
Red Storm Rising by Tom Clancy.
The Stand! Stephen King!
Shogun, Godfather, Native son, anything by Alice Walker
London Fields by Martin Amis
The Brothers Karamazov
The hunger games
It’s an arabic novel called
كبرت و نسيت ان انسى
I grow up but i fortget to forget
2001: A Space Odyssey
I enjoyed The Shining by Stephen King; read it several times; gave away several paper backs for others to read. Weasels in the corn~!
The Count of Monte Cristo
Heart of Darkness.
Several of Sidney Sheldon, my idol
La part de l’autre
Eric emmanuel schmitt
I can’t pick one, these are the ones that I couldn’t put down when I started reading them:
Sphere and Jurassic Park – Michael Crichton
Trainspotting – Irvine Welsh
When I was a child:
Indian in the Cupboard – Lynne Reid Banks
Hatchet – Gary Paulsen
A Confederacy of Dunces
A Hundred Years of Solitude. It won the Nobel for a reason.
No longer human by Osamu Dazai
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert m Persig.
It hit me at the exact perfect time of my life.
Great Gatsby
The Book Thief
Poisonwood Bible
Man’s Search for Meaning – Viktor Frankl
Finnegans Wake
Lonesome Dove
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
I don’t know if i can say its a novel but i really loved the” Puppy lost in lapland” it was one of my lot of words no pictures book and i was really proud of myself
Choke by Chuck Palahniuk.
Passenger by sidney sheldon
The House on Mango Street by Sandra cisneros
My current desert island 4 are:
Great Expectations, Pale Fire, A Prayer for Owen Meany, Lives of Girls and Women.
Where children run
The Bell Jar
This may be a cliche answer but Les Miserables. I felt myself in 19th century France. I was transposed.
Last of the crazy people
Ive been forced to read a lot in my life but nothing conpares to tom clancy. Was so guttee when he died! Red storm rising still one of the beat booka ever!
Clockwork Angels by Kevin J. Anderson or Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Public Secrets by Nora Roberts
The covenant of water
My favorite is 1984 by George Orwell
Sirens of Titan – Vonnegut
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison💯
The Talisman – Stephen King
I have 3: One Hundred Years of Solitude. I love it so much, as well of many other books from GGM. It hits differently when you feel at home, because I’m latina, and although Colombia and Costa Rica are different, we still have a lot in common.
The Unbearable Lightness of Being: it is amazing the way Milan Kundera talks about feelings. And he has other wonderful books as well.
Shalimar the Clown: I learned do much about culture from that book. Salman Rushdie is an amazing writer I recommend to also read other books from him.
Watership Down
A prayer for Owen meany
The Grapes of Wrath
My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh. A hidden gem!
It’s so hard to pick a best. I’m a big fan of John Steinbeck’s East of Eden, John Irving’s The World According to Garp, and both The Stand and The Gunslinger series by Stephen King. I also thought Life of Pi by Yann Martel was memorable.
Life on the Mississippi, by Mark twain
Neuromancer, William Gibson
Saving this reading list
On the Road by Jack Kerouac.
I really like Kane and Abel
Anything by Tom Robbin’s. Anything!
The Roise project… it’s kinda cheesy, but I really loved it
A Confederacy of Dunces
As I Lay Dying by Faulkner
I deeply adore A Prayer For Owen Meany
Corelli’s Mandolin
Twisted Tree by Kent Meyers.
Jane Eyre
The Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation by MXTX.
Lord Of The Rings
Neuromancer or Slaughterhouse Five.
Ringworld by Larry Niven
The Overstory by Richard Powers
The Recognitions by William Gaddis.
No Longer Human
Jumper by Stephen Gould.
I picked it up because of the awful movie and is now my #1 series.
Made me rethink terrible movie adaptions since that’s how I found this.
The graphic novel, the golden hour. It’s absolutely beautiful
Catch 22
War and Peace
East of Eden, by John Steinbeck.
Pillars of the Earth, Ken Follett
Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury
I don’t read a lot, but Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy is one of the very few books that stuck with me since I read it over 15+ years ago. It’s a very different, clever, and unique read (in a good way) that gets you to think differently. The full book is like ~5 various length stories in one (plus another one written by someone else, which I haven’t read yet).
The Rosy Crucifixion
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse.
4 seasons by Stephen King
Too many to choose from. By genre, author, length?
Trinity by Leon Uris
What Dreams May Come by Richard Matheson.
Wave by Sonali Deraniyagala. If youre into a good cry and need a perspective on life. Amazing woman. I think about her often and I hope she is doing well.
To Kill a Mockingbird. One of the few novels I reread every year or so, and I enjoy it every time.
Nowhere near the best, but my absolute favorite books are the Super Powereds series by Drew Hayes.
Best might be Mistborn or The Martian.
War and Peace
Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
Throne of Glass series by Sarah J. Maas
London
Crime and Punishment
Trinity by Leon Uris or Shogun by James Clavell.
Also recommend reading The Godfather- the best movie ever made according to some, but IMO the book was much better.
No boundary fence
I Shall Seal the Heaven (my fav)
Cat’s Cradle, Galapagos Kurt Vonnegut
Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain
Moby Dick Herman Melville
Dracula Bram Stoker
The Old Man and the Sea Ernest Hemingway
Silent patient by alex michaelides
The Great and Secret Show by Clive Barker
Ulysses
Haunting Adeline🥰🥰
Lonesome dove
Killers of the Flower Moon
Artemis Fowl. I know it might sound childish but it is really a great read
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
‘The Great World’ by David Malouf. Broke my heart.
One flew over the cuckoos nest
Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
Pride and Prejudice, I think. Lots of great mentions here but ultimately this one.
not yet mentioned:
The Sun Also Rises, Remembrance of Things Past
Into Thin Air is such a good book
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Executioner’s Song
Galapagos – Kurt Vonnegut
The Alchemist – Paulo Coelho
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain
Into The Wild – John Krakaeur
Mildred Pierce – James M. Cain
edit… Hells Angel’s – Hunter T. That book is fucking wild.
The book that cracks me up now is the “Zombie Survival Guide” and listening to teens into zombie stuff. It’s so well thought and cracks me up.
My favorite is “Possession” by AS Byatt
East of Eden
The History of Love
‘Rendezvous with Rama’ by Arthur C Clarke just had me hooked.
Imajica, Clive Barker
Lonesome Dove
The Armageddon Rag by George R. R. Martin. Pre flying dragons.
The Pearl by John Steinbeck
The fountainhead
This Side of Paradise- F Scott. Fitzgerald
Anna Karenina
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison is a very powerful read. The narrator’s pain is palpable and uncomfortable.
Kite runner
Lolita. It’s not my favorite (Slaughterhouse Five, Crime and Punishment), but damn was it impressive.
I finished it more than a decade ago, but it’s the one novel I read that I am still trying to wrap my head around.
Demon Copperhead
Book of the New Sun.
2001
1984
The Fall of Hyperion – Dan Simmons
the whole Hyperion Cantos is great. but there are so many payoffs in the second book and it has stuck with me like almost nothing else.
The Good Nurse. Only time in my life I refused to put a book down and finished it all in one 6 hour sitting, my palms sweaty as fuck by the end. Still pissed they screwed up the movie so badly.
The Great Gatsby
11/22/63
I’m surprised, The Unbearable Lightness of Being isn’t on here. It was a favorite of mine for a long time.
“The Emperor of Ocean Park” by Stephen L. Carter
Nightwatch – Terry Pratchett
Flowers for Algernon
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne
The 7 books of The Clifton Chronicles by Jeffrey Archer. Felt like i was watching a tv series.
The Secrets Between Us or Interpreter of Maladies
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
The Stand by Stephen King
The Grapes of wrath.
The Dragon of Babel by Michael Swanwick
Sula by Toni Morrison
Cloud Atlas
The Green Mile by Stephen King
ruckus on the road, highly underrated
Crime and Punnishment by Dostoyevski
My maths text book from high school. Didn’t read tho. Have heard it’s horrible
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho.
Shōgun
Our Share of Night by Mariana Enriquez!
The Call Of The Wild – Jack London
The man in the high castle – Philip K Dick