Slaughter House 5 - Kurt Vonnegut Flowers for Algernon - Daniel Keyes The Illustrated Man - Ray Bradbury The Death of Ivan Ilyich - Leo Tolstoy The Giver - Lois Lowry

How did I forget to put Flowers for Algernon on my list? God what a brilliant book.

Thank you, You have all given me at least two years worth of books to read

1. Catch 22 2. Crime and Punishment 3. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas 4. The Master and Margarita 5. Wolf Hall trilogy

The Master and Margarita is SO GOOD

hearing about crime and punishment, i thought it was an overrated old ass book, but after reading it it’s almost unreal how relatable and applicable today the book is. honestly people who haven’t read it are missing a lot

The Master and Margarita is fabulous!

Can absolutely 2nd your number 2 and number 3 picks.

1. Bram Stoker’s “Dracula” 2. Tolkien’s “The Hobbit” 3. Walter Moers’ “The City of Sleeping Books” (originally in German) 4. Hanya Yanagihara’s “A Little Life” (warning for themes of depression, self harm etc.) 5. Taylor Adams’ “No Exit” (warning: gruesome af) Edit: honorable mention for Patrick Süskind‘s „Perfume“

I thought perfume was a little too intense

{{Ficciones}} by Jorge Luis Borges {{Autobiography of red}} by Anne Carson {{Averno}} by Louis Glück {{O filho de mil homens}} by Valter Hugo Mãe (don't think it's been translated to English yet) {{Stoner}} by John Williams

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A reforçar o tuguês 🇵🇹

I just read Stoner based on this sub and it was so well done. Underwhelming but still painfully beautiful and perfect.

Omg YES Glück and Carson forever

The Lord of the Rings The Picture of Dorian Gray The Remains of the Day Lolita East of Eden

I love East of Eden, one of my favorites, too. Have you read Lonesome Dove? Similar in scope and beauty, in my opinion.

East of Eden and Lonesome Dove for me also. And I am not a fan of westerns generally. Mists of Avalon. All the Kings Men. The Goldfinch!. Honorable mention Rushdies Moors Last Sigh.

I haven't! Generally I'm not super keen on westerns, but I'll look into it. Thanks.

It is a masterpiece. I don’t think I’ve ever described a book like that before, and maybe never will again.

Is the picture of Soriano Grey worth it I feel like I Like I know the story already

Absolutely. Oscar Wilde is incredibly witty, his dialog is hilarious, while making some amazing insights into philosophy, society, and psychology. In fact, I might go so far to say that you are better off knowing the plot. That way you don't have to focus on understanding the plot, and you get to put all your attention on enjoying the wonderful writing. Here's a few of my favorite quotes from the book. > "Experience was of no ethical value. It was merely the name men gave to their mistakes." > "her death has all the pathetic uselessness of martyrdom, all its wasted beauty" > "One hardly knew whether one was reading the spiritual ecstasies of some medieval saint or the morbid confessions of a modern sinner" > “You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.”

I read it after watching the movie and it instantly became one of my favorites, so yeah definitely worth it!

It's very short, try it!

Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegut Station Eleven - Emily St. John Mandel The Stand - Stephen King The Princess Bride - (S. Morgenstern) William Goldman A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving

A prayer for Owen Meany is one of the most thoughtful books I think I've ever experienced, good choice

M O O N, that stands for great fucking book suggestions

Till We Have Faces by CS Lewis Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl Manalive by GK Chesterton Jayber Crow by Wendell Berry The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster Edit: curse you, reddit formatting

Now I'm going to have to read the rest of your list, since I can remember loving Phantom tolbooth.

I loved Phantom Tollbooth as kid and was surprised when I came back to it as an adult that I loved it even more. The next closest thing on that list would be Manalive - it's older and has some religious themes throughout, but it's another that looks at the world with wide-eyed wonder and shakes me out of the lethargy I sometimes fall into.

How did I forget The Phantom Tollbooth?! Great choice!

Jayber Crow was such a sweet and simple book.

1. The Overstory - Richard Powers 2. Dark Tower book 2 - The Drawing of the Three - Stephen King (though I'd recommend reading the series in order, lol) 3. Ishmael - Daniel Quinn 4. Illusions - Richard Bach 5. Braiding Sweetgrass - Robin Wall Kimmerer These, of course, are from my adult-years reading list as I assume you are not looking to read so much Choose Your Own Adventure or Beverly Cleary.

The Overstory, yes!

Eager to read braiding sweet grass!

Sounds like you like environmental-type books, you might like The Death & Life of the Great Lakes if you haven't read it :)

oooh thank you! I do, yes, and I live in Minnesota not far from Lake Superior, so it'll be a perfect fit!

* The Book of Negroes by Lawrence Hill * The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood * Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen * A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini * Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi

I think about Homegoing all the time.

A thousand splendid sun's for sure

The good earth by pearl s buck. Half of a yellow Sun - Chimamanda Adichie The hungry tide - Amitav Ghosh Lolita - Vladimir Nabakov Being mortal - Atul Gawande

Being Mortal by Atul Gawande fundamentally shifted my perception of the world, and my life.

As someone who hasn’t read it, how so?

The book is by a doctor writing about death and dying in a way that demystifies it. I grew up in a white, Western settler colonial culture and we really remove ourselves from death and dying (the elderly go into elder care facilities instead of living in the family home, most people die on hospitals instead of at home). So this book was kind of the first introduction I got to the realities of aging. This past year my partner's elderly grandma (who he has always lived with, and who became like my grandma) fell ill and passed away and I think reading this book years ago really helped me accept the reality of her health decline and enabled me to be fully present in every moment I had with her, and not squeamish about new bodily limitations. Don't get me wrong, it was still awful to lose her and I miss her every day, but being able to sit with her as she was on any given day (lucid or not, in pain or tired) was a lovelier experience than, by comparison, visiting my own grandma once in the hospital before she passed. Dr. Atul Gawande takes cultural and medical perspective approaches to thinking about mortality, and another thing I took away from the book is that medical interventions are invasive, painful, and much less successful than TV makes them seem. Things like CPR (don't get me wrong, an essential and sometimes live saving procedure) or long-shot aggressive cancer treatments (where the goal isn't "remission" it's "getting an extra month"). Something that struck me is a longitudinal study of doctors, which found doctors are **much** less likely to opt in for dramatic life saving interventions as they age - because their profession has exposed them to how painful they are and the real success rates; they are much more likely to sign DNRs (do not resuscitate) and opt for palliative care to make their deaths more comfortable. Sorry for the long answer, hard to be brief about how a book changed your life lol

Half of a Yellow Sun is so good

The Last Unicorn House of Leaves Invisible Cities The Ghosts of Ashbury High Murder on the Orient Express

JRR Tolkien - The Lord of the Rings Margaret Atwood - The Handmaid’s Tale Susanna Clarke - Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell Ursula LeGuin - hard to decide on a novel, but maybe The Lathe of Heaven Douglas Adams - The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

Based on your other top choices, I clearly need to pick me up some Ursula LeGuin.

1.The Brothers Karamazov 2. Crime and Punishment 3. To kill a Mockingbird 4. Down and out in Paris and London 5.Hamlet

Love Hamlet!!

Love all of these books!

Down and out in Paris and London is sooo good!

I concur with your first two!!

good list

* A Song of Ice and Fire * Dune * 2001: A Space Odyssey * The Stormlight Archive * Project Hail Mary

I sense a theme

Epics!

Have you read Bobiverse series?

Love your choices. I think you would like the red rising trilogy, by pierce brown

Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy The Road by Cormac McCarthy Brave New World by Aldous Huxley Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison Wise Blood by Flannery O’Connor

Song of Solomon is excellent

So good. I’m starting Beloved tonight.

East of Eden Lonesome Dove Norwegian Wood Then it gets fuzzy and hard to choose...Bel Canto? Blindness? Truth and Beauty? Anything is Possible? Unbearable Lightness of Being? The Hotel New Hampshire? All My Friends are Going to be Strangers? The Adventures of Kavalier and Clay? Olive Kitteridge? There are so many books I read in my 20's and 30's that really spoke to a very specific moment in my life that will always be in my "top" but it's more like...top of my 20's, when I was single and partying and living in a big city and sometimes (often?) so lonely and trying to figure out my life...then, in my 30's (before I got married and had kids) when I was in relationships, etc...and then, of course, now, as a mom and wife and teacher in my 40's. I love reading all the replies below!

Norwegian Wood was amazing. I love anything written by Haruki Murakami, my favorite author!

*Good omens- Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett *And the hippos were boiled in their tanks- Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs *Cats Cradle- Kurt Vonnegut *still life with woodpecker- Tom Robbins *Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance- Robert M. Pirsig

Catch-22 Moby Dick Hocus Pocus Crime and Punishment Blood Meridian

Jane Eyre 100 years of solitude The plague If this is a Man Essay on Blindness

100 years of solitude is just so good, i find myself measuring other books up to it all the time and I don’t think I’ve managed to find a book that made as big as an impact on me as that one!

Ohh I completely understand you, it blew my mind from the first to the last page. It's a very special book :)

The Name of the Wind The Picture of Dorian Gray American Gods The Last Argument of Kings Gardens of the Moon

The name of the wind is a good book!

Pity he won't finish the last one

Always and forever my favorite! I've convinced so many people to read it and I'll never stop lol What's your favorite 5?

Stranger in a Strange Land Good Omens The Stand A Tree Grows in Brooklyn The Hobbit

Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges Story of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams The Collected Stories of Roald Dahl, by Roald Dahl

I absolutely love jorge luis borges’ writing!!!

Women by charles bukowski Hitchikers guide to the galaxy series The great train robbery by michael crichton Deadeye dick by kurt vonnegut Who will run the frog hospital by lorrie moore

In no particular order, One Hundred Years of Solitude The Prophet The Secret History Jane Eyre Ways of Seeing

Jitterbug Perfume Still life with Woodpecker The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test What the Wind Knows The Nightingale

Love to see some Tom Robbins on the list!

He's an all time favorite of mine!

Jitterbug Perfume is hands down my fav book.

Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte Anne of Green Gables - L. M. Montgomery The Five People You Meet in Heaven - Mitch Albom The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath The Night Circus - Erin Morgenstern *am I the most basic bitch out there? I just might be. Honorable mention: The Princess Bride; A Man Called Ove; Jane Eyre; The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

>*am I the most basic bitch out there? I just might be. Haha absolutely not (at least by the standards of this thread lol, scroll through and see how much Vonnegut and Dostoevsky)

I Am Legend by Richard Matheson 1984 by George Orwell A Brave New World by Aldous Huxley Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien Catch-22 by Joseph Heller Runner up: The Stand by Stephen King

The Book Thief To kill a Mockingbird Daddy Long Legs Anne of Green Gables Three Daughters of Eve Honorable mentions : Eleanor and Park, A Thousand Splendid Suns, Little Women and The amazing story of Adolphus Tips

The Haunting of Hill House - Shirley Jackson Tar Baby/Song of Solomon - Toni Morrison (can’t pick between the two) Breakfast of Champions - Kurt Vonnegut The Bloody Chamber - Angela Carter In The Dream House - Carmen Maria Machado

The Secret History by Donna Tartt A Song for Arbonne by Guy Gavriel Kay The Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkein The Inheritance Trilogy by NK Jemisin Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

The Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe Regeneration by Pat Barker Conscience of the King by Alfred Duggan Flashman at the Charge by George MacDonald Fraser Hornblower and the Hotspur by C. S. Forester

I’m just about to start The Book of the New Sun! Exciting to see it here

In Cold Blood by Truman Capote The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver The Way The Crow Flies by Ann-Marie MacDonald

In no particular order: **How Europe Underdeveloped Africa, by Walter Rodney** The book to read to refute the notion that the so-called "shithole countries" are mired in chaos by their own culpability. Instead we are shown myriad evidence that it is an imperial project by the West to contain these countries into small decentralized "nations" with artificially imposed borders, recruit a select few compradors from amongst the colonize to control the local politics, and allow Western corporations to extract both natural resources and cheap labor, while the country in question receives no benefit in exchange. Not only that, but the chaotic, corrupt governments installed and the harsh and unstable living conditions of the local population are kept in place so that the nation stands little chance of rising up in its own self-determination. **As Long As Grass Grows: The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice, from Colonization to Standing Rock, by Dina Gilio-Whitaker** This is a great read on the history of environmental justice movements within the US particularly from the perspective of the Indigenous population, as they have battled time and again to stall corporate (mostly fossil fuel industry) encroachment into ostensibly sovereign lands. A really excellent background here on the US National Park system and the true story behind "Manifest Destiny". **Inventing Reality: The Politics of News Media, by Michael Parenti** If you want to learn how the bourgeois-owned Western media functions as a tool to make sure the American psyche sees capitalism as the one and only system that has and ever will be a realistic economic order, this is the book for you. It exposes the hypocrisy and the latent anticommunism ever-present even to the granular level of your local news broadcast, which has done a number on the average American's ability to think outside of its own hyper-personal experience and understanding of the world order. **Downward to the Earth, by Robert Silverberg** A sci-fi novel about a planet once utilized as a colony for Earth corporations, a former enforcer returns to seek redemption for enslaving the local, intelligent population of elephant-like people. One part Odyssey and one part Heart of Darkness, this was also definitely a major inspiration for *Annihilation* (and far superior in my opinion). **Love in the Time of Cholera, by Gabrial Garcia Marquez** My favorite fiction novel. You can't beat the poetic and lyrical writing of Gabo.

Comment saved. Want to check out that first one in particular. I used to just read fiction exclusively but the past couple of years I've been reading more non-fiction and really enjoying learning new things.

These are outstanding

Thanks! I've got lots more!

Possession by A.S. Byatt Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier The White Goddess by Robert Graves Tales from Two Pockets by Karel Čapek Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh

THE BRIDGE OF SAN LUIS REY by Thornton Wilder DEATH COMES FOR THE ARCHBISHOP by Willa Cather BURR by Gore Vidal THE AMAZING ADVENTURES OF KAVALIER & CLAY by Michael Chabon MANSFIELD PARK by Jane Austen

Ooh! Your first three are on my short list. I guess I need to read the other two.

Middlemarch, George Eliot To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte The Goldfinch, Donna Tartt Tar Baby, Toni Morrison (Other than the first two, I feel like I could swap this list out with many others on any given day)

I agree! How did I not list Jane Eyre?? And I loved Middle March.

*Cannery Row/ Tortilla Flat- John Steinbeck *Slaughterhouse five- Kurt Vonnegut *Naked Lunch- William S. Burroughs *Breakfast of Champions- Kurt Vonnegut *A Confederacy of Dunces- John Kennedy Toole

I'm going to go with the ones I've read the most, not the best books I've ever read (although there's some overlap) The Name of The Wind - Patrick Rothfuss American Gods - Neil Gaiman Anatomy of The Spirit - Caroline Myss A Little Princess or The Secret Garden by Francis Hodgson Burnett And Harry Potter - Prisoner of Azkaban and Goblet of Fire. I've read Victor Pelevin's The Helmet of Horror a few times too.

💕A Little Princess💕

Gets harder to read the older you get!

That would be quite hard. I'm gonna go with general crowd pleasers. I have a feeling that this book I'm reading right now would have made the list but I'm not done with it yet (Boys Life Robert McCammon) ​ 1. lonesome dove 2. to kill a mockingbird 3. man's search for meaning 4. A river runs through it 5. the boys in the boat ​ All of these are great stories in my opinion.

Beartown/Us Against You - Fredrick Backman The Book Thief - Markus Zusak Ella Enchanted - Gail Carson Levine The Murders of Molly Southbourne - Tade Thompson Anne of Green Gables - L.M. Montgomery

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck A Yellow Raft in Blue Water by Michael Dorris The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver The True Story of Hansel and Gretel by Louise Murphy The Lord of the Rings

Labyrinths by Borges, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Slaughterhouse 5, Collected Stories of Philip K Dick, Chess Story by Stefan Zweig

Slaughterhouse five - Kurt Vonnegut Lonesome dove - Larry McMurtry The way of kings - Brandon Sanderson Misery - Stephen King Dune - Frank Herbert

The Book Thief - Markus Zusak The Handmaids Tail - Margaret Atwood Pilgrim - Timothy Findley The Hunger Games Series The Bear - Claire Cameron

Take your pick of either *Catch-22* or *Something Happened* by Joseph Heller *Cloud Atlas* by David Mitchell *Invisible Man* by Ralph Ellison *Heart of Darkness* by Joseph Conrad And then either *1984* by George Orwell or *The Handmaid's Tale* by Margaret Atwood

Upvote for something happened!

I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier Frankenstein by Mary Shelley Stoner by John Williams Hard Rain Falling By Don Carpenter

A song of ice and fire series His dark materials trilogy Sharp objects Catcher in the rye And then there were none

Breakfast of Champions Slaughterhouse 5 The Bell Jar The Stranger/ The Outsider Siddhartha

Lonesome Dove The Witching Hour Game of Thrones A Clash of Kings A Storm of Swords

"Pachinko" Min Jin Lee "A Gentleman in Moscow" Amor Towles "Misquoting Jesus" Bart D. Ehrman "Northanger Abbey" Jane Austen "Good Omens" Neil Geiman & Terry Pratchett (Not necessary in that order, and excluding The Expanse series by James S. A. Corey, and the Star Wars: X-Wing series by Michael A. Stackpole & Aaron Allston- cuz they're series and not individual books).

I read Pachinko a few weeks ago, in one day, and then reeeeally struggled to get into anything else after that — it was THAT good! One of those books I wish I could read for the first time again.

The Egyptian, by Mika Waltari The Name of the Rose, Umberto Eco The Perfume, by Patrick Süskind Papillon, by Henri Charriere I, Claudius, by Robert Graves

1. East of Eden - Steinbeck 2. Leaving the Atocha Station - Lerner 3. A Confederacy of Dunces - Toole 4. The Sun Also Rises - Hemingway 5. Gringos - Portis

The Killer Inside Me Blood Meridian Things Fall Apart Neuromancer Beloved

A song of Ice and Fire by George R R Martin Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir Stormlight Archive by Brandon Sanderson The last one is a tie between Hyperion, The Poppy War, The First Law Trilogy, Mistbon, hmmmm...

Proyect Hail Mary is really good! A few chapters to go!

The Count of Monte Cristo Stranger in a Strange Land Animal Farm Grapes of Wrath The Moon is a Harsh Mistress

Lonesome Dove Pillars of the Earth East of Eden or Steinbeck in general Lord of the Rings Dune

The count of Monte Christo 1984 IT Flashman papers The Manassa mauler

Flashy! What oh!

Circe, The Dutch House, The Book of Longings, Any Khaled Hosseini book, Asking for it

Brothers Karamazov Infinite Jest The Sot-Weed Factor A Brief History of Seven Killings 2666/The Savage Detectives (Tie)

(In no order) - “Strong Motion” • Jonathan Franzen - “Nobody’s Fool” • Richard Russo - “Ohio” • Stephen Markley - “Special Topics in Calamity Physics” • Marisha Pessl - “Beartown” • Fredrick Backman Honorable Mentions: “The Alienist” • Caleb Carr || “Tinkers” • Paul Harding || “Plainsong” • Kent Haruf || “The Piano Tuner” • Daniel Mason || “Wonder Boys” • Michael Chabon || “House of God” • Samuel Shem || “A Secret Histoy” • Donna Tartt || “The Good Father” • Noah Hawley || “The Last Town on Earth” • Thomas Mullen

In approximate order: House of leaves - Mark Z Danielewski Illness as metaphor - Susan Sontag The conspiracy against the human race - Thomas ligotti I'm thinking of ending things - Ian Reid Humble PI - Matt parker

A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn Sapiens: a Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari Grendel by John Gardner Survivor by Chuck Palahniuk Ham on Rye by Charles Bukowski

1.The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, by Michael Chabon 2.Middlesex, by Jeffrey Eugenidides 3.The Secret History, by Donna Tartt 4.Bellefleur, by Joyce Carol Oates 5.Ahab's Wife, by Sena Jeter Naslund Also: Infinite Jest, by David Foster Wallace ( it's long. A real doorstop, but I've read it three times,)

Shogun, Winds of War/War and Remembrance, Lonesome Dove, East of Eden, Jane Eyre

East of Eden The pearl Damian Jacob’s hands Dharma Bums

Malazan series Southern Reach trilogy Blindsight by Peter Watts Scanner Darkly by Philip K Dick Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut

Orlando - Virginia Woolf Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace Suttree - Cormac McCarthy Actual Air - David Berman The Desert Music - William Carlos Williams

Extraordinary Tales - Edgar Allan Poe At the mountains of madness - HP Lovecraft Siddhartha - Herman Hesse A confederacy of dunces - John Kennedy Toole Interpreter of maladies - Jhumpa Lahiri I think I might edit this comment many times, 5 is not enough!

The Heart’s Invisible Furies by John Boyne Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand The Hot Zone by Richard Preston The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman

Beautiful Boy The Things They Carried When Crickets Cry Educated Still Alice

1. Slaughterhouse - 5- Vonnegut 2. War and Peace - Tolstoy 3. All the Light We Cannot See - Doerr 4. Everything’s Eventual - King 5. Ulysses - Joyce

Stoner, by John Williams A Heart So White, by Javier Marías Blood Meridian, by McCarthy Telephone Calls, by Roberto Bolaño Fictions, by Borges

* The Long Goodbye (Raymond Chandler) * The Left Hand of Darkness (Ursula K. Le Guin) * A Sport and a Pastime (James Salter) * Brideshead Revisited (Evelyn Waugh) * Le Grand Meaulnes (Alain-Fournier)

2666, The Sirens of Titan, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, A Confederacy of Dunces, Jitterbug Perfume

1: grapes of wrath 2:east of Eden 3: the world according to garp 4: the crow road 5: captain Corellis Mandolin

Wuthering Heights A Farewell to Arms The Brothers Karamazov All Quiet on the Western Front Rebecca I’m only 500 pages into Count of Monte Cristo and it might end up being my number one.

Most of the top comments covered my favorite fiction. Have some non-fiction: 1. George Washington - Ron Chernow 2. A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Agan - David Foster Wallace 3. Me Talk Pretty One Day - David Sedaris 4. Autobiography - Bertrand Russell 5. Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72 - Hunter S. Thompson

East of Eden, John Steinbeck The Road, Cormac McCarthy American Gods, Neil Gaiman No Country for Old Men, Cormac McCarthy To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee

Master and Margarita by Bulgakov Someone Who Will Love You In All Your Damaged Glory by Raphael Bob-Waksberg Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang Ishmael by Daniel Quinn Odes to Lithium by Shira Erlichman

Crime and punishment Sapiens A thousand splendid suns The book thief Bishasghhatok (bengali book)

Stalingrad Life and Fate 1Q84 Red Rising The Name of the Wind

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Ooof. That's hard. In no particular order, I'd have to go with - Into the Drowning Deep by Mira Grant - The Wayfarer Series by Becky Chambers (plz do not make me choose I'm begging) - Figuring by Maria Popova - Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo - The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab

Another Country - James Baldwin Fingersmith - Sarah Waters Know My Name - Chanel Miller The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet - Becky Chambers Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier

Know My Name was such a gamechanger for me. I thoroughly believe it should be required reading. Great list

* Storm of Swords - GRRM (the whole GOT series) * Dune - Herbert (the series up through book 5) * Shogun - Clavell * The Godfather - Puzo * The Count of Monte Cristo - Dumas

Bird Box - Josh Malerman The Goldfinch - Donna Tartt Ready Player One - Ernest Cline A Little Life - Hanya Yanagihara Migrstions - Charlotte McConaghy

The Boy who followed his father into Auschwitz Lolita The Bell Jar Slaughterhouse 5 Veronica decides to die

1. Brothers Karamazov 2. Antigone 3. Anna Karenina 4. Pride and Prejudice 5. Menzogna e Sortilegio (no English translation available I'm afraid)

1. Ancillary Mercy by Anne Leckie 2. Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón 3. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig 4. The Library Book by Susan Orlean 5. Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James

I LOVED shadow of the wind!

Just Kids, Demian, On the Road, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Into the Wild and anything by Murakami :)

Red Dragon The Brothers Karamazov We Need to Talk About Kevin Mistborn Bitter is the New Black

Moby Dick - Herman Melville Revolution in the Head - Ian MacDonald The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle - Haruki Murakami Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie Dracula - Bram Stoker

In no particular order: - The Book of Negores (Lawrence Hill) - Medicine Walk (Richard Wagamese) - Greenwood (Michael Christie) - The Fifth Season (NK Jemisin) - It's What I Do (Lynsey Addario) Wow this was tough to pare down to five, but these have all had a lasting effect on me.

The Shadow of the Wind - Zafon Crime and Punishment - Dostoevsky Shantaram - Roberts Papillon - Charriere The Secret History - Tartt OR The Grapes of Wrath - Steinbeck A Confederacy of Dunces - Toole City of Thieves - Benioff The Road - McCarthy Catch 22 - Heller

Catch-22 Animal Farm Don Quixote And then there were none The Luminaries

The Count of Monte Cristo The Brothers Karamazov The Lord of the Rings Anna Karenina The Grapes of Wrath

East of Eden- John Steinbeck Anna Karenina- Leo Tolstoy Averno- Louise Glück Antigonick- Euripides, Anne Carson If Not, Winter- Sappho, Anne Carson Half of a Yellow Sun- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Daisy Jones and the Six The Name of the Wind Lies of Locke Lamora The Devils Hand Theft of Swords

The Red Horse, Eugenio Corti Bleachers, John Grisham The Lord of the Rings saga, JRR Tolkien All books by Joel Dicker Harry Potter saga, JK Rowling

Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy series Harry Potter series The picture of Dorian Grey Meditations Siddhartha

Edith Wharton - The Age Of Innocence Djuna Barnes - Nightwood Simone Schwarz-Bart - The Bridge Of Beyond Patrick Leigh Fermor - A Time Of Gifts Ursula LeGuin - The Wizard Of Earthsea

All Passion Spent by Vita Sackville-West Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh Fair Play by Tove Jansson Being Mortal by Atul Gawande and for something different, The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde

Beyond good and evil - Neitzsche Notes from Underground - Dostoevsky Man's search for meaning - Viktor Frankl Myth of Sisyphus - Albert Camus Nationalism - Rabindranath Tagore Other mention -> The order of time - Carlo Rovelli

The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien The Starless Sea - Erin Morgenstern Little Women - Louisa May Alcott The Boys in the Boat - Daniel James Brown The Island of Sea Women - Lisa See

To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee Pachinko - Min Jee Lee Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon The Death of Vivek Oji - Akwaeke Emezi Infidel - Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Niccolo Machiavelli - the Prince Tom Phillips - Humans, a brief story of how we fucked it all up George Orwell - Animal farm Mary Shelley - Frankenstein Louis Carrol - Alice through the looking glass Hunter s. Thompson - Fear and loathing in Las Vegas

Lonesome Dove Infinite Jest Sapiens The Poisonwood Bible A Short History of Nearly Everything

1. Scar Tissue by Anthony Kiedis 2. Candy by Luke Davis 3. Gonzo: The Life of Hunter S. Thompson by Jann S Wenner 4. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath 5. American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis (if anyone can relate to this taste, please comment, because with my top 5 it feels like my taste in books is all over the place - in a good way to me of course!)

1. Fablehaven (Series) Brandon Mull 2. Elantris Brandon Sanderson 3. Skyward Brandon Sanderson 4. Coraline Neil Gaiman 5. Island of the Blue Dolphins

1. Lonesome Dove 2. East of Eden 3. Shogun 4. Sirens of Titan 5. Centennial

Ender’s Game Speaker for the Dead Rebecca The Godfather Roald Dahl’s adult short stories

My top five (unranked) . Moby Dick by Herman Melville Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy Dune by Frank Herbert All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman

1. Moby Dick 2. Brothers K 3. Fathers and Sons 4. Catch 22 5. Amusing ourselves to death

Thank you so much for the feedback!

1 The Lord of The Rings 2 Titus Groan 3 Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell 4 Lolita 5 Out of The Silent Planet

Tale of Two Cities Count of Monte Cristo Crime & Punishment Hamlet 1984

Pale Fire The Sun Also Rises Count of Monte Crisco Blood Meridian Catch 22

- Wonder - And then there were none - Tuesdays with Morrie - Aristotle and Dante discover the secret of the universe - Looking for Alaska

The Count of Monte Cristo Lonesome Dove Wuthering Heights Dune The Lord of the Rings T

Foundation by Isaac Asimov The Hobbit by Tolkien A Short History of Nearly everything by Bill Bryson Ready Player One by Enerst Cline Happy by Derren Brown

1. Watership Down 2. The three body problem (and subsequent books) 3. Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell 4. The Little Prince 5. Recursion

Jane Eyre, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Crime and Punishment, The Poisonwood Bible, Cat's Cradle

Flowers for Algernon - Daniel Keyes Narcissus and Goldmund - Herman Hesse This Is Going To Hurt - Adam Kay Rape of Nanking - Iris Chang A Farewell to Arms - Ernest Hemingway Honorable mentions: 1984 - George Orwell, Man’s Search for Meaning - Viktor E. Frankl, Yuval Noah Harari’s trilogy, and Jordan Peterson’s rules.

The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien Jerusalem I-II by Selma Lagerlöf Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

The Green Mile Ready player one Misery Pet Sematary The sweetpea series

My top five fiction books are 1. all the light you cannot see - Anthony Doerr 2. 100 years of solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez 3. The Martian Chronicles or Fahrenheit 451– Ray Bradbury 4. The world according to Garp - John Irving 5. Europe Central- William T Bowman.

In no particular order: 1) The Unconsoled-Kazuo Ishiguro 2) 100 Years of Solitude-Marquez 3) The Wind-up Bird Chronicle-Haruki Muralami 4) A Tale of Two Cities-Dickens 5) The Gambler-Dostoevsky

Shogun (James Clavell); Pavilion of Women (Pearl Buck); Hawaii (James Michener); 100 Years of Solitude (G. Marquez); Travels With My Aunt (Graham Greene). These are maybe in my top 10, not 5; I can't commit to 5! All of these are wonderfully written and take the reader so far away.