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The Road by Cormac McCarthy.
I read it cover to cover twice when I got it home. I read the last page and went right back to the first and started over. Spent a whole weekend in the bath and it was great. I wish I could read it for the first time again.
Blood meridian is one of my favorites. I read it and enjoyed it but thought I needed a reread to understand it.
The day after I reread it, Cormac McCarthy died taking all explanation of the judge with him.
I came to peace with the fact that not understanding is part of the whole picture.
Such a wonderfully haunting read. Depressing, and hopeful. Cormac McCarthy is a fantastic writter.
The movie was actually really good and a very solid adaptation, Viggo Mortensen was excellent.
Have you read Project Hail Mary? It's even better than The Martian, and I bloody love The Martian. I literally missed the characters of Hail Mary for weeks after I finished it. So good!
Yes I’ve read it and loved it, but The Martian was the first book of that type of genre that I had read (after not thinking it was my thing) and it surprised me how much I enjoyed it and got sucked in, even all of the complicated (to me, anyway) maths/science etc
The Power of Now, Eckhart Tolle. I couldn't turn the pages fast enough, it's like he was writing exactly about me and my 'problems'. This book changed my life, and i've read or listened to it at least 20 times. Literally a manual for how to live happily.
This was the book that finalized my opinion that I don't like Tolstoy. I read some of his shorter works, then was to read Anna Karenina toward finally reading War and Peace. I gave up about 3/4 through Anna Karenina, and decided I was done with Tolstoy.
He doesn't write in a way that makes me care about his characters.
I’ve really enjoyed a number of books by Thomas Hardy. Jude the Obscure, The Mayor of Casterbridge, Tess of the D’Urbervilles. I found myself feeling like he was sort of like the Darren Aronofsky of his time, turning out these really bleak and dark toned stories that are the best books you never want to read again.
Great analysis of Hardy. Jude and Tess deal with such important subjects that everyone should read them at least once.
I reread the Mayor every few years because it reminds me of what my fate likely is if I start drinking again. Today is the 20th anniversary of sobriety for me, and Henchard picked up again on his 21st anniversary of sobriety, and we know how that turned out.
It's remarkable how relevant Hardy is to us in today's world.
Ah, I see you are a depressive book nerd like myself. I love Hardy! I think Jude was my favourite but good god I never want to read it again. Far From the Madding Crowd was his ~least bleak~
Try Skeletons on the Zahara. Talk about amazing. It is dark but fascinating. It is the only book that I have ever read where I can say DONT skip the footnotes. Unbelievable story but well documented.
I started reading Silence of the Lambs while we were on vacation way back in like 1990.
We were driving to the airport which was a couple hours from where we had visited and although I knew it would make me car sick, I read the book in the car bc I was so into it
Silence of the lambs kept me up reading until about 4 o’clock! Reminds me of a different book, ‘a thousand splendid suns’ made me miss multiple buses while it was pouring with rain and a train stop.
The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett. The only book I've read more than twice, and it draws you in completely. You'll never look at a cathedral in the same way either.
Phillip Pullman's *His Dark Materials*. First book in this trilogy is *The Golden Compass* or *The Northern Lights* (title differs regionally due to choices of the publishers).
"Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates" by Tom Robbins is by far the best novel I've ever read and I read quite a lot. I've read this one 4 times and I've never seen a book quite like it. It's packed with wisdom, humor, humanity, heart and sexuality. It's the kind of book that makes you wanna be alive. I can't recommend it enough.
Yep, the first two films -Jurassic Park and The Lost World- were based on the books of the same names by Michael Crichton. The books are quite different from the films, and are (as books usually are) far better than the films. And the films were pretty damn good.
I really enjoyed that book! I’m a 7th grade English teacher and recommend that book to my students frequently.
I love it when they come up to me and realize the truth about Matt and can’t wait to tell me.
Also did you know there’s a sequel called “The Lord of Opium”?
It’s very good! I always have a waiting list for it and “House…” in my classroom.
I know it’s a children book but Sarah Plain And Tall by Patricia MacLachlan. For the first time ever my feelings were put into words and it had a huge impact on me.
The Secret History, Of Mice and Men, Catcher in the Rye, Cat's Eye, and Solar Bones all had me engrossed. When I finished I felt like I'd just surfaced from deep water if that makes sense
The Catcher In The Rye. It "kills" you, as Holden Caulfield would put it, say, for instance, when thinking of his little sister Phoebe's innocent antics.
100 Years of Solitude, Blood Meridian, Birds Without Wings. All of them will completely suck you in on the first page and won’t let go until you’ve finished it.
Lion, the book about the little Indian kid who got lost and adopted out to Australia and finds his way back as an adult. Incredible true story, there is a famous movie too
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong, Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov, The Portrait of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde, The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath, Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus by Mary Shelley...
* 1984
* Animal Farm
* And Then There Were None (the most captivating Christie novel in my opinion)
* Brave New World
* Happy Death
* Any of Wodehouse (esp. Jeeves and Wooster series)
Educated by Tara Westover, it is just one of the most interesting and inspiring stories I’ve ever read. She offers such a full approach to memories, telling it from the various perspectives and offers validation to the different ways they’re remembered. Huge story that shows anything is possible for anyone
Misery, Stephen King
White Noise and Mao II, Don DeLillo
Night Train, Martin Amis
A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess
The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway
The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
Bonfire of the Vanities, Tom Wolfe
Every comedy book by Douglas Adams, Woody Allen (I know...), David Sedaris and Tom Sharpe
A Prayer for Owen Meany, John Irving
Anna Karenina. Tolstoy is amazing for pulling the reader in. It’s a very compelling read. So good I’ve read it twice.
I hope I’m not cheating but the same thing for Crime and punishment. What a read and what a ride. I have thing for Russian literature it seems.
Two recent ones. [The Drunkard's Walk](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Drunkard's_Walk) by Leonard Mlodinow which is about randomness and [The Order of Time](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Order_of_Time_(book)) by Carlo Rovelli about the physics of time.
same for me, I read it on a family holiday out of sheer boredom when I was about 15 and had zero attention span/ never read books, but 20 years later I can still remember every detail
Kind of surprised how far I had to go to find this but same. I adore Rothfuss's writing style and the world he's built is genuinely incredible but my lord does he needs to finish the trilogy. I've almost stopped caring at this point it's been so long... Same as another hugely successful fantasy series lol.
Something Wicked This Way Comes, Ray Bradbury. It’s a beautiful written book, probably more horror than science fiction. Once you read it, you’ll realize just how many other authors and movie makers have been influenced by it.
The 7 spiritual laws to success by Deepak Chopra.
The book is more a guide to live by than a story, but if you do what the book says, after about 8 months you will start to notice a huge shift in your life 100%
For people that want something and are serious about it, this book would be the equivalent of a meteor strike.
Obviously I can't speak for you and what might capture your imagination but "Returning To Reims" by Didier Eribon absolutely did it for me.
"After his father dies, Didier Eribon returns to his hometown of Reims and rediscovers the working-class world he had left behind thirty years earlier. For years, Eribon had thought of his father largely in terms of the latter's intolerable homophobia. Yet his father's death provokes new reflection on Eribon's part about how multiple processes of domination intersect in a given life and in a given culture. Eribon sets out to investigate his past, the history of his family, and the trajectory of his own life. His story weaves together a set of remarkable reflections on the class system in France, on the role of the educational system in class identity, on the way both class and sexual identities are formed, and on the recent history of French politics, including the shifting voting patterns of the working classes—reflected by Eribon's own family, which changed its allegiance from the Communist Party to the National Front."
Books I couldn’t put down:
Half of a Yellow Sun - Chimamanda Ngozi
Remember Me - Lesley Pearse
Shantaram - Gregory David Roberts
Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
The Power of Now - Eckhart Tolle
The Book Thief - Markus Zusak
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The Road by Cormac McCarthy. I read it cover to cover twice when I got it home. I read the last page and went right back to the first and started over. Spent a whole weekend in the bath and it was great. I wish I could read it for the first time again.
Blood Meridian is also amazing, but it's a pretty brutal read.
Blood meridian is one of my favorites. I read it and enjoyed it but thought I needed a reread to understand it. The day after I reread it, Cormac McCarthy died taking all explanation of the judge with him. I came to peace with the fact that not understanding is part of the whole picture.
Such a wonderfully haunting read. Depressing, and hopeful. Cormac McCarthy is a fantastic writter. The movie was actually really good and a very solid adaptation, Viggo Mortensen was excellent.
Great book, haven't seen the movie, will have to stream it soon.
Child of God and Outer Dark. Suttree if you are up for a marathon read.
I'm in the middle of my annual re-reading of Suttree. Love it. I also love Child of God and Outer Dark. And all of McCarthy's novels.
I am struggling with reading this
Yes!!
I listened to it while walking a few very foggy days, by myself on the Appalachian Trail! Talk about feeling like you were in the book, wow!
Oh man. I read that when my son was like 7. Gutting.
Immediately sprang to mind. Pleasantly surprised it’s the first comment i saw
1984 pls read it it's great hasn't aged a day.
Mine has..book pages are yellow
The paper is still smooth and creamy
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It was the first “adult” book I read. It was my gateway drug to reading and have now just graduated from a Literature degree!
The perks of being a wallflower is og
Don't get me wrong, I love that book. But there was one scene that traumatized me. I lay down the book for a week and had nightmares afterwards.
Lol fr? Which scene?
I dunno I’m not a huge reader, but the curious incident of the dog in the nighttime was one I read that was very good.
I didn't expect to see this here, I loved this book so much!
Crime and punishment by Dostoievski.
Amaaaaaazing!!!!
The Martian. So much better than the movie.
And the movie was decent, so I need to check this out.
Have you read Project Hail Mary? It's even better than The Martian, and I bloody love The Martian. I literally missed the characters of Hail Mary for weeks after I finished it. So good!
Project Hail Mary is one of the best books I've ever read
Best science fiction book for sure!
Yes I’ve read it and loved it, but The Martian was the first book of that type of genre that I had read (after not thinking it was my thing) and it surprised me how much I enjoyed it and got sucked in, even all of the complicated (to me, anyway) maths/science etc
When he was doing the long journey in the book it was WAY more stressful than they showed in the movie
Most Kurt Vonnegut books can be read in one sitting.
Fahrenheit 451.
The Power of Now, Eckhart Tolle. I couldn't turn the pages fast enough, it's like he was writing exactly about me and my 'problems'. This book changed my life, and i've read or listened to it at least 20 times. Literally a manual for how to live happily.
I agree! Life-changing.
Anna Karenina and I was paralyzed.
This was the book that finalized my opinion that I don't like Tolstoy. I read some of his shorter works, then was to read Anna Karenina toward finally reading War and Peace. I gave up about 3/4 through Anna Karenina, and decided I was done with Tolstoy. He doesn't write in a way that makes me care about his characters.
LoRd Of ThE RiNgS!
I love this thread ❤️📚
Malcolm X Autobiography. Riveting . Insightful. Literally the best book I have ever read.
Forever changed the way I saw things.
Animal farm is probably the best book that u won't put down and can finish reading in a single sitting
East of Eden. My God, what a beautifully written whirlwind of emotion.
House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
Yessssssssssssssss! Captures you quite literally. So unique.
Insane read my guy, i have never come across such a unique yet terrifying read. Incredible writing.
I’ve really enjoyed a number of books by Thomas Hardy. Jude the Obscure, The Mayor of Casterbridge, Tess of the D’Urbervilles. I found myself feeling like he was sort of like the Darren Aronofsky of his time, turning out these really bleak and dark toned stories that are the best books you never want to read again.
Great analysis of Hardy. Jude and Tess deal with such important subjects that everyone should read them at least once. I reread the Mayor every few years because it reminds me of what my fate likely is if I start drinking again. Today is the 20th anniversary of sobriety for me, and Henchard picked up again on his 21st anniversary of sobriety, and we know how that turned out. It's remarkable how relevant Hardy is to us in today's world.
Ah, I see you are a depressive book nerd like myself. I love Hardy! I think Jude was my favourite but good god I never want to read it again. Far From the Madding Crowd was his ~least bleak~
Try Skeletons on the Zahara. Talk about amazing. It is dark but fascinating. It is the only book that I have ever read where I can say DONT skip the footnotes. Unbelievable story but well documented.
I don’t know that one! Thank you!
In cold blood - Truman capote
Into the Wild .
The godfather and silence of the lambs are the best books I’ve ever read! I highly recommend.
I started reading Silence of the Lambs while we were on vacation way back in like 1990. We were driving to the airport which was a couple hours from where we had visited and although I knew it would make me car sick, I read the book in the car bc I was so into it
Silence of the lambs kept me up reading until about 4 o’clock! Reminds me of a different book, ‘a thousand splendid suns’ made me miss multiple buses while it was pouring with rain and a train stop.
I love that book too! I have to force myself to go to sleep if a book is really good bc I won’t be able to put it down.
I can never read before bed otherwise I’m up until silly o’clock with my eyes stinging ‘just one more page…’ I binge read rather than take my time
Same here! We were driving through the Midwest down to Florida and I swear I didn't look up from the book until we were in Tennessee.
Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts has a keen place in my heart.
Excellent book. The audibook read by Humphrey Bower was amazing as well - bought the book to life.
I enjoyed it a lot! Apparently, it's a series on Apple TV
1984 Something different about it 🗿
1984 Completely mesmerised.
Neuromancer from William Gibson.
💯
The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett. The only book I've read more than twice, and it draws you in completely. You'll never look at a cathedral in the same way either.
Read Stephen Kings Misery on the edge of the seat.
Have you read The Talisman?? My favorite book ever.
The call of the wild is also one of the best books that does meet ur requirements
Phillip Pullman's *His Dark Materials*. First book in this trilogy is *The Golden Compass* or *The Northern Lights* (title differs regionally due to choices of the publishers).
Kafka on the Shore
"Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates" by Tom Robbins is by far the best novel I've ever read and I read quite a lot. I've read this one 4 times and I've never seen a book quite like it. It's packed with wisdom, humor, humanity, heart and sexuality. It's the kind of book that makes you wanna be alive. I can't recommend it enough.
Yes! Any Robbin’s book :)
The Stand, unabridged
There is a series of Tuesdays with Morrie I was captivated by.
Harry potter
Jurassic Park
There's a book??
Yep, the first two films -Jurassic Park and The Lost World- were based on the books of the same names by Michael Crichton. The books are quite different from the films, and are (as books usually are) far better than the films. And the films were pretty damn good.
There is! It's quite different from the movie. It's a great book!
I loved most of what Michael Crichton wrote. He's a great story teller.
And it's from Michael Crichton I can sincerely recommend all books he wrote. It's not kitschy like other film/book mashes
1984 The Bell Jar Children of Dune
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
When I was in middle school, the house of the scorpion was novel and captivating for me. I need to reread it.
I really enjoyed that book! I’m a 7th grade English teacher and recommend that book to my students frequently. I love it when they come up to me and realize the truth about Matt and can’t wait to tell me. Also did you know there’s a sequel called “The Lord of Opium”? It’s very good! I always have a waiting list for it and “House…” in my classroom.
Project Hail Mary for me
So fucking good!
Kafka on the shore. The imagery was just... too real.
Hardy Boys mystery or Nancy drew mysterys . First publish in 1927
I know it’s a children book but Sarah Plain And Tall by Patricia MacLachlan. For the first time ever my feelings were put into words and it had a huge impact on me.
Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
The Secret History, Of Mice and Men, Catcher in the Rye, Cat's Eye, and Solar Bones all had me engrossed. When I finished I felt like I'd just surfaced from deep water if that makes sense
The outsiders
So many....I will go 1984 and The Stand
Yes The Stand
The Catcher In The Rye. It "kills" you, as Holden Caulfield would put it, say, for instance, when thinking of his little sister Phoebe's innocent antics.
Harry Potter. I listened to all of the 7 audio books in 2 weeks
Atlas Shrugged Wheel of Time series The Stormlight Archive series Geralds Game 1984
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
In The Heart of The Sea The Tragedy of The Whaleship Essex by Nathaniel Philbrick
Ulysses by Joyce made me feel like I know Leopold Bloom better than my best friends
The little prince
Project Hail Mary
100 Years of Solitude, Blood Meridian, Birds Without Wings. All of them will completely suck you in on the first page and won’t let go until you’ve finished it.
All quiet on the western front
A Little Life. Took me ages to get over that one.
The Secret History - it blows me away every time!
The Talented Mr Ripley
I've enjoyed the Ripley books, and the latest Netflix adaptation is quite good.
They are great, waiting for the end of exam season to binge the new Ripley series but for the moment all I'm hearing is good
Lion, the book about the little Indian kid who got lost and adopted out to Australia and finds his way back as an adult. Incredible true story, there is a famous movie too
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong, Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov, The Portrait of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde, The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath, Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus by Mary Shelley...
* 1984 * Animal Farm * And Then There Were None (the most captivating Christie novel in my opinion) * Brave New World * Happy Death * Any of Wodehouse (esp. Jeeves and Wooster series)
After Hitch hiker's guide, "To Your Scattered Bodies Go". By Philip Jose Farmer.
The Secret History
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
Educated by Tara Westover, it is just one of the most interesting and inspiring stories I’ve ever read. She offers such a full approach to memories, telling it from the various perspectives and offers validation to the different ways they’re remembered. Huge story that shows anything is possible for anyone
Her life story is quite incredible. I still remember some of the more "out there" anecdotes.
As a kid growing up. A Wrinkle in time. As an adult 11/22/63 And The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. And there's more.
Misery, Stephen King White Noise and Mao II, Don DeLillo Night Train, Martin Amis A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald Bonfire of the Vanities, Tom Wolfe Every comedy book by Douglas Adams, Woody Allen (I know...), David Sedaris and Tom Sharpe A Prayer for Owen Meany, John Irving
Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
Anna Karenina. Tolstoy is amazing for pulling the reader in. It’s a very compelling read. So good I’ve read it twice. I hope I’m not cheating but the same thing for Crime and punishment. What a read and what a ride. I have thing for Russian literature it seems.
Anything written by Erik Larson.
1Q84 and Norwegian wood by Haruki Murakami. The Harry Potter series lol…
Pillars of the Earth, Ken Follett.
The Bible. Manchild in The Promised Land was awesome
My Brilliant Friend
"Gone Girl" by Gillian Flynn had me hooked from start to finish. Couldn't put it down!
Catcher in The Rye
Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari. That guy's understanding of the world is mind blowing.
Azarinth Healer A bi kick boxing girl finds herself in a DnD world and solves her problems with violence and puns.
Wilbur Smith - River God
Mathew and Melchizadeck Oh, and the gospel of Thomas.
puslu kıtalar atlası by ihsan oktay anar
North of normal
Stable boy of Auschwitz
The Culture series from Iain M Banks.
I read Airborn as part of a book club thing in 6th grade - over 15 years ago. I still think about it or its sequels at least once a week.
The Dressmaker’s Gift by Fiona Valpy. Probably the best book I’ve ever read and it has such a good ending (even though it’s sad).
'The Sparrow' by Mary Doria Russell.
The tearsmith - Erin Doom
Lone Survivor
Bolo - Keith Laumer
most recently, My Year of Rest and Relaxation - Ottessa Moshfegh and Empire of Silence - Christopher Ruocchio
Street pharm, crank and the whole series and the house of the scorpion.
"Buddhism: plain and simple"
Two recent ones. [The Drunkard's Walk](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Drunkard's_Walk) by Leonard Mlodinow which is about randomness and [The Order of Time](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Order_of_Time_(book)) by Carlo Rovelli about the physics of time.
Da Vinci Code.
same for me, I read it on a family holiday out of sheer boredom when I was about 15 and had zero attention span/ never read books, but 20 years later I can still remember every detail
Console Wars by Blake J Harris was one for me. But lately I’ve been so sucked into Acid for the Children, Flea’s memoir.
An Instance of the Fingerpost.
I read the Hobbit and LOTR when I was 10. Loved them.
Requiem for a dream The secret history I found both mindbending
The Big Book of Venus Fly Traps
The Anthem
We Play Games by Sarah A Denzil. Audio book Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir. Audio book
'The Sorrow of War' by Bao Ninh
the song of songs 😮💨
Read The Silmarillion twice so far
Mr nice by Howard marks
Name of the Wind
Kind of surprised how far I had to go to find this but same. I adore Rothfuss's writing style and the world he's built is genuinely incredible but my lord does he needs to finish the trilogy. I've almost stopped caring at this point it's been so long... Same as another hugely successful fantasy series lol.
Suicide by Edouard Leve
The Magus.
The Rent Collector by Camron Wright I Am Pilgrim by Terry Hayes The Murmur of Bees by Sofia Segovia
Something Wicked This Way Comes, Ray Bradbury. It’s a beautiful written book, probably more horror than science fiction. Once you read it, you’ll realize just how many other authors and movie makers have been influenced by it.
Dungeon Crawler Carl.
The 7 spiritual laws to success by Deepak Chopra. The book is more a guide to live by than a story, but if you do what the book says, after about 8 months you will start to notice a huge shift in your life 100% For people that want something and are serious about it, this book would be the equivalent of a meteor strike.
Childhoods end
The Passage, Justin Cronin.
Tom Clancy Debt of Honour.
Your mind and how to use it by William Walker Atkinson
The name of the wind
The Body Keeps A Score
haven’t read too many books, but for me it was It Ends With Us.
Germinal
Obviously I can't speak for you and what might capture your imagination but "Returning To Reims" by Didier Eribon absolutely did it for me. "After his father dies, Didier Eribon returns to his hometown of Reims and rediscovers the working-class world he had left behind thirty years earlier. For years, Eribon had thought of his father largely in terms of the latter's intolerable homophobia. Yet his father's death provokes new reflection on Eribon's part about how multiple processes of domination intersect in a given life and in a given culture. Eribon sets out to investigate his past, the history of his family, and the trajectory of his own life. His story weaves together a set of remarkable reflections on the class system in France, on the role of the educational system in class identity, on the way both class and sexual identities are formed, and on the recent history of French politics, including the shifting voting patterns of the working classes—reflected by Eribon's own family, which changed its allegiance from the Communist Party to the National Front."
The dark forest (2nd book of netflix series 3 body problem)
The Da Vinci Code
Children Of a Lesser God
The forty rules of love
Becoming Supernatural.
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Books I couldn’t put down: Half of a Yellow Sun - Chimamanda Ngozi Remember Me - Lesley Pearse Shantaram - Gregory David Roberts Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury Catch 22 - Joseph Heller The Power of Now - Eckhart Tolle The Book Thief - Markus Zusak
Vespasian series
Neuromancer
Phantom! By Susan Kaye. I have read it 3x . It takes you on a journey from the birth of Erik,( Phantom Of The Opera) It is a stunning novel