Hello,
What is the book you’ll always suggest or always want to suggest when someone mentioned they are looking for a book to read? No worries of genre or anything else that would categorize it— just your number 1 book that you think everyone should pick up at some point in their life.
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Glass Castle – Jeanette Walls.
Never has a book resonated with me like this one.
The count of Monte Cristo
Lonesome dove
The way of the kings
The book thief
before the coffee gets cold
A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers
Wool by Hugh Howey
Station Eleven by Emily St John Mendel
Everything is Tuberculosis by John Green
To me it would be The Little Prince
Definitely Fall of Giants and Winter of the world by Ken Follet, my all time favorites. These are historical fiction, but the history part is very well done and constructed, you can tell the author has deep knowledge about the subject and has done a thorough research. They were the first books that made me feel that the wars were something that actually happened, not some chapters on history books, like I felt in school. You learn so much, all through the characters, that are of different nationalities so you get different perspectives of the war. You really learn what motivated the wars, how they unfolded and how they ended, all in great detail yet in a captivating and addictive manner, as the fictional part ( the characters and the relationships between them) are also sublimely constructed. They are massive books but still I read them in a heartbeat, I remember reading them at night before bed and suddenly 1h30 min had passed before me even realizing, they were so hard to put down. Sorry for the testament, but i can’t recommend these enough!
The Lunar Chronicles, Project Hail Mary and The Devoured Worlds trilogy
Of Human Bondage
West with the night by Beryl Markham. I suspect that if this book had been written by a man it would have been way more popular than it was. The book extremely controversial at the time of publishing as her conduct was scandalous. (She defied the patriachy, had an affair with royalty, did exactly as she pleased). Beryl was the first female bush pilot and wrote this book about her life in Africa and subsequently all over the world. I came across it as it was in the top 10 adventure books of all time as ranked by National Geographic and I’d never heard of it. Beryl was an inspiration for one of the characters in out of Africa and lived a life in a time when women being independent and making their own decisions was totally beyond the pale. Her story is amazing, but this is not the only reason to read it. The book is incredibly well written. So well written that critics refused to believe she could have written it. (It was her only book – too well written for a woman’s first attempt evidently). It is the only book Ernest Hemingway said he wish he had written.His comments and the National Geographic ranking are justified. Beautifully observed events with language pared right down to the essential. Evocative scenes in Africa, in the air, poignant descriptions of romances, joy, sadness, so much in a single compelling book.