I'm in need of a good book recommendation or two. My tbr pile is dreadfully small and could do with a bit of growth. I'd love to know what is a book that you read and fell in love with. A book you just want to gush about to anyone who'll listen. I want to read a book that good! So gush to me, I want to listen, I want to read your favourite book!
by TheAnxiousMouse
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Of all time? My top 5 is something like
1. Project Hail Mary
2. A Wizard of Earthsea
3. Aristotle and Dante
My favorite book of the year that I would not shut about was I’m Starting To Worry About This Black Box Of Doom by Jason Pargin
1. Go tell it in a mountain
2. Jazz
3. Dream hotel
The Magus by John Fowles. It’s literary fiction. Read it for the first time when I was 24. Raced through it in a couple of days (and it’s a *long* book). Finished it in the middle of the night, slept fitfully for a couple of hours and woke up so depressed I could no longer live in it that I started over from the beginning. This has only happened to me once.
I turned 60 this year, and I’ve now read it about 20 times. I’ve read thousands of books, this is my all time favourite – it has everything.
Don’t want to say too much about the plot, so I’ll just leave you with the last sentences of part one:
“I did not think about the future. In spite of what the doctor at the clinic had said I felt certain that the cure would fail. The pattern of destiny seemed clear: down and down, and down.
But then the mysteries began.”
For Whom the Bell Tolls. Classic for a reason, and it holds up.
Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik is my very favorite book. It has three female protagonists and one of them is both Jewish and the heroine in a fairy tale. It’s well-written and lots of fun.