The Poet Empress by Shen Tao. I can’t even begin to describe how great it is!
Gcnc376 on
Snow Crash.
Upstate_Gooner_1972 on
The Count of Monte Cristo
ClimateTraditional40 on
Why would I want to forget it? I do have 475 book that I reread, whenever I don’t have anything new, and I read around a book a day, have done for decades. THose 475, I never get sick of them.
DigInternational7076 on
Harry Potter, lol
plainether on
Mindfuck series. Easy
D_Pablo67 on
The Buru Quartet by Pramoedya Anata Toer is a dramatic and soulful series of four novels that must be read in order to get the full story: This Earth of Mankind, Child of All Nations, Footsteps and House of Glass. This is historical fiction about the birth of Indonesia as a nation and national identity, told through the eyes of young student Minke, half Dutch, half Indonesian, who is based on the father of Indonesian journalism. The author Pramoedya Anata Toer was a political prisoner when he told this as oral stories to fellow prisoners who were not allowed to read and write at the notorious Buru prison. Minke’s has an identity crisis. His trials and tribulations are uplifting and heartbreaking. This is the best fiction I ever read.
Nama_el on
The Incarnations by Susan Barker. Nothing has stood next to it since.
SpaceMonkeyGMG on
Gone Girl
QuillAndQuip on
A Wizard of Earthsea
Infamous_Wave9878 on
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
Some people don’t like it but idc more for me! I loved the ennui, the prose, the journey, the characters, everything
Ok-Buy5000 on
Crazy Rich Asians Series by Kevin Kwan
antennaloop on
Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
Frequent_Secretary25 on
Never Let Me Go. I’ll never get over it but the impact was figuring it out as I went along
Borne2Run on
Something by Ursula K Le Guin I think, like Left Hand of Darkness or The Dispossessed. She has such a compelling way of introducing new stories.
masson34 on
Flowers for Algernon
egomann on
Middlegame by Seanan McGuire
Different_Laugh_410 on
Many Masters, Many Lives: Dr. Brian Weiss
Geop1984 on
The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
Apprehensive-Yam266 on
Like Water for Chocolate or One Hundred Years of Solitude
ziggsyr on
honestly, give it 10yrs. It will surprise the hell out of you all over again.
DiscordDucky on
Any of the novels by Brom.
Tough-School-8814 on
Mad Sisters of Esi
socialchild on
Ironically, I actually did forget a book I read. When I was in college I’d read The Natural by Bernard Malamud, and I even write your papers on it and made A’s in both of them. About ten years later I read it again and literally didn’t remember anything. I kept thinking, I know I know I read this book for that myth criticism course, but I didn’t remember any of this. I even dug up the papers I wrote and they were pretty good. One was on Memo and the other was on Iris. I remember thinking I might combine them with some thoughts on Harriet and submit it to the National Conference on Undergraduate Research, but I never served to have time.
At any rate, reading it the second time was just like reading it the first time.
Difficult-Bicycle681 on
If you enjoy sci fi, genuinely Project Hail Mary. I read it shortly after it came out and man it was so good and still is, but I would love to experience it all again for the first time!
Only_Presentation758 on
I love the entire Harry Hole series from Jo Nesbo. I still read them all again every couple of years (best for winter reading) but of course, not that same element of surprise
Mysterious_Soup_1541 on
So many! Among them: The Dog Stars, Monk and Robot series, Midnight Circus, Jazz, and The Shipping News.
Honorable mention for The Fifth Sacred Thing. Not the best writing ever, but the world the author builds gave me an anchor in a dark time of life.
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Scarlet Pimpernel
The Poet Empress by Shen Tao. I can’t even begin to describe how great it is!
Snow Crash.
The Count of Monte Cristo
Why would I want to forget it? I do have 475 book that I reread, whenever I don’t have anything new, and I read around a book a day, have done for decades. THose 475, I never get sick of them.
Harry Potter, lol
Mindfuck series. Easy
The Buru Quartet by Pramoedya Anata Toer is a dramatic and soulful series of four novels that must be read in order to get the full story: This Earth of Mankind, Child of All Nations, Footsteps and House of Glass. This is historical fiction about the birth of Indonesia as a nation and national identity, told through the eyes of young student Minke, half Dutch, half Indonesian, who is based on the father of Indonesian journalism. The author Pramoedya Anata Toer was a political prisoner when he told this as oral stories to fellow prisoners who were not allowed to read and write at the notorious Buru prison. Minke’s has an identity crisis. His trials and tribulations are uplifting and heartbreaking. This is the best fiction I ever read.
The Incarnations by Susan Barker. Nothing has stood next to it since.
Gone Girl
A Wizard of Earthsea
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
Some people don’t like it but idc more for me! I loved the ennui, the prose, the journey, the characters, everything
Crazy Rich Asians Series by Kevin Kwan
Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
Never Let Me Go. I’ll never get over it but the impact was figuring it out as I went along
Something by Ursula K Le Guin I think, like Left Hand of Darkness or The Dispossessed. She has such a compelling way of introducing new stories.
Flowers for Algernon
Middlegame by Seanan McGuire
Many Masters, Many Lives: Dr. Brian Weiss
The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
Like Water for Chocolate or One Hundred Years of Solitude
honestly, give it 10yrs. It will surprise the hell out of you all over again.
Any of the novels by Brom.
Mad Sisters of Esi
Ironically, I actually did forget a book I read. When I was in college I’d read The Natural by Bernard Malamud, and I even write your papers on it and made A’s in both of them. About ten years later I read it again and literally didn’t remember anything. I kept thinking, I know I know I read this book for that myth criticism course, but I didn’t remember any of this. I even dug up the papers I wrote and they were pretty good. One was on Memo and the other was on Iris. I remember thinking I might combine them with some thoughts on Harriet and submit it to the National Conference on Undergraduate Research, but I never served to have time.
At any rate, reading it the second time was just like reading it the first time.
If you enjoy sci fi, genuinely Project Hail Mary. I read it shortly after it came out and man it was so good and still is, but I would love to experience it all again for the first time!
I love the entire Harry Hole series from Jo Nesbo. I still read them all again every couple of years (best for winter reading) but of course, not that same element of surprise
So many! Among them: The Dog Stars, Monk and Robot series, Midnight Circus, Jazz, and The Shipping News.
Honorable mention for The Fifth Sacred Thing. Not the best writing ever, but the world the author builds gave me an anchor in a dark time of life.
IT by Stephen King