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    Tell me your fav book that you think everyone should read

    i went to the book store today and i got so overwhelmed lol. so i thought id ask here what your fav book is, something you maybe couldnt put down, something that maybe made you feel things , maybe stuck with you for a long time.

    im open to any genre honestly, so let me know your thoughts

    Edit: thank you all for the suggestions, i cant wait to read them

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    1. jrmintsandpopcorn on

      My top 3:
      1- Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
      2- East of Eden by John Steinbeck
      3- Beartown by Fredrik Backman

      I so wish I could read them all for the first time again!

    2. Monestel_ on

      I just finished ‘A gentleman in Moscow ‘ by Amor Towels today and the count and his life story will surely stay with me for a while. What a character!
      Another favourite: North Woods by Daniel Mason

    3. Top-Lavishness2906 on

      Atwood’s MaddAddam trilogy is one of my favorites. The Blind Assassin is also terrific.

      House of Leaves by Danielewski is incredible and genuinely creepy, despite not being out and out horror.

      James Ellroy is probably my favorite author. I’d start with Black Dahlia or American Tabloid.

    4. alexandrajadedreams on

      1) Legends&Lattes by Travis Baldree

      2)In the Lives of Puppets by TJ Klune

      3) Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie

      4) Hemlock&Silver by T. Kingfisher

    8. Dry-Vermicelli-1451 on

      1) Shadow of the Winds by Carlos Ruiz Zafron

      2) The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett (find the extended version or one written for a higher age group)

      3) In the Land of Armadillos by Helen Maryles Shankman

    9. cheesy_hobbit on

      I fell in love with h{{Cloud Cuckoo Land}} by Anthony Doerr because, for me, it’s imbued with such a love and appreciation of The Story™️ as a historical tool and ai love how the Greek tale is told and retold and rediscovered across the different storylines.

      Also, as a librarian, I love Zeno and aspire to be as kind and caring as he is in the book, and there’s also a connection to librarianship that runs throughout the novel that’s just absolutely beautiful.

    11. RunawaYEM on

      North Woods by Daniel Mason

      All The Colors Of The Dark by Chris Whitaker

      Playground by Richard Powers

    13. esuasesu on

      Man’s Search for Meaning
      Book by Viktor Frankl

      Get as a present, best book i have ever read. Worth to read.

    15. Patellaex on

      Anything by Anne Tyler but Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant is probably her most popular.

    20. avathekinkynerd on

      Deerskin by Robin McKinley is my favorite book. It’s YA fantasy – I read it when I was a kid, but it has held up as I’ve gotten older, and I re-read it at least once a year.

      It’s dark, heartbreaking, but also incredibly uplifting, with a strong main character who manages to find her way in the world despite her past trauma.

      If you love dogs, that’s a bonus, as dogs feature heavily in the story (but SPOILER WARNING no dogs die in the book).

    21. Early-Aardvark7688 on

      Beach Music by Pat Conroy.

      It’s 650 pages of perfect sadness and honestly is one of the funniest books I have read. You get themes and talks of suicide, family drama religious drama. You get knee deep into the Holocaust, the Vietnam war. The greatest prose of all time in my opinion here are my two favorite quotes maybe of all time

      “I could feel the tears within me, undiscovered and untouched in their inland sea. Those tears had been with me always. I thought that, at birth, American men are allotted just as many tears as American women. But because we are forbidden to shed them, we die long before women do, with our hearts exploding or our blood pressure rising or our livers eaten away by alcohol because that lake of grief inside us has no outlet. We, men, die because our faces were not watered enough.”

      “As she cried, I began to under-stand. You weep at the loss of so beautiful a world and all those parts you will never be able to play again. The dark takes on different meaning. Your body has begun to prepare you for the last completion, for the peace and generosity of silence itself.”

      And

      Beloved by Toni Morrison.

      It changed my brain activity after reading it. As a white guy from the south it opened my eyes to the horrors of the south more than anything I have ever read before. I just kept waiting for it to have some semblance of happiness but nope just page after page of brutal despair

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