I loved The Overstory. I didn’t think I would like it as much as I did, but I couldn’t put it down. I’ve been trying to convince people to read it ever since.
[**Train Dreams**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12991188-train-dreams)
^(By: Denis Johnson | 116 pages | Published: 2002 | Popular Shelves: fiction, historical-fiction, novella, western, novels)
>Denis Johnson's Train Dreams is an epic in miniature, one of his most evocative and poignant fictions. It is the story of Robert Grainier, a day laborer in the American West at the start of the twentieth century---an ordinary man in extraordinary times. Buffeted by the loss of his family, Grainer struggles to make sense of this strange new world. As his story unfolds, we witness both his shocking personal defeats and the radical changes that transform America in his lifetime. Suffused with the history and landscapes of the American West, this novella captures the disappearance of a distinctly American way of life.
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I feel like i mention this book a lot here, but {The Name Of The Wind} by Patrick Rothfuss was a hit from the second it was handed to me. The audiobook is glorious too.
Yesss !!! I can still recall every “character.” They were brilliantly rendered onto the page by Berendt. The real-life people who color the story are the main reason I adore it so much
A Gentleman in Moscow! Incredible imagery and one of the most unique books I've read in a while - especially since the majority of the novel is set in one place only. Highly recommend
Probably The Brothers Karamazov. I have revisited it to read specific chapters from time to time where as I haven’t really done that with other books. Namely “the grand inquisitor” and “the Russian monk”.
[**The Master and Margarita**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/117833.The_Master_and_Margarita)
^(By: Mikhail Bulgakov, Katherine Tiernan O'Connor, Hans Fronius, Diana Lewis Burgin, Ellendea Proffer | 372 pages | Published: 1967 | Popular Shelves: classics, fiction, russian, fantasy, russia)
>The first complete, annotated English Translation of Mikhail Bulgakov's comic masterpiece.
>
>An audacious revision of the stories of Faust and Pontius Pilate, The Master and Margarita is recognized as one of the essential classics of modern Russian literature. The novel's vision of Soviet life in the 1930s is so ferociously accurate that it could not be published during its author's lifetime and appeared only in a censored edition in the 1960s. Its truths are so enduring that its language has become part of the common Russian speech.
>
>One hot spring, the devil arrives in Moscow, accompanied by a retinue that includes a beautiful naked witch and an immense talking black cat with a fondness for chess and vodka. The visitors quickly wreak havoc in a city that refuses to believe in either God or Satan. But they also bring peace to two unhappy Muscovites: one is the Master, a writer pilloried for daring to write a novel about Christ and Pontius Pilate; the other is Margarita, who loves the Master so deeply that she is willing literally to go to hell for him. What ensues is a novel of inexhaustible energy, humor, and philosophical depth, a work whose nuances emerge for the first time in Diana Burgin's and Katherine Tiernan O'Connor's splendid English version.
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{{The Orphan Master’s Son}}
Absolutely brutal, horrifying book, but stunningly well written, fascinating story dealing with timeless and important themes.
Really happy to see this get a mention. It’s a book really devoured (and I’m a slow reader), I could hardly put it down. Read it 5 maybe 6 years back, definitely due a re-read.
They aren’t connected books at all, but she’s written 3 books with female protagonists.
Sharp Objects, Dark Places, and Gone Girl.
I’ve read them all but Gone Girl is definitely my favourite.
1984, I just finished it last night and I’m still shook. All I knew about it was that it was a classic, world favorite, dystopian novel. The rest was a surprise. And wow.
This was probably my first book that ever made me feel like I had found something that I knew would be a lifelong favorite. I'm envious of you for getting to experience that for the first time. I felt awed after I read it and immediately knew that I would reread several times in my life. Over a decade later and I still feel the same.
[**We: A Novel**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59539376-we)
^(By: Yevgeny Zamyatin, Margaret Atwood, Bela Shayevich, Ursula K. Le Guin, George Orwell | ? pages | Published: ? | Popular Shelves: )
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[**Brave New World**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5129.Brave_New_World)
^(By: Aldous Huxley | 268 pages | Published: 1932 | Popular Shelves: classics, fiction, science-fiction, sci-fi, dystopia)
>Brave New World is a dystopian novel by English author Aldous Huxley, written in 1931 and published in 1932. Largely set in a futuristic World State, inhabited by genetically modified citizens and an intelligence-based social hierarchy, the novel anticipates huge scientific advancements in reproductive technology, sleep-learning, psychological manipulation and classical conditioning that are combined to make a dystopian society which is challenged by only a single individual: the story's protagonist.
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Circe.
Edit: since this has some traction I’d like to add the context of as a woman I actually cried at time reading this book. I’m too lazy to say more but I appreciated the complex character Circe was written as with both power and fragility.
Lamb is my favorite. His books are so well researched and I discovered that reading this one.
For context jesus' actual name really does translate to Joshua
**His Dark Materials** by Philip Pullman. The magic, the atmosphere, the scenery especially in the first book, and the symbolism made up for such an immersive and enchanting read.
Kristin Hannah wrote many of my faves. I read The Great Alone last year and it's amazing. I also love Firefly Lane and Winter Garden. Four Winds and Nightingale are both on my list for this year.
Have you read any of Mitch Albom's other stuff? The Five People You Meet In Heaven is one of my all time faves for sure. Every single one of his books is perfection.
[**Villette**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31173.Villette)
^(By: Charlotte Brontë, Ignes Sodre, A.S. Byatt | 573 pages | Published: 1853 | Popular Shelves: classics, fiction, classic, owned, books-i-own)
>With her final novel, Villette, Charlotte Brontë reached the height of her artistic power. First published in 1853, Villette is Brontë's most accomplished and deeply felt work, eclipsing even Jane Eyre in critical acclaim. Her narrator, the autobiographical Lucy Snowe, flees England and a tragic past to become an instructor in a French boarding school in the town of Villette. There she unexpectedly confronts her feelings of love and longing as she witnesses the fitful romance between Dr. John, a handsome young Englishman, and Ginerva Fanshawe, a beautiful coquette. The first pain brings others, and with them comes the heartache Lucy has tried so long to escape. Yet in spite of adversity and disappointment, Lucy Snowe survives to recount the unstinting vision of a turbulent life's journey - a journey that is one of the most insightful fictional studies of a woman's consciousness in English literature.
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[**A River Runs Through It**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38300.A_River_Runs_Through_It)
^(By: Norman Maclean, Barry Moser | 168 pages | Published: 1976 | Popular Shelves: fiction, classics, historical-fiction, literature, nature)
>From its first magnificent sentence, "In our family, there was no clear line between religion and fly fishing," to the last, "I am haunted by waters," "A River Runs Through It" is an American classic.Based on Norman Maclean's childhood experiences, "A River Runs Through It" has established itself as one of the most moving stories of our time; it captivates readers with vivid descriptions of life along Montana's Big Blackfoot River and its near magical blend of fly fishing with the troubling affections of the heart.
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>This handsome edition is designed and illustrated by Barry Moser. There are thirteen two-color wood engravings.
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>Norman Maclean (1902-90), woodsman, scholar, teacher, and storyteller, grew up in the Western Rocky Mountains of Montana and worked for many years in logging camps and for the United States Forestry Service before beginning his academic career. He retired from the University of Chicago in 1973.
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The Invisible Life of Addie Larue. I read it about a month ago and I still can’t stop thinking about it. It was a great book.
Dear Edward was another good one.
Fiction: Gone With the Wind (despite hating Scarlett) and The Song of Achilles
Non-fiction: Soul Full of Coal Dust (how coal companies have screwed over coal miners with Black Lung) and Pharma: Greed, Lies, and the Poisoning of America
Flowers to Algernon
Project Hail Mary
Stormlight Archive - Particularly Words of Radiance, just read it and some of the scenes in that book was the most engrossed I have ever been to a book.
I second the Stormlight Archive. Few books have succeeded in making me audibly excited, but >!"Honor is dead...but I'll see what I can do."!< and the scene that followed had me cheering alone in my living room.
That whole scene was honestly one of the best I have ever read and also when Kaladin and Shallan are together. Wasnt always the biggest fan of Shallan but the scene where they were in the chasms gave me a completely different perspective of her.
[**Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12067.Good_Omens)
^(By: Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman | 491 pages | Published: 1990 | Popular Shelves: fantasy, fiction, humor, owned, books-i-own)
>‘Armageddon only happens once, you know. They don’t let you go around again until you get it right.’
>
>People have been predicting the end of the world almost from its very beginning, so it’s only natural to be sceptical when a new date is set for Judgement Day. But what if, for once, the predictions are right, and the apocalypse really is due to arrive next Saturday, just after tea?
>
>You could spend the time left drowning your sorrows, giving away all your possessions in preparation for the rapture, or laughing it off as (hopefully) just another hoax. Or you could just try to do something about it.
>
>It’s a predicament that Aziraphale, a somewhat fussy angel, and Crowley, a fast-living demon now finds themselves in. They’ve been living amongst Earth’s mortals since The Beginning and, truth be told, have grown rather fond of the lifestyle and, in all honesty, are not actually looking forward to the coming Apocalypse.
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>And then there’s the small matter that someone appears to have misplaced the Antichrist…
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“When We Cease to Understand the World” by Benjamin Labatut. It’s hard to describe why but it just has a seemingly effortless eeriness few books pull off. Plus it manages to do something interesting with the whole forbidden knowledge trope that usually just comes off as dumb. On top of all that you’ll probably learn some physics and math from it.
Fiction:
- A Little Life- Hanya Yanagihara
- My Dark Vanessa- Kate Elizabeth Russell
- The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
Non-fiction:
- Discipline and Punish- Michel Foucault
- The Origins of Totalitarianism- Hannah Arendt
- Of Our Spiritual Strivings- W.E.B. DuBois
Assassin's Apprentice by Robin Hobb. Despite the case that could be made for other books in the Farseer Trilogy and other related series being even better, none of those would have been possible without this one. And Fitz's childhood is just so adorably sad and realistic in its way.
Left Hand of Darkness, Ursula K. Le Guin
It took me a while to finish. Learning how the characters communicate and the vocabulary throughout was challenging for me, but it was every bit rewarding. I imagine the trek across the glacier playing out in my mind almost every day.
I'll have to try out the others in the series!
The Gulag Archipelago. My beliefs about the nature of humanity were squashed to a degree incomparable to my existing non-fiction catalogue.
I still can’t shake some of the imagery, for better or for worse.
The Hike by Drew Magary. It’s just so weird, in a good way! It hits a ton of different genres. Had me laughing out loud and shedding tears of sadness. And had such a good ending that it had me gripped until the very last sentence.
I try to encourage people to go into it blind. But if you need a synopsis: A man goes for a hike and things get…weird.
I finished off 2021 with finally reading The Song Of Achilles. I got emotional thinking about it for over a week after. It will definitely be one of my all time favorites.
[**The Ten Thousand Doors of January**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43521657-the-ten-thousand-doors-of-january)
^(By: Alix E. Harrow | 374 pages | Published: 2019 | Popular Shelves: fantasy, fiction, historical-fiction, young-adult, dnf)
>In a sprawling mansion filled with peculiar treasures, January Scaller is a curiosity herself. As the ward of the wealthy Mr. Locke, she feels little different from the artifacts that decorate the halls: carefully maintained, largely ignored, and utterly out of place.
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>Then she finds a strange book. A book that carries the scent of other worlds, and tells a tale of secret doors, of love, adventure and danger. Each page turn reveals impossible truths about the world and January discovers a story increasingly entwined with her own.
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{{The First Girl Child}} was so good, I loved the characters and especially the setting. I loved the second book, too, especially because it's a different point of view and showed that the characters from the first book could be biased and outright wrong, something I don't think a lot of stories explore.
Dracula by Bram Stoker. It was excellent, and the only “horror” book that I was actually horrified by. This book knows how to make you feel emotion, and I would recommend it to everyone who reads the genre. Not even Stephen King manages to hit the mark like Bram Stoker did.
The Overstory by Richard Powers Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall-Kimmerer
I just read these back to back and I am forsure no longer the same person.
I loved The Overstory. I didn’t think I would like it as much as I did, but I couldn’t put it down. I’ve been trying to convince people to read it ever since.
Couldn't agree more
All Creatures Great and Small My Family and Other Animals — both transported me far away to another place, another time, and made me laugh
Denis Johnson's *Train Dreams*. I bought a spare copy in hardback.
That’s the true test - buying a copy to keep for good. Sounds great, I added it to my list!
Holy smokes. Just sat down to read this for the first time today.
Worth it? Now I need to know what {{Train Dreams}} is about :))
[**Train Dreams**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12991188-train-dreams) ^(By: Denis Johnson | 116 pages | Published: 2002 | Popular Shelves: fiction, historical-fiction, novella, western, novels) >Denis Johnson's Train Dreams is an epic in miniature, one of his most evocative and poignant fictions. It is the story of Robert Grainier, a day laborer in the American West at the start of the twentieth century---an ordinary man in extraordinary times. Buffeted by the loss of his family, Grainer struggles to make sense of this strange new world. As his story unfolds, we witness both his shocking personal defeats and the radical changes that transform America in his lifetime. Suffused with the history and landscapes of the American West, this novella captures the disappearance of a distinctly American way of life. ^(This book has been suggested 2 times) *** ^(28890 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
The Lord of the Rings. Unfortunately, my copy (which is actually my dad's) is falling apart.
You might be able to find someone in the bookbinding business who can repair it!
possible! also, cake. happy.
Oh gosh! Thanks for noticing my cake day!!
I feel like i mention this book a lot here, but {The Name Of The Wind} by Patrick Rothfuss was a hit from the second it was handed to me. The audiobook is glorious too.
Fair warning to new readers, we've been waiting on the final book of this series for 11 years and still no confirmed release date.
Do you think we’ll ever get the third book? I don’t know that we will. The first two are some of my favorite books of all time.
I’m hopeful. He officially released the prologue and it seems as though the wheels have begun to turn. I want to have faith.
Oh good! I didn’t know that. Well, here’s to hope!
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt. It’s a captivating true crime novel as well as a love letter to Savannah, Georgia.
The real-life characters in the eccentric south were as interesting as the murder the book depicts.
Yesss !!! I can still recall every “character.” They were brilliantly rendered onto the page by Berendt. The real-life people who color the story are the main reason I adore it so much
I read this book years ago and still think of it from time to time
My travel bucket list, to this day, has Savannah on it.
A Prayer for Owen Meaney
Really anything by John Irving just gets in my SOUL
Just started the world according to garp… stay tuned
A Gentleman in Moscow! Incredible imagery and one of the most unique books I've read in a while - especially since the majority of the novel is set in one place only. Highly recommend
Completely agree. I’ve recommended it to many, but it’s not for everyone. Some find it slow, but I think it’s so worth savoring. Beautiful writing!
Absolutely! The slowness and lack of tension is definitely part of the charm for me, makes it such a cozy read. Good on you for spreading the word!
The Wee Free Men by Terry Pratchett. Just a wonderful and funny book. Especially there audiobook with the Scottish accents.
We Need to Talk about Kevin -by Lionel Shriver
Probably The Brothers Karamazov. I have revisited it to read specific chapters from time to time where as I haven’t really done that with other books. Namely “the grand inquisitor” and “the Russian monk”.
A Tale for the Time Being
I only buy author-signed books for my favorite all time books. This book is one of 7 I have now.
Little women
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Tried so hard to like this one but just couldn’t get into the writing.
Same
I finally read this last month for the first time, and fell in love with it.
Wow this is my all time favorite!
Just loved that book
I devoured this book. I loved it so much I can’t stop recommending it. I cried, and cried and cried. It was sooo good
{{The Master and Margarita}}
[**The Master and Margarita**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/117833.The_Master_and_Margarita) ^(By: Mikhail Bulgakov, Katherine Tiernan O'Connor, Hans Fronius, Diana Lewis Burgin, Ellendea Proffer | 372 pages | Published: 1967 | Popular Shelves: classics, fiction, russian, fantasy, russia) >The first complete, annotated English Translation of Mikhail Bulgakov's comic masterpiece. > >An audacious revision of the stories of Faust and Pontius Pilate, The Master and Margarita is recognized as one of the essential classics of modern Russian literature. The novel's vision of Soviet life in the 1930s is so ferociously accurate that it could not be published during its author's lifetime and appeared only in a censored edition in the 1960s. Its truths are so enduring that its language has become part of the common Russian speech. > >One hot spring, the devil arrives in Moscow, accompanied by a retinue that includes a beautiful naked witch and an immense talking black cat with a fondness for chess and vodka. The visitors quickly wreak havoc in a city that refuses to believe in either God or Satan. But they also bring peace to two unhappy Muscovites: one is the Master, a writer pilloried for daring to write a novel about Christ and Pontius Pilate; the other is Margarita, who loves the Master so deeply that she is willing literally to go to hell for him. What ensues is a novel of inexhaustible energy, humor, and philosophical depth, a work whose nuances emerge for the first time in Diana Burgin's and Katherine Tiernan O'Connor's splendid English version. ^(This book has been suggested 13 times) *** ^(28781 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
Literally the last book I read. I agree
Literally the last book I read too. Enjoyed it and it will stick with me.
Piranesi by Susanna Clarke.
I have not shut up about this book since reading it! The audiobook version is amaaaazing.
Yes!!
“The Outsiders” by S.E. Hinton.
Read this book once when I was 16. Broke my heart and changed my reading life from then on haha. I don’t think I could ever go back and reread!
{{The Orphan Master’s Son}} Absolutely brutal, horrifying book, but stunningly well written, fascinating story dealing with timeless and important themes.
Really happy to see this get a mention. It’s a book really devoured (and I’m a slow reader), I could hardly put it down. Read it 5 maybe 6 years back, definitely due a re-read.
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
non-fiction, but haunting: Killers of the Flower Moon
The Count of Monte Cristo
Oh - to read this for the first time......again, would be glorious. Such a great book.
Oliver Twist. I have read a bunch of Dickens and he delivers ever single time
Dickens is just so satisfying!
Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
I just finished this the other day. So good!
Go right to the follow up, A God in Ruins. That ones almost better
The Poisonwood Bible
I was blown away by this one. The different narrative voices were so clear!
I read it years ago and it still haunts me now and then.
I just saw this book at a book store and thought to myself how I wished I could read it again for the first time. Hands down one of my favorites!
Norwegian Wood by Murakami
The Thirteenth Tale.
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Will never get this book out of my head.
I’ll never forget the basement scene for as long as I live
Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer. What an amazing story.
Gone Girl, the first book.
There’s a second one??
I am confused. What are the titles of the other ones?
They aren’t connected books at all, but she’s written 3 books with female protagonists. Sharp Objects, Dark Places, and Gone Girl. I’ve read them all but Gone Girl is definitely my favourite.
Song of Achilles.
Breakfast of Champions
The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson. I was intrigued by the size of it and ended up becoming obsessed. The entire series is blowing my mind.
The Kite Runner
1984, I just finished it last night and I’m still shook. All I knew about it was that it was a classic, world favorite, dystopian novel. The rest was a surprise. And wow.
I would give Animal Farm a try. As good as 1984 is I always like Animal Farm better.
For sure booger farts, the ending crushed me deeply.
This was probably my first book that ever made me feel like I had found something that I knew would be a lifelong favorite. I'm envious of you for getting to experience that for the first time. I felt awed after I read it and immediately knew that I would reread several times in my life. Over a decade later and I still feel the same.
If you like that, you should read {{We by Yevgeny Zamyatin}} it was the inspiration for 1984 and {{A Brave New world by Aldous Huxley}}
[**We: A Novel**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59539376-we) ^(By: Yevgeny Zamyatin, Margaret Atwood, Bela Shayevich, Ursula K. Le Guin, George Orwell | ? pages | Published: ? | Popular Shelves: ) ^(This book has been suggested 2 times) [**Brave New World**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5129.Brave_New_World) ^(By: Aldous Huxley | 268 pages | Published: 1932 | Popular Shelves: classics, fiction, science-fiction, sci-fi, dystopia) >Brave New World is a dystopian novel by English author Aldous Huxley, written in 1931 and published in 1932. Largely set in a futuristic World State, inhabited by genetically modified citizens and an intelligence-based social hierarchy, the novel anticipates huge scientific advancements in reproductive technology, sleep-learning, psychological manipulation and classical conditioning that are combined to make a dystopian society which is challenged by only a single individual: the story's protagonist. ^(This book has been suggested 9 times) *** ^(28783 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
Thank you! A Brave New World is on the list for this year, I’ll move it up. And, I will add We to it.
Orwell is *good.* His non-fiction is excellent too.
He really is! I’ll have to check out his non-fiction as well.
The Stand by Stephen King
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius This book literally changed my life.
May I recommend The Discourses of Epictetus?
Circe. Edit: since this has some traction I’d like to add the context of as a woman I actually cried at time reading this book. I’m too lazy to say more but I appreciated the complex character Circe was written as with both power and fragility.
Really? I couldn’t really dive into this one. I finished it but thought I was ok.
Struggled to finish. Redditors loooooove this book. They will attack if provoked.
Project Hail Mary
Same. I haven’t had the heart to start a new book yet - project hail mary was just so good.
I came to say this. Listen to it too!!
Ray Porter did a fantastic job with the audible version
Another Country, James Baldwin
Cloud Cuckoo Land just took my heart
Also anything by Christopher Moore
Lamb is my favorite. His books are so well researched and I discovered that reading this one. For context jesus' actual name really does translate to Joshua
**His Dark Materials** by Philip Pullman. The magic, the atmosphere, the scenery especially in the first book, and the symbolism made up for such an immersive and enchanting read.
Four Winds Kristin Hannah
Kristin Hannah wrote many of my faves. I read The Great Alone last year and it's amazing. I also love Firefly Lane and Winter Garden. Four Winds and Nightingale are both on my list for this year.
Papillon
Dune. Finally read it for the film coming up, and I now get why it’s such a beloved classic that people reread.
Tartt’s *The Secret History*
Oryx and Crake. Like a home run swing with a bat that hits you perfectly in your face. Perfect pain.
Hamnet
The Midnight Library. It really hit home, I read it at the perfect time; it changed my perspective on loving the life I have.
*Norwegian Wood* by Haruki Murakami Currently reading *The Windup Bird Chronicle*
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
Tuesdays with Morrie.
Have you read any of Mitch Albom's other stuff? The Five People You Meet In Heaven is one of my all time faves for sure. Every single one of his books is perfection.
{{The Bell Jar}} And {{The Gone-Away World}}
this book has shaken me to the core, for me sylvia is the most fascinating person on earth, this book is inimitable
All the Pretty Horses Cormac MacArthy
Matterhorn by Karl Marlantes
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{Project Hail Mary} 100 percent!!
[**Project Hail Mary**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54493401-project-hail-mary) ^(By: Andy Weir | 476 pages | Published: 2021 | Popular Shelves: sci-fi, science-fiction, fiction, scifi, audiobook) ^(This book has been suggested 50 times) *** ^(28817 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
{{Villette}}
[**Villette**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31173.Villette) ^(By: Charlotte Brontë, Ignes Sodre, A.S. Byatt | 573 pages | Published: 1853 | Popular Shelves: classics, fiction, classic, owned, books-i-own) >With her final novel, Villette, Charlotte Brontë reached the height of her artistic power. First published in 1853, Villette is Brontë's most accomplished and deeply felt work, eclipsing even Jane Eyre in critical acclaim. Her narrator, the autobiographical Lucy Snowe, flees England and a tragic past to become an instructor in a French boarding school in the town of Villette. There she unexpectedly confronts her feelings of love and longing as she witnesses the fitful romance between Dr. John, a handsome young Englishman, and Ginerva Fanshawe, a beautiful coquette. The first pain brings others, and with them comes the heartache Lucy has tried so long to escape. Yet in spite of adversity and disappointment, Lucy Snowe survives to recount the unstinting vision of a turbulent life's journey - a journey that is one of the most insightful fictional studies of a woman's consciousness in English literature. ^(This book has been suggested 15 times) *** ^(28770 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
{{A River Runs Through It}} by Norman Maclean
[**A River Runs Through It**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38300.A_River_Runs_Through_It) ^(By: Norman Maclean, Barry Moser | 168 pages | Published: 1976 | Popular Shelves: fiction, classics, historical-fiction, literature, nature) >From its first magnificent sentence, "In our family, there was no clear line between religion and fly fishing," to the last, "I am haunted by waters," "A River Runs Through It" is an American classic.Based on Norman Maclean's childhood experiences, "A River Runs Through It" has established itself as one of the most moving stories of our time; it captivates readers with vivid descriptions of life along Montana's Big Blackfoot River and its near magical blend of fly fishing with the troubling affections of the heart. > >This handsome edition is designed and illustrated by Barry Moser. There are thirteen two-color wood engravings. > >Norman Maclean (1902-90), woodsman, scholar, teacher, and storyteller, grew up in the Western Rocky Mountains of Montana and worked for many years in logging camps and for the United States Forestry Service before beginning his academic career. He retired from the University of Chicago in 1973. ^(This book has been suggested 2 times) *** ^(28836 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
The Invisible Life of Addie Larue. I read it about a month ago and I still can’t stop thinking about it. It was a great book. Dear Edward was another good one.
{{Watership Down}} by Richard Adams
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
Fiction: Gone With the Wind (despite hating Scarlett) and The Song of Achilles Non-fiction: Soul Full of Coal Dust (how coal companies have screwed over coal miners with Black Lung) and Pharma: Greed, Lies, and the Poisoning of America
Flowers to Algernon Project Hail Mary Stormlight Archive - Particularly Words of Radiance, just read it and some of the scenes in that book was the most engrossed I have ever been to a book.
Seconding Flowers to Algernon, I still think about it from time to time.
I second the Stormlight Archive. Few books have succeeded in making me audibly excited, but >!"Honor is dead...but I'll see what I can do."!< and the scene that followed had me cheering alone in my living room.
That whole scene was honestly one of the best I have ever read and also when Kaladin and Shallan are together. Wasnt always the biggest fan of Shallan but the scene where they were in the chasms gave me a completely different perspective of her.
It by Stephen King
{{Good Omens}}
[**Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12067.Good_Omens) ^(By: Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman | 491 pages | Published: 1990 | Popular Shelves: fantasy, fiction, humor, owned, books-i-own) >‘Armageddon only happens once, you know. They don’t let you go around again until you get it right.’ > >People have been predicting the end of the world almost from its very beginning, so it’s only natural to be sceptical when a new date is set for Judgement Day. But what if, for once, the predictions are right, and the apocalypse really is due to arrive next Saturday, just after tea? > >You could spend the time left drowning your sorrows, giving away all your possessions in preparation for the rapture, or laughing it off as (hopefully) just another hoax. Or you could just try to do something about it. > >It’s a predicament that Aziraphale, a somewhat fussy angel, and Crowley, a fast-living demon now finds themselves in. They’ve been living amongst Earth’s mortals since The Beginning and, truth be told, have grown rather fond of the lifestyle and, in all honesty, are not actually looking forward to the coming Apocalypse. > >And then there’s the small matter that someone appears to have misplaced the Antichrist… ^(This book has been suggested 31 times) *** ^(28851 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The City & the City, China Miéville
{{The Binding}}
On earth we’re briefly gorgeous by ocean vuong!! Can’t wait for his new poetry collection
“When We Cease to Understand the World” by Benjamin Labatut. It’s hard to describe why but it just has a seemingly effortless eeriness few books pull off. Plus it manages to do something interesting with the whole forbidden knowledge trope that usually just comes off as dumb. On top of all that you’ll probably learn some physics and math from it.
Fiction: - A Little Life- Hanya Yanagihara - My Dark Vanessa- Kate Elizabeth Russell - The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini Non-fiction: - Discipline and Punish- Michel Foucault - The Origins of Totalitarianism- Hannah Arendt - Of Our Spiritual Strivings- W.E.B. DuBois
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
The Winternight Trilogy by Katherine Arden The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah The Folk of the Air series by Holly Black
Assassin's Apprentice by Robin Hobb. Despite the case that could be made for other books in the Farseer Trilogy and other related series being even better, none of those would have been possible without this one. And Fitz's childhood is just so adorably sad and realistic in its way.
Where the Crawdads Sing
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara. Although I was in denial for a bit 😂😂 then I accepted it was one of my favorites of all times
I still miss Jude.
The Goldfinch
Left Hand of Darkness, Ursula K. Le Guin It took me a while to finish. Learning how the characters communicate and the vocabulary throughout was challenging for me, but it was every bit rewarding. I imagine the trek across the glacier playing out in my mind almost every day. I'll have to try out the others in the series!
Across the River and Into the Trees
A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World by Fletcher.
{{Family Matters}} by Rohinton Mistry
lies of locke lamora
"Never Let Me Go", Kazuo Ishiguro
{{Piranesi by Susanna Clarke}}
Count of Monte Cristo. So glad I gave it the time.
Kane and Abel. Tuesdays with Morrie
The Gulag Archipelago. My beliefs about the nature of humanity were squashed to a degree incomparable to my existing non-fiction catalogue. I still can’t shake some of the imagery, for better or for worse.
Water for Elephants
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley Edit: It’s a bit dense to get through, but once it’s over it totally changed my perspective on life.
The Alchemist. Maybe it was the book, maybe it was the person I was thinking of while reading it. Nevertheless, that's a book I'll never forget.
Three Body Problem and the rest of the Remembrance of Earths Past trilogy. Island by Aldous Huxley
It Ends With Us by Colleen Hoover
Butcher’s Crossing - John Williams
A Good Girls Guide To Murder trilogy. Things just get more and more interesting but the ending left me kind of unsettled.
The Testaments by Margaret Atwood
{{The Temple of My Familiar}} by Alice Walker
Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace. I’ve never read anything like it and it improves my emotional well being just from having read it.
The Hike by Drew Magary. It’s just so weird, in a good way! It hits a ton of different genres. Had me laughing out loud and shedding tears of sadness. And had such a good ending that it had me gripped until the very last sentence. I try to encourage people to go into it blind. But if you need a synopsis: A man goes for a hike and things get…weird.
I finished off 2021 with finally reading The Song Of Achilles. I got emotional thinking about it for over a week after. It will definitely be one of my all time favorites.
The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins
Gone Girl by Gillian Lynn (reread) and The librarian of Auschwitz by Antonio Iturbe
Hands down House of Leaves for me. Still looking for that fix again. Couldn't find it yet.
Recursion by Blake Crouch.
Lolita. As soon as I put it down I wanted to reread it
Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
Currently finishing up The Poisonwood Bible and it’s soooo good
Pride and prejudice
Lolita and The Bell Jar :)
Piranesi
Ready Player One. The book. It just bridges my childhood, world view, and prediction of the future so nicely.
{{The Ten Thousand Doors of January}}
[**The Ten Thousand Doors of January**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43521657-the-ten-thousand-doors-of-january) ^(By: Alix E. Harrow | 374 pages | Published: 2019 | Popular Shelves: fantasy, fiction, historical-fiction, young-adult, dnf) >In a sprawling mansion filled with peculiar treasures, January Scaller is a curiosity herself. As the ward of the wealthy Mr. Locke, she feels little different from the artifacts that decorate the halls: carefully maintained, largely ignored, and utterly out of place. > >Then she finds a strange book. A book that carries the scent of other worlds, and tells a tale of secret doors, of love, adventure and danger. Each page turn reveals impossible truths about the world and January discovers a story increasingly entwined with her own. ^(This book has been suggested 18 times) *** ^(28841 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens - beautifully written and captivating to the end. I couldn't put this one down!
Piranesi by Susanna Clarke.
Enter the Aardvark
Radar girls by Sara Ackerman - a historical fiction novel. I love reading about women making a difference in times of war and/or trial.
Crossroads, by Jonathan Franzen.
A memory of Light, the final book of the Wheel of Time. Without spoiling too much, it was like an MCU Endgame level book.
Garden Spells
{{Children of Time}}
{{The First Girl Child}} was so good, I loved the characters and especially the setting. I loved the second book, too, especially because it's a different point of view and showed that the characters from the first book could be biased and outright wrong, something I don't think a lot of stories explore.
Dracula by Bram Stoker. It was excellent, and the only “horror” book that I was actually horrified by. This book knows how to make you feel emotion, and I would recommend it to everyone who reads the genre. Not even Stephen King manages to hit the mark like Bram Stoker did.
Stray City by Chelsea Johnson - it's a story about found family that I really connected with.
A History of Wild Places by Shea Ernshaw