I am working on a list of books to read and expand my “normal” readings. What is one book you think everyone should read??
I am working on a list of books to read and expand my “normal” readings. What is one book you think everyone should read??
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Fahrenheit 451❤ & 1984.
Love them both.
Brave New World too ?
I’ve tryed to read it a few times.just wasnt in the right frame of mind.i will defo try again one day..
surprisingly I have never read either! Thanks I will put them to the top of my list!
What is your “normal” type readings?
I have read a lot of Nora Roberts, Danielle Steele, Catherine Bybee, mostly contemporary romance with a little mystery. I would love to read more of the strong classics.
I like all of Khaled Hosseini’s books!
The Butterfly Garden by Dot Hutchison. Easily the best book I read last year.
She came out with a second book in this series/trilogy recently too.
Have that one at home too just haven’t read it yet.
My first thought here was The Optician of Lampedusa – which is nonfiction.
If you want to read a pure classic the best one I’ve read is Frankenstein, otherwise try The Grapes of Wrath – it’s heavy, but very excellent.
Try American Gods.
I’m reading American Gods right now but for some reason I’m having an incredibly hard time getting through it.
@Pauline I suppose it can’t be for everyone, but I love Gaiman. I’ve read everything he’s done. So of course I advise sticking with it, but I’m unashamedly biased.
I do like it. That’s not the problem. It’s taken me months to get halfway through though it’s strange ?
Great Zoo of China….. it’s like Jurassic park. It was actually written at the same time but was held back because of that. Was released just over a year ago. It’s amazing!
The Bible, if you want, there are daily read the Bible through a year. After that, Anne of Green Gables
The daily Read the Bible through a year usually have Old Testament, New Testament and Psalms and and a couple of Proverbs. So it helps to get through it. Or there is a version called The Chronicle Bible, which takes you through it at the time it happened, and say brings up Psalms like the one Moses wrote. I had a high school teacher who said to be educated, one had to read the Bible & Greek classic Odysseus. I believe the Bible but it is worth it to just read to understand so much of Western art and literature too.
If first time reading, get The Living Bible version or The Message version (written with a paraphrase, but so realistic. Love The Message’s version of a Psalm where it says ‘If you love us so much God, why don’t you do something about it!’
Built of Books: How Reading Defined the Life of Oscar Wilde by Thomas Wright
The Anne of Green Gables series was my absolute favorite when I was younger! I though about reading them again as an adult.
I have read that it is a good idea to read your favourite novels again every ten years, as we grow and change and it will say something new to us every time
I’ve said it before.but at least once in a life time you should read this…
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
To Kill a Mockingbird; Animal Farm; Watership Down
If you haven’t read them, is it worth reading the Harry Potter books as an adult?
Absolutely. I read them at least once a year. So much more in them than the movies
Yeah definitely 🙂
The Stand.
If you like a little mysticism with your fiction, try Louise Erdrich “The Last Report on Miracles…”
Wild swans by Jung chang – non fiction
Nightingale by Kristin Hannah – fiction
Absolutely adored Wild Swans…heartbreaking.
To many to name.
Harry Potter
House of Night
pride and Prejudice
Woman in Black
Horns
Jungle
So many Pride and Prejudice what if stories and varations
Dracula
Three Musketeers
To name a few
The Fall by Albert Camus
the grey bastards
The Paul street boys by Ferenc Molnár
The book Thief
The Things They Carried, Tim O’Brien
I Know This Much Is True, Wally Lamb….Tuesdays With Morrie/The Five People You Meet In Heaven (anything by this author) by Mitch Albom….Sarahs Key (not 100% sure of authors name)….Orphan Train (unsure of authors name)….
The Shadow of the Wind; Bel Canto; The Snow Child; The Kitchen House…..
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee.
I run an online book club where we read books from other countries. So I think you should read an international book and see through foreign eyes. I loved The Last Resort: A Memoir of Mischief and Mayhem on a Family Farm in Africa by Douglas Rogers.
Lord of the rings
Cappachino in heaven by Michelle wright x
A few Canadian writers you might like :Miriam Toews ‘A Complicated Kindness’ and ‘All My Puny Sorrows’ Joseph Boyden ‘The Orenda’ and ‘Three Day Road’ Clare Cameron ‘The Bear’, Emma Donahue ‘Room’ and’ The Year of Wonder’.
Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner, Elif Shafak’s Forty Rules of Love, Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged, Carlos Luis Zafon’s The Shadow of the Wind, Paul Coehlo’s The Alchemist, Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, Scott Futzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, John Steinbeck’s East of Eden and so many more.
A Lesson Before Dying by Gaines.
The naturals by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness, The Green Mile by Stephen King, A boy made of blocks, the Harry Potter series to name but a few lol
A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness
Lily and the Octopus by Steven Rowley
Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
Ishmael by Daniel Quinn
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
Harry Potter
The Book that Matters Most by Ann Hood. Very good book.
One Hundred Years Of Solitude
Beach Music..
Swan song
Poisonwood Bible
All The Bright Places. The Kite Runner. And Then There Were None.
Nothing To Declare: Memoirs of A Woman Travelling Alone by Mary Morris
Animal Farm by George Orwell, Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov or Sophie’s World by Jostein Gaarder. I can’t chose 1!
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Joy in The Morning by Betty @Smith and It by Stephen King
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
To Kill a Mockingbird… Diary of Anne Frank… Wolf Hall & Bringing up the Bodies
It Ends With Us by Colleen Hoover
And The Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini
“Moving Beyond Words: Essays on Age, Rage, Sex, Power, Money, Muscles: Breaking the Boundaries of Gender” by Gloria Steinem
Mira Grant’s Newsflesh trilogy (and associated books). Zombie apocalypse that’s totally unlike any other. Sharp, intense writing, terrific concepts, political/social commentary. Even if you have no interest in zombie stories, these books are a must read.