What is everybody’s favorite book that you want everyone to read?
What is everybody’s favorite book that you want everyone to read?
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What is everybody’s favorite book that you want everyone to read?
Bird Box by Josh Malerman
Hmm, started off great but so disappointed with the ending
The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber!
I loved that book.
HUNGER by Jeremiah Knight (Jeremy Robinson). Mostly so he can write a third book, wherein I might actually die. 😀
The Wicked Ones by J. Z. Foster.
1984
The Art of Happiness.
The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde
A Thousand Splendid Suns
The Alchemist
Wuthering Heights
molokai’ by alan brennett
Reasons To Stay Alive by Matt Haig.
A Little Life – Hanya Yanagihara
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. I read it many times, great story.
Top two from my childhood:
Homecoming by Cynthia Voigt
The Pearl by John Steinbach
11/22/63 Stephen king
The Fault In Our Stars
amazing book
The Memory Keeper’s Daughter by Kim Edwards.
The Stand /Stephen King
I’ve been recommended ‘The Dark Tower’ but it’s so bad I want to claw my eyes out. Is this any better?
@Austin, have you given it a chance? Have you read The Gunslinger? That one is tough, but it is epic. If you give this series a chance, well it changed my life. But, that is just me. I always want people to read what they love, because that is why we read. Stephen King just happens to be my true North. I read the original Stand so many years ago, think I was 21 at the time. I must say, yes The Stand, both the original and the Uncut are stellar. They were to me, but then we all love what we love when we read. If he is not for you, let it go. But, just my opinion, we are missing out on some of the best writing you will ever read. As SK says “Long Days And Pleasant Nights.” Thanks for asking.
I’m ploughing through all his other work before TDT series…
The Concubine by Elechi Amadi
Beach Music – Pat Conroy
Pretty much anything by Pat Conroy is really good. Same with Erich Segal. (Love Story for reference.)
Les Miserables
Furiously Happy by Jenny Lawson
It ends with us Colleen Hoover….
I just read this!
@Jenny recently I’m kind of giving my every friend this book
1984..
The Kite Runner
I keep meaning to read that, I haven’t yet
@Georgina it is my favorite book. I read it twice and listened to the audiobook..
A Thousand Splendid Suns is also brilliant, for me, even better
Where the Heart Is by Billie Letts
Redeeming Love by Francine Rivers
11.22.63 is so awesome! I definitely recommend it to all of my DALLAS area friends!
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz
Lying in Wait by Liz Nugent.
The daily Coyote
The shadow of the Wind?
This is the BEST book ever. My first recommendation now when ask ?. The Life We Bury.
Wow, I looked this up. Thanks. Will see if I can find it. Otherwise go the Amazon route.
@Neon I hope you enjoy it. I loved it. I listened to it on audiobook.
I looked it up as well. Sounds great.
1963 about Kennedy assassination. It’s fiction and reading it now. Its a page turner, came highly recommended.
Anything by Dick Francis.
11.22.63, by Stephen King.
Jonathan Livingstone Seagull…
The Blood of Flowers
The Mirror by Marlys Millhiser. It’s one of my favorite books.
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Double Chocolate by A.V. Cooper
Book Thief
Mine too
The Secret to Hummingbird Cake
A Man called Ova
Ove!
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
Radio Silence by Alice Oseman
They cage the animals at night. By jennings micheals.
The love that remains by AW Clark.
Sullivan
Island by dorothea Frank Benson
The Lovely Bones
That I want everyone to read?? The Bible.
Granted, reading the Bible does tend to lead to an increase in atheism, so I might agree with you.
I don;t read fairytales!!! 😛
C’mon, guys… 😀 Joel Schama I can’t really agree with you on that one, because let’s be honest, if one sets out to choose between believeing and not believing, the latter is much easier. Reading the Bible does not make you a believer, it does not prove anything. Neither does science. Belief is something you cement inside yourself, but a mind set on physical or scientific proof only will never agree with any religion. I have never read the Bible, but I am a believer. The way I believe in both religion and science is personal. Also, Teresa Wright the Bible is indeed made up of parables, but if you think about how people perceive things/ideas, you’ll get to the conclusion that most often, people need stories to process things around them. Religious teachings / ideas / ideals, etc. can better be presented and preserved through the ages through stories and symbols. That’s why the Bible is written the way it is. And, before one starts criticising the stories themselves, one must think of the mentalities and realities of the time in which the Bible was written. Also, about the various translations and variations in wording, expressions, etc. So, nobody can take the Bible as proof of existence for anything God-related. The Bible is meant to guide christians through their faith. So, please if you don’t find it in you to respect that, just take it as any other story that exists among stories. It’s as simple as that. And, just to be noted, this is not meant to be nasty… It’s just that, as readers, we have to be tolerant towards all books, not just non-religious ones. Everybody is free to read whatever they choose… So, please, don’t make fun of the Bible, it’s not fair.. Peace 😉
So rude
Redeeming love, Francine Rivers❤️
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Boy’s Life by Robert McCammon
The chapter on his dog just about tore my heart out.
Vampire academy, cinder, the selection, love songs and other lies, geekerella, chronicals of Vladimir Todd, and last but not least and will get angry emoji’s (fifty shades of grey)
The Razor’s Edge. A great meditation on the different ways to approach living.
Grasshopper Jungle by Andrew Smith
All the ugly and wonderful things
Necessary Lies
The Kitchen House
If they haven’t already:
-The Earthsea Cycle.
-A Clockwork Orange.
And for anyone interested in Epic Fantasy they just have to read ‘the Chronicles of Thomas Covenant’
Mine. https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1483443825/
Shame by Jasvinder Sanghera
– her own story about honour crime and family separation.
I heard her speak and very powerful she was.
Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate
This Star Won’t Go Out by Lori and Wayne Earl
Before I Fall
Bright Side by @Author
The Idea of You by Robinne Lee
The Hearts Invisible Furies
The Gift of Rain by Tan Twan Eng.
Artemis Fowl, Peter Pan, Tinker Bell, Narnia, Chicken Soup, New Species and soo mauch more ?
The Cop Who Came to Dinner
Outlander
The Promised One by Morgan G Farris
The Giver
The Remains of the Day by Ishiguro; Any Human Heart by Boyd; Angela’s Ashes by McCourt
Calling Me Home by Julie Kibler ?
The Peculiar Miracles of Antoinette Martin by Stephanie Knipper?
This I Know by @Eldonna ?
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Thank you dear @Kristy! ❤?????
Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt and Unloved by Peter Roche.
Angela‘s Ashes is great
@Walter – It’s a sad book, but also so lovely the way it was written. The sequel was good, too.
@Kim It‘s a sad book, but one don‘t feel sad when reading it (sounds strange- I know, )
The Road by Cormac McCarthy.
My favorite standalone books are Blink of an Eye by Ted Dekker and The Scar by Sergey and Marino Dyachenko