What is the one book that you would always recommend to others to read?
What is the one book that you would always recommend to others to read?
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What is the one book that you would always recommend to others to read?
Tim Winton, The Riders
Life of Pi
Great Book?
Winter’s Bone by Daniel Woodrell
Divine by mistake – P.C Cast
Sanctum.
Hi Adriana, who is the author of this book? Thank you
Sarah Fine
Thank you so much her other books look really good ?
1984 by George Orwell
One of my favourite books too
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver. Also, Pigs in Heaven, same author.
And The Bean Trees!
@Leah , how have I never read this book?! It’s now officially at the top of my list.
@Patricia omg it’s one of my all time favorite books!!! I’m jealous of you! ?
Godfather <3
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Land of Stories series
bible. sex divine itervention politics evil good hope despair and salvation. it has it all.
“Looking for Alaska” by John Green. It’s captivating, enthralling, and beautifully tragic. It’s a must read, folks 🙂
I read that this week, was one of greens best?
I’ve enjoyed it A LOT. Hahaha, i’s honestly one of my all time faves.
Khwynn Geollainné it surprised me by how good it was, I read the fault in our stars and really liked it,then read a few others by green that were ok so this being good was unexpected ?
In my TBR
Grapes of wrath. John Steinbeck
Bronze horseman
The Help
Book of Negroes
The sun is also a star
The sword and the scimitar by david ball. Or anything by Diane Chamberlain
Room by Emma Donoghue
Saloms Lot by Stephen King
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
When Nations Fail by acemoglu & robinson.
Hoping everyone ,especially those from (like myself) a 3rd world country, to read it.
Outlander
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Smoking Ears and Screaming Teeth by Trevor Norton. Non-fiction
The Master Butchers Singing Club by Louise Erdrich. Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett.
Neverwhere
stone butch blues
Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
Elon Musk
The Alchemist by Paulo Cuehlo
The Buddha in the Attic by Julie Otsuka.
The road by cormac McCarthy
11/22/63 by Stephen King
I need to get this I’ve heard it is good.
Anna Pierdiluca I felt the same way!
Plainsong by Kent Haruf
Had a look at http://amazon.co.uk/ It was only 1.19£ so I bought it. Thanks for your recommendation!
My pleasure – hope you enjoy it
I’ve read all of his books. One of my favorite authors.
Crazy in Alabama by Mark Chidress
Following.
Hi Sally who is the following by?
LOL
I think she means she is following the thread @Cleo. I think.
Lol! Well lets see what she respond back with ?
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So where is your respond to my book question today?
@Cleo I am in deep thought because I have so many. I am on it give me a minute. LOL!
Sorry, I am a bit slow this morning…still on my first cup of coffee! Love all the recommendations and am writing them down!
No problem im happy that your loving the recommendations ?
Alas Babylon
It’s probably a cliche to say War and Peace.
But I’ll still say it.
Wuthering Heights
The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield. It starts in a bookstore and only gets better from there.
Thats seems like something i would really enjoy reading thanks Harriet?
Loved that book!
That was fabulous
A Fine Balance. Everything you’d want in a book chosen and used with perfection: writing style, use of language, characters, story, ending. All with wit, humour and subtlety.
Anna Pierdiluca Rohinton Mistry
Magic Strings of Frankie Presto -Mitch Albom
The Help – Kathryn Stockett
The Four Agreements – Miguel Ruiz
I have bought and given that book out at least five times..i try to read it at least once a year!!
@Cozy I have given away a copy but now have a e-version of it. I kept giving my hard copies away. Now I just recommend it. I also have the Fifth Agreement as well.
The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
Great book
I have too many so will stop there.
Ok one more, The Bluest Eye – Toni Morrison
Restless by William Boyd
Loving Frank and Molokai!
Giovanni’s Room, Milk and Honey, The Host, The Almost Moon, My Sister’s Keeper, The Lonely Bones. These are all favorites and I’ve learned something from all of these books or at least found them helpful in someway for my soul. I will always recommend these books to others.
Rupi Kaur is a poem book
The Kingkiller Chronicles
Tiny Beautiful Things by Cheryl Strayed
I second this! ♥️
The little Prince..
The Humans by Matt Haig
I can’t narrow it down to one
The Storyteller by Jodi Picoult…A Dog’s Purpose by W. Bruce Cameron…Still Alice by Lisa Genova.
These three are tied for the top spot
The Kitchen House! ?
Thanks Julie-Ann that looks like something i would really enjoy reading?
The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World https://www.amazon.com/dp/0399185046/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_6yDBAbG8BQ506
I Know This Much Is True by Wally Lamb
Love this one! Any Wally Lamb book actually!
The Count of Monte Cristo, unabridged
The monk who sold his ferrari
The Little locksmith by Katherine Butler Hathaway ❤
So many but right now I am recommending A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles.
Comimg Into the Country by John McPhee, Keeper of the Moon by Tim McLauren, The Stand by Stephen King, A Prologue to Love by Taylor Caldwell.
John McPhee!!!
Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult;
The Kitchen House by Kathleen Grissom; Tanglewood Plantation by Jocelyn Miller
Thank you. Wow! Are there any titles from your list that you recommend?
I’ve only read To Kill a Mockingbird. I will add the others to my list. Thank you for sharing.
A Million Little Pieces by James Frey, 11/22/63 by Stephen King, East of Eden by Steinbeck
Hard to name just one, so – The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins, A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle’ and Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver…
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Zen and the Art of Happiness – Chris Prentiss
The Harry Potter series -j.k Rowling
My Antonia, east of Eden, autobiography of a yogi by Paramahansa yogananda
Mine
Moonflower Vine, Jetta Carleton
Of Love and Shadows by Isabel Allende
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The Power by Naomi Alderman. Genius book.
Outlander
Papillon by Henri Charriere
Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith
The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
Planet Rothschild, by my colleague Jeff Rense.
The Book Thief, The Shack, The Art of Racing in the Rain. Couldn’t pick just one!
Just one? Hmmm… I’ll go with To Kill a Mockingbird.
Lol! Renee you can list how many you like?
I know, but I’d be here all day, and I have much reading to do!
Infernal Devices trilogy
Or just one, then we’ll go with Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie
Jessica u can list more if you like?
Coo
Waiting to see what else you add?
Can you keep a secret by Sophie Kinsella ❤️
The Bible. Everyone should read it through at least once.
Took a course in the Bible as Literature.
True. It’s the fastest path to atheism.
Other hand by Chris Cleave
A Prayer for Owen Meaney.??
The Night Circus it’s in my top 5, I feel like it’s safe because it can draw a large range of readers in
The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert
Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt
Cider House Rules
When Breathe Becomes Air
When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
Where Red Fern Grows
Harry Potter series
Time and Time Again, by Jack Finney
A fine balance by R. Mistry
Handle with Care Jodi Picoult
The stand by Stephen king
Pillars of the Earth by: Ken Follett.
I have that book but haven’t read it yet. Maybe I should read it next. It’s been on my TBR for awhile now.
@Autumn it is one of the best books if not the best book I have ever read. Loved it. Hope you do too.
Three Men In A Boat by Jerome K. Jerome.
The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
I want to experience love the way you love The Nightingale ?
Unbroken, Laura Hillenbrand.???
something from the nightside by simon green
The Raven Boys
So many! One I read recently I would highly recommend is “All the Light We Cannot See,” a Pulitzer Prize – winning book by Idaho native Anthony Doerr. It touched me profoundly.
The last lecture by Randy Pausch.
The Nightingale
Outlander
11/22/63 by Stephen King
For my 2017 reads, A Gentleman in Moscow, Nightingale, News of the World and Burial Rites. From my all-time list, The Shipping News, The Book Thief and The Poisonwood Bible. Non-fiction list (you all knew I couldn’t post just one book!) Warmth of Other Suns, Just Mercy and Emperor of All Maladies. ?
Luv your choices!
@Carolyn The Carolyns know what to read ???
Haaaa, nice!!!?
“Sotah” by Naomi Reagan
Ready Player One
and One Word
The thirteenth tale
A Walk in the Woods….you learn so much but also laugh while learning.
Far From the Tree (Andrew Solomon)
Uprooted by Naomi Novik.
The Mayor of Casterbridge
Born a Crime by Trevoh Noah (funny memoir)
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr.
The shoemaker’s wife
The red book – C. G. Jung 😀
Wuthering Heights, Harry Potter, and Divergent.
I just finished the faith mcmann series by tr ragan it was probably on of the best series I have ever read and that’s saying something
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
I just started this book and I love it.
It looks interesting
The help and the kitchen house have been favorites of mine.
In the Heart of the Sea by Nathaniel Philbrick—my all-time favorite book
Poisonwood Bible
The Kite Runner, The Handmaid’s Tale, Girls & Sex by Peggy Orenstein, the Weetzie Bat books
The Book Thief
To Kill a Mockingbird
Rebecca!
The clan of the cave bear
The Bible!
Only one?! “I, Claudius” by Robert Graves, “The Murder of Roger Ackroyd” by Agatha Christie, “No Name” by Wilkie Collins, “Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe”, “Wives and Daughters” by Mrs. Elizabeth Gaskell, etc etc etc
Looking for Alaska
The Witching Hour by Anne Rice
A Prayer for Owen Meany to some Gone with Wind to others
A prayer for Owen meany was so great! I also loved the world according to garp by him
@Sarah me too on Garp
Diary of A Young Girl by Anne Frank
The Silence of Bonaventure Arrow – Rita Leganski
The Poisonwood Bible.
Red Rising by Pierce Brown
The gift of acabar – og mandino
The Red Tent and What She Left Behind
have read the red tent so poetic
Night – Elie Wiesel
1984
Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro
“The boys in the boat” or “Unbroken “. Then send me valentines.??
More than one, but: Revolutionary Road (Yates), Those Who Save Us (Blum), The Elegance of the Hedgehog (Barbery), and The Things They Carried (O’Brien). The list could go on! Lol!
I love the book “The Things They Carried”, which was notably recommended to me by my high school age daughter! All of Tim O’Brien’s books are great.
@Leah The things they carried, I was looking at today, what power Tim O Brien has , thanks for the reminder ..???
@Michael my then 17-year old daughter came to me with the book and (pointing to a paragraph) said, here, read this. So I read the paragraph and said, Wow. She said, no you have to read the rest of the chapter! She was so moved by the book, and recognized lovely writing when she saw it. I borrowed the book and read it, then bought the rest of his books! The Things They Carried is still my favorite. Enjoy!
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens or A Christmas Memory by Truman Capote. There are lessons in both books that go way beyond the Christmas season.
The Plum Tree by Ellen Marie Wiseman.
The Shack
Secret daughter by Shilpi somaya Gowda
The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth @Jeffrey
That was such a great book! My husband who barely ever reads finished it in less than a week!
*Garth Stein, sorry
East of Eden.
Gone with the Wind
The alchemist
Ocean at the End of the Lane or A Wild Sheep Chase
A Fine Balance.
Redeeming Love by Francine Rivers
Got to say I’m now reading Fall on Your Knees which I discovered through recommendations on this site it truly is riveting.
Her The Way Crow Flies is amazing too and even better in my opinion.
….Crow Flies was one of the better books I’ve ever read … out of thousands. I look forward to reading Fall on Your Knees.
The Alchemist by Paulo Coehlo
A Gentleman in Moscow. Or Cold Comfort Farm.
A Thousand Splendid Suns
A Man Called Ove
The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
East of Eden: John Steinbeck. All life is there.
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Way of the Peaceful Warrior, Many Lives Many Masters, or anything from Osho.
The Alchemist
A fine balance.
East of Eden
All the Light We Cannot See
A Man Called Ove
What a wonderful, wonderful book!
Garden Spells by Sarah Addison Allen
I love her books.
Illusions by Richard Bach.
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Schaffer
Cutting for Stone
Oh, that was good!
McCarthy’s Bar by Pete @William
Recently read that! Laugh out loud.
Rebecca
Wonderful
A Confederacy of Dunces.
LOVE this book
Black Cross by Greg Iles. Damn good read.
Yes he writes extremely well. His new one out is “Mississippi Blood”. Can’t wait to read it , it’s in the new book holding area.???
He also has a few real Stinkers. None can compete with Black Cross.
@Michael Mississippi Blood is the last of his series that starts with Natchez Burning. It will make for a much more enjoyable read if you start with that one. I loved that series.
To Kill A Mockingbird.