Don't believe we have a thread like this. Curious of everyone's favorite books all time. Can be any genre. Trying to uncover must reads from like-minded dudes. My favs: -Lord of the Rings Trilogy -Sherlock Holmes Collection -Count of Monte Cristo -The Brothers Karamozov -A Confederacy of Dunces -Blue Highways -Lonesome Dove -Rise and Fall of Third Reich and a few others may be unfamiliar with: -Island of the World (M. O'Brien) -Father Brown (GK.Chesterton) -Kristen Lavransdatter (Undset) -A Canticle for Leibowitz (Miller)
Lonesome Dove was so incredible. I loved Brothers Karamazov as well, which I never expected to like as a high schooler. Most of my favorite "reading for pleasure" books have been Tom Clancy novels. Also the Harry Potter series. Also, for anyone into poker, the book called "The Professor, the Banker and the Suicide King" is fantastic, highly recommended.
Gentleman Bastard sequence Watership Down The Kite Runner The Lord of the Rings trilogy As a kid I was an extreme fan of the Redwall series, but those are geared towards young readers.
The Silmarillion Lord Of The Rings Blood Meridian Dune The Brothers Karamazov For Whom The Bell Tolls Hyperion The Fountainhead
Jesus this is really hard. The Hobbit is my all time favorite book never to be supplanted because it is what made me love reading and 20 years later I love reading just as much as ever. LOTR Catch-22 Suttree The Stand Wizard and Glass The Name of the Wind Words of Radiance Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire Ask me again tomorrow and I'll probably give you a whole new list
I'm the same with The Hobbit. That book, along with The Long Patrol by Brian Jacques, is what really got me into reading.
I read The Hobbit to my 5 year old son last year. Kid loved it. May or may not have wept a little after...
This is an impossible task. However noticed on GR LKRFN88jp is reading Devil in the White City. It's one of my top 5 for sure. I think living in Chicago and being to some of the places bumps it up for me, but a great book regardless imo. I love all of Larson's books. Looking forward to how you like it.
My favorites would be, in no order: Into thin air Skunk works Shadow divers Red dragon Six bad things The one percent doctrine Blackhawk down Yeager The power of the dog Generation kill Bravo two zero Killing Pablo The tunnels of cu chi Journey into darkness Interview with the vampire The making of the atomic bomb The hot zone The five fingers
No worries. It's a good list. Ive read Red Dragon, Blackhawk Down and Killing Pablo. Good books. Gin Buckets will appreciate the Don Winslow book. We do a monthly book club. You should jump in. February's book is this http://www.amazon.com/Brief-History-Seven-Killings-Novel/dp/159448600X
If you've read Power of the Dog, you absolutely must read Cartel. It's the sequel to it, same characters, and is even better.
My list... I'll try to stick with only stand-alone books, because a series is a different thing entirely. My comments are on parenthesis.) Shantaram Art of Racing in the Rain Pillars of the Earth (Series to me means books written with the intention of being a series, this one wasn't) Ready Player One Lords of Discipline Following closely: Lone Survivor Miracle in the Andes (2nd fav book club book... I think) Cutting for Stone Savages Cartel The Game (judge me, please) Heads in Beds: A Reckless Memoir of Hotels, Hustles, and So-Called Hospitality
Picked it up at the used book store the other day for $4. I'm on a bit of a western kick and I plan on starting it soon.
Blood Meridian Crime and Punishment The Brothers Karamazov Suttree Moby Dick The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter All the Pretty Horses Carpenter's Gothic Wise Blood A Piece of My Heart The Power and the Glory The Violent Bear It Away Libra Solo Faces Child of God
in like 2nd-3rd grade I was all about Hank the Cowdog and The Boxcar Children. Then in 4th-6th grade we were all about Brian Jacques books (and Calvin and Hobbes)
Fiction The Jungle East of Eden Grapes of Wrath The Dharma Bums The Postman Always Rings Twice 1984 Tom Sawyer/Huck Finn Sister Carrie Cloud Atlas Chronicles of Narnia 300 Watchmen Maus Nonfiction Guns, Germs and Steel Sapiens Thinking, Fast and Slow The Geography of Nowhere The Illustrated A Brief History of Time Devil in the White City Gang Leader For a Day Dreamland: The True Tale of America’s Opioid Epidemic Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City On Human Nature (E.O. Wilson)
I finished it in about a week. It’s not Faulkner or anything. The hardest part is a lot of the characters have the same name haha
reading Suttree always sends me into this mode where in the weeks that follow I hardly eat anything and wear the same shirts and socks for longer than I normally would. Because that's the life Sut is leading and I admire him for it I had never read it so deep in a state of self-isolation and I think I might be taking this to extremes when it comes time to go to the office in August I am gonna need an entirely new collection of pants
I’m oftentimes more a fan of authors than specific books. In light of that... Hemingway - A Moveable Feast, On Writing, A Farewell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls, Old Man and the Sea, and numerous short stories McCarthy - Suttree, All the Pretty Horses, The Road, etc. Steinbeck - The Grapes of Wrath, Travels with Charley McCullough - John Adams, The Great Bridge, The Path Between the Seas, Mornings on Horseback Abbey - Desert Solitaire Oliver - Upstream Marquez - One Hundred Years of Solitude Doig - This House of Sky etc, etc.
I vacillated on whether to include EoE. I just re-read it and it didn’t grab me the way I remember, but that’s probably not indicative of any shortcoming with the book. I find that how a book affects you can be just as dependent on your current situation or mental state as the text you’re actually reading. To that end, I’ll revisit Cannery Row as well.
revisiting this four years later while really high and watching Deadwood hard to really pin down outside McCarthy but a general sense Blood Meridian All the Pretty Horses Suttree The Road NCFOM The Passenger Days Without End A Long Long Way Libra Underworld Moby Dick The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter Carpenter's Gothic Solo Faces The Hunters Butcher's Crossing Postcards The Moviegoer The Power and the Glory A Visit from the Goon Squad Matterhorn Rabbit, Run I need to re-read The Idiot and Brothers Karamazov because Crime and Punishment didn't hold up as well for me last year
i've read like 7 graham greene books. got like 20 pages into the power and the glory and put it down. it's on a ton of top 100 lists etc. i guess i need to give it another shot.