The one book everyone should read?!?

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  • supermom5366
    supermom5366 Posts: 14 Member
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  • sh4690
    sh4690 Posts: 169 Member
    GAME OF THRONES!

    Why - BECAUSE IT iS FRICKIN AWESOME!
  • sillygoose1977
    sillygoose1977 Posts: 2,151 Member
    Life of Pi because it can change your entire thought process.
  • medaglia_06
    medaglia_06 Posts: 282 Member
    The Stand by Stephen King... an oldie, but a goodie :)
  • JBugskinny
    JBugskinny Posts: 1
    ATLAS SHRUGGED!
  • RavenhairedWoman
    RavenhairedWoman Posts: 661 Member
    The Count of Monte Cristo! A seriously twisted tale of someone who gets royally screwed over and how he settles the score. I have read it in different stages of my life from childhood to adulthood and it is the only book that I can see myself reading several more times in my lifetime.
  • katrwal
    katrwal Posts: 336 Member
    Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

    Absolutely.

    or, if you're a recovering Catholic, Good Omens (Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett). From my experience, do not read in a library, church, or funeral home - you'll get a lot of glares for laughing out loud.
  • Molly_Maguire
    Molly_Maguire Posts: 1,103 Member
    I am a BIG reader, I could never choose just one! Some of my favorites are:

    "The Hiding Place" by Corrie Ten Boom

    "The Book Thief" by Markus Zusak

    "The Jacket" by Jack London

    The Harry Potter series. No joke.

    Intensity" and "False Memory" by Dean Koontz
  • reggiepe
    reggiepe Posts: 146 Member
    Band of Brothers - Stephen Ambrose or any of his other books. But that one was my favorite. Dan Brown's novels are all a good and easy read. If you like music you can get the biographies of your favorite stars....I loved Clapton's biography.
  • Kany
    Kany Posts: 336
    Currently reading Atlas Cloud.
  • serena569
    serena569 Posts: 427 Member
    At this point, I'd settle for anything that ISN'T a textbook.
  • officegirl27
    officegirl27 Posts: 33 Member
    Hunger Games
  • Seriousmom3
    Seriousmom3 Posts: 164
    The Bible.

    It will change your life.

    Meh... never could get into the Bible. Too preachy.

    :laugh: yea it is
  • jessc4343
    jessc4343 Posts: 214 Member
    The Glass Castle - Jeanette Walls (i think?) It's non-fiction.

    Fabulous book; made me realize my childhood wasn't so awful afterall.
  • Kany
    Kany Posts: 336
    ATLAS SHRUGGED!

    I heard it was a good book so I bought it a while back and will start reading it soon (after I finish Cloud Atlas).
  • TeamEdwardJenn
    TeamEdwardJenn Posts: 400 Member
    The Life of Pi
    To Kill a Mockingbird
    Lord of the Flies
    Last of the Moichans
    And anything by Poe , Shakespere or ****ens
  • lilmissymoo90
    lilmissymoo90 Posts: 324 Member
    50 shades of red white and blue hehe =P
  • jessc4343
    jessc4343 Posts: 214 Member
    I'm reading The Fault in Our Stars by John Green right now. It's not a classic (yet) but I was previously unaware that I had the ability to laugh and cry at the same time. Such a beautiful, hilarious, terribly tragic story.

    The Hunger Games series was unbelievably amazing as well. The best part is that it's pretty unisex. A little romance here, a lot of violence there, fun for the whole family...

    we might be book soul mates. just sayin...
  • Pollywog39
    Pollywog39 Posts: 1,730 Member
    Stephen King .... The Stand, I read it years ago and it is my all time favorite book


    Absolutely!! That's what I would say...............this is an epic novel of awesomeness (read the unabridged version for even greater thrills.) I have read this one 3 times!!!

    King is my favorite author, bar none. If you want to really enjoy a cowboy/futuristic/sci-fi tome of incredibleness, read the Dark Tower Series...........you can read it in smaller chunks, and it's fascinating!!

    Another King favorite? The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon.....something about that lost-in-the-woods creepiness scared the bejesus out of me!
  • mwilke
    mwilke Posts: 378 Member
    Atlas Shrugged

    Absolutely a good read. Also liked A Brave New World, The Giver, 1984, Johnny Got his Gun, and Dark Tower Series. The Hunger games trilogy was pretty good, too. Sorry, love to read!. Currently ready Game of Thrones- Really good.
  • Annette_rose
    Annette_rose Posts: 427 Member
    I just came here because I want to see how many people say 50 Shades of Grey....

    I have a funny story on the "50 Shades of Grey". I have not read the book but work in a medical clinic with 9 dr's. One nurse loaned the book to another nurse and it was sitting on her desk. Her dr saw it on her desk and put a post-it note on the book that said "dirty book". A different nurse came by and put her own post-it note on the book that said "Instruction book for men". We all got a good laugh out of it.
  • Annette_rose
    Annette_rose Posts: 427 Member
    I'm late to this but The Shack by William Paul Young.
    Mackenzie Allen Phillips's youngest daughter, Missy, has been abducted during a family vacation, and evidence that she may have been brutally murdered is found in an abandoned shack deep in the Oregon wilderness. Four years later, in this midst of his great sadness, Mack receives a suspicious note, apparently from God, inviting him back to that shack for a weekend. Against his better judgment he arrives at the shack on wintry afternoon and walks back into his darkest nightmare. What he finds there will change his life forever.

    This book seriously changed my life.

    I agree!!! That was a great book!
  • curlygirly80
    curlygirly80 Posts: 176
    The girl with a dragon tattoo by Stieg Larsson is very gripping a thriller :-)

    If you aren't an avid reader, this won't work for you....took me over 150 pages to get into it....it's like the with ALL 3 of those.

    A Game of Thrones, fantastic.
    Enders Game (the sci-fi book for people who don't like sci-fi)
    Lord of the Rings Trilogy (a must)

    And for some seriously well done post-apocalyptic 80's throwback (can you get all the 80's references in this book?) Ready Player One by Earnest Cline. Toppled Enders Game as my favorite all time book.

    I am an avid reader and this book sucked! It is still sitting in my kindle as unread. I have tried 3 times to read this book and can't get into it. Maybe I should just watch the movie!
  • Namaste1983
    Namaste1983 Posts: 603 Member
    LETTING GO OF THE PERSON YOU USED TO BE
    BY LLAMA SURYA DASS.

    THIS BOOK GOT ME THROUGH MY STEPFATHERS SUICIDE AND 2 BACK INJURIES. I WAS COMPLETELY OVERWHELMED AND ONLY HALFWAY THROUGH MY WEIGHTLOSS. BECAUSE OF THIS BOOK I LEARNED TO ADAPT, ADJUST AND GROW INTO MYSELF.
  • rextcat
    rextcat Posts: 1,408 Member
    The Life of Pi
    To Kill a Mockingbird
    Lord of the Flies
    Last of the Moichans
    And anything by Poe , Shakespere or ****ens
    The Sun Also Rises
    A Farewell To Arms
    The Old Man and The Sea
    War and Peace
    Catcher in the Rye
    100 Great Science Fiction Short Stories edited by Isaac Asimov
  • petko1962
    petko1962 Posts: 4
    Catch 22 Joseph Heller

    also...The Art of Happiness by his holiness the 14th dalai lama
  • fatboypup
    fatboypup Posts: 1,873 Member
    The Holy Bible ........ duh
  • markymarrkk
    markymarrkk Posts: 495 Member
    Bro!! one of the greatest most amazing books I've ever read is a low key novel... "the carpet baggers" it's epic
  • jenbit
    jenbit Posts: 4,252 Member
    Ok I have over 1000 books at home and another 250 on my nook ... I'm kinda big on reading lol:blushing:

    The Wheel of time by Robert Jordan- My absolute favorite seires and I re-read it all the time especially with the last book coming out soon.

    The Incarnations of Immortality by Peirs Anthony

    The Stand, The Tailisman and Black house by Stephen King

    The LOTR trilolgy

    Ready player One

    American Gods

    The Magician Series by Raymond Fiest
  • JLPaige
    JLPaige Posts: 194
    cupcake brown- a piece of cake. amazing true life story. you should all give it a go :)

    This was a really good book

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