Best book ever read

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Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas Hofstadter. Yes, I'm a hardcore geek.

Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl - This book was a game changer for me.

Ooooh, I'm all over this thread. Always looking to add to my "what to read next" list.

To Kill a Mockingbird is my all-time favorite book and I read it every other year or so.

The Time Traveler's Wife has become a close second. I'm not quite sure why. I don't know that it's the BEST book, but it's unique, and the characters are beautifully written, and I feel like it's a little bit different book every time I read it.

I recently read The Giver which is excellent. It's also sort of a "young adult" novel so it's a quick weekend read. (My 6th grader had just read it for school, so I borrowed it because I didn't have anything else. Seriously. I'll read anything out of desperation.)

I've been meaning to read The Book Thief. My 8th grader read it earlier this year and loved it. I need to get him to bring it HOME so I can borrow it already. And I just a bunch of the rest of y'all's books to my list.

The Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kindsolver; Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte are 2 of my all time favorites. Hard to pick just one!

I also LOVE dystopian novels and there's several I like, but nothing that stands out... Though Win by Vera Nazarian comes close - it's a good story but definitely in line with *much* easier reading and sometimes a little face-palmish.

JacquiH73 wrote: »

Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl - This book was a game changer for me.

thank you for reminding me to place this in my Amazon cart.

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Oh good heavens, book in the singular?
Impossible to name just one. Not being snarky, just hard because books were my friends growing up and it would be like choosing a favorite color m&m...okay green, but you get my point.

In the classics: Count of Monte Cristo, Jane Eyre, The Pearl, Call of the Wild, Treasure Island

Non-fiction: Journals of Lewis and Clark, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, Frontiersman (Eckert)

Novels: Storied Life of AJ Fikry, Mister God This is Anna, LOTR, any Sherlock Holmes

Others: My Life - Helen Keller, Travels in Alaska - John Muir

So many books meet the OP's criteria of "rock my socks", those are just a few off the top of my head.

Anyone else on Goodreads?

Bleak House - Charles Dickens, The Color Purple - Alice Walker & every Catherine Cookson novel read.

To Kill A Mockingbird.

Fox in Socks by Dr. Seuss

I can't pick just one.

Rebecca --- by Daphne duMaurier - very intriguing esp how people simply believe Max's side of the story because he is the perceived wounded hero and assume Rebecca is a bad bad witchy woman

The Stand. Excellent. But so is The Talisman. That said, The Shining is the only book to make me scream ...and Salems Lot is the only book to give me nightmares.

I adore Jane Eyre, To Kill a Mockingbird, and A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.


Yet, John Grisham's A Time to Kill, The Firm, The Client, and The Pelican Brief were excellent page-turners.

I have read Gone With the Wind at least 7 times.

There are too many books to pick just one. Way too many....

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All The Pretty Horses - Cormac McCarthy

McCarthy is, IMO, one of the lesser known and highly underrated authors of the current era. Again, JMHO.

He is excellent.
If you like him, you may like Colum Mcann, Let the Great World Spin. I just read it last week. Not quite as heavy as McCarthy, but still gritty.

Was that the one about the tightrope walker? That was good.