This is on my list now👍
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I love Jane Austen…Northanger Abbey is my favourite.
I also loved Poisonwood Bible…I bawled on a city bus reading that one.
The Alchemist by Paolo Cohelo is a very short but amazing story. Very thought provoking. Sadly, I have found just about everything else he’s written unreadable. I bail on them all the time.
John Wyndahm’s The Chrysalids (has a different US title…but I don’t know what it is). Absolutely my favourite dystopian novel.
Inspector Gamache novels by Louise Penny are very good too. Still Life is the first one I think.
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That’s twice in a day I’ve heard the book Outliers be mentioned. Might have to have a look.
I’m currently reading "The Pennine Way Companion by the late great Alfred Wainwright.
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i’m currently reading ‘a gentleman in moscow’ thats really good. and pairs well with ‘the last czar’ mini series on netflix!
one of my all time favs is ‘the psychopath test’ by jon ronson.
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Stand outs for me would be
Burmese Days - George Orwell
Slaughterhouse 5 - Kurt Vonnegut
Sirius - Olaf Stapledon
The Black Death - John Hatcher
American Pastoral - Philip Roth
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Love siddhartha!!
Has anybody ever read “conversations with god”?
Love this book too!!
Linbaba 
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just finished it, not too big on it compared to snow crash. i had a hard time getting through it. snow crash i could not put down, not the case with cryptonomicon for me at least. enjoyed it overall, just not wild for it. a friend gave me seveneves and i will be reading it at some point, but going to stick to some quicker reads for a little. starting exhalation by ted chiang now.
Presently reading The Second Mountain by David Brooks
Would really recommend it.
Favourites: Walden by Thoreau; Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis; LOTR trilogy by Tolkien
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Looking for some recommendations for good motivational reads please? Want to try something different to my normal genres
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mountains beyond mountains by tracy kidder - could read many, many times over.
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I would recommend The Second Mountain.
Any motivation in particular that you’re seeking?
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Thanks @jnd um no not really just something positive and inspiring really 
I’ll look that 1 up
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