Your top 6 Favorite Books of all time

[SelfLove_42]

Top 6 Favorite books of all time

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#6

Honorable mention:

just missing the cut:
Recursion by Blake Crouch
Dark Matter by Blake Crouch
Defiant by Brandon Sanderson
Lightbringer by Pierce Brown
The Four Winds by Kristian Hannah
Phantom of the Opera

[TrustyBird]

Excellent question but a hard one. I’ll be back after a think.

[Tragicfarinelli]

Ah, almost impossible.

Currently:

A Little Life - Hanya Yanigihara
A Streetcar named Desire - Tennessee Williams
Sons and Lovers - DH Lawrence
Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë
The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
Lord of the Rings trilogy - JRR Tolkien

Hundreds more, but these are probably my memorable ones.

[Mno]

Impossible. Even when i didn’t read a proper book for ten years. But OK. Thanks for the challenge.

JRR Tolkien - Lord of the Rings (3 books actually)
Konstantin Paustovsky - his autobiography (6 parts)
Terry Pratchett - The Discworld novels (41 books)
Primo Levi - The Periodic System
Louis-Ferdinand Céline - Journey to the End of the Night
Tove Jansson - Moominland Midwinter

Well, that’s 53 books already. And I haven’t even started.

[Madds]

[emc2018]

This is VERY difficult, but here are 6 that presently come to mind:

1. The Princess Bride
2. The Great Gatsby
3. The Afterlife of Billy Fingers
4. The Wager - A tale of shipwreck, mutiny and murder.
5. A New Earth
6. The Gifts of Imperfection

[les]

Tough for sure, and I will give further thought, but here are six that would each at least be in a top ten list if I had one

Exhalation - Ted Chang
Memory Police - Yoko Ogawa
Mother Night - Kurt Vonnegut
Snow Crash - Neil Stephenson
Neuromancer - William Gibson
The First Bad Man - Miranda July

[TrustyBird]

I just finished Piranesi and I can confirm that it is an excellent read. I heard a lot about Jonathon Strange too so that is now on my to be read too.
Excellent recommendation, thanks!

Top 6 is so tough but I will go by most often re-read for me.

1. Siddhartha by Herman Hesse
2. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
3. All My Puny Sorrows by Miriam Toews
4. Ferdinand by Munroe Leaf
5. Barbara Kingsolver’s Animal Vegetable Miracle or Poisonwood Bible.
6. Tied between Gone With the Wind and The Princess Bride.

I immediately regret and judge my own choices.
Honorable mention goes to any book in my hand. Next up is Wave by Sonali Deraniyagala.

[JazzyS]

I love this question and it’s a hard one…here goes

1. Mister God, This Is Anna by Fynn
2. The Phantom by Susan Kay
3. Little Woman by Louisa May Alcott
4. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
5. The Color Purple by Alice Walker
6. The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare

[erntedank]

I’m stealing the idea of the most re-read books as hallmark for being a favourite book
Then here are without any thinking:

1. All Agatha Christie Crime Novels
2. All my huuuge Comic Collection, especially ElfQuest, Gerhard Haderer and Uli Stein
3. Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal by Christopher Moore. Die Bibel nach Biff auf Deusch. Still in every vaccation bag, still laughing my ass off (and falling off the sun lounger, couch or whatever I’m lying on)
4. Today is my best day by Arthur Lassen. My daily buddy for decades, a pretty tattered book, still love it 🩷

More will follow, have to think …

[Matt]

In no particular order; these have all had a (trans)formative effect on me:

• Living a Feminist Life (Sara Ahmed)
• Pedagogy of the Oppressed (Paolo Freire)
• Theatre of the Oppressed (Augusto Boal)
• The Little Prince (Antoine de Saint-Exupery)
• Aspects of the Novel (E. M. Forster)
• Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus (Mary Shelley)

[Matt]

Man’s Search for Meaning is one of my favourites

[acromouse]

@TrustyBird

I heard a lot about Jonathon Strange

That was such a treat. This book made me fall in love with foot notes

[TrustyBird]

You recently recommended a Ruth Ozeki that I went out and bought. I trust your judgement. I’ll pick up Johnathon Strange. Speaking of footnotes, Piranesi reminded me a bit of House of Leaves. Those are some footnotes.

[Girlinterrupted]

1. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
2. Spare
3. Too Big to Fail
4. The New Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
5. On My Own Side
6. The Source

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn is my all time favorite book. I’m actually just about to read it again. The other books are great. Not sure if they are my favorites, but I can’t think of them off the top of my head.

[acromouse]

@TrustyBird

I trust your judgement.

I feel honored

Piranesi is on my to-read list. I just want to have the time and mind to really dive into it. I think I might set it up for the weekend as a treat.

[TrustyBird]

It was a quick read and really compelling. One of those books where I can never say for certain that I knew where the author was taking me but I liked the traveling.

[SelfLove_42]

Just read The Women by Kristin Hannah. That’s a 9.5/10 book!

[TS66]

Only six? That’s an impossible task, but here are six of my all-time favs.

[emc2018]

Hi Matt,

I also loved to read Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Freire - definitely hit home in terms of my own philosophical thinking, and how I tend to approach being an educator.