Recommend your best book (fiction) ever

[Anonymous]

The Art of Fielding

Horse.

[Anonymous]

Best - Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes

Best funny - I’ve Got Your Number by Sophie Kinsella

Funniest thing I’ve ever read - Chapter 26 of The Lord God Made Them All

While I wouldn’t generally describe James Herriot as a humorous writer, one of the funniest things I’ve ever read is the short story that makes up chapter 26 of his book The Lord God Made Them All. James Herriot writes stories of a country vet and this chapter relates the misadventures of one unfortunate bull while the vet was trying to obtain a sample in accordance with the new technology of artificial insemination. The rest of the book isn’t particularly funny.

Honorable mention:

Below the Salt by Thomas B. Costain

Mrs. Pollifax series by Dorothy Gilman

Advise and Consent by Allen Drury (written from Cold War right-wing slant)

The Westing Game

The Secret Garden

Cheaper by the Dozen (not fiction - but reads like it, based on the authors’ father)

Frankenstein - not at all what I thought it would be, it’s NOT a typical horror story

[Anonymous]

My “best” books are not the ones I’d choose on vacation.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My “best” books are not the ones I’d choose on vacation.

This is impressively uninformative. You’ve turned OP’s original question into 2 questions with one sentence.

What are your “best” books? What books would you choose for vacation?

Do you consider the “best” books to be dry, ponderous classics and you prefer something entertaining on vacation?

Are your “best” books porn, but you can’t read them on vacation because it’s harder to keep the kids out of your stuff?

Do you get lost in a good book and are too busy on vacation to give the “best” books your full attention and prefer something mediocre that you can easily set down?

Please let us know what your “best” books are, what you read on vacation, and why the lists differ.

[Anonymous]

This is a hard question!!!

My favorite book ever? The Secret History. Would it still be my favorite book if I read it at 30 as opposed to 18? Maybe not.

Honorable mentions that immediately came into mind: The Poisonwood Bible; Wolf Hall; Homegoing; The Namesake.

[Anonymous]

For funny, Liane Moriarty! If you haven’t read “The Husbands Secret” that’s a great funny page turner beach read. “Maybe Where’d You Go Bernadette” if you like quirky. “Lake Success” if you like social commentary or are interested in ASD. “Nothing to See Here” was very funny and poignant.

For serious books, “Wolf Hall”, “Never Let Me Go,” “pachinko.”

[Anonymous]

House of Leaves is perfect for a vacay LOL. No but I really did read it on a cruise and loved it. It’s almost certainly not what you’re looking for though!

Have you read the big plot twist thriller novels? Gone Girl, The Girl On The Train, etc.?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My favorite novel is A Prayer for Owen Meany, by John Irving. I've reread it several times. Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout and Gilead by Marilynne Robinson are up there, too.

The World According to Garp is funnier.

Les Miserables is the best fiction book ever.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My favorite novel is A Prayer for Owen Meany, by John Irving. I've reread it several times. Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout and Gilead by Marilynne Robinson are up there, too.

I hated Prayer for Owen Meany.

There is literally no book that is universally loved. If come on just to say you hate it, I bet it would be more helpful to say *why* you hated it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:For funny, Liane Moriarty! If you haven’t read “The Husbands Secret” that’s a great funny page turner beach read. “Maybe Where’d You Go Bernadette” if you like quirky. “Lake Success” if you like social commentary or are interested in ASD. “Nothing to See Here” was very funny and poignant.

For serious books, “Wolf Hall”, “Never Let Me Go,” “pachinko.”

Tried wolf hall twice but couldn’t get passed the first few chapters. What am I missing?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My “best” books are not the ones I’d choose on vacation.

This is impressively uninformative. You’ve turned OP’s original question into 2 questions with one sentence.

What are your “best” books? What books would you choose for vacation?

Do you consider the “best” books to be dry, ponderous classics and you prefer something entertaining on vacation?

For me to consider it an amazing book, I need to remember it in a couple of years and have some takeaway from it. That usually means it’s a heavier book.

I prefer to read lighter things on vacation. OP asked for the “best” book and something funny, which is why I replied as I did. I’m not quite certain what OP is looking for.
Are your “best” books porn, but you can’t read them on vacation because it’s harder to keep the kids out of your stuff?

Do you get lost in a good book and are too busy on vacation to give the “best” books your full attention and prefer something mediocre that you can easily set down?

Please let us know what your “best” books are, what you read on vacation, and why the lists differ.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My “best” books are not the ones I’d choose on vacation.

This is impressively uninformative. You’ve turned OP’s original question into 2 questions with one sentence.

What are your “best” books? What books would you choose for vacation?

Do you consider the “best” books to be dry, ponderous classics and you prefer something entertaining on vacation?

Are your “best” books porn, but you can’t read them on vacation because it’s harder to keep the kids out of your stuff?

Do you get lost in a good book and are too busy on vacation to give the “best” books your full attention and prefer something mediocre that you can easily set down?

Please let us know what your “best” books are, what you read on vacation, and why the lists differ.

My post somehow got buried in the quotes.

For me to consider it an amazing book, I need to remember it in a couple of years and have some takeaway from it. That usually means it’s a heavier book.

I prefer to read lighter things on vacation. OP asked for the “best” book and something funny, which is why I replied as I did. I’m not quite certain what OP is looking for.

[Anonymous]

Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson- fantastic and funny
Either of the 2 Benjamin Stevenson books - Everyone in My Family Has Killled Someone and Everyone on this Train is a Suspect - great murder mysteries and very funny

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My “best” books are not the ones I’d choose on vacation.

This is impressively uninformative. You’ve turned OP’s original question into 2 questions with one sentence.

What are your “best” books? What books would you choose for vacation?

Do you consider the “best” books to be dry, ponderous classics and you prefer something entertaining on vacation?

Are your “best” books porn, but you can’t read them on vacation because it’s harder to keep the kids out of your stuff?

Do you get lost in a good book and are too busy on vacation to give the “best” books your full attention and prefer something mediocre that you can easily set down?

Please let us know what your “best” books are, what you read on vacation, and why the lists differ.

My post somehow got buried in the quotes.

For me to consider it an amazing book, I need to remember it in a couple of years and have some takeaway from it. That usually means it’s a heavier book.

I prefer to read lighter things on vacation. OP asked for the “best” book and something funny, which is why I replied as I did. I’m not quite certain what OP is looking for.

Thanks for clarifying. You might post a few of each so that OP can have some options in both categories.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My “best” books are not the ones I’d choose on vacation.

This is impressively uninformative. You’ve turned OP’s original question into 2 questions with one sentence.

What are your “best” books? What books would you choose for vacation?

Do you consider the “best” books to be dry, ponderous classics and you prefer something entertaining on vacation?

Are your “best” books porn, but you can’t read them on vacation because it’s harder to keep the kids out of your stuff?

Do you get lost in a good book and are too busy on vacation to give the “best” books your full attention and prefer something mediocre that you can easily set down?

Please let us know what your “best” books are, what you read on vacation, and why the lists differ.

My post somehow got buried in the quotes.

For me to consider it an amazing book, I need to remember it in a couple of years and have some takeaway from it. That usually means it’s a heavier book.

I prefer to read lighter things on vacation. OP asked for the “best” book and something funny, which is why I replied as I did. I’m not quite certain what OP is looking for.

Thanks for clarifying. You might post a few of each so that OP can have some options in both categories.

Your policing is obnoxious.