What is the best book you have ever read and why?

[Anonymous]

and the mountains echoed khaled hosseini

My all time favorite book.

Rounding out my top 3 are House of Spirits by Isabella Allende and A long walk to freedom by Nelson Mandela

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:and the mountains echoed khaled hosseini

My all time favorite book.

Rounding out my top 3 are House of Spirits by Isabella Allende and A long walk to freedom by Nelson Mandela

Have you read A Thousand Splendid Suns? I like it better but both are fantastic.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:and the mountains echoed khaled hosseini

My all time favorite book.

Rounding out my top 3 are House of Spirits by Isabella Allende and A long walk to freedom by Nelson Mandela

Have you read A Thousand Splendid Suns? I like it better but both are fantastic.

Op - yes I did. Probably period of time I was in (pregnant) but did not like it as much!

[Anonymous]

Andersonville by Kantor. Won the Pulitzer about 60 years ago.
A sweeping saga of the civil war camp and those living around it. The most visceral book I’ve read. You can smell it.

[Anonymous]

I will add ^^^ I’m a librarian and read 300 books a year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I will add ^^^ I’m a librarian and read 300 books a year.

Thank you. This will make a great Father’s Day gift for my dad so I picked it up!

[Anonymous]

Homo Faber, Max Frisch

Dialectic of Enlightenment, Horkheimer and Adorno

[Anonymous]

A Prayer for Owen Meany. It’s the only book I reread. It really strengthens my faith and reminds us that we all have a purpose, even if we can’t see it. And that it’s ok to be a Joseph.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My answer will change depending on my mood but perhaps something like Little Prince. So charming and cute. Always brings a smile to my face and my kids’.

Love this book also, but it is so much more than charming and cute. It is profound.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:and the mountains echoed khaled hosseini

My all time favorite book.

Rounding out my top 3 are House of Spirits by Isabella Allende and A long walk to freedom by Nelson Mandela

Have you read A Thousand Splendid Suns? I like it better but both are fantastic.

My favorite Khaled Hosseini book is The Kite Runner.

[Anonymous]

The Wolf Hall series.

I just reread them all in order and just realized that the first and third books are mirrors of each other. I loved them before but find them even more impressive now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Angle of Repose, Wallace Stegner

I loved this one. So beautifully written.

[Anonymous]

A Little Life. I just wish it weren't so devastatingly sad.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't think I could pick just one, but I really loved Cloud Cuckoo Land and still think about it more than a year after reading it.

This is the best book I’ve read in the last few years. Starts off weird but it gets good really quickly.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Anna Karenina

Read it and see why.

Meh, I thought it did not live up to the hype. First of all, Anna is not the main character; instead the book is about Levin; and Levin in turn was modeled after Tolstoy, himself. Book’s main story is about Levin finding God.