DP. Strange response. This is a thread for recommendations not philosophy of what’s a best book. |
DP. According to your own response, you shouldn’t be posting then as it didn’t contain a book recommendation. |
Best fiction EVER?? Ok:
A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry is top of my list In the classics column: The Count of Monte Cristo, Jane Eyre, David Copperfield, Rebecca . All are un-put-downable The Stand by Stephen King Circe by Madeline Miller Smilla’s Sense of Snow |
Moby Dick is hilarious.
The Brothers Karamazov is the best. |
Jonathan Tropper is funny and I enjoyed all his books. |
I loved the Bear Town trilogy although I know others did not. I thought they were really well written. I have read all of Liane Moriarty and think some of her stuff is better than others. Big Little Lies and What Alice Forgot were the best two. They're all pretty entertaining reads. I actually thought the TV series of Nine Perfect Strangers was better than the book. |
These are also some of my top books ever |
If you do audiobooks, Marin Ireland narrates this one and she has made some good books even better - she is particularly good with witty or sarcastic lines, so I'd highly recommend listening to this one if you do both. (I do and I have separate lists based on whether or not I like the narrator). |
If you never read Watership Down, I think it would be a great vacation pick. |
I read Anna Karenina on vacation once and it kept me gripped, same with Wuthering Heights I'm terrible at keeping lists of best books ever - I like a lot of books! - but if you're looking for classics, those are two that held my attention while I was traveling. I read a wide variety of fiction so I'd need to know more about what OP enjoys reading to give more recs! |
I don't know if you've ever read Stephen King, but he is so much more than the horror genre. His characters are incredibly well developed and he draws you into his books from the very start. I love so many of his books, most recently Holly, and classically probably Christine is my favorite. His short stories are also great. The Mr. Mercedes trilogy is another good recent one.
Another author I love is Chris Bohjalian, although I find his stuff to be all over the place. His best books, and some of my favorite books ever, are Midwives, Sandcastle Girls, The Double Bind, The Light in the Ruins, and Skeletons at the Feast. They are all wildly different so you could even read them all back-tp-back. |
I HATED Lake Success - I think his books maybe just aren't for me Agree that Pachinko and NLMG are great. Klara and the Sun is a more recent book by the same author as NLMG that I also really enjoyed. |
+1 When I saw the request for funny, this was my first thought! I also love Kevin Wilson’s books. They’re funny, in an odd, off-beat way. Maybe start with one of the books of short stories? They’re great, and I don’t usually go for short stories. (May be perfect for vacation, too.) |
I thought the Count of Monte Cristo was much better |
Oh lord those are some heavy books! |