What is your favorite book? I have to give "my favorite" to a friend for her 50th.

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Circe

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Anonymous wrote:Lonesome Dove. Nobody talks about it but it's got everything. I recommended it to a book club once and got so many weird looks but then EVERYONE loved it.

Not true. It's at the top of the 20th century canon.

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I read "Dear Mrs. Bird" a few months ago. I would say that is my most favorite book that I have read in the last six months.
It is set in London during WW II. It is about a young woman who gets a job as an assistant to a magazine advice columnist.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:These books always immediately come to mind but they’re also popular or classics, so I’d worry she has already read them or owns them.
“Wolf Hall”
“The Poisonwood Bible”
“Possession”
“The Secret History”
“The Snows of Kilimanjaro”
“The Namesake”

There are more recent books that I’m not sure are my favorite book ever, but I enjoyed them and think they should be commended as strong works:
“Great Circle”
“Annihilation”
“The Heart’s Invisible Furies”
“North Woods”
“Trust”

I also rate Possession and The Secret History as favorite books

+1. Many such cases.

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Look up the best books of 1974.

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"These Precious Days" by Ann Patchett

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Anne of Green Gables

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A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles

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I keep looking at this thread and feeling like my contribution doesn't fit. Here goes anyway...

I would give Walden by Thoreau. Plus a non-fiction book about how he actually was living a lot more connected to society life than Walden makes it seem.

That was one of the most impactful books I read on college. I visited the little mock-up of his cabin in the park at Walden Pond.

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Anonymous wrote:I keep looking at this thread and feeling like my contribution doesn't fit. Here goes anyway...

I would give Walden by Thoreau. Plus a non-fiction book about how he actually was living a lot more connected to society life than Walden makes it seem.

That was one of the most impactful books I read on college. I visited the little mock-up of his cabin in the park at Walden Pond.

My mother kept Walden on her nightstand. I get it, PP.

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The Great Gatsby. Duh.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I keep looking at this thread and feeling like my contribution doesn't fit. Here goes anyway...

I would give Walden by Thoreau. Plus a non-fiction book about how he actually was living a lot more connected to society life than Walden makes it seem.

That was one of the most impactful books I read on college. I visited the little mock-up of his cabin in the park at Walden Pond.

My mother kept Walden on her nightstand. I get it, PP.

Thank you!

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Olive Kitteridge

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Anonymous wrote:We Have Always Lived in the Castle

Excellent choice!

Haven't seen it mentioned in this thread, but I really liked Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate. It was recommended to me by someone who reads a lot more historical fiction than I do, and honestly, it's not one I ever would have picked up just on my own, so I think it may be a good choice to give to someone as it may not be on their radar. And FWIW, I'm 51, so in the right age range for your giftee.

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Dune