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

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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.

Whose list? The only thing that comes close to being authoritative is Bloom's, and it's not on there.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm going to throw something way out there:

Piranesi by Susanna Clarke. I think it's a good book for someone who likes books.

?? I read this and not sure about the book connection and I love books.
It was intriguing, sad, and I still think about it from time to time. Not my favorite book.

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Anonymous wrote:The Book Thief is my go to recommendation. It's technically a young adult book, but it is so beautiful.

It was summer reading for my teen but I'm afraid to read it because I think it will be sad. Is it sad? My teen has said death is a character and I won't like it.

NP. It takes place in Germany in WW2, so definitely sad. Death is the narrator which I thought was pretty clever but otherwise the writing style really grated on me.

Thanks for the update. I'm definitely passing. Life is too short.

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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.

LOVE

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Prodigal Summer

The Artist’s Way (non-fiction)

A Lesson Before Dying +1
A Tree Grows In Brooklyn +1
100 Years of Solitude
Pachinko
The Blue Sword
The Makioka Sisters
The Remains of the Day

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to kill a mockingbird

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Gift From The Sea - Lindbergh

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Rebecca

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I’ve come to the conclusion that if your first read-through of A Tree Grows in Brooklyn wasn’t young enough that the child molestation subplot went over your head, then it’s very hard to “unsee” that and all the other suffering within the pages. It really is a book you have to grow up with.

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If your friend likes to cook, can I recommend Laurie Collin’s two volumes of essays, “Home Cooking” and the aptly titled “More Home Cooking”. She was a writer for Gourmet magazine who died far too young. She was a novelist but her essays on home cookery are such comfort reading- just the perfect thing to have around when you need a quick pick me up. And the recipes are quite good, too!

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Anonymous wrote:This is hard to answer because there are so many good books. If the question is what is the BEST book that I have ever read. I'd say Dune. I loved it and couldn't put it down at the time.

I'm surprised by the responses re: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. I hated it when I read it, though I was much younger. It also reads very much like a book from the 40s so hard for modern readers.

Dune is my all time favorite book (have read it probably ten times) and I am so annoyed right now because I absolutely HATED the latest adaptation that everyone is raving about… because inevitably i get the “well you must not have read the book because you clearly didn’t understand it if you don’t like it”

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Dune (Frank Herbert)
The Left Hand of Darkness (Ursula K LeGuin)
The Secret Agent (Joseph Conrad)
The Thornbirds (Colleen McCullough)
Dawn’s Early Light (Elswyth Thane)

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Anonymous wrote:A friend's husband is collecting books for her 50th birthday as she is an avid reader.
I've been asked to send along my favorite.
I don't have an immediate title and I'm trying to remember books that I really liked.
I thought by asking on here I might remember some that I've read over the years but forgotten about.


What is your FAVORITE book? (Especially a title that you might give to someone else to read).

Thank you!!

My ABSOLUTE favorite is Stephen King's The Stand.

Other recent favorites include Cormac McCarthy's "The Road" and Emily St. John's "Station Eleven." I also recommend "Fahrenheit 451" by Bradbury.

As you can see, I'm into the post-apocalyptic genre.

If you're going for more literary, Raymond Carver's collection of short stories, "Where I'm Calling From" is exceptional.

I bet we could be friends. Or at the very least in a book club together.

I LOVE these.

What other ones do you like?

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Anonymous wrote:The Book Thief is my go to recommendation. It's technically a young adult book, but it is so beautiful.

It was summer reading for my teen but I'm afraid to read it because I think it will be sad. Is it sad? My teen has said death is a character and I won't like it.

NP. It takes place in Germany in WW2, so definitely sad. Death is the narrator which I thought was pretty clever but otherwise the writing style really grated on me.

Thanks for the update. I'm definitely passing. Life is too short.

Good choice, way overrated.

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Lonesome Dove
11-22-63
North Woods
People of the Book
Circe
Nobody’s Fool
And then there were None