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

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Anna Karenina

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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.

Dp. Life is too short not to examine the whole experience of life.

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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.

Dp. Life is too short not to examine the whole experience of life.

Uhh...we're talking about The Book Thief, which some think is not very good and some think is good.

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Tuesdays With Morrey

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Interpreter of Maladies
What I Loved
Digging to America
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
Snow Falling on Cedars

None are my singular favorite, but I loved all and have re-read many times.

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Ah it’s so personal.
I read through this list and there’s tons of books that I would never imagine someone would consider their favorite much less gift to someone. Mine would be Lolita (highly controversial), I know this much is true, Zen and the Art of motorcycle maintenance, the Dubliners, the home, angel, and the bronze Horseman trilogy.

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Barchester towers by Anthony Trollope

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What did you choose?

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Wonder Boys by Michael Chabon.

A lot more levity than the other, excellent, suggestions.

Movie's pretty good too.

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Anything by Barbara Kingsolver. But I especially like The Bean Trees. The main character is a young woman from rural Kentucky and has a "voice" that resonates with me (as someone who grew up in a rural Southern community). The accent is perfect, most definitely Southern; she is whip smart and just a little bit sassy.

This book had me at the opening line: "I have been afraid of putting air in a tire ever since I saw a tractor tire blow up and throw Newt Hardbine's father over the top of the Standard Oil sign."

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Anonymous wrote:Ah it’s so personal.
I read through this list and there’s tons of books that I would never imagine someone would consider their favorite much less gift to someone. Mine would be Lolita (highly controversial), I know this much is true, Zen and the Art of motorcycle maintenance, the Dubliners, the home, angel, and the bronze Horseman trilogy.

Yes to this one too. Am reading it now for the 4th time.

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Anonymous wrote:Anything by Barbara Kingsolver. But I especially like The Bean Trees. The main character is a young woman from rural Kentucky and has a "voice" that resonates with me (as someone who grew up in a rural Southern community). The accent is perfect, most definitely Southern; she is whip smart and just a little bit sassy.

This book had me at the opening line: "I have been afraid of putting air in a tire ever since I saw a tractor tire blow up and throw Newt Hardbine's father over the top of the Standard Oil sign."

Love this book as well