What is your favorite book?

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@Alice Wonderland,

There are so many to choose from as far as a favorite. I go through phases with many authors and devour everything I can locate from them.

Through the years there was the Ed McBain phase, the Samuel Butler time, a brief visit with John Lescroart, an on and off trip to Ernest Hemingway and am now in the midst of a Joseph Roth vacation.

I'll possibly take a journey to science fiction soon, it's been too long a while since I've been there.

Favorite books would include Alexsandr Solzhenitsyn's One Day In the Life of Ivan Denisovich, Carson McCullers's The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter.

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@Sturgis,

Mine has been Primo Levi's The Reawakening.

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Charles Dickens - The Pickwick Papers

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@centrox,

Apparently The Reawakening by Primo Levi was also titled The Truce:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Truce

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@ossobucotemp,

ossobucotemp wrote:

Primo Levi

I very much enjoyed The Periodic Table recently.

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@centrox,

Panzade picked up on this and read all of Levi. Not to take credit.

Panz is a treasure.

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I am picking Ulysses by Joyce, but there are many I like just as much.

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@Alice Wonderland,

I absolutely LOVE The Ascendance Trilogy by Jennifer A. Neilson. The first book in the series is called The False Prince.

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@Mhm,

Thank you for advice I will definitely read this book

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@Alice Wonderland,

Hi Alice Wonderland,
Currently it has to be The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro. It's a sad story, but a very well crafted work. I read it years ago, and its been running through my head lately. It'll be a different book running through my head tomorrow, though. Smile

I'm always looking for suggestions, too. Sometime I just Google "good books" to see if something catches my eye.

What do you recommend?

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I don't know if it's possible for me to single out one favorite. But two that pop instantly to mind are Light in August (Faulkner) and The Brothers Karamozov (sp?) (Dostoevsky).

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Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen

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@Alice Wonderland,

Gone with the wind.

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@Alice Wonderland,

My favorite book is Al- Quran.

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@Alice Wonderland,

Three Comrades, Erich Maria Remarque

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My top 5
1. Harry Potter.
2. The Sword оf Truth
3. A song of Ice and Fire
4. Finding Yourself in the Town of Geniuses
5. Twilight

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Martin Eden by Jack London

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@Roberta,

I've once heard a joke that Russian literature is all about suffering - either for a hero or for the author or at least for a reader Smile

But Dostoevsky is still a great choice

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@Alice Wonderland,

You have to understand that books are not only read and forgotten, they have their place not only on the shelves but also in our hearts and mind.

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