Must Own Books?
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How did you like Anna Karenina? I'm just about to start it after I've finished For Whom The Bell Tolls.
Some of my favourites that I can think of right now:
The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera
Jude The Obscure - Thomas Hardy
Steppenwolf - Herman Hesse
Don't want to spoil it for you. I found it better than War and Peace but it is a slow mover.
I'm glad I read it but I wouldn't return to it for a long time.
Oh bugger!
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It depends on your own personal interests, but two books I'd recommend to anyone are "Hokkaido Highway Blues" by Will Ferguson, and "Yakuza Moon" by Shoko Tendo.
To this day I have two standout books that I just absolutely flew through.
The Hobbit, JRRT. Streets ahead of LOTR. Great story, no effort at all
A Short History of Nearly Everything, Bill Bryson. Unconventional, but sod you. I've a very factual mind and every new chapter I was learning something new. So much information and so well written
The Hobbit, JRRT. Streets ahead of LOTR. Great story, no effort at all
A Short History of Nearly Everything, Bill Bryson. Unconventional, but sod you. I've a very factual mind and every new chapter I was learning something new. So much information and so well written
To this day I have two standout books that I just absolutely flew through.
The Hobbit, JRRT. Streets ahead of LOTR. Great story, no effort at all
A Short History of Nearly Everything, Bill Bryson. Unconventional, but sod you. I've a very factual mind and every new chapter I was learning something new. So much information and so well written
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The Prophet - Kahlil Gibran
The Awakend Soul - Kahil Gibran
The Complete Novels - Franz Kafka
Czeslaw Milosz - New and Collected Poems 1931-2001*
Daughter of the killing fields - Theary Seng*
The Fabric Of The Cosmos - Brian Greene*
Sacred Journey Of The Peacefull Warrior - Dan Millman
The Celestine Prophecy - Jame Redfield
The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho
Mans Search For Meaning - Viktore Frankl*
An Open Heart - The Dalai Lama*
A Simple Path - The Dalai Lama*
Women Who Love Too Much - Robin Norwood*
*Non-fiction
The Awakend Soul - Kahil Gibran
The Complete Novels - Franz Kafka
Czeslaw Milosz - New and Collected Poems 1931-2001*
Daughter of the killing fields - Theary Seng*
The Fabric Of The Cosmos - Brian Greene*
Sacred Journey Of The Peacefull Warrior - Dan Millman
The Celestine Prophecy - Jame Redfield
The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho
Mans Search For Meaning - Viktore Frankl*
An Open Heart - The Dalai Lama*
A Simple Path - The Dalai Lama*
Women Who Love Too Much - Robin Norwood*
*Non-fiction
Dune
(and all related books by both Frank and Brian Herbert)
The Wheel of Time
(11 books each adding to an epic tale and still being written)
Complete Chronicles of Conan
The Magician
Bravo Two Zero
Marine Sniper
(Based on true events and bloody unbelievable)
(and all related books by both Frank and Brian Herbert)
The Wheel of Time
(11 books each adding to an epic tale and still being written)
Complete Chronicles of Conan
The Magician
Bravo Two Zero
Marine Sniper
(Based on true events and bloody unbelievable)
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A lot of "must have" books have already been mentioned, but I'd also suggest these are worth a read:
Fatherland - Robert Harris
Winter: A Berlin Family 1899-1945 -Len Deighton
SS-GB - Len Deighton
Ottoman - Alan Savage
The Sunfall Trilogy - William James
The Masters of Rome series - Colleen McCulloch
The Sunne in Splendour - Sharon Penman (indeed, most of Sharon Penmans work)
Anything by Micheal Moorcock
Some of those won't be to everyones taste, some are just a decent read, while others are a bit heavy going at times (the roman names and relationships in the Masters series is mind boggling at first).
Fatherland - Robert Harris
Winter: A Berlin Family 1899-1945 -Len Deighton
SS-GB - Len Deighton
Ottoman - Alan Savage
The Sunfall Trilogy - William James
The Masters of Rome series - Colleen McCulloch
The Sunne in Splendour - Sharon Penman (indeed, most of Sharon Penmans work)
Anything by Micheal Moorcock
Some of those won't be to everyones taste, some are just a decent read, while others are a bit heavy going at times (the roman names and relationships in the Masters series is mind boggling at first).