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Favourite books?

hypercolius

Hi, I wanted to start this thread to share what our favourite books are!

Here are mine:

Favourite overall: Life and Death: Twilight reimagined (Meyer). I love romantic novels. Love, theoretically was also excellent as was Love hypothesis :) 

Favourite non-fiction: Assyria: The rise and fall of the world's first empire (Frahm). This caused a massive, obsessive hyperfocus on learning about Assyria when I'm just an astrophysicist!

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  • I don't really have just the one; all good books have something unique to offer. A very small selection of my favourites in random order:

    • The Hobbit, Tolkien (the greatest kids' book ever written!)
    • The Lord of the Rings, Tolkien (you have to read it before you die)
    • Lolita, Nabokov (so disturbing I'll never forget it)
    • The 1619 Project, Various (non-fiction; just read it ... NOW)
    • Mockingbird, Tevis (really thoughtful sci-fi)
    • Trainspotting, Welsh (recent read; really liked the authenticity of the dialect)
    • The Memory Police, Ogawa (you get it or you don't; if you do ... brilliant)
    • A Gentleman in Moscow, Towles (loved the writing and the story both)
    • The Go-Between, Hartley (very evocative of life as a young boy)
    • The Big Show, Clostermann (non-fiction; WW2 in the air; scary as hell)
    • The Trees, Everett (so clever; it starts as one thing and ends as another)
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  • I don't really have just the one; all good books have something unique to offer. A very small selection of my favourites in random order:

    • The Hobbit, Tolkien (the greatest kids' book ever written!)
    • The Lord of the Rings, Tolkien (you have to read it before you die)
    • Lolita, Nabokov (so disturbing I'll never forget it)
    • The 1619 Project, Various (non-fiction; just read it ... NOW)
    • Mockingbird, Tevis (really thoughtful sci-fi)
    • Trainspotting, Welsh (recent read; really liked the authenticity of the dialect)
    • The Memory Police, Ogawa (you get it or you don't; if you do ... brilliant)
    • A Gentleman in Moscow, Towles (loved the writing and the story both)
    • The Go-Between, Hartley (very evocative of life as a young boy)
    • The Big Show, Clostermann (non-fiction; WW2 in the air; scary as hell)
    • The Trees, Everett (so clever; it starts as one thing and ends as another)
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