Favourite books?

I tend not to have favourites, but here are some that were worth the effort to read, in no order:

1. Cadillac Desert, Reisner, was very interesting on water use politics  in the US west and all the dams.
2. Vietnam, Max Hastings, good summary.
3. Hyperion trilogy by Dan Simmons
4. Gulag archipelago, Solzhenitsyn, if you can make it to the end.
5. Richard Dawkins books on evolutionand genetics.
6. Behave, Sapolsky was very informative.
7. Lensman series, E.E. doc Smith, read this when  14 or so.
8. Alice in Wonderland, Alice through the Looking glass, I liked them as a teen.

There are loads of others, but I can't think of them. There are many good science fiction ones, I liked nearly all in the Gollancz SF Masterworks series.

Penguin historical books are normally good too.

I have a really good WW1 book too, but I can't think of the name.

I have bookcases full of them.

I remember reading Magician. 

Read Hyperion a long time ago. Good stuff.

Gulag Archipelago is on my to-do list (I own it). I think I'll leave it until next year. I planning it to be my year of long books. You think it's worth the effort?

I love everything I've read by Dawkins (though I have read everything of his). The Selfish Gene was probably my favourite, as it really changed my perspective.

I pick up every Gollancz SF Masterwork that's on special. Great books. Non Stop by Aldiss was my most recent one.

Gulag Archipelago is bleak, very bleak, and depressing, and long, but the end shows the best of people. People bond in adversity.

It is not a fun book. But it is important to know.

It was 3 long books, but they noticed people read the first, some read the second, but few made it to the third. But the third is the important bit after the first two set it up. So they created a shorter single volume edition.

I have only read the single volume although I have all 3 books on my pc.

Gulag Archipelago is bleak, very bleak, and depressing, and long, but the end shows the best of people. People bond in adversity.

It is not a fun book. But it is important to know.

It was 3 long books, but they noticed people read the first, some read the second, but few made it to the third. But the third is the important bit after the first two set it up. So they created a shorter single volume edition.

I have only read the single volume although I have all 3 books on my pc.