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Favorite books - fun topic!
I heard that your favorite book is probably one you wouldn’t recommend to people, so… here’s a small list of my top 10 (in no particular order) if someone wants to check them out!
Feel free to post your own book lists! The weirder the better !! 🐛
• Kafka on the shore (Murakami)
• Notes of a crocodile (Miaojin)
• Our Share of Night (Enriquez)
• 2666 (Bolaño)
• Carcel de mujeres (Geel)
• La mujer de sal (Gertner)
• Little Eyes (Schweblin)
• What I Loved (Hustvedt)
• Just Kids (Smith)
• The Savage Detectives (Bolaño)
Sep 17 · 3 months ago · 👍 klimperfix, zeerooth, magnusmww
Good topic. I just realized that, indeed, I usually wouldn't recommend my favourite books to others, because they're either too weird or I love them for very specific features. Anyway, here's the list:
☕️ tenno-seremel · Sep 18 at 10:53:
Dunno, I think I can recommend “Lord of Light” by Zelazny to just about anyone 🤔 A bit harder with Frank Herbert’s “Dune” novels, although “The chronicles of Amber” shouldn’t be much of a problem.
Fiction(-ish)
• Neuromancer
• Burning Chrome (short stories by the author of Neuromancer)
• Diamond Dogs & Turquoise Days
• Chasm City
• The Tao Is Silent
• Gödel, Escher, Bach
Non-Fiction
• Introduction To Algorithms by Cormen, Rivest, Leiserson, and Stein (also called the CS Undergrad Bible)
I'm split between hard sci-fi and detective novels for the majority of what I read. The entire Isaac Asimov universe should be a mandatory read as it's easy to read and yet extremely deep.
The past few years I have been on a reading kick and have been either reading stuff I did/should have read in highschool or bingeing series I like.
I have listed all I have read the past few years here.