Regarding Starship Troopers, I think this book is one of my 2 Favorite Titles because I read it at a very formative time of my life and found inspiration from it. Perhaps more about Nostalgia but I think it was a rather good read.
My all-time favorite is The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. I teach it yearly with my students and they love it. They love the aspect of the American Dream and "old money" vs "new money". Fitzgerald's prose is absolutely fantastic and although the writing is flourishing, the plot and symbolism is fairly easy to grasp and understand. A lot of the ideas expressed by Fitzgerald when he wrote Gatsby in 1925 are relevant today.
Since this is LetsRun, my favorite running book is The Perfect Mile by Neal Bascomb, which is about the race to break 4 minutes in the mile. It's a great read and reads a ton more like a story than a non-fiction quasi-biography. I also highly recommend Men of Oregon by Kenny Moore.
I third (fourth?) the Brothers Karamazov. If there is one book that can teach you absolutely everything you need to know about navigating life, it is most likely TBK.
Great Gatsby one of the best books I've read in school. I liked tender is the flesh a lot as well. Fault in our stars was really good, although I wasn't as into it as die hards
On Beauty / In Search of Lost Time / Dark Ecology / Brothers K / If On a Winters Night a Traveller / Delirious NY / The Shingle Style or the historians revenge / is a river alive? in my 30s
Honestly man, these books have been really important to comprehending what the f*ck in life we are doing.
