Favorite Book of All-Time?

The Razor's Edge by Somerset Maugham

Read Born to Run, its so good it should be mandated all new runners read it. Its basically about the origin of human running and its power mentally and physically. 10/10 buy it now

The 1961 social commentary

Stranger In A Strange Land- Robert A. Heinlein

Tough question. If forced to pick just one, I might go with John McPhee's Annals of the Former World. It's one of a few books I've owned that I had to get rid of--otherwise I'd read it every year, and lose out on reading a new book.

Another book in the "had to get rid of" category: The Silence of the Lambs. Ditto The Making of the Atomic Bomb. And The Killer Angels.

Strangely enough, I genuinely love The Remains of the Day but am able to restrain myself, and only read it once every decade or two.

If I think of any more, I'll revisit this thread. By the way, there have been many similar threads over the years--try the Search function.

Can only narrow it down to a top-3.

Slaughterhouse Five

Brave New World

Blood Meridian

The Count of Monte Cristo is an amazing work of fiction and I hate reading fiction.

lilrunnerboy wrote:

What is your favorite book of all-time?

I'm looking for some new reading material and am interested to see if you guys have any I haven't heard of/read

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The Construction of Social Reality

Brothers Karamazov -should be mandatory reading for all Christians.

In English - Middlemarch, though a long time since I read it. Vanity Fair's up there too.

Have thought about reading Blood Meridian, but I'm somewhat squeamish and understand it's graphic to the point of stomach-churning in places........

I keep coming back to "Trout Bum" by John Gierach.

At night I usually play either Quenton Cassidy book when I'm going to sleep.

I also have a soft spot for Soren Kierkegaard.

Wise Blood, Flannery O'Connor

Either The Jungle by Upton Sinclair or Native Son by Richard Wright.

All time? That's way too difficult.

Here are a few off the top of my head that I've enjoyed:

Fiction:

Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close - Jonathan Safran Foer

The Night Circus - Erin Morgenstern

The Snow Child - Eowyn Ivey

Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War - Karl Marlantes

Embassytown - China Miéville

Non-Fiction:

Thinking, Fast and Slow - Daniel Kahneman

Country Driving: A Journey Through China from Farm to Factory - Peter Hessler

The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks - Rebecca Skloot

Breaking Night - Liz Murray

Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body - Neil Shubin

No love for Once a Runner? Genuinely one of my favourite works of fiction.

Disclaimer: I'm not hugely well-read. I did enjoy Brave New World and 1984 though.

Once an Eagle, by Anton Myrer. It's the life story of "the greatest Army officer who never lived."

The Long Goodbye, by Raymond Chandler

Human Action

Ludwig Von Mises

Open Society

Karl Popper

although they disagree and that's 3 books

A Song of Ice and Fire series

The Road by Cormac McCarthy

Im a huge fan of Stephen King. If you're into some horror-fiction, he's the guy.

My favorites are

"The Stand" a post-apocalyptic novel; typical good vs. evil

"11/22/63" a 'what if?' scenario about saving JFK from being assassinated

Charles Baudelaire's Fleurs du Mal; Pablo Neruda's Veinte Poemas De Amor Y Una Cancion Desesperada; Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats; Jorge Luis Borges's Ficciones; James Joyce's Ulysses.