This is my first post so I decided to ask this.

Mine is “a time to kill” bye John Grisham.

  • southsamurai
    5·
    1 month ago

    Cats cradle, Kurt Vonnegut.

    It wrecked me when I read it the first time, and it was the first time I experienced a writer ripping apart my brain and leaving me to jigsaw the thing back together.

    A lot of his books could have done it, but that was the one that did.

  • Tenthrow@lemmy.world
    4·
    1 month ago

    I have a lot of favorites for different criteria, but probably the easy answer that comes to mind is Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.

    • CheradenineEnglish
      5·
      1 month ago

      You sound like the kind of Hoopy Frood that knows where his towel is

  • ieatpwns@lemmy.world
    2·
    1 month ago

    So far I’ve read 1984 5 times twice in school and 3 more times since graduation. The most recent was this past summer

  • Hominine@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    1 month ago

    My son caught me off guard asking me this question the other day. My first reply was The Stand, but there’s a little book called Lying by Sam Harris that was pretty important to me.

    Anyway, the reason I really replied was to say that many of John Grisham’s books are kind of like candy, they just go down so quick. Fun reads by and large; The Partner is probably my favorite.

  • HamiltonianMechanic@literature.cafeEnglish
    1·
    1 month ago

    Hard to choose just one book, so I’ll throw out a couple:

    The Firekeeper saga by Jane Lindskold

    The Companions by Sheri Tepper

    The Gormenghast trilogy by Mervyn Peake

    The Mistborn trilogy by Brandon Sanderson