Like the title! I’ve been getting back into reading for pleasure, and want to know what you like! I recently read Piranesi and loved it. I’ve heard good things about The Poppy War and Babel by R.F. Kuang, has anyone read them?
Generally just want a bunch of recommendations from your favorites, on our commie corner of the internet. No genre needed!
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller. Righfully legendary.
Pudd’n’head Wilson by Mark Twain
Funny, clever, really captures a time and place, intriguing and it’s capped off by perhaps inventing the courtroom drama genre.
i read Blood Meridian last year and have found it to be unforgettable. might be my favourite book.
I just finished it the other night and it somehow manage to exceed my already high expectations. It might have been the most violent piece of media I’ve consumed thus far, but I’m not sure. I grew up on black and white westerns where everything plays out nicely and the good guys never die. There are very few characters in BM I would even call good…
what i found striking about it was how human of a story it manages to be despite it all.
The Third Policeman.
Go read it, it’s a trip.
I mention it in every book recommendation thread: 100 Years of Solitude
I just deleted a bunch of attempts to explain why it’s so good. I think about it all the time even years after reading it, scenes and images from it pop into my head suddenly the way childhood memories do.
