What's the best or most interesting book you ever read?

[Roselló]

I have a friend, she love books. Looking for something interesting. Thanks.

[amg55]

Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, Charles Mckay.

[Maybelline]

I liked The Road. I'm really into post apocalyptic novels and this was my favorite.

[Slippy Chips]

Matterhorn. Phenomenal. One of the best books I've ever read. Not a happy/feel good book. It takes place in the Vietnam war. My dad served during that time in the Air Force. Now that he's deceased I have a whole new respect for what he and others went through during that time.

[locutus49]

I just read Sapiens, by Professor Harari. It is a history of the evolution of humankind and is both literate and readable.

[Etschell]

50 dials of rolex

[Chewbacca]

William Shakespeare: Star Wars

its actually pretty cool.

[DJ TT 2002]

Moby Dick for classical literature -----Herman Melville
How Green Was My Valley for characters -----Richard Llewelyn
American Caesar for biography -----William Manchester
It for scaring everybody to pieces-----Stephen King.

[youthagainsttt]

Seven Ancient Wonders

I read a couple of books a week and this has been the best I've read recently. Its about the 7 ancient wonders of the world and is an exciting Indiana Jones-esque tale of a motley crew of specialists vs. Europe vs. USA crack teams trying to recover pieces from the different sites to ultimately rule the entire world should they recover all pieces and perform a ceremony

[Old Expat Beast]

I've been reading this for a few days. Not the "best", but certainly very interesting and absorbing.

[JasonKrick]

Dumas: The Three Musketeers. Must have read it 20 times over my life.

[77T]

Too many to mention but for starters...

[jhilly8982]

"The Soul of the Marionette" by John Gray

Anything by Nassim Taleb. I'd start with "Fooled by Randomness."

"Being Mortal" by Atul Gawande

[locutus49]

Oh, for fiction, I would say The Magus, by John Fowles. I read it when I was young and as Fowles himself admitted, this masterpiece appeals to the adolescent male. But it is so literate and erudite, yet mysterious, it holds sway over many who have fallen under its trance.

[Sjmoore11]

Lonesome Dove is my favourite.
Also really like Brave New World, For Whom the Bell Tolls, or pretty much any Hemingway.

[Boothroyd]

Originally Posted by locutus49

Oh, for fiction, I would say The Magus, by John Fowles. I read it when I was young and as Fowles himself admitted, this masterpiece appeals to the adolescent male. But it is so literate and erudite, yet mysterious, it holds sway over many who have fallen under its trance.

Have to chuckle...remember reading this book on summer vacation as a freshman in college. You nailed it.

[GradyPhilpott]

Non-Fiction: The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge--Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckman

Fiction: Almost anything by John Steinbeck

[Old Expat Beast]

Originally Posted by 77T

Too many to mention but for starters...

I spent some time in the South Atlantic with the woman who adapted that book into the movie screenplay about 20 years ago. Her partner was an Everest climber and guide. Great couple. I've also read everything by Peter Fleming. A better writer than his younger brother Ian, IMO.

[Angrypuppy]

Sometimes a Great Notion; Ken Kesey
Fate is the Hunter; Ernest Gann

8 books into the Patrick O'Brien Master and Commander series and it s quite engaging.

[jmiicustomz]

"Let's Pretend This Never Happened: (a mostly true memor)" by Jenny Lawson. It is totally hilarious. I don't agree with her on chunks of politics but she is crazy funny.

To know the future is to be trapped by it

[Tri-Tip]

I really enjoyed 11/22/63 by Stephen King. Not horror but a lot of weird stuff to make you think.

[77T]

Originally Posted by GradyPhilpott

Non-Fiction: The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge--Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckman

Fiction: Almost anything by John Steinbeck

Good choices

Currently reading "The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to get Inside Our Heads" by Tim Wu.

And I'll add Hemingway...

[77T]

Originally Posted by Old Expat Beast

I spent some time in the South Atlantic with the woman who adapted that book into the movie screenplay about 20 years ago. Her partner was an Everest climber and guide. Great couple. I've also read everything by Peter Fleming. A better writer than his younger brother Ian, IMO.

Never saw the movie - my imagined movie as I read the book a few decades back is what I will remember.
That and my discovery of Yak Butter Tea

[bradj]

douglas preston and lincoln child... anything by them. Start with the Relic, really fun read.

[AzPaul]

Read an interesting book about the Dust Bowl called - 'The Worst Hard Time'
Not just informative, but also did a great job of humanizing the period and the people it devastated.

[JasoninDenver]

A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth.

1500 pages can just fly by.

[Rock]

We'd need to know what sort of literature your friend likes.
For me, "Centennial" by James A. Michener.
I love history so I enjoy what Michener does as he weaves a generational story around an historical context. You have to read it with a map of the USA readily to hand.

[Star Ferry]

I used to read a lot when I was a kid.

Favorite book is Blood Meridian by cormac mccarthy

Others worth mentioning:

Travels by Michael Crichton (memoir / short stories). If you liked jurassic park and his other novels, this is the best chance to get inside his head.

Caught Stealing is a really good crime novel

"In the Miso Soup" is a good pulp novel (translated from Japanese to English)

for anyone in HK, the essay collection "no city for slow men" by Jason Ng would probably be of interest

Originally Posted by AzPaul

Read an interesting book about the Dust Bowl called - 'The Worst Hard Time'
Not just informative, but also did a great job of humanizing the period and the people it devastated.

I also enjoyed that one

[chieftd]

Stephen King's Salems Lot. Scared the crap out of me even reading in the daytime. :)

[SearChart]

Cold by Sir Ranulph Fiennes.