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Stephen King's Dark Tower series is my go-to epic fantasy. I'm about to start a 4th trip to the tower once I'm done with my current listen.
Enders Game by Orson Scott Card, and a select few other books in the series (Speaker for the dead and Enders Shadow most notably) - Card at the top of his game is fantastic, I just wish he didn't dive completely off the deep end.
Tangentially, Berserk, if you include manga. Hands down my favorite piece of media altogether.
When I re-read Ender's Game as an adult it felt pretty mary-sueish the second time. I got why I loved it as a kid because the smart socially maladjusted kid (omg he's just like me) was kicking everyone's ass and being great at everything. As an adult it seemed a little much. Then again maybe I'm just projecting the hatred I have for my past self onto the book.
Harry potter series
When Sysadmins Ruled The Earth by Cory Doctorow
Brandon Sanderson’s entire cosmere.
The Name of the Wind and The Wise Man’s Fear
Robin Hobb’s Farseer, Fitz and the Fool, Liveship Trader, and Tawny Man trilogies. All interconnected.
Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
Dirk Gently
Harry Potter
The trilogy that Silo is based on is really good. Lots of bits you didn't know the first time thru, so reading again gives a lot more info because you know what's important.
Harry Potter The Martian The Cosmere (all for Sanderson's cosmere I've done a few times) The First Law Trilogy
One I will reread but just haven't yet: Uprooted Codex Alera Legends and Lattes
Metro 2033
The Kingkiller Chronicle
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (all five)
There are many. The Idiot and Crime & Punishment both by Fedor Dostojevskij among the others.
A more obscure author David Eddings, did a bunch of fantasy series. The Belgirad and the mallorian were two that I've read the most but the others are great also.
Also Tolkian. And Harry Potter
Ascendance of a Bookworm, shoutout to [email protected]
I’ve never been one for reading. Even for books with movies I love, I always found reading books myself a chore.
But when I saw the Ascendance of a Bookworm anime, I wanted to know what was going to happen after the season ended. This lead me to the Manga, which was behind at the time, then the light novel.
The word is rich and it has a depth that isn’t daunting. The character you meet feel like they have their own lives, and the sheer number of side stories which isn’t about our main character is wonderful.
This was the series the made me get an eReader just for the books and the many spin offs. And I now preorder it to get the prerelease chapters to get my bookworm fix every mynesday.
The translation work is amazing the story is my cup of tea, and I will recommend it to those who want something new.
Stewart O'Nan, "Last Night at the Lobster". It's about the night a Red Lobster runs its last shift before closing for good in gritty upstate New York town. It's SO good. All his books are really, The Speed Queen is about a woman on death row being interviewed by Stephen King. Can't recommend them enough.
I reread most of my books but "player of games" by Iain M. Banks I read so many times I broke it and had to buy a new copy. Weirdly, I don't think it is the best of his books, it is just a fun read.
Read X times Title
2 Everybody Lies
3 Storyworthy
3 The Design of Everyday Things
3 Think Again
2 Beyond Command and Control
3 Good Strategy/Bad Strategy
2 First Break All the Rules
3 Never Split the Difference
2 Antifragile
2 Fooled by Randomness
2 Skin in the Game
2 Black Swan
2 Talking To Strangers
3 Call Center Management on Fast Forward
4 The Effective Manager
2 Atomic Habits
2 Never Eat Alone
2 An Economist Walks Into a Brothel
2 The Tipping Point
3 Misreading Scripture with Western Eyes
7 Powerful
3 Effective Hiring Manager
7 The Total Money Makeover
2 Dare to Lead
4 Great at Work
7 The 4 Disciplines of Execution
5 Unlearn
2 The Hard Thing About Hard Things
2 The Best Service is No Service
9 The Effective Executive
5 Financial Intelligence
2 Understanding Complexity
2 How to be an Antiracist
2 Deep Work
2 Happier Now
2 The Fearless Organization
3 Algorithms to Live By
3 Four Thousand Weeks, Time Management for Mortals
3 Thinking in Systems
2 Multipliers
2 The Scout Mindset
2 High Conflict
2 The Prince
2 Not Nice
2 The Value of Everything
2 Born a Crime
2 Freakonimics
2 Human Sigma
2 Getting Things Done
3 Rework
2 Linchpin
2 White Fragility
2 Complexity
2 Parenting with Love and Logic
2 The Five Temptations of a CEO
2 21 Laws of Leadership
2 Failing Forward
2 Our Iceberg is Melting
2 TNIV Bible
2 Graveyard Shift and Other Stories
2 The Dictators Handbook
2 The First 90 Days
2 Where the red fern grows.
I have read hitchhiker's guide four or five times, also the next two books. I've listened to them as audiobooks at least 10 times I'm not exactly keeping track but I used to have that on as my driving music.
I read snow crash twice and listened to it probably about a dozen times years ago. Now that I have teenage kids I'm not quite as impressed by its treatment of people in the book.
I've read most of the popular Cthulhu lure more times than I will freely admit.
When I finished reading Blood Meridian I said WTF, turned to the first page and read it again.
The Little Prince, because nothing cuts so quick as real life disguised as a silly bed-time story.
All 20 novels in the Aubrey/Maturin series by Patrick O'Brian.
/never had the heart to read the unfinished 21st book.
I have 2 in mind.
Ulysses, Siddharta, On the Road.