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At the moment I'm reading World's Best Science Fiction 1969.

At the moment I'm reading World's Best Science Fiction 1969.

"Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
"Lord of the Flies" by William Golding
"Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" by Douglas Adams (I still need to finish the sequels)
"Last Chance to See" by Douglas Adams & Mark Carwardine
"Fahrenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury
"Animal Farm" by George Orwell
"Around the World in 80 Days" by Jules Verne
"The Invisible Man" by HG Wells
"War of the Worlds" by the same (bonus cookies if you look into Orson Welles radio broadcast)

"Crime & Punishment" by Dostoyevsky
"The Master & Margarita" by Mikhail Bulgakov

"Fight Club" by Chuck Palahniuk
"Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas" by Hunter S. Thompson
"Fear & Loathing on the Campaign Trail" by the same

"The Savage Garden: Cultivating Carnivorous Plants" by Peter D'Amato
"Plant Systematics" by Michael Simpson

"History of the World in 7 Cheap Things" by Jason W. Moore and Raj Patel
"The Society of the Spectacle" by Guy Debord
"Thus Spoke Zarathustra" by Nietzsche
"Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" by Robert M. Pirsig
"The Myth of Sisyphus" by Camus
"No Exit" by Satre
"The Art of War" by Sun Tzu
"Republic" by Plato
"The Enchiridion" by Epictetus

"Play Winning Chess" by Yasser Seirawan
"Logical Chess Move by Move" by Irving Chernev
"Fundamental Chess Openings" by Paul van der Sterren (a good portion, anyway)

I've left out so much but all of the above are works I'd highly recommend, not sticking to any particular genre or theme.

"Catch-22" by Joseph Heller "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" by Douglas Adams (I still need to finish the sequels) "Last Chance to See" by Douglas Adams & Mark Carwardine "Fahrenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury "Animal Farm" by George Orwell "Around the World in 80 Days" by Jules Verne "The Invisible Man" by HG Wells "War of the Worlds" by the same (bonus cookies if you look into Orson Welles radio broadcast) "Crime & Punishment" by Dostoyevsky "The Master & Margarita" by Mikhail Bulgakov "Fight Club" by Chuck Palahniuk "Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas" by Hunter S. Thompson "Fear & Loathing on the Campaign Trail" by the same "The Savage Garden: Cultivating Carnivorous Plants" by Peter D'Amato "Plant Systematics" by Michael Simpson "History of the World in 7 Cheap Things" by Jason W. Moore and Raj Patel "The Society of the Spectacle" by Guy Debord "Thus Spoke Zarathustra" by Nietzsche "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" by Robert M. Pirsig "The Myth of Sisyphus" by Camus "No Exit" by Satre "The Art of War" by Sun Tzu "Republic" by Plato "The Enchiridion" by Epictetus "Play Winning Chess" by Yasser Seirawan "Logical Chess Move by Move" by Irving Chernev "Fundamental Chess Openings" by Paul van der Sterren (a good portion, anyway) I've left out so much but all of the above are works I'd highly recommend, not sticking to any particular genre or theme.

-The Theory of Everything (by Stephen Hawking)
-The Universe in a Nutshell (by Stephen Hawking)
-The Science of Breakable things (by Tae Keller)
-Matilda (by Roald Dahl)
-Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (by Roald Dahl)

  • James and the Giant Peach (by Roald Dahl)
    -The Twits (by Roald Dahl)

I've read many whose names aren't possible to write here, these are just a few, the list is never ending!!

-The Theory of Everything (by Stephen Hawking) -The Universe in a Nutshell (by Stephen Hawking) -The Science of Breakable things (by Tae Keller) -Matilda (by Roald Dahl) -Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (by Roald Dahl) - James and the Giant Peach (by Roald Dahl) -The Twits (by Roald Dahl) I've read many whose names aren't possible to write here, these are just a few, the list is never ending!!

The Boxcar Children is a good series, even though it's kinda childish for older people, but its good for people who like suspense.

The Boxcar Children is a good series, even though it's kinda childish for older people, but its good for people who like suspense.

Murder on the Orient Express (Agatha Christie)
The strange library (Haruki Murakami)
The alchemist (Paulo Coelho)
Who will cry when you die (Robin Sharma)
Sadako and the thousand paper cranes (Eleanor Coerr)
The mother I never knew (Sudha Murty)
Rusty comes home (Ruskin Bond)
When the clock strikes thirteen (Ruskin Bond)
The Harry Potter series with the Hogwarts Library (J.K. Rowling)
A wrinkle in time (Madeleine L'Engle)
Miss Peregrine's home for peculiar children (Ransom Riggs)

The top ones are these lol, I have read so many books it's hard for me to list them all...

Murder on the Orient Express (Agatha Christie) The strange library (Haruki Murakami) The alchemist (Paulo Coelho) Who will cry when you die (Robin Sharma) Sadako and the thousand paper cranes (Eleanor Coerr) The mother I never knew (Sudha Murty) Rusty comes home (Ruskin Bond) When the clock strikes thirteen (Ruskin Bond) The Harry Potter series with the Hogwarts Library (J.K. Rowling) A wrinkle in time (Madeleine L'Engle) Miss Peregrine's home for peculiar children (Ransom Riggs) The top ones are these lol, I have read so many books it's hard for me to list them all...

"A Wrinkle In Time" actually begins with the line: "It was a dark and stormy night." :)

"A Wrinkle In Time" actually begins with the line: "It was a dark and stormy night." :)

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