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The Revival, Stephen King (Γ3)
East of Eden, John Steinbeck (Γ5)
Dreamquest of Unknown Kadath, H.P. Lovecraft (Γ2)
And I plan on rereading:
The Exorcist, William Peter Blatty
Fear and Trembling, SΓΈren Kierkegaard
Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Blood Meridian, Cormac McCarthy (after a bit of therapy)
Lonesome Dove, Larry McMurthy
Ian Toll's Pacific War trilogy
The Things Our Fathers Saw, Matthew A. Rozell
Ulysses, Siddharta, On the Road.
All 20 novels in the Aubrey/Maturin series by Patrick O'Brian.
/never had the heart to read the unfinished 21st book.
Excellent mention! I need to find a replacement set one of these days.
Schismatrix by Bruce Sterling.
Childhood's End
Behave by Robert Sapolsky. It's an excellent book if you're trying to understand why the people around you are like.. well, that way. But if you didn't study neuroscience, you'll likely have to re-read it to get at least the most important points to stick.
All the King's Men. I like how the different characters grapple with what goodness is and what it means to implement it in the real world. Doesn't hurt that Penn Warren was also a poet, and his prose reflects that.
Looking for Alaska. Its not really my type of read, but I was recommended it a few times and I was hooked immediately
Stranger in a Strange Land. Read that many times.
lol, that's the book that made me hate Heinlein. Him before that book is ok. Him after that book is garbage.
Jurassic Park, A Song of Ice and Fire
Asoiaf was great when i first read it years ago, i just couldn't wait for the next one..... ill will have to reread whenever the next book comes out, so maybe in another ten years?
Ray Bradury's "From the Dust Returned".
It keeps getting more relevant, as I age and understand the world a bit more.
Sentenced to Prism by Alan Dean Foster. It's set in his wider universe, but is a stand alone. The main character is a jack of all trades that fixes unique situations. When a far off base on an unregistered planet stops responding, the corporation sends him in to figure out what went wrong. The planet is very, very different. It's an interesting take, don't think too hard about the physics, and it's a neat writing style. The characters are very interesting.
The Practice Effect by David Brin. Essentially, the more you use a thing, the better it gets at that thing, even if that's not what it was made for, but that effect decays if it's left unused. A modern day physicist is transported there and gets caught up in political and physics shenanigans.
Freedom^tm by Daniel Suarez
Man's Search for Himself - Rollo May
Harry Potter, His Dark Materials, What If, Percy Jackson, Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy (all 5 books), Isaac Asimov's Robot series, It's not Rocket Science, The End of Everything.
The rise of red shadow and the series (book of deacon). Also angry ghosts trilogy.
Dean Koontz: βPhantomsβ and βSole Survivorβ.
Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegut Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving
"Dark Star" and "Night Soldiers" by Alan Furst. Both are about Soviet spies in the run up to World War 2. Great combination of atmosphere and action.
There are a number that I've realized I really enjoyed, but read so long ago that I've forgotten a lot and will reread soon. Those include Blood Music by Bear, and a whole bunch of Clarke novels.