Everyone has a list of their favorite movies or vacation spots or the list could go on and on. I’ve done several of these lists in my mind. One of those was my favorite books; those books that I could read over and over again.
This is my list of Ten favorite books today. Tomorrow the list may be different
- GEB: Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid is a 1979 book by Douglas Hofstadter that defies any particular genre. Not an easy book to finish as it requires much thinking and self reflection.
- Feels Like Home: Linda Ronstadt’s swan song is her farewell ode to her family, Tucson, and a vanishing culture that knew no borders between the US and Mexico. Yet more special for me because she like Gwen is afflicted with PSP.
- Lord of the Rings: The books by which all other fantasy books, and movies will be judged. As of today no others have measured up.
- American Gods: A different kind of book. A blend of fantasy, and mythology based in the good old USA authored by Neil Gaiman who is more famous for his graphic novel creations.
- Three Body Problem: be afraid; be very afraid. there are some bad things out there and they are coming after us! Chinese SyFy.
- The Brothers Karamazov: the archetypal Russian novel by in IMHO the best of the great Russian novelists.
- To Kill a Mockingbird: Just a great novel by Harper Lee based in the American south
- Roadside Picnic: Now for a completely different SyFy novel read Roadside Picnic to find out why the title is so apropos.
- Stalingrad: Another series. This one is just two books by the Russian Vasily Grossman: Stalingrad and Life and Fate. The books center on the members and associates of a single extended Russian family, the Shaposhnikovs, whose world is torn apart by the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union.
- A Brief History of Time: This short book garners the distinction of being the least book on the New York Times bestseller list. It seems gazillions to people bought the book but not many understand it. As a physics/Math major I should but I find my self struggling through it as well (Many times)
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