I’m looking for book recommendations. What’s your favorite work of fiction?
A little life - while reading this, i didn’t knew if i’ll finish it or it will finish me. The feast of the goat The tin drum Posthumous papers of a living author In search of lost time - Its pretty long but once you finish this, you’ll feel like you conquered the world.
Maybe it's bc I'm from the South or never took AP English, but I really love "The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers. If you'd like something on the short story side, I'd recommend "The Life You Save May Be Your Own" by Flannery O'Connor.
Personally, Brideshead Revisited. For more recent fiction, A Gentleman in Moscow and Crossroads.
I love the book “The Unbearable Lightness of Being”, by Milan Kundera.
A recent favorite is When We Cease to Understand the World, a fictionalized account of primarily 20th century scientific developments
1. Idiot by Dostoevsky 2. Martin Eden by London 3. 1984 by Orwell
(1) Outliers; (2) Tipping Point both by Malcolm Gladwell + (3) Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir was a really fun read
Not favorite but great and a quick read https://www.amazon.com/Cat-Hot-Roof-Tennessee-Williams/dp/0811216012
I'm currently reading Ogres by Adrian Tchaikovsky. It's a short read, 5-6 hours of reading. I'll finish it tonight or tomorrow in the worst-case scenario.
It’s a story about AGI written by the author of Redis (so it’s technically sound) https://www.amazon.it/Wohpe-English-Rimmel-Salvatore-Sanfilippo-ebook/dp/B0BQ3HRDPF/ref=nodl_?dplnkId=31e505bd-29e7-481c-8388-0716328ac3a0
anything by issac asimov get a taste with “the last question” https://users.ece.cmu.edu/~gamvrosi/thelastq.html
Fantasy: Witcher, First Law, Name of the Wind
Look at either Seveneves or Fall, both by Neal Stephenson. I often give them as gifts. Or, if you're really looking for a commitment, dig into the Revelation Space universe by Alastair Reynolds. It'll change your life. ;)
Neuromancer Three body problem (writing isn’t great, but world building and ideas are amazing)
The Name of the Wind (Patrick Rothfuss) Dune (cliche perhaps but holy shit is the first of the series good)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Odyssey Hal 9000:)