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Books I love

Not a reading list or a ranking. These are the ones I keep going back to, with a line on why.

Fiction

  • Cover of War and Peace

    War and Peace

    Leo Tolstoy · 1869

    The most epic and beautiful zooming out and zooming in on the brutality of war, the impenetrable force of human motives and the endurance and inseparable human heart from the human experience.

  • Cover of The Count of Monte Cristo

    The Count of Monte Cristo

    Alexandre Dumas · 1844

    Awakened in me hope when all felt hopeless.

  • Cover of A Confederacy of Dunces

    A Confederacy of Dunces

    John Kennedy Toole · 1980

  • Cover of Catch-22

    Catch-22

    Joseph Heller · 1961

  • Cover of Demian

    Demian

    Hermann Hesse · 1919

  • Cover of Magister Ludi

    Magister Ludi

    Hermann Hesse · 1943

  • Cover of Siddhartha

    Siddhartha

    Hermann Hesse · 1922

  • Cover of Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

    Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

    Robert Louis Stevenson · 1886

  • Cover of Breakfast of Champions

    Breakfast of Champions

    Kurt Vonnegut · 1973

Science fiction

  • Cover of Stranger in a Strange Land

    Stranger in a Strange Land

    Robert A. Heinlein · 1961

  • Cover of The Foundation series

    The Foundation series

    Isaac Asimov

  • Cover of The Dune series

    The Dune series

    Frank Herbert

  • Cover of Snow Crash

    Snow Crash

    Neal Stephenson · 1992

  • Cover of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy series

    The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy series

    Douglas Adams

  • Cover of The Time Machine

    The Time Machine

    H. G. Wells · 1895

  • Cover of The War of the Worlds

    The War of the Worlds

    H. G. Wells · 1898