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Here’s a book that may look like a boring mountain hiking tale or a story about “nature” but take a second look.
‘Into the wild’ by Jon Krakauer is a bestselling non-fiction book about the true life adventures of Christopher McCandless who did the unimaginable.
I recently ran into a couple of reading lists and realized that LOVE reading book recommendations. I can’t get enough of them.
So I decided to compile my own (somewhat eclectic) list of novels I think are amazing and essential to every library. I hope you enjoy it.
Here’s a book that doesn’t look like much when you glance at the cover and read the summary. I was lucky enough to have a friend who insisted I read it because, he said, “You are going to feel great about your life when you are done.”
I still didn’t believe him as I started to read but the story slowly pulled me in and when I finally finished it, I realized he was absolutely right. I felt great about my life and I was forever grateful to him for insisting I read this incredible true story.
Replay is a novel by Ken Grimwood that won the 1988 World Fantasy Award and often gets misjudged by its cover.
The book had an influence on Harold Ramis’ who eventually made the comedy-drama Groundhog Day with Bill Murray and it also won numerous other awards such as being included on The Hundred Best Novels of Modern Fantasy List, the Locus Reader’s Poll as Best Science Fiction Novel and Aurel Guillemette’s The Best in Science Fiction 1993 award.
The Outsiders, by S. E. Hinton, was first published in 1967 and the author was only 15 when she began writing it. She published at 18 and the rest is history.
Francis Ford Coppola eventually adapted this spectacular novel into a major motion picture and the beauty of the novel is not lost in the screen version.
Readership has only increased over the years as this small book, originally meant for teens, has now gone on to attract millions of adults as a timeless classic.
Only two decades ago, Huxley’s ‘Brave new world’ was read like a futuristic science fiction novel where mankind would be transformed into a genetically engineered world of automatons.
With the advent of the genome and the mapping of the DNA, this novel is much less a futuristic prophecy and much more a potential reality as we move into the 21st century.
“It all starts with Ayn Rand.” – That is the famous saying about how young, innocent minds, basking in the openness of their future, find themselves tempted into the promise of intellectual thought.
Ayn Rand is commonly said to become their first champion. Not only is this great author the champion of creative and intellectual thought but The Fountainhead is the 1943 novel that is likely to be the best of her works to begin with. Let’s face it, Atlas Shrugged is just too big to swallow when you are starting out in the world of reading and her other books are somewhat strange and less direct to her underlying philosophy known as ‘Objectivism’.
It’s just too bad what Hollywood has done to true art. When Pat Conroy first penned this amazing feat, who knew it would be destroyed by the like of Barbara Streisand?! Sorry Barbara but your hands are no longer like ‘butter’ after that dastardly deed you pulled on this otherwise spectacular story.
Here’s a novel which tells of a story spanning forty years and Barbara stole it and turned it into a money-making advertisement and a cheesy romance with no sense of taste or decorum. Shame on you Barbara!
Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance: An inquiry into values is the Introductory course for all spiritually inclined individuals. Robert M. Pirsig’s book explores the Metaphysics of ‘quality’ and leads the spiritually curious student down the Easy Rider’s path to Buddhist Nothingness.
This great novel first came out in 1974 and describes a 17-day motorcycle journey across the US. The author and his son Chris are on a journey which is mystically aligned with a greater theme about higher consciousness.
The road less traveled is a book that can literally change your life. Published in 1978, this book was written by a psychiatrist M. Scott Peck who had finally come to recognize what people needed in order to be happy.
It became his best-known work and literally catapulted him to success. In short, this is a book which clearly describes what makes up a fulfilled human being.
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