Rosa Candida is so beautiful, it’s a book I will never stop recommending

Well, I’m a little over half way through a series right now (The Expanse). Maybe I’ll pick it back up after that.

A small mostly forgotten fantasy novel written in my native language. It was not even good, looking back. But it was the first fantasy novel I have read and entirely changed my life. I have 3 copies of it in fear of loosing it, but not daring to read it again.

I read the last sentence of the last page first!

I tried and failed to read this book twice before getting through it. I agree it is a slow start and the different narrations are frustrating. I will say the second half picks up and overall I ended up liking the book a lot.

You are going to have to get more detailed than 'the writing was good'. Aim for a short paragraph per book.

Otherwise, if you are just looking for new books to read you can post in the weekly recommendation thread or /r/suggestmeabook.

It was a fun read, it lacked a little dramatic tension as the ending never really seemed in doubt or ever uncertain. The journey was entertaining though.

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Robert Trumbull: The Raft: The Courageous Struggle of Three Naval Airmen Against the Sea.

The Sound and the Fury

I loved 1984 and anything written by H.G Wells. As far as non required reading there's too many to count.

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Wuthering Heights. It ignited a lifelong love of Victorian lit.

And let’s not get started on Jessica Fletcher.

Infidel by ayaan hirsin Ali

Talk about an eye opener for a sheltered girl living in rural america

East of Eden. It gave me an appreciation of love rather than lust.

Elementary school-A Wrinkle in Time

Middle school-Helter Skelter

High school-The Shining

Ender's Game

Can confirm that small town kids can be different, especially in more rural areas.

For me, it's 1984. I did have to read 1984, Lord of the Flies and Animal Farm for school. They all ignited my interest in dystopian stories (movie or book), and they helped me dip into more philosophical conversations.

I disliked it quite a bit actually. Glad you enjoyed it more than I did, but it's the only King book I've read that I didn't enjoy out of the 9 I've read

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Aksel Sandemose, A Fugitive Crosses His Tracks (1923, translated to English in 1936. I read it in Swedish, En flykting korsar sitt spår when I was 16).

It was in a long list of books where we had to pick some of them as required reads. I found it intermittently boring, but it introduces the Law of Jante that became a cultural/sociological descriptor/phenomenon and is often referred to locally in Scandinavia but also internationally. It made me see things about my culture that I had not noticed before as they were so ubiquitous for me, having grown up immersed in it.