Read X times Title 2 Everybody Lies 3 Storyworthy 3 The Design of Everyday Things 3 Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don’t Know 2 Beyond Command and Control 3 Good Strategy/Bad Strategy 2 First Break All the Rules 3 Never Split the Difference 2 Antifragile 2 Fooled by Randomness 2 Skin in the Game 2 Black Swan 2 Talking To Strangers 3 Call Center Management on Fast Forward 4 The Effective Manager 2 Atomic Habits 2 Never Eat Alone 2 An Economist Walks Into a Brothel 2 The Tipping Point 3 Misreading Scripture with Western Eyes 7 Powerful, Building a culture on freedom and responcibility 3 Effective Hiring Manager 7 The Total Money Makeover 2 Dare to Lead 4 Great at Work 7 The 4 Disciplines of Execution 5 Unlearn: 101 Simple Truths for a Better Life 2 The Hard Thing About Hard Things 2 The Best Service is No Service 9 The Effective Executive 5 Financial Intelligence 2 Understanding Complexity 2 How to be an Antiracist 2 Deep Work 2 Happier Now 2 The Fearless Organization 3 Algorithms to Live By 3 Four Thousand Weeks, Time Management for Mortals 3 Thinking in Systems 2 Multipliers 2 The Scout Mindset 2 High Conflict 2 The Prince 2 Not Nice 2 The Value of Everything 2 Born a Crime 2 Freakonimics 2 Human Sigma 2 Getting Things Done 3 Rework 2 Linchpin 2 White Fragility: Why it is so hard for White People to Talk about Racism 2 Complexity: The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos Counted w/ Schedulers Guide User Management Guide Counted w/ Schedulers Guide WFM Administrators Guide 2 Parenting with Love and Logic 2 The Five Temptations of a CEO 2 21 Laws of Leadership 2 Failing Forward 2 Our Iceberg is Melting 2 TNIV Bible 2 Graveyard Shift and Other Stories 2 The Dictators Handbook 2 The First 90 Days: Proven Strategies for Getting up to Speed Faster and Smarter 2 Where the red fern grows.
Well that formatted like shit… But the number before the title is how many times I’ve read it.
Next time use two line breaks after each line and it will work.
Ah, thank you
Fixed!
No worries, it’s quite an odd behaviour. It was the same back on Reddit. No idea if there is a good reason for it or if they copied it to be the same as with Reddit.
Stephen King’s Dark Tower series is my go-to epic fantasy. I’m about to start a 4th trip to the tower once I’m done with my current listen.
Enders Game by Orson Scott Card, and a select few other books in the series (Speaker for the dead and Enders Shadow most notably) - Card at the top of his game is fantastic, I just wish he didn’t dive completely off the deep end.
Tangentially, Berserk, if you include manga. Hands down my favorite piece of media altogether.
When I re-read Ender’s Game as an adult it felt pretty mary-sueish the second time. I got why I loved it as a kid because the smart socially maladjusted kid (omg he’s just like me) was kicking everyone’s ass and being great at everything. As an adult it seemed a little much. Then again maybe I’m just projecting the hatred I have for my past self onto the book.
I can get that. Its the parts around him being a Mary Sue that work so well. His ultimate draw towards pacifism despite his clear knack for death. I feel like it captures a bullied, maladjusted youth with a clear talent pretty well, all considered.
A more obscure author David Eddings, did a bunch of fantasy series. The Belgirad and the mallorian were two that I’ve read the most but the others are great also.
Also Tolkian. And Harry Potter
All 20 novels in the Aubrey/Maturin series by Patrick O’Brian.
/never had the heart to read the unfinished 21st book.
I reread most of my books but “player of games” by Iain M. Banks I read so many times I broke it and had to buy a new copy. Weirdly, I don’t think it is the best of his books, it is just a fun read.
Foucault’s pendulum by Umberto Eco. Just thinking about it makes me want to read this masterpiece again.
That chapter where they try to figure out the password to the computer though…
Baudolino is my favourite BTW, maybe I should re read it (struggling with time to get into Pragues Cemetery ATM).
Childhood’s End
Schismatrix by Bruce Sterling.
I have 2 in mind.
- The Martian by Andy Weir
- Thieves Emporium by Max Hernandez (WARNING: sexual assult in chapter 10 but can be skipped)
Watership Down.
Also some Philip K. Dick books, like A Scanner Darkly and Eye in the Sky.
But I also enjoyed the Bartimaues trilogy so much when I was somewhat younger.
Went into comment section to suggest Watership Down. It’s a children’s book which reads like an adult treaties on free will, totalitarianism, good vs evil, leadership … and, oh yeah, the value of overwhelming seagull power.
The Count of Monte Cristo
HHGTTG Tue trilogy of 5 I’ve read through maybe 5 times now. Unfortunately I think the last time was a mistake as I really struggled after the first 2 books and didn’t enjoy them like I once had.
I had to look up:
HHGTTG = The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.
Walden by Henry David Thoreau
Ascendance of a Bookworm series by Miya Kazuki (Light Novel) and on every reread i discover something new that was forshadowed.
There is whole instance dedicated to that series.
