Recommended Books
A sampling of some good books or series, in no particular order (other than by title). If you ask me what you should read, I will send you this list.
I'm limiting this list to one book per author. This list includes some "first book of series" entries.
| Cover | title | author | series | Rating |
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A Thousand Splendid Suns | Khaled Hosseini | - | ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ |
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A Wizard of Earthsea | Ursula K. Le Guin | Earthsea Cycle | ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ |
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Children of Time | Adrian Tchaikovsky | Children of Time | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ |
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Cloud Cuckoo Land | Anthony Doerr | - | ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ |
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Crime And Punishment | Fyodor Dostoevsky | - | ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ |
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Dune | Frank Herbert | Dune Series | ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ |
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East of Eden | John Steinbeck | - | ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ |
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Exiles | Preston M. Sprinkle | - | ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ |
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Piranesi | Susanna Clarke | - | ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ |
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Senlin Ascends | Josiah Bancroft | Books of Babel | ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ |
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The Count of Monte-Cristo | Alexandre Dumas | - | ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ |
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The Fellowship Of The Ring | J.R.R. Tolkien | The Lord of the Rings | ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ |
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The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory | Tim Alberta | - | ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ |
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The Little Friend | Donna Tartt | - | ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ |
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The Luminaries | Eleanor Catton | - | ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ |
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The Poisonwood Bible | Barbara Kingsolver | - | ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ |
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Till We Have Faces | C.S. Lewis | - | ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ |
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Watership Down | Richard Adams | - | ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ |