My Top 10 Books of All Time

My Top 10 Books of All Time (in no particular order):
- Don Quixote
- The Count of Monte Cristo
- Dune
- Beloved
- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
- The Autobiography of Malcolm X
- Just Mercy
- Man's Search for Meaning
- Flow
- New and Selected Poems, Vol 1

[improvewithsoo-selfdevelop]

"When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves." - Viktor Frankl, A Man's Search for meaning. One of my favorite quotes from that life-changing book!

[icebear]

For those of you don’t have much time watching: (not in any particular order)

1. Don Quixote
2. The Count of Monte Cristo
3. Dune
4. Beloved
5. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
6. The Autobiography of Malcolm X
7. Just Mercy
8. Man’s Search for Meaning
9. Flow
10. New and Selected Poems, Vol.1

[donwild]

Don Quixote is a marvelous book. We could do a lecture on practically every page. After I read it, I found a biography of Cervantes and read that and wondered "How could a man who suffered through that life have written this book?" And then I got old and realized only a man who had been a soldier and a noble and a slave and managed to reach old age (I'm 72) could have written that work. Adventure is moments of terror remembered twenty five years later. On a personal note...I remember my wars and my ups and downs and delusions of being a hero...had a few. And now I'm old and I love this book even more.

[lucas]

I recommend you "One hundred years of solitude" (Cien años de soledad) from Gabriel Garcia Marquez, a classic of latin america literature.

[tenoresw]

This guy is brilliant in his literary criticism. Fresh, youthful and charming. Makes me interested in reading lol.

[prumpom]

Books that did something to my soul, heart and brain:

1. "The life of Arseniev" by Ivan Bunin
2. "The Gift" by Nabokov
3. "Anna Karenina" by Tolstoy
4. "Petersburg" by Andrei Bely

[Ricky-esvg]

Mans Search For Meaning was life changing for me. My favorite of all time is The Brothers Karamazov, by Fyodor Dostoevsky.

[ellaritter]

I've recently acquired The Count of Monte Cristo, seeing you talk about it just made me even more excited to read it!! Wonderful video, John!

[majanV]

I recommend Flowers for Algernon. Such a good book! The ending broke my heart.

[sophiawoods]

mary oliver is my favorite poet of all time, because it feels like she’s not writing what she sees; she’s living in the world through her poems.

[EyeLean]

If you haven't read them yet, I recommend...

1. "Our Twisted Hero" by Yi Monyol. I used to tell people that it's a good idea to know something about South Korean politics of the 70s and 80s before reading it but at this point, the last 6 years of American politics is preparation enough.

2. "Solaris" by Stanislaw Lem. Again, it used to be helpful to understand something about how Soviet control and propaganda worked in its satellite states but at this point, recent American politics is a good enough background for connecting with this novel.

[ChrisDailyReading]

Loved this. Some of my favourite books;
-Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari (NF)
-The New Odyssey by Patrick Kingsley (NF)
-Talking to Strangers by Malcolm Gladwell (NF)
-Modern Romance by Aziz Ansari (NF)
-Leonardo Da Vinci by Walter Isaacson (NF)

-11/22/63 by Stephen King (F)
-The Master and the Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov (F)
-The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (F)
-The Devil all the Time by Donald Ray Pollock (F)
-Ready Player One by Ernest Cline (F)

I literally could go on and on but let me stop myself now

[LouisLuzuka]

so happy they're not all just self help books, you're the best. definitely picking up Maya Angelou again!! much love from Vancouver Canada (:

[julialianjosecarrera]

Don Quixote set the basis ofthe modern novel, all the story telling techniques that we see nowadays (movies, TV shows...) are indirectly inspired in Cervantes' master piece

[Live_your_Dreams_Everyday]

I recommend Wild Swans by Jung Chang. This book opens up the inside of China through three generations through the Cultural Revolution. It will change the way you see the world. Another which you will love is 'I bury my heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown.

[chillhomie]

That book elevated Malcolm X to my top human being of all time. What a story

[pierre]

My favorites:
Queen Margot by Alexandre Dumas
The count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
The Broters karamazov by Dostoevsky
Demons by Dostoevsky
Notes from Underground by Dostoevsky
Crime and Punishiment by Dostoevsky
war and peace by Tolstoy
The man who laughs by Victor Hugo
Toilers of the Sea by Victor Hugo
The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo
The Red and the Black by Stendhall
Madame Bovary by Fleubert

[astradewoodvale]

Some book recommendations:
- House of Leaves (probably the most unique experience you'll ever have)
- The song of Achilles
- A Little Life (content warning: it's pretty heavy on trauma)
- Homo Deus (non fiction)

[christopherpaul]

Don Quixote is also one of my favorite books! It's considered the first modern novel. Cervantes invented so many literary techniques that are commonplace today. The humor of course is amazing but the book has many levels. I hope you get a chance to read it again!

[halamadrid]

The count of Monte Cristo is my favorite novel of all time with the "voyage au bout de la nuit" from Louis Ferdinand Céline.
Besides, I wanted to thank you for having encouraged me to read, thanks to you I read 50 books in 1 year and without you it would not be possible.