Hey Pandas, What Is Your All-Time Favorite Book? (Closed)

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A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking. Is about everything in the universe and makes everything sound so interesting. Highly recommend if you’re into physics and astronomy

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UpQuarkDownQuark (he/him) 8 months ago

Excellent book! I also recommend Fundamentals by Frank Wilczek.

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MOST favorite? I have to choose just ONE? You're killing me, Nathaniel XD But probably Dune by Frank Herbert. I have two dogs named for characters from the book, after all XD (insert obligatory "I LIKED IT BEFORE IT WAS COOL/THE NEW MOVIES" statement here, ha) Runners-up are Starship Troopers and The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress by Robert Heinlein, Anathem by Neal Stephenson, and any book by Stephen King (esp. The Dark Tower part 3, as that is the first King book my dad bought for me, when I was 10 lol, and it has massive sentimental value!)

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LakotaWolf (she/her) (Submission author) 8 months ago (edited)

I recommend all of the books I mentioned if you like sci-fi as a genre! (Though Anathem is a bit dense and is what I'd call "hard sci-fi" as it can get science-y/mathematically dense. There's a lot I didn't understand, but I still enjoyed the heck out of it, as the characters and plot are absolutely brilliant!) And yes, I'd even recommend the Dark Tower series as it's less of a "normal" Stephen King horror novel(s) and more sci-fi/post-apocalyptic fantasy. Though, of course, I'd recommend starting with the FIRST book in the series instead of the THIRD as I did! XD (In my father's defense, he didn't realize it was the third book in a series, he bought it for me because, he said, "it was the longest/thickest Stephen King book in the store!" and I was a voracious reader, even at 10. Though I might have gotten a little weird/twisted by getting started on reading Stephen King books at age 10...)

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American Gods by Neil Gaiman. It's such a well-written book, so many interesting descriptions and imagery. The end of chapter eighteen had me in tears, and the way Shadow and Laura's relationship changed after she came back from the dead is just so strangely heartbreaking.

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Aud (she/they)

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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lack has literally changed me as a person. That book offers sooo much in terms of history, politics and science, I highly recommend it.

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BTDubs

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Me, Myself, I (She/Her) 8 months ago

My science teacher was just telling my class about this the other week--his cousin wrote the book lol.

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Watership Down Richard Adams

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Julie S

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Boootifull Unicorn 8 months ago

Fucken sad but worth the read.

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The Picture of Dorian Gray!!!!!
I think the plot is commonly known.
I first read it when I was 13 and since then several times (There are certain pages and dialogues I know by heart in two languages)
The style, the characters, the plot, it was the book that made me fall in love with Oscar Wilde's writing. It really had a huge influence on me and I'm currently trying to adapt it as a script.
So you could say I got poisened by the book... :)

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Capybara with a Cat

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The "Sweetness and Lighting" manga makes me happy. Its so wholesome

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Faye Drewit

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The song of Achilles, even if I cried for a week after finishing it.

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Everything Emile Zola has ever written

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May

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Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh
It came out the year I was placed in an impossible school situation, where for reasons of lack of space the school district move one 5th grade class into a middle school with no other elementary school classes. Not only was I the youngest, shortest kid in my class, I was the youngest, shortest kid in my school, AND the only one with red hair.
I was also, although we didn't have the designation then, neurodiverse. My best friend was the class mean girl. When she got mad at me, the entire class shunned me.
Harriet M. Welsh, got herself into trouble with her classmates in the story and found herself friendless, too. I identified with her strongly. What Harriet did was wrong and she didn't know how to fix it. I didn't do anything. I just was the wrong kid in the wrong place.

I have read that book every year since the mid 1960s.

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