Books you couldn’t put down once you started?
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(still reading). Promised Land by Barack Obama. I can't say haters would have the same reaction that I did, but President Obama is a fantastic writer and possesses an ability to self-reflect that is humbling. He provides insight into his life and and career (and I'm only mid-way through the 2008 primary) such that you feel like he is re-living it as he writes the book. I only wish I could recall and re-live what I did last week.
I haven’t ready many books cover to cover in one sitting since owning a smartphone. Haha.
Last book I recall truly reading in one sitting was The Last Human, by Ann Gibbons.
Others quickly read that come to mind:
Infinity and the Mind, by Rudy Rucker
Yearning for the Impossible, by John Stillwell
The Emperor’s New Mind, by Roger Penrose
Jared Diamond’s books
1491 and 1493, by Charles Mann
The Case for Mars, by Bob Zubrin
How to Find a Habitable Planet, by James Kasting
How to Create a Mind, by Kurzweil
The Moral Animal, by Robert Wright
Behave, by Sapolsky
Philosophy of Pseudoscience, by Pigliucci and Boudry
Buddhism without Beliefs, by Batchelor
From Bacteria to Bach and Back, by Dennett
The Beginning of Infinity, by Deutsch
Haha, entirely nonfiction. I do read a fair amount of fiction too but seldom in English.
When breath becomes Air
Purchased based on this thread activity, read in one sitting and cried
The Bible. Couldn’t put it down. Maybe it’s because I went to a catholic high school that tested us on it.
Have not read a book since middle school
Rising Star
I never said the non-existence of books will mean people won't enjoy reading anymore. People will be reading books on their portable devices that will be even more portable than they are today as enjoyment instead. Usage of paper materials will drop a ton and paper milling industries will lose their customers who make books/paper notebooks etc... Schools will be more and more online. A number of Universities have already gone bankrupt since covid started as people realize online learning may be a better option and that will trickle down to high schools, middle schools etc... Books will be a thing of the past -- eventually.
Shoe Dog
Loved this book!
Any Harry Potter, The Name of the Wind, Misery, The Hobbit, LOTR, Flowers to Algernon, Mistborn, The Way of Kings, Any Robin Hobb book, Dark Matter and Recursion
Re-reading the HP series for the first time in 10 years and man it is such a DELIGHT! Going to check these other ones out too. Thanks for the suggestions
Anything John Grisham... Cheap entertainment, but he knows how to write a thriller.
The Firm, hands down!
Pro
The Gentleman in Moscow. I didn’t want it to ever end.
One of the best books. His Rules of civilization is also good.
Rising Star
Fifty shades of Gray
Educated
Rising Star
Meh. It was interesting and a lot of hype but by the end I started to question if it was all real or there were some embellishments.
Any books by David Sedaris
Reading Naked on flights caused me much embarrassment. I giggled like a child at some of his stories.
Dark Matter
This.
Bad blood
Anything by Jhumpa lahiri
The Namesake. Leaves me with a lump in my throat every time I read it.
"Remember that you and I made this journey together to a place where there was nowhere left to go"
The Institute by Stephen King: Horror/thriller
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline: 1980’s pop culture inspired science fiction
The Martian by Andy Weir: Astronaut stuck on Mars science fiction
Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand: WW2 POW nonfiction
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini: Afghanistan historical fiction
Scythe by Neil Shusterman: fantasy/dystopian
Honestly, the movie was a letdown after reading the book. There’s a witty inner voice in the book completely missing from the movie that makes it much more fun.
Pro
Ready Player One
The Godfather
Any Harry Potter
Any Game of Thrones
Jurassic Park
Hunger Games
The Sword of Summer
Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson and Shoe Dog by Phil Knight already mentioned… so I’ll have to go with 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene.
48 laws of power was a game changer
1984
Is that even a firm? Sounds like my local supermarket
The Giver—basic but fantastic
Love!
Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
And purity !
Know My Name
Explanation: this is the memoir of the Stanford rapist’s victim (Chanel Miller), whose name will never be remembered as his was (Brock Turner). I hate nonfiction and memoirs, and feared that of ALL memoirs, this would be a dark dredge, but Chanel is a sensational writer and her story is incredibly powerful. Her experience with the justice system as *yet another* college campus sexual abuse victim needs to be heard by all. The book is intellectually-provoking of course but also funny, witty, and down to earth.