What book would you recommend everyone read at least once in their life?

Their car’s manual. 🧐

Rebecca. It’s a good example of why not to get married.

Oh gosh there are loads of good ones.
For the heart: [b]Far from the madding crowd ~Thomas Hardy[/b]
For the mind: [b] The unbearable lightness of being ~ Milan Kundera[/b]
For the soul : [b]An evil cradling ~ Brian Keenan [/b]

As to the 'why', Far from the Madding crowd is a story of pride and patience and all the things never said when it comes to love....and you're reading this from a [i]very[/i] cynical guy !

The unbearable lightness of being because it explores idealism and changing political landscapes and the sad truth that nothing much changes no matter what your class; no matter what your aspirations; no matter what your beliefs.

An evil cradling is, to my mind, one of the greatest books of the modern age.
An Irish university English Lecturer is kidnapped and held hostage by a group during the Lebanese civil war of the 1990's.
He is beaten regularly by his captors but stubbornly refuses to bend to their will.
He dreams of home and little things in his possession take on new meaning as his time in capture goes on.
One of those books you read and every page leaves YOU exhausted !
Can't recommend it highly enough.

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Read it. You'll see.

1984

Oh!! So many … I can’t even decide ..

Most books by Herman Hesse ..

Devine Comedy by Dante

Thus said Zarathustra, Nietzsche

Every book by Dostoyevsky ..

War and Peace by Tolstoy

Faust, Goethe

The Mother Courage and Her Children, Brecht

The unbearable lightness of Being, Kundera

The Devil and the Good Lord, Sartre

Christ Recrucified, Kazantzakis …

One Hundred Years of Solitude, Marquez

The Labyrinth of Solitude, Octavio Paz


And many many others

1984. Because there's a lot of truth in it.

Crime and Punishment.

The da Vinci code

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Liverpool and their history of winning the Premiership Title.
It's very short, won't take long to read.

Any book written by Guy Gavriel Kay - I began with...

Thus Spoke Zarathustra

A Modest Proposal

Mine comfy-couch 😬🤪

Dune
'cause Dune. 🧐

Any religious texts so people are aware of how important critical thinking skills, logic and reasoning are.

The Minnesota Connection, about how a Minneapolis, Minnesota, police chaplain was battling teenage prostitution and human trafficking, helping to get them off the streets and back home. I read it in 1984 when I was 14, it brought tears to my eyes.