If you had to recommend one book to ANYONE, what would it be and why??

Part of the reason I like this question is because it's not easy to find something that would be really popular for EVERYONE...since we all have different interests!!

If you had to pick ONE that you think would fit this need...what would it be??

For me it would be something like The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien.

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DeWayfarer · 61-69, M

Not a single book. The whole darn robot series starting with "I robot" onwards.

Why? Isaac Asimov predicated not only robots, which he coin the word form Czech, meaning to work tirelessly. Yet even today's Artificial Intelligence. Giving some of the very real problems in today's AI. Then quite possibly into our future. All this in 1946.

Even his "psychohistory" has real applications today, though the details are obviously vague at best.

He was a very real mathematician. With real mathematical works, on top of being a famous science fiction writer.

Straylight · 31-35, F

@DeWayfarer I was gifted a big, hardback copy of the Foundation series.

DeWayfarer · 61-69, M

@Straylight you need I robot to complete it. It's the first yet not apart of the series.