Not necessarily a book you can recommend to everyone, just a book you personally like very much. Feel free to mention multiple books if you can’t name just one.

  • @adrianmalacoda@lemmy.ml
    2•4 years ago

    Catch 22 by Joseph Heller. I appreciate his wit and style of satire.

    Also the entire Dune series, or at least the first four books. I worry that we are leading into an age where we give up our self-determination to thinking machines.

  • CHEF-KOCH
    2•4 years ago

    Meme answer

    • Pinocchio

    Serious answer

    • Bible … I mean … The Exorcist from 1970.
    • Ravn
      0•4 years ago

      My favourite as well! It’s the epitome of speculative science/fiction: taking a fascinating concept and exploring its implications - precisely what I want out of science fiction.

  • @onlooker@lemmy.ml
    1•4 years ago

    Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams. Not very original, I know, but I really enjoyed the humor.

  • @Jeffrey@lemmy.ml
    1•4 years ago

    If you have just one then you haven’t read enough books!

    Educated - Tara Westover.

    Wild - Cheryl Strayed.

    Capital and Ideology - Thomas Piketty.

    Bowling Alone - Robert Putnam.

    There are dozens more books that deserve honorable mentions, but these four have been the most personally impactful and deeply relatable to my own lived experiences.

    • Dessalines
      1•4 years ago

      Dunes up there too for me. So nervous about the movie… I’m trying to go in with low expectations but its difficult because the cast and previews for it seem stellar.

  • @jazzfes@lemmy.ml
    0•4 years ago

    Hmm, maybe from general literature I’d pick Umberto Eco’s The Prague Cemetary, for being funny and interesting with an end that let’s your heart sink…

    Or probably The god of small things by Arundhati Roy. The book is an absolute treat and Arundhati Roy is just great in general!

    In politics, it would be easily Noam Chomsky and Edward Herman’s Manufacturing Consent. A lot feels of the books argument feels like common sense, however what impressed me so much was the detailed outline and references that drove down the point of the book so well.