Hey Pandas, What Book Would You Recommend For Everyone To Read? (Ended)

All Discworld books by Terry Pratchett (greatest fantasy/satire ever)
Flatterland by Ian Stewart (for Math nerds)
Swallows an Amazons (sailing adventure for kids)
Enid Blyton
The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien

Harry Potter books,

The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien,

The Witcher books by Andrzej Sapkowski.

I absolutely adore these. Really great fantasy stories.

The Giver or anything by Lois Lowry

I'd definitely recommend a short-yet-powerful novel called Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach. It's about a seagull that strives for freedom and the unlimited, unlike his other seagull peers. It's surprisingly profound and easy to read, so I'd recommend it to anyone.

All books by Rick Riordan, and also The Book Thief (by Markus Zusak).

Wonder by RJ Palacio. Teaches you to not judge a book by its cover, as well as to give everything a go, to persevere, and not to let others put you down. I also really enjoy how each chapter is told from another person's perspective, you can examine the relationships between the characters and what each person things of Auggie and other classmates.

Former high school teacher here – what book would I recommend for everyone to read? That’s easy: “Surely You’re Joking Mr. Feynman” and/or “What Do You Care What Other People Think”, both by Dr. Richard Feynman. Both books invite you to be comfortable with yourself, your abilities and talents, and the facts that it’s okay to be smart and that you don’t have to be like other people. I gave away multiple copies of these books to my students over the years and I believe the books gave them the confidence to excel in whatever field they chose.

- Any Raina Telgemeier books
- The Percy Jackson books, or if you have read those already, The Trials of
Apollo (also by Rick Riordan)
- Five Kingdoms, or Beyonders
by Brandon Mull,
- Someday Angeline, or Holes
by Louis Sachar

If you think The Neverending Story by Michael Ende is just a book for children... Surprise! It is not. It has more depth than you think, and it will totally absorb you.

If you like weird fiction:
Dune by Frank Herbert
Cosmicomics by Italo Calvino
The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath by HP Lovecraft
Providence by Alan Moore and Jacen Burrows
Uzumaki by Junji Ito
Perdido Street Station by China Mieville
The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
Imajica by Clive Barker

The Brain that Changes Itself by Norman Doidge, MD. I read it early into therapy for complex PTSD and depression. I had never heard of neuroplasticity and the concept gave me tremendous hope that I could improve my mental health by exercising my mind and reducing the impact of distressing thoughts.

"The Eight" by Katherine Neville. A captivating story, with many plot twists that takes you on a nice adventure and ends up.... Oh, well, that's for you to find out!
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P.s. Don't forget the sequel "The Fire"

Dracula by Bram Stoker - I hate the movie (1992, Coppola), but the book is one of my all time favorites.

The Star Rover by Jack London - mindblowing book.

I've been sticking with humour lately, so:

Dave Barry's books make me laugh out loud, currently re-reading "Money Secrets"

"Sh*t My Dad Says" by Justin Halpern - another lol read

Just about anything by Carl Hiassen, but especially "Double Whammy"

"A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole

Happy, happy reading!

Velocity and Odd Thomas both by Dean Koontz.

Some of my favourite authors are:

Louis McMaster Bujold: she writes both sci-fi and fantasy but I particularly love the Vorkosigan saga, which (in my opinion) is nicely brainy sci-fi with both humour and drama.

CS Friedman: also a fantasy/sci-fi writer with often unconventional/original ideas as the base premises for her stories.

Ken Follett: His historical stories are master pieces. You can really tell he's done his homework. (I don't care at all as much for his other works, though; the few of them I've read, that is.)

Will Adams and David Gibbins are both good if you like a bit of Indiana Jones (action packed archaeology) and intriguing ideas about our past.

Love in the Time of Cholera
The Master and Margarita
Confederacy of Dunces
Eleanor Oliphant is Perfectly Fine
House of Leaves
The Poisonwood Bible

ANY Meg Cabot books
Keeper of the lost cities series by Shannon Messenger
Jill Mansell books

KEEPER OF THE LOST CITIES.
This is a book series about a girl who finds out she's an elf...which aren't the elves you're thinking of!! She is extremely powerful and makes a bunch of friends, and there is some romance. Its basically a less-known series, like Harry Potter.

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini