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

Harry Potter, my favorite coming-of-age book. I grew up alongside Harry. It's definitely darker than most, who never read it, think. It helped me understand and deal with the death of my family members since Rowling wrote it after losing her mom and the books are full of her own grief, sadness, and, in the end, closure and moving on, continuing living with that pain. I'd recommend it to every teenager and anyone, who never had the pleasure of reading it.

I would recommend the book the Spill Over by David Quammen. It really illustrates how pandemics starts, how diseases are passed from animals to humans and where and how some viruses originate. Very good book that will definitely give you prospective on the current outbreak, future outbreaks, and enforce the fact that you need to wear a mask in public and this pandemic is no joke.

Oh I have never been more excited to answer one of these, someone hold my coffee.

The Green Rider series by Kristen Britain. Not only extremely well done but engaging and hilarious. Her heroine gets the ever loving crapped kicked out of her and there's a reality to the series that makes it so much more engaging, even though it's a 'fantasy' novel series. Laurna Freeman - Borderlands series - had an amazing start to a series I want to see finished but she broke off after the third book and no one's heard from her since. Do not let that keep you from getting your hands on these books, the story is amazing and fast paced.

Oddjobs is an phenomenal series done by Heide Goody & Ian Grant. I'm reading it for free with my Kindle Unlimited subscription.

Read everything/anything by:Anne McCaffery (And her son), Mercedes Lackey, Tanya Huff, Janet Evanovich, J.K. Rowling, R.A. Salvatore, Piers Anthony (Mode series; seriously people he basically wrote sting theory as a book series), Max Brooks, Mark Tufo, Shawn Chesser, Heath Stallcup. I gotta cut this off this could go on forever.

I will leave you with this one: There is a book called Tombstone written by Yang Josheng. It's about the Great Famine in china. Amazing book written by someone who lived through it and it is a very hard book to read but I think everyone should.

The Odd 1s Out: How to Be Cool and Other Things I Definitely Learned from Growing Up. Its cool.

So for some reason, I had the novel "The Devil's Arithmetic" encased in a "Letters from Rifka" book cover. Took me years to figure that out, but I highly recommend it! It is a childrens novel, but I still love it to this day. Mixes World War II and time travel.

everyone’s saying harry potter so i have a couple different ones. this song will save your life by leila sales - about a girl recovering from depression through music and also has wonderful music recommendations. also my favorite book - pet sematary by stephen king because im a horror nerd

For Agatha Christie fans, try The Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz. It's three books in one, basically a case study of classic whodunit novels.

Also, anything by P.D. James is a good murder mystery. My personal favourite is her last novel, The Private Patient, written at the prime age of 88.

And now for a short list of non-fiction books:

1. Strange Histories: The trial of the pig, the walking dead and other matters of fact from the medieval and renaissance worlds, by Darren Oldridge.
Simply and humorously written, it's very educational on the way medieval and early modern people of all classes saw superstition, religion, 'evil' and the supernatural. (Bought this book for the funny stories, it taught me more than years of history lessons - highly recommend)

2. Vermeer's Hat: The 17th century and the dawn of the global world, by Timothy Brook.
The author uses Vermeer's paintings of middle class life in Europe of the mid 1600s as a guide to trade, social issues and the globalisation that followed the discovery of the Americans and the ease of travel. A short, fluently written book that condences perfectly the similarities and differences of the world we live in now and the world that shaped it.

3. The Black Swan by Nassim Nicolas Taleb
This trader and philosopher wrote in his book that a violent market crash is coming only months before thecollapse of Lehman brothers in 2008. His reasoning: the impact of when the 'improbable' becomes reality. Minimal maths, a wealth of eye-opening obervations on economics and everyday life.

The false prince series. It is one of my favorite series and it is engaging for all ages!

The legacy book series! Its not very well known at all but I got the first book from a craft show in my city and I have been hooked ever since and I can personally guarantee you will too! Go to thelegacybookseries.com to check out Danneille Mcdonaoughs books

"Journal of the Plague Year" by Daniel Defoe. It gives some interesting insights into how people act during epidemics.

"The Brothers Karamazov" by Fyodor Dostoevsky. You can get it free on Librivox and listen to it while you walk your dog. It conveys the sense of desperation that accompanies isolation.

Emporer Of The Deep, This book is all of the lives of sharks it is an adult but but as a 13 yearold and a big reader i understood everything clearly, it opens your eyes to what is actually happening to these wonderful creatures

The most compelling book I've read in a long time: "Octavian Nothing" by M.T. Anderson. An historical novel of an upper class slave in Boston during the Revolutionary War. Wonderful characters who will make you care about them as if they were your family, and you will never look at American history the same way again. I wish every high school student was assigned this book.

Guiseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa’s The Leopard.
Not a book that offers consolation but a good book.

I think Shooting Kabul and The Only Road are really good books. They are sad though, and make you thoughtful.

Cinder(Marissa Meyer), The book thief(Markus Zusak), The Hunger Games (Suzanne Collins) Slated (Teri Terry), Throne of Glass(Sarah J Mass), Scars Like Wings(Erin Steward), The Fault in our stars(John Green), Divergent(Veronica Roth), Sick kids in love(Hannah Moskowitz), Everything everything(Nicola Yoon), The maze runner(James Dashner), Say her name(Juno Dawson), Just to name a few

The Underneath. One of my favorites.

I always return to Spider Robinson's "Callahan's Crosstime Saloon" series and Jim Butcher's "Dresden Files".
The "Callahan's" books take place in a bar where the patrons reflexively help people face their pain and find solace. Those who wonder in include an alien who has to destroy the world and feels terrible about it, a time-traveler who worries what might happen if he tries to save the woman he loves, and a telepath who fears he's losing his mind. There's also a talking dog and intergalactic traveling salesman, tall tales and terrible puns.
The Dresden File books follow the only practicing wizard in the Chicago Yellow Pages, who saves the world with random acts of destruction. The line I read was "The building was on fire and it wasn't my fault." (It was the fault of the big purple monkey demons hurling flaming poo.) The cast includes vampires, angels, fairies (it's best to stay out of their politics), and a talking skull named Bob.

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.

Out of My Mind, by Sharon Draper. It's about a girl with cerebral palsy who is constantly underestimated because of her condition, but she's really smart. I adored this book when I read it!

If you only read one book this year, make it The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins. Whether or not you've read the original Hunger Games trilogy, read Ballad. It's so, so, important right now. Humanity needs this book. If you want more, read the entire Maze Runner series. And the entire Divergent series. And heck, the entire Hunger Games trilogy as well.