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barwhal  ·  4347 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What are your top 5 books?

1. The Secret History by Donna Tartt. Really interesting situation, and the pacing and sequence of events is flawless.

2. The Monkey Wrench Gang by Edward Abbey. Funny if inappropriate book about ecoterrorism, written from the point of view of the ecoterrorists.

3. A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Leguin. This is just a lovely high fantasy book with a (mostly) great series accompanying.

4. Sabriel by Garth Nix. Honestly this was just really entertaining, with a well developed and nonstandard mechanic being central.

5. Foundation by Isaac Asimov, and the rest of the series. Predictions of the future, scifi, politics, group psychology, really good stuff.





cgod  ·  4347 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I loved The Secret History it's one of the books that I look forward to reading to my daughter someday.

barwhal  ·  4347 days ago  ·  link  ·  

It really is a wonderful book, if a little dark.