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I was trying to get into reading more and thought what should I read? So I search must read books before you die? I got a few top 100 must read novels.

I then got the seven lists put together and my top 100 without double ups was actually the top 520 novels to read…

Let’s see your must reads!

Some I have done on the list
The great Gatsby
To kill a mockingbird
Lolita
The catcher in the rye
Lord of the flies
1984
Alice’s adventures in wonderland

Currently reading catch 22

Bhagwat Geeta

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The Bible

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That is on the list

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31 sats \ 1 reply \ @nym 3 Oct 2024

Meditations

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Yes good one

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A monk who sold his Ferrari

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I did enjoy that one

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Brave new world
The island

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Yes want to do those ones

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Ayn Rand Atlas Shrugged.

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Dune is a must
The jigsaw man best horror ever.
Dragon storm.
The wild mans heart

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I have dune haven’t started yet

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I would drop everything. He knew this time would come. Very thrilling.

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Childhood's End is another good one.

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Tuareg - Novel by Alberto Vázquez-Figueroa
Flash: ou le grand voyage by Charles Duchaussois

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10 sats \ 1 reply \ @OC 3 Oct 2024

Lord of the rings should be on there. The sheer scale of Tolkien's imagination is mind blowing.
Others have said Atlas shrugged but I'll say it again, particularly relevant today

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Yeah lord of the rings series is on the list

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A Lodging of Wayfairing Men
The Gulag Archipelago
Atlas Shrugged

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Some russian classic novels are a must read, in my opinion:

  • The idiot
  • The karamazov brothers
  • War and Peace
  • Crime and punishment
  • Master and Margherita
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Are they available in English?

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Nice I’ll check that out

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Read and innerstand the Celestine Prophecy.

Maybe then we won't need to die.

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I want to read the Odyssey before I die! It is such an undertaking to start!!! :)

I have read many of the ones on your list when I was younger!

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Papa Goriot
Metamorphosis
The hollow of the needle
The name of the rose
The perfume

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Haven’t heard these ones I’ll look into it

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Father Goriot by Honoré de Balzac

Metamorphoses by Franz Kafka

The Hollow Needle by Maurice Leblanc

The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco

Perfume by Patrick SĂĽskind

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One of the best novels I've read so far is The House of the Spirits, the first novel by Chilean writer Isabel Allende, classified as magical realism, the novel incorporates unlikely and strange elements into the ordinary. The story tells the life of the Trueba family over four generations from the beginning of the 20th century to the 1970s and follows the social and political movements of the post-viceregal period in Chile.

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Sounds like a good book! I’ll keep it in mind as well

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@kr has a pretty great list of book recommendations.

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Yeah there is some good stuff in there. Lots of knowledge in those books for sure.

I’m interested in what’s yours?

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minority report

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Rate it? It’s not on my list yet

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The Mandibles by Lionel Shriver
True Names by Vernor Vinge
Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

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The mandibles was a good read
And lord of the flies

Haven’t read the others

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Does it matter if you know that you will die soon?
That book will not change with anything.
Anyways the death is just another cycle.

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Do you want to spend your limited time left reading bad books darth?

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Animal farm which was mentioned here the other day was good as well.

Not on the must read but been mentioned a lot in Bitcoin circles
The mandibles

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