Is There 1 Book You'd Recommend?

[GrumpyOldishMan]

Was there ever a single book that stayed with you? Had a profound effect on your outlook? Or was just a fantastic read?
(I'm always on the look out for a good book recommendation).




What book and why?




I will go with Aldous Huxley's Brave New World

I was 14 when I first read this - so over 10 years ago now - the effect was profound, it made me question everything, introduced me to the concept of Social Conditioning ..... and there was lots of shagging in it!

 

[MissLove]

Larry Niven wrote a book on journeying through hell, inspired by the Divina Comedia from Dante. I liked that one. I forgot the title.

Richard Bach - Jonathan Seagull

Terry Pratchett, Discworld series, all books.

 

[GrumpyOldishMan]

Still (always) on the lookout for good book recommendations .....


I'm currently reading my first 'Alternative History' novel for years - 'Soviet Endgame' by Alex Aaronson & James Rosone.


It's a genre I love, but thought I'd exhausted. Do we have any other fans of the genre? And if so, any recommendation?





"Alternate history is a subgenre of speculative fiction in which one or more historical events have occurred but are resolved differently than in actual history. As conjecture based upon historical fact, alternate history stories propose What if...."