What are the best books you've ever read?

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Best books you've ever read	Price	Last Updated
-- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance	$6.98	Aug 20, 2018
-- Dune	-	Feb 24, 2019
-- The Lord of the Rings	-	Sep 15, 2017
-- The Things They Carried	-	Jun 30, 2018
-- Cancer ward	$11	Jun 30, 2018

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

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Dune

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Beautiful Writing

The writing really speaks to you. See More

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Omits some common genre staples to create a unique world

It's one of the very rare science fiction books (especially ones set in a far away future) that doesn't include robots or computers. See More

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Cult book

This is an old series, several video games have been inspired by this book. Dune, Dune 2, dune 2000 and more. See More

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Complex and unique ecology

Dune is one of the first sci-fi books to have as detailed fictional ecology that plays a big part in the overall story. See More

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Filled with great insight

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Amazing worldbuilding

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Huge scope

The book covers topics such as ecology, politics, religion, humanism and war and touches on subjects like artificial intelligence, gender dynamics, nuclear weapons, architecture, engineering, heroism and many many more. All of these aspects are intertwined and executed on a grand scale. See More

The Lord of the Rings

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It may be too slow for a casual reader

The Lord of the Rings has a very slow narrative pace to begin with, and all the incredibly detailed descriptions of the environment don't help with that very much. See More

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Some of the most memorable characters in literature

The Lord of the Rings is home to a great many memorable characters, but the names of Gandalf, Frodo, Legolas, and Aragorn are known far and above the rest. See More

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It's got an incredibly deep, detailed backstory

Lord of the Rings boasts one of the most detailed backstories of any series in the world. Supplementary books have been released that detail thousands of years of stories that all lead up to the events of The Lord of the Rings series. See More

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The books are filled with songs and poems

Tolkien was a great writer, and that wasn't limited to books. His works are filled with a host of wonderful songs, poems, and riddles for you to enjoy. See More

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Incredible storytelling

Tolkien is one of the all-time masters of story telling, and Lord of the Rings is his masterpiece. You enter the realm of Middle Earth, where men are joined by elves, dwarves, orcs, and other fantastic creatures, in a battle for the fate of the very world. See More

The Things They Carried

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Excellent account from the author who was in Vietnam War

Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!

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Light-hearted tone

Most of the book is told in a rather light-hearted tone, even when dealing with serious situations. The tone represents his attitude towards things which, ultimately, is why the book is so enjoyable. See More

The Private Life of Chairman Mao

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Provides a unique insight into history of modern China

Author of the book saw firsthand and managed to convey stories that were never supposed to get wide publicity. They include violent attacks on political adversaries, Chairman's unscrupulous private life, and depravity of his numerous sycophants. See More

The Wheel of Time

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A diverse cast of main and side characters bring the world to life

Starting with the main character, Rand, and his two friends, Matt and Perrin, the cast of this series continues to grow throughout the books as the events of the story have far-reaching effects. All of these characters are written very well, with deep personalities and realistic flaws, and feel like real people. See More

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Wheel of Time is a very long series

With 14 books, many long in their own right, this is a very long series and the middle books in the series can get a bit dry as the politics of this world take a front seat in the build up to the finale. See More

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Incredibly detailed world building

Across 14 books author Robert Jordon builds an amazing world full of interesting places, people, and events. See More

Night by Elie Wiesel

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Award Winning

Night is Elie Wiesel's masterpiece, a candid, horrific, and deeply poignant autobiographical account of his survival as a teenager in the Nazi death camps. This new translation by Marion Wiesel, Elie's wife and frequent translator, presents this seminal memoir in the language and spirit truest to the author's original intent. And in a substantive new preface, Elie reflects on the enduring importance of Night and his lifelong, passionate dedication to ensuring that the world never forgets man's capacity for inhumanity to man. Night offers much more than a litany of the daily terrors, everyday perversions, and rampant sadism at Auschwitz and Buchenwald; it also eloquently addresses many of the philosophical as well as personal questions implicit in any serious consideration of what the Holocaust was, what it meant, and what its legacy is and will be. See More

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Eye-opening

Endurance by Alfred Lansing

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This is one of the greatest true stories

This is a true story about Ernest Shackleton and his crew being stranded off of Antarctica in 1915 and their fight for survival. See More

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