What is the best book?

Murakami! Read A Wild Sheep Chase! That's how I got started!

 

Life of Pi. Hands down one of the best books I've ever read.

 

Have not heard of that one, I'll have to check it out. Thanks!

 

Bartimaeus Sequence FTW!

 

Not joking this time, I actually agree.

 

The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch is my favorite book. I used to keep an extra copy, just to loan people. It has a heist, it has funny parts, it has sad parts. It has a great fantasy world inspired by Renaissance Venice. And everyone has an agenda.

 

The Inheritance Cycle

(unless manga/comics/graphic novels count, in which case Fairy Tail wins)

 

Some people say it's a wild sheep chase in itself trying to find this novel, though it'll most likely be on Amazon if you can't find it.

I haven't read A Wild Sheep Chase, but have read Norwegian Wood; South of the Border, West of the Sun; and Sputnik Sweetheart, in that order. I would wholeheartedly recommend reading Norwegian Wood, it's my favourite novel, but if you're looking for some 'best book' material and still want something LGBT-related, then Sputnik Sweetheart is your best bet with Murakami.

 

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

For me this is the best book I have ever read and will forever be my favorite story...

 

I have Sputnik Sweetheart and still need to read it. Underground is very moving and sad. It took me apart and put me back together again. I really liked The Windup Bird Chronicle, but don't recommend it as a starter. But sooner or later everyone needs to meet May Kasahara.

 

Yep, I have the Wind-up Bird Chronicle on my shelf, but I'm yet to read it. I'm currently reading Snow Country by Yasunari Kawabata, the first Japanese winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, so I think I'll read Wind-up after I finish this one. I'm yet to read 1Q84 or Kafka on the Shore because a bookseller recommended me not to read it because it's badly written, when I was buying Norwegian Wood. :lol: May read some Kafka, too, before I read Kafka on the Shore.

Although I've only read two Japanese authors, I think there's something extremely lyrical and rhythmic about Japanese prose, but I can't quite put my finger on it. I love it.

 

I think so, too. Do you like Banana Yoshimoto? Hard Boiled and Hard Luck is great.

 

Wind-Up Bird Chronicle is excellent; some people say it's a "starting point" for Murakami. It was my first Murakami novel, so I can sort of agree with that.

Kafka on the Shore is not badly written at all, it's one of the greatest things I've ever read. It is, however, very difficult, and it might be worth reading after you're already familiar with Murakami.

And I can also recommend Kafka Very fascinating author.

 

Personally, I really love the following books:

-The time is noon, by Pearl S. Buck
-Wuthering heights, by Emily Brontë
-Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë
-The night in Lisbon, by Erich Maria Remarque

 

I can only say my the second best book... (You can guess the first)
The fault in our stars
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