What's the one book you believe that everyone should read before they die?

Question

I know there is going to be a lot of answerers here that want to say "The Bible", or other spritual texts. If you want to list them, no worries, but please back up with your second pick as well

Thanks!

Answer 1

Of Mice and Men - John Stienbeck (Classic American novel - By the time that Of Mice and Men was published almost half of America's grain was harvested by huge combine harvesters. Five men could do what would have taken 350 men a few years earlier, - the book describes the decline of the American farming way of life......)

Also Sun on the Stubble, Uncle Gustav's Ghosts, The Valley Between, and Shadow on the Hills by award-winning Australian children's author Colin Thiele,........These novels tell the story of select group of people and a German immigrant family growing up in a small wheat farming community in South Australia during the 1930's. In those days, our mothers and fathers preached the value of hard work on the land, Through the adventures, of the people portrayed in these novels, readers may come to appreciate and understand more about themselves, and about the community of which many of them have their beginnings, long before the bankruptcy of the 70's and 80's which caused families to leave the land in droves. Anyone reading these books can come to understand trials and hardships faced by those that lived it tough on the land, and why the country (Australia) is in the situation it is in now.
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Answer 2

A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving. I don't know why frankly, but something about that book made me remember more details than any other I have ever read. Many books today are very predicatable, that one was a big exception for me.

The Sea Wolf by Jack London. There is more tension than a Stephen King book, but without resorting to the supernatural. London puts you fully into his characters.

Answer 3

the jury is out on this one sorry there are so many great fictional works, the ones i have read , I think people just reading a book that touches them is more important though, every human should have that joy.

Different books bring out different sides of different peoples natures and promotes differing emotions and emotional connections to the story, so for me so long as every one has had the joy that you get from reading such a book then why worry what the story or title of the book is??

Answer 4

The Bible

Okay just got the edit for the second pick

The Federalist Papers
The Prince
To Kill a Mockingbird
Black Like Me

At least one Dickens (any one)
The Sound and the Fury

Answer 5

To Kill A Mocking fowl through Harper Lee! i appreciate that e book! no count number what time period you're in it pertains to the international in each way! The social ladder, the close to tunnel imaginative and prescient of existence and the conventional issues are very modern in this e book and what's so tremendous about that is that that is informed through a baby because she purely tells what she sees and hears she is blunt. No sugar coating it! Harper also depending the e book out of her homestead city... i in my opinion imagine she pertains to at least one personality particularly... it particularly is Boo Radley... you may ought to examine it and locate out why!

Answer 6

Jane Eyer by Charlotte Bronte
Soul Prints by Marc Gafni
Mystery of Love by Marc Gafni

Answer 7

The Unbearable Llightness of Being by Milan Kundera. It s about life and how human beings attempt to imbue it with meaning in diferent ways. Told through several storylines and characters. very good book

Answer 8

The Scarlet Letter - No matter what people say, I think it's a truly amazing book.
Another book that I think everybody should read is So B. It. I guess it's technically a children's book, but the story is great. I read it recently and couldn't put it down!

Answer 9

The Book on Health Alert , By Dr. Bruce West
Title, When all other Treatments Fail .

Answer 10

Goodnight, My Angel by Diane Pellicciotti Kone