What book have you read is, in your opinion, "The best book no one has read"?

Question

Or best author no one has read

Answer 1

"The Immortalist" by Alan Harrington. Avon, 1969. Too insightful, truthful & disturbing for most people to handle. Out of print, but can be found for sale on the Net.

From two original reviews:

" 'The Immortalist' is remarkably bold, ingenious, profoundly and intentionally shocking, utterly diabolical - Harrington has hold of something absolutely central to human existence." - Book World.


"I am obliged to report with a certain awe and dismay that Mr. Harrington may have written the most important book of our time. The book is splendid and the attacks on it will be bitter, but he is right, and if the human race proves not to be suicidal - a moot point - he will have been one of the first new cartographers." - Gore Vidal.

Advice for anyone reading this: If you ever wonder why so many people seem to be attempting to escape life and reality through myriad means, why so many people seem to be attracted to fanatical movements and cults, why the culture seems to a lot of people to be getting coarser and crazier by the hour, you might want to check this out. If or when you think about your youth fading, the shortness of life, and the "meaning" of life, as well as the promise of current biomedical research, you might want to check it out. It was ahead of its time and may well disturb you - so if you don't want to be disturbed, then pull up the covers and read whatever escapist stuff gives you comfort.

Answer 2

If no one has read the book how could anyone recommend it? :-)

If you're looking for the best book very few people have read I do have a couple suggestions. They are both fantasy novels.

The first suggestion (unbiased) is The Unicorn Creed by Elizabeth Ann Scarborough. Not many people have heard of it but it is one of the best fantasy adventures I've ever read.

My second suggestion (biased) is my young adult urban fantasy, The Shadow Within by Jenine Wilson. I would love to see more people read the book. It is available at Barnes and Noble online, amazon.com, my website and a few bookstores. I'm trying to get wider circulation but it is slow going so far.

Answer 3

A Book called Brown Lord of the mountain, written by an Irish writer called Walther Macken. It is about a small area in the west of Ireland where a love story happens but, it grips you from the first work.
David

Answer 4

Jan Burke's Irene Kelly Series, starting with Goodnight, Irene. It's a brilliant mystery series, somewhere between old Patricia Cornewell and Sue Grafton, but, in my opinion, better than both.

Answer 5

the author paullina simons, especially her tatiana & alexander series. i really luved those book, healthy balance of history, plot and romance, but sad however as many people don't seem to know the author. she even resorted to making three, four versions of the same book to, i suppose, get a bit more capital

Answer 6

The Prophet by Gibran Kalil Gibran. Numbers of issues published are next to the Bible's.

Answer 7

Polymer, by Sally Rogers-Davidson. It's a wonderful space opera.

Answer 8

i like tamora pierce books but i never see anyone read them like 'trickster's choice" and "trickster's queen"... i can't remember the author but i also read a book called "the one armed queen" and it was really good and i think not too many have read it.

Answer 9

"The Crying of Lot 49" by Thomas Pynchon.

Great read! I don't know of too many who have read this.

Answer 10

The Five people u meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom. People should really read this book, it's really good.