Best books to read
A few months ago, one of our customers asked us to provide him with a list of ten books that every person should definitely read during their lifetime. The question made us curious and we immediately started a lively discussion. Should the Bible be on the list? No text has had such an impact on Western culture, but wouldn't it be just as important to read the Koran or Torah for a more enlightened worldview? Shakespeare seems a given, but how should one choose between Hamlet and the Sonnets, between A Midsummer Night's Dream and King Lear? And what about lesser-known works like The Rings of Saturn, Bluets, No-No Boy, or The Book of Unrest? How could we whittle our list down to just ten books?
It turns out we couldn't. We posed the question to our book-loving colleagues, and after receiving some 1,400 nominations (!) and putting the question to a vote, we finally settled on 25 titles. Rather than worry about what should be included, we chose to present a collection of books that have the potential to change the way you think and feel, and that reflect Powell's diverse interests. We hope you will appreciate our suggestions. We hope you will appreciate our suggestions.
by Roberto Bolaño
Completed in 2003, shortly before his death, 2666 is not only Roberto Bolaño's masterpiece, but also one of the best and most important novels of the 21st century. Century. It is a world unto itself, not unlike our own, full of horror, decay, squalor, splendor and beauty. Through its epic scale and as the embodiment of the "total novel," 2666 fuses many different genres and styles into a unique and unforgettable work of contemporary fiction. Although Bolaño's swan song marks the culmination of a sadly truncated literary career, his enormous talent, creativity, and vision remain. - Jeremy G.
by chime snares
We're instructed to consider love something that happens to us. It's a mystical yet through and through inactive experience. In her profoundly private and unequivocal All About Love, famous social lobbyist and women's activist ringer snares states that, as a matter of fact, love is a decision we should all make and it's not close to as extract or subtle as a significant number of us have come to accept. The book not just investigates the job of affection in our lives and the manners in which our way of life has contorted its significance, yet directs us - with clear definitions and models - toward a superior comprehension of how to develop it. On the off chance that you've at any point asked why a few connections go the distance while others disintegrate, you should peruse this book. - Renee P.
by Edward Abbey
No creator embodied and commended the American Southwest more engagingly than dissenter and raconteur Edward Abbey. Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness - presently almost 50 years old - is an exemplary of ecological composition. In this personal work, Abbey annals his experience as a recreation area officer and thinks about scene, culture, legislative issues, the travel industry, natural dismissal, and corruption - doing as such with a remarkable mix of disagreeable appeal and amazing portrayal. However set in his dearest Southwest, Desert Solitaire wonderfully and recklessly catches the pith of the American outside, loaded with scorn for those who'd look to over-indulge its normal miracle. - Jeremy G.
by J. M. Coetzee
One evening while at the same time consulting with a companion about books, I considered how to best portray my experience of understanding Disgrace, and this is the thing I concocted: it resembles a finely created, exceptionally sharp blade leaning tenderly against your skin. The disquiet and tension are there all along, made even more impressive by Coetzee's control and utilization of extra language, and you never truly take a full breath until it's everywhere. Set in current South Africa, the book investigates what it's prefer to by and by stand up to profound biases. Biases of orientation, sexuality, class, and race. A long way from being a PC revilement, this novel is about how we adapt, how we get by as people, and it powers the peruser to consider what appears at initial an extremely bent reality. For every one of the characters in this amazing novel, recovery is accomplished through what turns into the very reshaping of their spirits. - Rebecca
by Katherine Dunn
This is the book I suggest more than some other - I can scarcely clutch a duplicate of this is on the grounds that I am continuously offering it to any individual who I think needs something that will pass the highest point of their skull over. On one level, it is the drawing in, frightening, and remarkable story of a group of intentionally planned carnival monstrosities, as told by the hunchback pale skinned person bantam sister. On another level, it is an anecdote about personality and having a place: How would you characterize yourself as far as your loved ones? Your way of life? Your body? Your religion? How do you have any idea what or who you truly are? - Lizzy A.
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