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it's a quadrilogy, not a book, but I'd pick Ada Palmer's _Terra Ignota_ series without hesitation. I'm comfortable arguing for it fitting within the constraint of the question, largely because it is making one sustained argument that's carried out throughout the entire series -- it's very much one book that happens to be like 4000 pages long rather than four separate books. Anyway, Ada Palmer is a sci-fi writer whose…
James Clavell's Shogun: The contrast between the Japanese and European cultures in 1600 are delicious, the characters and plot both well developed. I've read it at least a dozen times over four decades. As I age, I find I experience it very differently.
The Broken Earth Trilogy by N.K. Jemisin Extremely well done series that straddles the sci-fi fantasy line. There's a reason Jemisin became the first person to win the Hugo three years running for three books of a series.
The Brothers Karamazov (Dostoevsky) It's a book that raises a lot of good questions about good vs. evil, free will, morality, religion and so much more.
I am in the fourth reading.
The hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy.
There are many better books I've read, but I grew up with these, and would want access to copies at all times in my life.
Now... I'm off to make a Perfectly Normal Beast sandwich and ponder why Eddie is in the space time continuum.
The Broken Earth Trilogy by N.K. Jemisin Extremely well done series that straddles the sci-fi fantasy line. There's a reason Jemisin became the first person to win the Hugo three years running for three books of a series.
Or, any discrete math book because it will take me a lifetime to understand it.
If I choose an OS book, my life will be short indeed.
James Clavell's Shogun: The contrast between the Japanese and European cultures in 1600 are delicious, the characters and plot both well developed. I've read it at least a dozen times over four decades. As I age, I find I experience it very differently.