I've been suffering from burnout lately and one of the things I read was that reading books unrelated to work/productivity is supposed to help. I'm headed in vacation in a couple of weeks and I'm curious what the best fiction book you ever read was? If your book is already in the comments below please just upvote it.
Ask HN: What is the best fiction book you've ever read?
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#2To Kill a Mockingbird
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#3Slaughterhouse 5,
Snowcrash,
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
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#4Crime and Punishment, Les Miserables, War and Peace
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#5Some favorites:
Pale Fire by Nabokov
Ulysses by Joyce
Et Tu, Babe by Leyner
Metamorphosis by Kafka (more a long story)
Things Fall Apart by Achebe
Hamlet and Coriolanus by Shakespeare
The Code of the Woosters by Wodehouse
The Doorbell Rang by Stout
Re: Ask HN: What is the best fiction book you've ever read?
#6Using best and favorite interchangeably as literature is a pretty subjective subject:
As a kid: Where the Red Fern Grows As an adult: The Dharma Bums
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#7a couple favorites:
classic: The Third Policeman by Flann O'Brian
recent scifi: Stories of your life and others (short stories) by Ted Chiang
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#8A Song of Ice and Fire
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#9A few on my "re-read every few years" list: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Speaker for the Dead, Infinite Jest, Watchmen, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
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#10The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time and A
Spot of Bother both by Mark Haddon
The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen