What are the most enlightening books of fiction you've read?
Posted by T.Collins Logan on
As an avid reader for over forty years, there is a very long list of books I read long ago that I found pretty “enlightening” to me personally at the time…in the sense that they connected me to new thoughts and experiences, or resonated with my own life in some way, or opened up a window into an unexplored part of myself…and there are many more recent encounters with fiction that have been equally inspiring and edifying. Where to begin…? In no particular order:
Tolkein’s Hobbit and Lord of the Rings trilogy
Conan Doyle’s The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Steinbeck’s Grapes of Wrath
Asimov’s Foundation Trilogy
Bradbury’s Martian Chronicles
Bester’s The Stars My Destination
Adam’s Watership Down
Sendaks’ Where the Wild Things Are
Keyes’ Flowers for Algernon
Twain’s Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
Arthur Miller’s The Crucible
Shakespeare’s Hamlet
Harlan Ellison’s short stories
Edgar Allan Poe’s short stories
Irving’s A Prayer for Owen Meany
Bach’s Illusions
Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front
Kryon’s The Journey Home
Fowle’s The Magus
Helprin’s Winter’s Tale
Crowley’s Little, Big
Haldeman’s The Forever War
Selden’s A Cricket in Times Square
Aristophenes’ Lysistrata
Naipaul’s A Bend in the River
Orwell’s 1984
Golding’s Lord of the Flies
Maugham’s The Razor’s Edge
Le Guin’s Left Hand of Darkness
Herbert’s Dune
Scott Card’s Enders Game
Clarke’s 2001: A Space Odyssey
Clarke’s Childhood’s End
Simmon’s Hyperion
King’s Dark Tower series
Virgil’s Aeneid
Brin’s The Postman
Hobb’s Farseer Trilogy
Dahls’ James and the Giant Peach
Dickens’ Great Expectations
Hugo’s Hunchback of Notre-Dame
Lewis’ Screwtape Letters
Bradley’s Mists of Avalon
….and so many more!
(From Quora question: https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-most-enlightening-books-of-fiction-youve-read/answer/T-Collins-Logan)
Tolkein’s Hobbit and Lord of the Rings trilogy
Conan Doyle’s The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Steinbeck’s Grapes of Wrath
Asimov’s Foundation Trilogy
Bradbury’s Martian Chronicles
Bester’s The Stars My Destination
Adam’s Watership Down
Sendaks’ Where the Wild Things Are
Keyes’ Flowers for Algernon
Twain’s Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
Arthur Miller’s The Crucible
Shakespeare’s Hamlet
Harlan Ellison’s short stories
Edgar Allan Poe’s short stories
Irving’s A Prayer for Owen Meany
Bach’s Illusions
Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front
Kryon’s The Journey Home
Fowle’s The Magus
Helprin’s Winter’s Tale
Crowley’s Little, Big
Haldeman’s The Forever War
Selden’s A Cricket in Times Square
Aristophenes’ Lysistrata
Naipaul’s A Bend in the River
Orwell’s 1984
Golding’s Lord of the Flies
Maugham’s The Razor’s Edge
Le Guin’s Left Hand of Darkness
Herbert’s Dune
Scott Card’s Enders Game
Clarke’s 2001: A Space Odyssey
Clarke’s Childhood’s End
Simmon’s Hyperion
King’s Dark Tower series
Virgil’s Aeneid
Brin’s The Postman
Hobb’s Farseer Trilogy
Dahls’ James and the Giant Peach
Dickens’ Great Expectations
Hugo’s Hunchback of Notre-Dame
Lewis’ Screwtape Letters
Bradley’s Mists of Avalon
….and so many more!
(From Quora question: https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-most-enlightening-books-of-fiction-youve-read/answer/T-Collins-Logan)
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