I would imagine as a social reader that you obsess about and share your obsession with others. Fandoms? Of course! Part of a group that loves the same book you do? Hell yeah! You probably get your next book from a friend, aisle stands, or popular word of mouth. Nothing wrong with that. I suggest you join a book club, in-person and virtual, so you can share your love. I recommend you check out some of these recommendations below and share your thoughts on Goodreads and Google+. That’s where I am for book discussions.
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“The 40 best film adaptations of a book” from the Shortlist Magazine
- Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
- The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
- To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
- Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
- The Godfather by Mario Puzo
- American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
- The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris
- The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
- The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
- Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
- Moby Dick by Herman Melville
- Brighton Rock by Graham Greene
- Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh
- Empire of the Sun by J. B. Ballard
- The 39 Steps by John Buchan
- All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
- No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
- The Remains of the Day by Kazou Ishiguro
- Goodfellas (Wiseguy) by Nicolas Pileggi
- Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
- Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
- Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy by John le Carre
- L.A. Confidential by James Ellroy
- The Shining by Stephen King
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
- The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
- Requiem for a Dream by Hubert Selby, Jr.
- Jackie Brown by Elmore Leonard
- Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Steig Larsson
- True Grit by Charles Portis
- Brokeback Mountain by Annie Proulx
- The Sheep-Pig (Babe) by Dick King-Smith
- Different Seasons (Stand by Me) by Stephen King
- Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
- Kes: A Kestrel for a Knave by Barry Hines
- Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep (Blade Runner) by Philip K. Dick
- Don’t Look Now: stories (Rebecca) by Daphne du Maurier
- Silver Linings Playbook by Matthew Quick
“30 titles were named as the favorite book a famous person” from the Shortlist Magazine
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (Owen Wilson)
- Airport by Arthur Hailey (John Travolta)
- The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho (Will Smith)
- The Beautiful and the Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald (Kate Moss)
- The Bottoms by Joe R. Lansdale (Dermot O’Lear)
- The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (Martin Sheen)
- 1984 by George Orwell (Mel Gibson)
- The Odyssey by Homer (Emma Thompson)
- The People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn (Matt Damon)
- The Power of Positive Thinking by Norman Vincent Peale (Donald Trump)
- The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett (Anne Hathaway)
- The Snail and the Whale by Julia Donaldson (Gordon Brown)
- Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison (Barack Obama)
- The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger (James Nesbitt)
- Crime & Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky (Jim Carrey)
- The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank (Natalie Portman)
- Disney War by James B. Steward (Simon Cowell)
- The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand (Sir Michael Caine)
- The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (Pierce Brosnan)
- In Cold Blood by Truman Capote (Tom Hanks)
- Kiss the Girls by James Patterson (Megan Fox)
- The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenemore Cooper (Steven Spielberg)
- The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne (Steve Coogan)
- Lord of the Flies by William Golding (Stephen King)
- Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl (Drew Barrymore)
- Moby Dick by Herman Melville (Chevy Chase)
- Therese Raquin by Emile Zola (Kate Winslet)
- To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (Alec Baldwin)
- 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne (Tom Clancy)
- War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy (George Clooney)
Check out what I’m reading, too!
Oprah’s Annual Book Recommendations
2017
- Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue
2016
- Love Warrior by Glennon Doyle Melton
- The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
2015
- Ruby by Cynthia Bond
2014
- The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd
2012
- The Twelve Tribes of Hattie by Ayana Mathis
- Wild by Cheryl Strayed
2010
- Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
- Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
- A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
2009
- Say You’re One of Them by Uwem Akpan
2008
- A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle
- The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski
2007
- Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- The Measure of a Man by Sidney Poitier
- Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
- The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
- The Road by Cormac McCarthy
2006
- Night by Elie Wiesel
2005
- As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
- Light in August by William Faulkner
- A Million Little Pieces by James Frey
- The Sound of the Fury by William Faulkner
2004
- Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
- The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
- The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McMullers
- One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
2003
- Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
- East of Eden by John Stenbeck
2001
- Cane River by Lalita Tademy
- The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
- A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
- Icy Sparks by Gwyn Hyman Rubio
- Stolen Lives by Malika Oufkir
- We Were the Mulvaneys by Joyce Carol Oates
- Fall on Your Knees by Ann-Marie McDonald
- Sula by Toni Morrison
2000
- Back Roads by Tawni O’Dell
- The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
- Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende
- Drowning River by Christina Schwarz
- Gap Creek by Robert Morgan
- House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III
- Open House by Elizabeth Berg
- The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
- When I Was Gone by Sue Miller
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